Personal Info
Birth date
1937-12-16 (87 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Newport News, Virginia, USA
Also known as
-Joyce Bulifant
Biography
Joyce Collins Bulifant (born December 16, 1937) is an American actress and author. In addition to recurring roles on television, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Marie Slaughter, she is recognized for film roles in The Happiest Millionaire and Airplane!. She was also a frequent panelist on game shows including Chain Reaction, Match Game, and Password Plus. She has been married a total of 5 times: actor James MacArthur (m. 1958; div. 1968), actor Edward Mallory (m. 1969; div. 1974), producer/director William Asher (m. 1976; div. 1993), Glade Bruce Hansen (m. 2000; div. 2001), and actor Roger Perry (m. 2002; died 2018). She had 2 children with her first husband James MacArthur and 1 son, actor/director John Mallory Asher, with her second husband Edward Mallory. John was also adopted by her third husband William Asher.
Filmography
Dr. Kildare
5.5
Overview:
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.Bonanza
7.512
Overview:
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.The Mary Tyler Moore Show
7.539
Overview:
30-year-old single Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis to start a new life after a romantic break-up. There she reacquaints with Phyllis who rents her a room, and meets her upstairs neighbor and new best friend Rhoda. Mary unexpectedly lands a job as associate producer at the TV station WJM, where she works alongside her bristly boss, Lou; the comical newswriter, Murray; and the newscast's often-incompetent anchor, Ted.Perry Mason
7.717
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.Alice
7.036
Overview:
Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.The Facts of Life
7
Overview:
Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.Lancer
4.7
Overview:
Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The series stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.Police Woman
6.259
Overview:
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.Love, American Style
6.056
Overview:
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.Thriller
6.417
Overview:
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.Three's Company
7.679
Overview:
When two single girls, Janet and Chrissy, need a roommate to share their Santa Monica apartment, they decide to offer a room to Jack, a man they find passed out in the bathtub after the going-away party for their last roommate. However, hijinks ensure when Jack must pretend to be gay in order to throw off the scent of the trio's conservative landlady.The Bill Cosby Show
5.417
Overview:
The Bill Cosby Show is an American situation comedy that aired for two seasons on NBC's Sunday night schedule from 1969 until 1971, under the sponsorship of Procter & Gamble. There were 52 episodes made in the series. It marked Bill Cosby's first solo foray in television, after his co-starring role with Robert Culp in I Spy. The series also marked the first time an African American starred in his or her own eponymous comedy series.Police Story
6.9
Overview:
Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it was an anthology, there were certain things that all episodes had in common; for instance, the main character in each episode was a police officer. The setting was always Los Angeles and the characters always worked for some branch of the LAPD. Notwithstanding the anthology format, there were recurring characters. Scott Brady appeared in more than a dozen episodes as "Vinnie," a former cop who, upon retirement, had opened a bar catering to police officers, and who acted as a sort of Greek chorus during the run of the series, commenting on the characters and plots.Vacation Playhouse
7
Overview:
The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was successful during its first few seasons due to the fact that the show's concept, airing unsold and unaired television pilots, was a popular concept in the 1960s. But during its last two seasons on the air, the series did find some trouble due to the fact that the series were running out of pilots to air and, in their 4th season, they began airing repeats from the three seasons prior. During its 1966 summer run, the series aired eights new pilots and two repeats and during its last year airing five new pilots and four repeats.The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
5.1
Overview:
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo is an American action/adventure situation. Claude Akins stars in the title role in this wacky new NBC one-hour comedy series about the exploits of a rural county sheriff and his two deputies, played by Mills Watson and Brian Kerwin.The Shining
6.284
Overview:
A new caretaker moves with his family into the mysterious Overlook Hotel for the winter.Arrest and Trial
7.667
Overview:
Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.Flo
5
Overview:
Flo is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1980 to 1981. The series is a spin-off for Polly Holliday who portrayed the sassy and street-smart waitress Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry on the sitcom Alice. Flo was cancelled at the end of its second season.The Virginian
6.387
Overview:
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.CHiPs
6.817
Overview:
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.Naked City
5.5
Overview:
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.Big John, Little John
6.8
Overview:
Big John, Little John was an American Saturday-morning situation comedy, produced by Sherwood Schwartz, which starred Herbert Edelman as "Big John" and Robert "Robbie" Rist as "Little John." The show first aired on September 11, 1976 on NBC, and ran for one season of 13 episodes. The series was produced by Redwood Productions in association with D'Angelo-Bullock-Allen Productions.Just Shoot Me!
