Bonnie Bartlett
Best known for her Emmy Award-winning role as Ellen Craig on "St. Elsewhere," Bonnie Bartlett found early inspiration for her acting ambition in her father, a former Shakespearean actor. She studied at Northwestern University, where she met actor William Daniels; the two married after graduation. The couple moved to New York where Bartlett trained under Lee Strasberg. In 1955, Bartlett broke into on television as Vanessa 'Van' Dale Raven Sterling, a role she'd play for four years on the daytime soap opera "Love of Life." After leaving the show, she gave birth to her first child, who sadly died soon after. The couple went on to adopt two boys, and Bartlett's career took a back seat to her children. During this time she made guest appearances on such popular shows as the family drama "The Waltons," the western "Gunsmoke," and the crime drama "Kojak." In 1974, she accepted the recurring role of Grace Snider on the family adventure drama "Little House on the Prairie." After her arc came to an end in 1979, she took on a number of guest spots before landing a role on the medical soap "St. Elsewhere" alongside her husband in 1982. In 1986, the couple made history when each won an award on Emmy night, only the second couple in history to do so. Over the decades Bartlett has become a staple of modern television, and in 2008 made an appearance on the hit medical drama "Grey's Anatomy."
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Filmography
Movies
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Of Two Minds | Kathleen (Character) | - | 2012 |
41% |
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Saving Shiloh | Mrs. Wallace (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It Must Be Love | Kate Gazelle (Character) | - | 2004 |
70% |
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Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season | Mrs. Wallace (Character) | $40.4K | 1999 |
71% |
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Tuesdays With Morrie | Charlotte (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Blessings | Mavis Lallek (Character) | - | 1999 |
80% |
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Primary Colors | Martha Harris (Character) | $39.0M | 1998 |
73% |
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Shiloh | Mrs. Wallace (Character) | $1.0M | 1997 |
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Sleeping With the Devil | Stasha Dubrovich (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Courtyard | Cathleen Fitzgerald (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | See Jane Run | Doris (Character) | - | 1995 |
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In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy | Aunt Alice (Character) | - | 1995 |
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A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor | Rosemary Sutter (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Where Are My Children? | Judge Carol Jean Woods (Character) | - | 1994 |
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Take Me Home Again | Sylvia (Character) | - | 1994 |
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Donato and Daughter | Renata Donato (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story | Lucille Mohr (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Story: The Watch Commander | Margaret Wilson (Character) | - | 1988 |
42% |
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Twins | Old Mary Ann Benedict (Character) | $107.4M | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Deadly Deception | Marge Shoat (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Right to Die | Lillian (Character) | - | 1987 |
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Malice in Wonderland | Ida Koverman (Character) | - | 1985 |
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Love Letters | Maggie Winter (Character) | - | 1983 |
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Dempsey | Celia Dempsey (Character) | - | 1983 |
67% |
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Frances | Studio Stylist (Character) | - | 1982 |
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A Long Way Home | JoAnn Booth (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seed of Innocence | Velma (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case | Norma Joyce (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Word | Mrs. Garrity (Character) | - | 1979 |
89% |
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Salem's Lot | Ann Norton (Character) | - | 1979 |
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Promises in the Dark | Nurse Farber (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Death in Canaan | Teresa Noble (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Killer on Board | Debra Snowden (Character) | - | 1977 |
33% |
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The Last Tycoon | Brady's secretary (Character) | - | 1976 |
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The Legend of Lizzie Borden | Sylvia Knowlton (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder or Mercy | Elena Champion (Character) | - | 1974 |
TV
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98% | 96% | Better Call Saul | Helen (Guest Star) | 2017 |
93% | 89% | Parks and Recreation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
84% | 72% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
86% | 90% | Boston Legal | Marguerite Hauser (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 84% | NCIS | Dr. Sylvia Chalmers (Guest Star) | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 2000 2003 |
77% | 96% | Firefly | Patience (Guest Star) | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Once and Again | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999-2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 1999 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Boy Meets World | Dean Lila Bolander (Guest Star) | 1995 1997-1999 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Home Improvement | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995-1996 1998 |
No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Ruth Greene (Guest Star) | 1997-1998 |
14% | No Score Yet | The Faculty | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wiseguy | Harriet Weiss (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Marilyn North (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 94% | The Golden Girls | Barbara Thorndyke (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | North and South, Book II | General's Wife (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barney Miller | Ellen Milford (Guest Star) | 1980 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eight Is Enough | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little House on the Prairie |
Grace Edwards (Character), Grace Snider (Guest Star) |
1974-1977 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Joan Milner (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Maylee Baines (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Waltons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |