Angela Paton

Angela Paton

Born: January 11, 1930
Died: May 16, 2016
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Angela Paton was an American stage, film, and television actress and theatre director. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1930. Described as a "natural comic" and one of the "legends of the local stage" of San Francisco, she was a veteran of the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) and one of A.C.T.'s leading actresses in its first few seasons. After leaving A.C.T. in the early 1970s, Paton and her husband founded and ran the Berkeley Stage Company for a number of years. She appeared in 38 films and over 50 TV series.

Some of her notable film roles include Mrs. Lancaster, the innkeeper, in Groundhog Day (1993) and Grandma in American Wedding (2003). She also had recurring roles on the television shows Thirtysomething (1987-1991), My Name is Earl (2005-2009), and The War at Home (2005-2007).

Paton was a respected figure in the Bay Area theater community, and she was awarded the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 1987 for her performance in the play "The Beauty Queen of Leenane." She was also a member of the Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild.

Paton died in Oakland, California, in 2016, at the age of 86.

Movies for Angela Paton...

Harvey
Title: Harvey
Character: Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet
Released: May 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Charming and kind, Elwood P. Dowd has only one character flaw: an unwavering friendship with a six-foot-tall, invisible rabbit named Harvey. In order to save the family’s reputation, Elwood’s sister, Veta, takes him to the local sanitarium. But when Dr. William Chumley mistakenly commits anxiety-ridden Veta instead of her brother, it sets off a hilarious whirlwind of confusion and chaos as everyone tries to catch a man and his invisible rabbit.
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Title: I Didn't Do It
Character: Mrs. Klasby
Released: January 17, 2014
Type: TV
Ultra-competitive fraternal twins Lindy and Logan Watson, together with their four best friends, navigate their freshman year of high school. Each episode begins with a comedic "what just happened?" situation as Lindy and Logan each spin their own vivid account of a certain occurrence or predicament. The series utilizes flashback scenes to tell the siblings' unique stories.
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I Am I
Title: I Am I
Character: Doris
Released: April 27, 2013
Type: Movie
I AM I is the story of a young woman, Rachael, who meets the father she never knew, Gene, at her mother's funeral. She discovers that her father is completely delusional and believes her to be her dead mother. After Rachael visits Gene in an assisted living home, she learns that he suffers from a disease called Korsakov's Syndrome, a form of retrograde amnesia and that her mother had placed him in this facility for treatment a year earlier. He does not remember anything past the age of thirty-three, and believes that he is still a young man. Unable to convince him of who she really is, Rachael decides to go along with her father's delusions by pretending to be her mother and discovers that under this guise, she and Gene can have "normal" conversations. Before long, Rachael is visiting Gene everyday, finding new ways to bring elements from his past into their present relationship.
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Title: Sons of Tucson
Character: Ethel
Released: March 14, 2010
Type: TV
Sons of Tucson is a family comedy about three brothers who hire a charming, wayward schemer to stand in as their father when their real one goes to prison. What begins as a business relationship evolves into something more complex and compelling: a family unlike any we've ever seen. The three brothers find their dad-for-hire, Ron Snuffkin (Tyler Labine), at the local sporting good store. Ron will be forced to draw on a wide array of skills and a vast bag of tricks as he steps into the patriarch role to take care of the boys of the Gunderson family. Robby Gunderson, 8, is a loose cannon who doesn't respond well to authority; Gary Gunderson, 11, is a bright and street-savvy leader who is every bit the con man his father is; and Brandon Gunderson, 13, is a gentle free spirit who simply goes along for the ride. Maggie Morales (Natalie Martinez), Robby's second-grade teacher and the object of Ron's affection, might just be the only stable figure in the lives of this quirky quartet. While Sons of Tucson is grounded in the day-to-day challenges of a single-parent home, nothing in the Gunderson household is quite what it seems. An ongoing chess match between Ron and the boys will keep both parties on their toes, as neither side can afford to give up too much power or independence.
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The Final Season
Title: The Final Season
Character: Anne Akers
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: Movie
True story of Kent Stock, who in the early '90s gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach of the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill their former coach's shoes and that they can go out winners. In the summer of 1991 Norway High's baseball tradition ended on a triumphant but sombre note.
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The Valley of Light
Title: The Valley of Light
Character: Granny
Released: January 28, 2007
Type: Movie
