Joyce Van Patten
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Joyce Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) is an American actress who has appeared on TV on both As The World Turns and on The Odd Couple, in movies The Bad News Bears, and on stage on Broadway.
Van Patten was born in New York City, New York to Josephine Rose Acerno, an Italian American, and Richard Byron Van Patten, who had distant Dutch ancestry from a great-grandfather.[1] She is the younger sister of actor Dick Van Patten, and aunt to actors Vincent Van Patten, James Van Patten and Nels Van Patten. She was formerly married to the late actor Martin Balsam, and mother of actress Talia Balsam, who was later married to actor George Clooney for a while.
She was usually astringent in her roles, except when she played Maude Pomfritt, schoolteacher Leander Pomfritt (played by William Schallert)'s treacly wife on the late 1950s/early 1960s series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
