Marlene Warfield
American actress (1941–2025)
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Marlene Ronetta Warfield (June 19, 1941 – April 6, 2025) was an American actress who worked in theatre, film, and television.
June 19, 1941
Marlene Warfield | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marlene Ronetta Warfield June 19, 1941 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | April 6, 2025 (aged 83) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1957–2011 |
| Spouse |
William Horsey
(m. 1967; died 1993) |
| Children | 1 |
Background
Warfield was born in Queens, New York, on June 19, 1941, and brought up in Brooklyn.[1] She attended the High School of Performing Arts and began acting on stage as a teenager, in 1957.[1] She later attended the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and the American Institute of Theatre and TV Arts.[1]
Career
Warfield began her career in New York, working on stage and screen.[1] She moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s.[1] She portrayed the underground revolutionary Laureen Hobbs in the 1976 film Network[2] and played Victoria Butterfield on the television sitcom Maude (1977–1978).[3] Warfield starred in the play Janie Jones at the New Theatre, London (opened July 15, 1968).[4]
She won the Clarence Derwent Award in 1969 for Outstanding Broadway Debut Performance and a Theatre World Award for the role of Clara in The Great White Hope, which she reprised in the 1970 film version.[5]
Personal life and death
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Joe | Bellevue Nurse | Feature film |
| 1970 | The Great White Hope | Clara | Feature film |
| 1970 | The Name of the Game | Sdhari | Episode: "The Time Is Now" |
| 1971 | Goodbye, Raggedy Ann | Louise Walters | Television film |
| 1972 | Cutter | Susan Macklin | Television film |
| 1972 | Madigan | Clara | Episode: "The Midtown Beat" |
| 1972 | Across 110th Street | Mrs. Jackson | Feature film |
| 1973 | Pomroy's People | School Teacher | Television pilot |
| 1976 | Network | Laureen Hobbs | Feature film |
| 1977–1978 | Maude | Victoria Butterfield | Main cast (8 episodes) |
| 1978 | Lou Grant | Joanne Bartlett | Episode: "Hero" |
| 1979 | The Jeffersons | Mrs. Owens | Episode: "Me and Mr. G" |
| 1981 | The Sophisticated Gents | Lil Joplin | Television miniseries |
| 1981 | Little House on the Prairie | Mattie Ledoux | Episode: "Dark Sage" |
| 1983 | Hill Street Blues | Ada Baxter | Episode: "Moon Over Uranus: The Sequel" |
| 1984 | Cagney & Lacey | Detective #2 | Episode: "Old Debts" |
| 1986 | Child's Cry | Maxine | Television film |
| 1986 | Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling | Sonja | Feature film |
| 1989 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson | Prosecutor | Television film |
| 1989 | How I Got Into College | Librarian | Feature film |
| 1990 | Freddy's Nightmares | Helen Woodman | Episode: "A Family Affair" |
| 1990 | Equal Justice | Judge Evelyn Kass | Episode: "Sugar Blues" |
| 1996 | In the House | Grandma Hill | Episode: "The Max Who Came to Dinner" |
| 1997 | ER | Babs Chenovert | Episode: "Tribes" |
| 1999 | The West Wing | Ruth | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2000 | So Weird | Mrs. Clemens | Episode: "Blues" |
| 2001 | Dead Last | Woman | Episode: "The Crawford Touch" |
| 2002 | The Shield | Dottie Cummings | Episode: "Dawg Days" |
| 2003 | Cold Case | Samuela Robbins | Episode: "The Runner" |
| 2011 | Aurora Borealis | Mrs. Parker | Short film |
