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Full Name
  
Joan Hotchkis

Years active
  
1950s - ?


Name
  
Joan Hotchkis

Role
  
Television actress

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Born
  
September 21, 1927 (age 97) (
1927-09-21
)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Occupation
  
Actor, writer, performance artist

Parents
  
Katherine Hotchkis, Preston Hotchkis

Movies and TV shows
  
Similar People
  
Karen Arthur, Max Baer - Jr, Michel Legrand, James Thurber, Carol Littleton

Joan Hotchkis (born September 21, 1927, Los Angeles, California) is an American stage, screen and television actress, writer and performance artist.

Contents

Joan Hotchkis Legacy 1975 DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video

Career

Hotchkis played Dr. Nancy Cunningham, sometime girlfriend of Oscar Madison on the television version of The Odd Couple. She also played Ellen, the wife, in the Emmy-winning series My World and Welcome to It. She also made guest appearances on Bewitched and Lou Grant.

Her film work includes the role of Mama Hartley in Ode to Billy Joe (1976), William Holden's ex-wife Paula in Breezy (1973), and Bissie Hapgood in Legacy (1975), which she also wrote.

Her stage work includes Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in the 1950s and 60s. In the 1980s, she played lead roles at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, The Cincinnati Playhouse, and the Los Angeles Theater Center.

Tearsheets Productions

She worked as a part-time paraprofessional in aggression training at the Institute of Group Psychotherapy before founding the Santa Monica-based Tearsheets Productions. Hotchkis has written and performed two solo performance pieces to date.

The first, Tearsheets: Rude Tales from the Ranch, toured the United States in the early 1990s and went abroad to the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, where it was the only U.S. production to win a Fringe First Award.

Her second solo work was Elements of Flesh: Or Screwing Saved My Ass (1996), about aging and sexuality.

Hotchkis co-wrote, with Eric Morris, the acting manual, "No Acting Please" (1977), which is still used in colleges and conservatories.

Personal life

Hotchkis is a 4th generation Californian, born to Preston and Katherine (née Bixby) Hotchkis. She was raised in Pasadena and has one child, a daughter.

Affiliations

Hotchkis is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and the Dramatists Guild.