The Valley of Light is a beautifully-filmed, sentimental movie of a young man's quest to make sense of his experiences and find new meaning in life. While this film deals with weighty material such as the suicide of Eleanor's husband and Mathew's untimely death, the content is handled with reverence and sensitivity. Parents can feel confident in sharing this and many other Hallmark films with their families.
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Title: My Name Is Earl
Character: Old Woman
Released: September 20, 2005
Type: TV
When petty criminal Earl Hickey wins the lottery, he sets off on a quest to repair his questionable karma.
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Red Eye
Title: Red Eye
Character: Nice Lady
Released: August 19, 2005
Type: Movie
A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Martha Elkin
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Title: Medium
Character: Mrs. Halstead
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
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Die, Mommie, Die!
Title: Die, Mommie, Die!
Character: Angela's Fan
Released: October 31, 2003
Type: Movie
Angela Arden is washed up, has-been singing star who is trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. In an attempt to escape her marriage so that she can be with a hunky layabout, she poisons her husband. However, Angela's manipulative daughter, gay son and alcoholic maid are not going to make it easy for her.
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American Wedding
Title: American Wedding
Character: Grandma
Released: August 1, 2003
Type: Movie
With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married — and in a hurry, since Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk down the aisle — prompting Stifler to throw the ultimate bachelor party. And Jim's dad is reliable as ever, doling out advice no one wants to hear.
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The United States of Leland
Title: The United States of Leland
Character: Airplane Woman
Released: May 15, 2003
Type: Movie
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected by the murder, including Becky and her sister, Julie, must contend with their own problems.
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Early Bird Special
Title: Early Bird Special
Character: Mrs. Carmichael
Released: December 31, 2001
Type: Movie
A black comedy that was produced but immediately went into arbitration and was seemingly not released.
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Joe Dirt
Title: Joe Dirt
Character: Woman with Roadrunner
Released: April 10, 2001
Type: Movie
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.
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Title: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Ruth
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: TV
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
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Title: Jesse
Character: Mrs. Baum
Released: September 24, 1998
Type: TV
Jesse Warner is a 26-year-old single mother juggling between her job, her dreams and her family responsibilities.
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The Con
Title: The Con
Character: Lyla
Released: March 4, 1998
Type: Movie
A lonely gas station attendent in Mississippi falls in love with a con woman who wants to get her hands on an inheritance he doesn't know about.
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The Wedding Singer
Title: The Wedding Singer
Character: Faye
Released: February 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Robbie, a local rock star turned wedding singer, is dumped on the day of his wedding. Meanwhile, waitress Julia finally sets a wedding date with her fiancée Glenn. When Julia and Robbie meet and hit it off, they find that things are more complicated than anybody thought.
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Lolita
Title: Lolita
Character: Mrs. Holmes
Released: September 27, 1997
Type: Movie
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
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Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
Title: Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story
Character: Joan
Released: February 25, 1996
Type: Movie
True crime story of a Wisconsin teacher's aide who hired teenaged students to murder her estranged husband.
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Home for the Holidays
Title: Home for the Holidays
Character: Woman on Airplane
Released: November 2, 1995
Type: Movie
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
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Title: JAG
Character: Elena Motley
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: TV
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.
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Title: Sliders
Character: Mrs. Meadows
Released: March 22, 1995
Type: TV
In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see his new invention. But an increase in power and an early departure leave all three, plus a washed-up soul singer named Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown, lost in a parallel world. Now they must "slide" from world to world, not only adapting to their changing surroundings, but also trying to get back to their world. Will they ever make it home?
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Title: Star Trek: Voyager
Character: Aunt Adah
Released: January 16, 1995
Type: TV
Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.
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Trapped in Paradise
Title: Trapped in Paradise
Character: Hattie Anderson
Released: December 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.
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Title: ER
Character: Mrs. Ransom
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Where Are My Children?
Title: Where Are My Children?
Character: Ellie McNeil
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
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Title: Chicago Hope
Released: September 18, 1994
Type: TV
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.
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Clean Slate
Title: Clean Slate
Character: Shirley Pogue
Released: May 6, 1994
Type: Movie
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.
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And the Band Played On
Title: And the Band Played On
Character: Woman in Denver
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Mrs. Lukesh
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Groundhog Day
Title: Groundhog Day
Character: Mrs. Lancaster
Released: February 11, 1993
Type: Movie
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
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Keep the Change
Title: Keep the Change
Character: Dinah
Released: June 9, 1992
Type: Movie
A struggling artist visits his family on their Montana ranch and finds that his former flame, daughter of a family foe, is now married to an old friend.
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Criminal Behavior
Title: Criminal Behavior
Character: Adelaide
Released: May 11, 1992
Type: Movie
Female lawyer is stalked by a killer. The last in a long line of con artists, defense lawyer Jessie Lee Stubbs (Farrah Fawcett) has every intention of staying on the right side of the law. But a suitcase packed with $3 million, a missing Hollywood starlet, and a trail of dead bodies draw her deeper into a deadly intrigue of desire, deception, betrayal and murder.
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The Last of His Tribe
Title: The Last of His Tribe
Character: Mrs. Gustafson
Released: March 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Ishi, the last Yahi Indian of California, must leave his homeland and learn to navigate the world of the white man in order to survive.
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Title: Home Improvement
Character: Irma
Released: September 17, 1991
Type: TV
The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and unseen neighbor.
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Lies of the Twins
Title: Lies of the Twins
Character: Mrs. Shearer
Released: August 21, 1991
Type: Movie
An ex-model is seduced into danger by her psychotherapist boyfriend's wicked identical twin.
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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
Title: Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
Character: Gloria Sikes
Released: October 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.
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Flatliners
Title: Flatliners
Character: Doctor
Released: August 10, 1990
Type: Movie
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life.
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Title: Wings
Character: Sandy
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
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Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker
Title: Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker
Character: Mrs. Webster
Released: November 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez who terrorized California in 1985 and the two Los Angeles police detectives who try to track him down.
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Title: Quantum Leap
Character: Lottie Sammis
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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Title: Dear John
Character: Mother Superior
Released: October 6, 1988
Type: TV
Dear John starred Judd Hirsch as easygoing Drake Prep high school teacher John Lacey who is dumped by his wife, Wendy, via a Dear John letter. Wendy ends up with everything in the divorce settlement, including custody of the couple's son, forcing John to move into an apartment in Ozone Park, Queens. John soon joins the One-2-One Club, a self help group for divorced, widowed or lonely people. The group is led by Louise (Jane Carr), a sex-obsessed British woman. Other members of the group include Kate McCarron (Isabella Hofmann), a sweet divorcée; Kirk Morris (Jere Burns), a cocky ladies' man; Ralph Drang (Harry Groener), a shy and neurotic tollbooth collector; Bonnie Philbert (Billie Bird), a feisty senior citizen; and Tom, Mrs. Philbert's quiet boyfriend (Tom Willett).
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Title: The Wonder Years
Character: Woman at City Hall
Released: January 31, 1988
Type: TV
The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.
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Dirty Harry
Title: Dirty Harry
Character: Homicide Detective (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1971
Type: Movie
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventually collars Scorpio in the process of rescuing a kidnap victim, only to see him walk on technicalities. Now, the maverick detective is determined to nail the maniac himself.