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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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Christmas Vacation

1989
as Frances Smith

Aliens in the Attic

2009
as Nana Rose Pearson

The Fig Tree

1987
as Great Aunt Eliza

One True Love

2000
as Lilian

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

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

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

Margarine Wars

2012
as Grandma Betty Johansson

Merry Kissmas

2015
as Mrs. Billing

A Letter to Three Wives

1985
as Sadie Finney

A Time to Remember

2003
as Maggie Calhoun

A Thousand Men and a Baby

1997
as Sister Philomena

Call Me Mrs. Miracle

2010
as Mrs. Merkle / Mrs. Miracle

Such Good Friends

1971
as Mrs. Gold

Raising Waylon

2004
as Great Aunt Marie

Touched

2014
as Norma

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