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Patty McCormack
Most child performers are recalled for their Shirley Templesque sweetness; others for being "awful bad" such as Jane Withers. But no child actor can boast a role as memorably malicious, evil, psychotic and twisted as Patty McCormack, who played Rhoda Penmark, the petite blonde-braided girl who seems so neat, clean and perfect, but who kills a schoolmate because he won a penmanship award she thought was due her in "The Bad Seed" (1956). Come to think of it, McCormack's Rhoda killed half the cast on Broadway in 1954 and on the big screen in 1956. Since outgrowing her youthful parts, Patricia McCormack (as she is now billed) has had a sporadic adult career, but each year a new generation comes to know her 10-year old self as "The Bad Seed."
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Patty McCormack
Filmography
Movies
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The Bad Seed Returns | Dr. March (Character) | - | 2022 |
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Always Amore | Nonna (Character) | - | 2022 |
| No Score Yet |
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Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy | Nan Baxter (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Bad Seed | Dr. March (Character) | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet |
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House of Deadly Secrets | Sylvia Holmes (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet |
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A Moving Romance | Mrs. Norrell (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet |
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Soda Springs | Beth (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet |
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2nd Take | Estelle (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet |
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Elevator Girl | Rosemary (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet |
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Citizen Jane | Aunt Gertrude (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet |
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A Christmas Proposal | Maggie (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 93% |
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Frost/Nixon | Pat Nixon (Character) | $18.6M | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Wall | Dolores (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 50% |
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Shallow Ground | Helen Reedy (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet |
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Mystery Woman: Snapshot | Barbara Sommers (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Target | Maysie (Character) | - | 2004 |
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Inhabited | Olivia Hagen (Character) | - | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Medicine Show | Janice Piegi (Character) | - | 2001 |
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Acceptable Risk | Lois (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet |
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Silent Predators | Vera Conrad (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mommy 2: Mommy's Day |
Mrs. Sterling (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 1997 |
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Mommy | Mommy (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 29% |
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Saturday the 14th Strikes Back | Kate Baxter (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Private Road | Alice Wilson (Character) | - | 1988 |
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Invitation to Hell | Mary Peterson (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Partners | Sophie Metzman (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Awakening of Cassie | Sally (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Emergency: The Convention | Gail (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing...? | Unknown (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 38% |
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Bug | Sylvia Ross (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Born Wild | Janet (Character) | - | 1968 |
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The Mini-Skirt Mob | Edie (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Maryjane | Susan Hoffman (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Young Runaways | Deannie Donford (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jacktown | Margaret (Character) | - | 1962 |
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The Explosive Generation | Janet Sommers (Character) | - | 1961 |
| 60% |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Joanna Wilkes (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Snow Queen | Angel, the Robber Girl (Voice) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kathy O' | Kathy O'Rourke (Character) | - | 1958 |
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All Mine to Give | Annabelle Eunson (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 63% |
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The Bad Seed | Rhoda Penmark (Character) | - | 1956 |
TV
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| No Score Yet | 69% | Hawaii Five-0 | Tabitha (Guest Star) | 2020 |
| 81% | 88% | Hart of Dixie | Sylvie Stephens-Wilkes (Guest Star) | 2013-2015 |
| 93% | 72% | Scandal | Anne Pierce (Character) | 2012 |
| 42% | 69% | GCB | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| 75% | 65% | Greek | Joan (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | Private Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | South of Nowhere | Mary Spencer (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 52% | 50% | Shark | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What About Brian | Lillian (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| 92% | 96% | The Sopranos | Liz La Cerva (Guest Star) | 2004 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| 65% | 82% | Entourage | Realtor (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| 84% | 72% | Grey's Anatomy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| 83% | 95% | NYPD Blue | Jeannie Wyatt (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 63% | No Score Yet | The D.A. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baywatch | Rose O'Hara (Character) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Det. Kathleen Chadwick (Guest Star) | 1987-1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Partners in Crime | Irene (Guest Star) | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | Carol Baldwin (Guest Star) | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dallas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981-1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fall Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ropers |
Anne Brookes (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1979-1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Dr. Newman (Guest Star) | 1974-1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Linda Halsey (Guest Star) | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Jill Cameron Lawrence (Guest Star) | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Story | Marie Hall (Character) | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Farmer's Daughter | Helga (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962-1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960-1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Step Beyond | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Mary Ellen Thomas (Guest Star) | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1954 |