Filmography

Actress
1993
The Disappearance of Christina (TV Movie) as
Madeleine
1988
The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) as
Cissy Vanderplas
- Meet the Munceys (1988) - Cissy Vanderplas
1983
St. Elsewhere (TV Series) as
Dr. Mary Carlisle
- All About Eve (1983) - Dr. Mary Carlisle
1980
The Last Game as
Cory's Mother
1980
The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts (TV Series) as
Lydia Cranepool Knitzer
- Playing the Waiting Game (1980) - Lydia Cranepool Knitzer
- Eddie & Dolores and Herb & Marcia (1980) - Lydia Cranepool Knitzer
- Will the Real Samantha Harris Please Stand Up (1980) - Lydia Cranepool Knitzer
- Coming to Grips with One's Sexual Problems (1980) - Lydia Cranepool Knitzer
1978
Lou Grant (TV Series) as
Dr. Teresa Myrdal / Dr. Rita Chase
- Andrew: Part 2 (1979) - Dr. Teresa Myrdal
- Andrew: Part 1 (1979) - Dr. Teresa Myrdal
- Dying (1978) - Dr. Rita Chase
1979
The 416th (TV Movie) as
Iris Michaels
1979
Old Boyfriends as
Pamela Shaw
1978
Charlie's Angels (TV Series) as
Dr. Slavin
- Angels in Springtime (1978) - Dr. Slavin
1978
What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (TV Series)
- Class Athlete (1978)
1976
Executive Suite (TV Series) as
Carline
- Re: The Sounds of Silence (1976) - Carline
1976
Ode to Billy Joe as
Anna 'Mama' Hartley
1975
Legacy as
Bissie Hapgood
1975
Medical Center (TV Series) as
Mollie Porter
- If Mine Eye Offends Me (1975) - Mollie Porter
1975
Barnaby Jones (TV Series) as
Mrs. Thurston
- Dangerous Summer (1975) - Mrs. Thurston
1975
Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) as
Muriel Bosley
- The Time Bomb (1975) - Muriel Bosley
1974
The New Dick Van Dyke Show (TV Series) as
Mimi Lassiter
- House Guests (1974) - Mimi Lassiter
1970
The F.B.I. (TV Series) as
Nancy / Dr. Anne Bowden
- A Piece of the Action (1974) - Nancy
- The Innocents (1970) - Dr. Anne Bowden
1973
Breezy as
Paula
1972
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) as
Julie Whelan / Marian Corby
- Sigh No More, Lady (1972) - Julie Whelan
- Victim in Shadow (1972) - Marian Corby
1972
The New Temperatures Rising Show (TV Series) as
Emma Bradshaw
- The New Head Nurse (1972) - Emma Bradshaw
1972
Circle of Fear (TV Series) as
Fran
- House of Evil (1972) - Fran
1971
Mannix (TV Series) as
Irene Gifford / Evelyn Deegan
- To Draw the Lightning (1972) - Irene Gifford
- With Intent to Kill (1971) - Evelyn Deegan
1971
The Odd Couple (TV Series) as
Dr. Nancy Cunningham
- Felix, the Calypso Singer (1971) - Dr. Nancy Cunningham
- Fat Farm (1971) - Dr. Nancy Cunningham
- A Grave for Felix (1971) - Dr. Nancy Cunningham
- Sleepwalker (1971) - Dr. Nancy Cunningham
- Hospital Mates (1971) - Dr. Nancy Cunningham
- Felix's Wife's Boyfriend (1971) - Dr. Nancy Cunningham
- Natural Childbirth (1971) - Dr. Nancy Cunningham
- Trapped (1971) - Dr. Nancy Cunningham
- What Makes Felix Run (1971) - Dr. Nancy Cunningham
- You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1971) - Dr. Nancy Cunningham
- Lovers Don't Make House Calls (1971) - Dr. Nancy Cunningham
1971
The Late Liz as
Sally Pearson
1971
The Interns (TV Series) as
Mrs. Denning
- The Secret (1971) - Mrs. Denning
1970
The Immortal (TV Series) as
Helen Stoner
- Dead Man, Dead Man (1970) - Helen Stoner
1967
Bewitched (TV Series) as
Miss Ferndale / Alice Swanton
- Samantha's Hot Bedwarmer (1970) - Miss Ferndale
- The Salem Saga (1970) - Miss Ferndale
- My What Big Ears You Have (1967) - Alice Swanton
1969
My World and Welcome to It (TV Series) as
Ellen Monroe
- Child's Play (1970) - Ellen Monroe
- Monroe the Mysogynist (1970) - Ellen Monroe
- The Fourth Estate (1970) - Ellen Monroe
- The Wooing of Mr. Monroe (1970) - Ellen Monroe
- Rules for a Happy Marriage (1970) - Ellen Monroe
- The Middle Years (1970) - Ellen Monroe
- Dear Is a Four Letter Word (1970) - Ellen Monroe
- The Human Being and the Dinosaur (1970) - Ellen Monroe
- Darn That Dream (1970) - Ellen Monroe
- The Mating Dance (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- The War Between Men and Women (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- Rally Round the Flag (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- The Shrike and the Chipmunks (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- Native Wit (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- Maid in Connecticut (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- A Friend of the Earth (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- The Saga of Dimity Ann (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- Seal in the Bedroom (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- Nobody Ever Kills Dragons Anymore (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- The Ghost and Mr. Monroe (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- The Night the House Caught Fire (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- Cristabel (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- Little Girls Are Sugar & Spice, and Not Always Nice! (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- The Disenchanted (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- Man Against the World (1969) - Ellen Monroe
- The Mea Culpa Bit (1969) - Ellen Monroe
1968
The Outcasts (TV Series) as
Mellissa Carver
- The Night Riders (1968) - Mellissa Carver
1967
Iron Horse (TV Series) as
Catharine Falconer
- Four Guns to Scalplock (1967) - Catharine Falconer
1964
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (TV Movie) as
Elizabeth Edwards
1963
Inside Danny Baker (TV Movie) as
Gloria Baker
1961
'Way Out (TV Series) as
Louise Pell
- Soft Focus (1961) - Louise Pell
1960
Diagnosis: Unknown (TV Series) as
Ruth
- The Case of the Elder (1960) - Ruth
1957
Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) as
Sarah
- Longing for to Go (1957) - Sarah
1956
Conflict (TV Series)
- Shock Wave (1956)
1956
Warner Brothers Presents (TV Series)
- Conflict (1956)
1956
Frontier (TV Series) as
Ellen Landry
- The Hunted (1956) - Ellen Landry
1954
The Secret Storm (TV Series) as
Myra Lake Ames #1 (1958)
Writer
1975
Legacy
Self
1955
Lamp Unto My Feet (TV Series)
- Someone for Tea (1955)

References

Joan Hotchkis Wikipedia


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