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Bonnie Bartlett is an American television and film actress. Her career spans over 60 years, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. She is best known for her role as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series St. Elsewhere. She and her husband, actor William Daniels, who played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, won the 1986 Emmy Awards on the same night, becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965.
Born
Thursday, 20 June 1929
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Nina | Recital Stage Woman | 2016 |
| Better Call Saul | Helen | 2015 |
| Home & Family | Self | 2012 |
| Of Two Minds | Kathleen | 2012 |
| Key and Peele | Mother | 2012 |
| Parks and Recreation | Paula Horke | 2009 |
| Saving Shiloh | Mrs. Wallace | 2006 |
| Grey's Anatomy | Rosemary Bullard | 2005 |
| Huff | Margaret | 2004 |
| Boston Legal | Marguerite Hauser | 2004 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Nina | Recital Stage Woman | 2016 |
| Better Call Saul | Helen | 2015 |
| Home & Family | Self | 2012 |
| Of Two Minds | Kathleen | 2012 |
| Key and Peele | Mother | 2012 |
| Parks and Recreation | Paula Horke | 2009 |
| Saving Shiloh | Mrs. Wallace | 2006 |
| Grey's Anatomy | Rosemary Bullard | 2005 |
| Huff | Margaret | 2004 |
| Boston Legal | Marguerite Hauser | 2004 |
| It Must Be Love | Kate Gazelle | 2004 |
| NCIS | Dr. Sylvia Chalmers | 2003 |
| Firefly | Patience | 2002 |
| Storyline Online | Self | 2002 |
| Strong Medicine | Edna Carlyle | 2000 |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Charlotte | 1999 |
| Once and Again | Barbara Brooks | 1999 |
| Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season | Mrs. Wallace | 1999 |
| Family Blessings | Mavis Lallek | 1998 |
| Primary Colors | Martha Harris | 1998 |
| Stargate SG-1 | Linea | 1997 |
| Shiloh | Mrs. Wallace | 1997 |
| Sleeping with the Devil | Stasha Dubrovich | 1997 |
| The Practice | Joanne Oz | 1997 |
| Ghosts of Mississippi | Billie DeLaughter | 1996 |
| The Faculty | Katherine | 1996 |
| The Courtyard | Cathleen Fitzgerald | 1995 |
| In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy | Aunt Alice / Aunt Clara | 1995 |
| The Grass Harp | Mrs. Buster | 1995 |
| See Jane Run | Doris / Doris Ravenson | 1995 |
| Take Me Home Again | Sylvia | 1994 |
| A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor | Rosemary Sutter | 1994 |
| Touched by an Angel | Dr. Lucy Scribner / Emily Vincent / Loretta | 1994 |
| ER | Ruth Greene | 1994 |
| Where Are My Children? | Judge Carol Jean Woods | 1994 |
| Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story | Lucille Mohr | 1993 |
| Boy Meets World | Dean Lila Bolander | 1993 |
| Donato and Daughter | Renata Donato | 1993 |
| SeaQuest 2032 | Secretary General Andrea Dre | 1993 |
| Dave | Female Senator | 1993 |
| Bloodlines: Murder in the Family | Ruth | 1993 |
| Room for Two | Francine Luboff | 1992 |
| I'll Fly Away | Beth Lekatzis | 1991 |
| Home Improvement | Lucille Taylor | 1991 |
| The Great Los Angeles Earthquake | Anita Parker | 1990 |
| Twins | Old Mary Ann Benedict / Mary Ann Benedict | 1988 |
| Police Story: The Watch Commander | Margaret Wilson | 1988 |
| Midnight Caller | Hillary Townsend King | 1988 |
| Wiseguy | Harriet Weiss | 1987 |
| Right to Die | Lillian | 1987 |
| L.A. Law | Gloria Lee | 1986 |
| The Wizard | Rachel | 1986 |
| The Deliberate Stranger | Louise Bundy | 1986 |
| North & South: Book 2, Love & War | General's Wife | 1986 |
| Matlock | Lorraine Maslin | 1986 |
| The Golden Girls | Barbara Thorndyke | 1985 |
| Malice in Wonderland | Ida Koverman | 1985 |
| Murder, She Wrote | Marilyn North | 1984 |
| Celebrity | Mabel Hofmeyer | 1984 |
| Dempsey | Celia Dempsey | 1983 |
| V | Lynn Bernstein | 1983 |
| Love Letters | Maggie Winter / Maggie / Anna's mother | 1983 |
| Frances | Studio Stylist | 1983 |
| St. Elsewhere | Ellen Craig | 1982 |
| Hotel | Olga Petrovsky | 1982 |
| A Long Way Home | JoAnn Booth | 1981 |
| All Night Long | Patricia | 1981 |
| Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case | Norma Joyce | 1980 |
| Seed of Innocence | Velma, Alice's Mother / Velma | 1980 |
| Ike: The War Years | Mamie Eisenhower | 1980 |
| Knots Landing | Dr. Ruth West | 1979 |
| Salem's Lot | Ann Norton | 1979 |
| Little House Years | Grace Snider Edwards | 1979 |
| Promises in the Dark | Nurse Farber | 1979 |
| Shirley | Sarah | 1979 |
| Hart to Hart | Myra Bensinger | 1979 |
| Ike: The War Years | Mamie Eisenhower | 1979 |
| California Dreaming | Melinda Booke | 1979 |
| The Last Word | Mrs. Garrity | 1979 |
| Bad Men of the West | Aunt Myrtle | 1978 |
| A Death in Canaan | Teresa Noble | 1978 |
| Killer on Board | Debra Snowden | 1977 |
| Lou Grant | Claire | 1977 |
| Washington: Behind Closed Doors | Mrs. Bailey / Joan Bailey | 1977 |
| Eight Is Enough | Mrs. Gregory | 1977 |
| The Last Tycoon | Brady's Secretary | 1976 |
| Visions | Cora | 1976 |
| The Legend of Lizzie Borden | Sylvia Knowlton | 1975 |
| Barney Miller | Emily Loftis / Ellen Milford | 1974 |
| Murder or Mercy | Elena Champion | 1974 |
| Little House on the Prairie | Grace Snider Edwards / Grace Snider | 1974 |
| The Rockford Files | Casey Patterson | 1974 |
| Kojak | Joan Milner | 1973 |
| ABC Afterschool Specials | Miriam Scott | 1972 |
| The Waltons | Martha Rudge | 1972 |
| Emergency! | Eunice Evans | 1972 |
| The Jackie Gleason Show | Donna Douglas | 1966 |
| The Patty Duke Show | Miss Castle | 1963 |
| The Doctors | Joan Halliday | 1963 |
| Gunsmoke | Agnes Benton / Maylee Baines | 1955 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1988 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
| 1987 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Won |
| 1986 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series | Won |
