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Doris Roberts

Doris May Roberts was an American actress, author, and philanthropist whose career spanned seven decades of television and film. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1951.

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Filmography

Christmas Vacation

1989
as Frances Smith

Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension

2011
as Mrs. Thompson (voice)

Aliens in the Attic

2009
as Nana Rose Pearson

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

2003
as Peggy Roberts

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

1974
as Mayor's Wife

The Fig Tree

1987
as Great Aunt Eliza

The Honeymoon Killers

1970
as Bunny

The Little Rascals Save the Day

2014
as Grandma

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

1979
as Marie

One True Love

2000
as Lilian

The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue

1998
as Auntie Shrew

No Way to Treat a Lady

1968
as Sylvia Poppie

The Diary of Anne Frank

1980
as Petronella van Daan

A Mom for Christmas

1990
as Philomena

It Happened One Christmas

1977
as Ma Bailey

Madea's Witness Protection

2012
as Barbara

Mrs. Miracle

2009
as Mrs. Merkle

The Red Maple Leaf

2017
as Mrs. Samantha Adams

My Giant

1998
as Rose Kaminski

Used People

1992
as Tante Lonnie

A New Leaf

1971
as Mrs. Traggert

Play the Game

2009
as Rose Sherman

I-See-You.Com

2006
as Doris Bellinger

Simple Justice

1989
as Anna DiLorenzo

Grandma's Boy

2006
as Grandma Lilly

Our House

2006
as Ruth

Another Woman's Child

1983
as Myrna

All Over the Guy

2001
as Esther

The Secret Of Joy

2016
as Woman of the Flowers

Every Act of Life

2018
as Herself

Honeymoon Academy

1990
as Mrs. Nelson

The Rose

1979
as Mrs. Foster

The Sunset Gang

1991
as Mimi Finkelstein (segment "Yiddish")

A Time to Heal

1994
as Maddy

California Girls

1985
as Mrs. Bowzer

Little Murders

1971
as Mrs. Chamberlain

Blood Bath

1976
as Mrs. Lambert

A Fish in the Bathtub

1999
as Frieda

Margarine Wars

2012
as Grandma Betty Johansson

Merry Kissmas

2015
as Mrs. Billing

A Letter to Three Wives

1985
as Sadie Finney

The Sons of Mistletoe

2001
as Margie

A Time to Remember

2003
as Maggie Calhoun

A Thousand Men and a Baby

1997
as Sister Philomena

Number One with a Bullet

1987
as Mrs. Barzak

Call Me Mrs. Miracle

2010
as Mrs. Merkle / Mrs. Miracle

Such Good Friends

1971
as Mrs. Gold

Keeping Up with the Steins

2006
as Rose Fiedler

Raising Waylon

2004
as Great Aunt Marie

Touched

2014
as Norma

Another Harvest Moon

2010
as Alice

Actor? A Documentary

2014
as Doris Roberts

No Deposit

2015
as Kat Nugent

Hester Street

1975
as Mrs. Kavarsky

The Heartbreak Kid

1972
as Mrs. Cantrow

Something Wild

1961
as Mary Ann's Co-Worker

Rabbit Test

1978
as Mrs. Carpenter

Ruby and Oswald

1978
as Eva