RIP Cloris Leachman

[RockyMTblue2]

Loved her in Young Frankenstein and The Last Picture Show. Great actress. RIP Cloris.

 

[EricLA]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

People like her and Betty white needed/need to live forever! Dang that is so sad. RIP Cloris... The world is a little less bright without her in it...

 

[JellyBean]

Oh Damn!! One of my favorites on the Mary Tyler Moore show back in the day. RIP, Cloris.

 

[Bama fan]

I have been watching a lot of Gunsmoke episodes lately, and recently saw Cloris, Ted Knight, and Ed Asner in various roles along with Matt Dillon and the gang. RIP , Ms Leachman.

 

[Aluminny69]

She earned an Academy Award for Last Picture Show,

 

[UConnCat]

 

[CL82]

Not a great show but this theme always made laugh.



RIP

 

[UConnCat]

 

[Ozimoto]

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[UConnCat]

 

[connie]

A singular figure, to be sure. Her performance as Ruth Popper in The Last Picture Show is heart-breaking and electrifying. I can think of nothing like it in cinema history prior to or at the time. If it was the only thing she ever did (and thankfully it wasn’t), it would have secured her place in history. What a phenomenal performance. What a tremendous talent.

Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show

 

[UConnCat]

 

[connie]

And as Nurse Diesel, in the greatly under-rated “High Anxiety”...

Nurse Diesel

 

[BostonBay]

"He Vas my BOYFRIEND!" One of the best lines in movie cinema. She could play any type of role. RIP.

 

[CMC'72]

My partner was married to Cloris' son, and had one child, Portia.
So I often got to enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner at Cloris' home in LA.
Most thanksgivings Cloris would bring out the turkey as Frau Blucher.
Always on, always full of grace and humor.
Godspeed!

 

[LETTERL]

And don't forget...she was the second actress to play mother to Timmy on 1950s Lassie.

Her best performance, though, was in The Last Picture Show. Powerful performance. She was a woman who just wanted to be needed and loved.

And this is an obscure show...but does anyone remember a short-lived 1980s sitcom called Nutt House? She played the matriarch...Harvey Korman was also on it. Another failed Mel Brooks show but I loved it. Aired Wednesday nights after Unsolved Mysteries and Night Court.