6.616
Overview:
See the inner workings of a high-style magazine owned by Jack Gallo, who has hired his quick-tempered but talented daughter, Maya, to write for the publication. Challenging her at every turn is Nina, a vain and superficial former model. Then there's photographer Elliot, a man who is very popular with his portrait subjects as well as other women. completing the core staff is her father's assistant, Dennis, a glorified secretary who is generally disrespectful to one and all.Gunsmoke
6.553
Overview:
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.Tom, Dick and Mary
5
Overview:
Karen is one of three NBC sitcoms set in a California apartment complex located at 90 Bristol Court. It stars Don Galloway as Tom and Joyce Bulifant as Mary Gentry, a newlywed couple sharing an apartment with Tom's best friend, Dick Moran, played by Steve Franken.Airplane!
7.3
Overview:
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.The Tall Man
6.3
Overview:
The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five episodes on NBC from 1960 to 1962, filmed by Revue Productions.General Electric Theater
6.25
Overview:
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.Dirty Love
4.266
Overview:
The klutzy yet stunning Rebecca Sommers walks in on her hunky boyfriend in bed with another woman. They break up and Rebecca starts to fall apart, but, with the help of her close girlfriends, she begins to date again. Unfortunately, the men she meets all happen to be crazy. John, her dorky guy friend, tries to express his secret love for Rebecca, but she's too busy to notice as she tries to come to terms with her breakup.Acting
TBAThe Songs of Christmas as Host
TBAA Love Like This as Joyce
2023Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
2019I Hate Kids as Betty Bartlett
2015Tooken as Edna Millers
20092009 Game Show Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Presenter
2005Dirty Love as Mary
2001Thank Heaven as Dr. Swensen
1999Diamonds as June
1997The Shining (1 Episode) as Customer
1997Just Shoot Me! (1 Episode) as Fannie Finch
1983Charley's Aunt as Miss Delahay
1982The Haircut as Dell (Manicurist)
1980Airplane! as Mrs. Davis
1980Flo (29 Episodes) as Unknown
1979Better Late Than Never as Jean Wallace
1979The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (1 Episode) as Dixie Wilson
1979The Facts of Life (1 Episode) as Margaret
1979Hanging by a Thread as Anita Minton
1978Little Women (1 Episode) as Mrs. Kirke
1977CHiPs (1 Episode) as Joyce Bulifant (uncredited)
1977Three's Company (1 Episode) as Mrs. Cross
1976Big John, Little John (13 Episodes) as Marjorie Martin
1976Alice (1 Episode) as Connie Raymond
1974Police Woman (1 Episode) as Peggy Lakes
1973Love Thy Neighbor (13 Episodes) as Peggy Wilson
1973Police Story (1 Episode) as Katie Pardnales
1970The Mary Tyler Moore Show (7 Episodes) as Marie Slaughter
1969Love, American Style (1 Episode) as Connie
1969The Bill Cosby Show (6, 1 Episode) as Marsha Patterson, Mrs. Marsha Patterson
1968Lancer (1 Episode) as Cassie
1967The Happiest Millionaire as Rosemary
1964Tom, Dick and Mary (13 Episodes) as Mary Gentry
1963Channing (1 Episode) as Ellen Dalton
1963Arrest and Trial (1 Episode) as Alice
1963Vacation Playhouse (1 Episode) as Connie Duncan
1962The Virginian (1 Episode) as Nancy Mayhew
1961Dr. Kildare (3 Episodes) as Judy Cannon
1960Thriller (1 Episode) as Jinny Wells
1960The Tall Man (1 Episode) as Fifi Dubois
1959Bonanza (1 Episode) as Bonnie Vernon
1958Naked City (1 Episode) as Constance Hacker
1957Perry Mason (1, 1 Episode) as Hollis Wilburn, Nancy Banks
1955Gunsmoke (1 Episode) as Ellie
1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Connie Duncan