Born in Brooklyn, New York, Joyce Van Patten was auditioning for modeling roles before reaching her first birthday. By the age six she was on Broadway performing in the 1941 play Popsy, and that same year was appearing on radio with her older brother Dick in Reg'lar Fellers, a summer filler series. She made her television debut in the 1946 series Hour Glass, was a regular on the Danny Kaye Show beginning in 1964, and continued with seven decades of work including the more recent roles in Desperate Housewives, The Good Wife, Diane and If I'm Alive Next Week....
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Desperate Housewives (2004)
Guest starring as Carol Prudy
(2 episodes)
- Episode 2x10: Coming Home (Dec 4, 2005)
- Episode 2x09: That's Good, That's Bad (Nov 27, 2005)
Now and Again (1999)
Guest starring as Psychiatrist
- Episode 1x06: Nothing to Fear, but Nothing to Fear (Nov 5, 1999)
Judging Amy (1999)
Guest starring as Jane, Eric's Lawyer
(2 episodes)
- Episode 4x16: Sixteen Going on Seventeen (Feb 18, 2003)
- Episode 4x09: Boys to Men (Nov 26, 2002)
Unhappily Ever After (1995)
Starring as Maureen Slattery
(3 episodes)
- Episode 1x04: The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall (Feb 1, 1995)
- Episode 1x02: Gift of the Magnovox (Jan 18, 1995)
- Episode 1x01: Pilot (Jan 11, 1995)
Northern Exposure (1990)
Guest starring as Pat Hillman
- Episode 5x21: I Feel the Earth Move (May 2, 1994)
Eischied (1978)
Guest starring as Betty Eischied
- Episode S01 Special: To Kill a Cop (1) (Apr 10, 1978)
Love, American Style (1969)
Guest starring as Janet
- Episode 5x61: Love and Mr. Bunny (Jan 11, 1974)
Guest starring as Rona
- Episode 1x71: Love and the Singles Apartment (Mar 27, 1970)
Guest starring as Nikki
- Episode 3x20: Love and the Naked Stranger (Oct 22, 1971)
Guest starring as Marge
- Episode 4x66: Love and the Playwright (Feb 9, 1973)
The Good Guys (1968)
Starring as Claudia Gramus
(42 episodes)
- Episode 2x17: Art A La Carte (Jan 23, 1970)
- Episode 2x16: Compulsion (Jan 16, 1970)
- Episode 2x15: Deep Are the Roots (Jan 9, 1970)
- Episode 2x14: A Fine Kettle of Fish (Jan 2, 1970)
- Episode 2x13: Communciation Gap (Dec 19, 1969)
- Episode 2x12: A Familiar Ring (Dec 12, 1969)
- Episode 2x11: A Chimp Named Sam (Dec 5, 1969)
- Episode 2x10: The Eyes Have It (Nov 28, 1969)
- Episode 2x09: No Orchids For the Diner (Nov 21, 1969)
- Episode 2x08: Biggest Madre of Them All (Nov 14, 1969)
- Episode 2x07: Fireman, Save My Diner (Nov 7, 1969)
- Episode 2x06: Total Honesty (Oct 31, 1969)
- Episode 2x05: Claudia Sows A Few (Oct 24, 1969)
- Episode 2x04: Fly In My Stew (Oct 17, 1969)
- Episode 2x03: To Catch A Rufus (Oct 10, 1969)
- Episode 2x02: Two's a Crowd (Oct 3, 1969)
- Episode 2x01: Winer, Diner And Mover (Sep 26, 1969)
- Episode 1x25: The Prospector (Apr 24, 1969)
- Episode 1x24: The Best Ship of All is Friendship (Apr 17, 1969)
- Episode 1x23: Love Comes To Annie Butterworth (Apr 10, 1969)
- Episode 1x22: The Splitting Headache (Apr 3, 1969)
- Episode 1x21: Once More Without Feeling (Mar 26, 1969)
- Episode 1x20: Father Knows Nothing (Mar 19, 1969)
- Episode 1x19: Win, Place And Kill (Mar 12, 1969)
- Episode 1x18: The World's Second Greatest Lover (Mar 5, 1968)
- Episode 1x17: The Courtship Of Miles Butterworth (Feb 26, 1969)
- Episode 1x16: The Importance Of Being Hairy (Feb 19, 1969)
- Episode 1x15: Wanted: An Honest Thief (Feb 12, 1969)
- Episode 1x14: They Eat by Night (Feb 5, 1969)
- Episode 1x13: Take A Computer To Lunch (Jan 30, 1969)
- Episode 1x12: Ouzo Annie (Jan 23, 1969)
- Episode 1x11: Sake To Me (Jan 16, 1969)
- Episode 1x10: Guess Who's Comming to Poker (Dec 12, 1968)
- Episode 1x09: A View from the Terraza (aka Let's Hear It for the Old Man) (Dec 5, 1968)
- Episode 1x08: Credit Won't Buy You Happiness (Nov 21, 1968)
- Episode 1x07: Nostradamus Rides Again (Nov 14, 1968)
- Episode 1x06: Is This Trip Necessary? (Oct 30, 1968)
- Episode 1x05: Bert's Rufus-In-Law (Oct 23, 1968)
- Episode 1x04: A Man For Off-Season (Oct 16, 1968)
- Episode 1x03: Let 'Em Eat Rolls (Oct 9, 1968)
- Episode 1x02: Pie In The Sky (Oct 2, 1968)
- Episode 1x01: Keep the Home Fires Burning (Sep 25, 1968)
Hawaii Five-O (1968)
Guest starring as Rhoda Lovejoy
- Episode 5x13: I'm a Family Crook -- Don't Shoot! (Dec 19, 1972)
Guest starring as Lila Daniels
- Episode 3x13: The Payoff (Dec 9, 1970)
Columbo (1968)
Guest starring as Sister of Mercy
- Episode 1974-10-15: Negative Reaction (Oct 15, 1974)
Guest starring as Ruth Lytton
- Episode 1976-11-28: Old Fashioned Murder (Nov 28, 1976)
Mannix (1967)
Guest starring as Dodie Green
- Episode 6x18: Out of the Night (Jan 21, 1973)
Guest starring as Lola Collins
- Episode 1x13: Run, Sheep, Run (Dec 16, 1967)
The Danny Kaye Show (1963)
Guest starring as Joyce Van Patten
(5 episodes)
- Episode 4x19: Peter Falk / Pat Carroll (comedienne) / The Lettermen (Jan 25, 1967)
- Episode 3x19: Robert Vaughn (actor) / Michel Legrand (composer) / Joyce Cuoco (12yo ballerina) (Jan 26, 1966)
- Episode 3x12: Dec 8, 1965 (Dec 8, 1965)
- Episode 3x10: Nov 24, 1965 (Nov 24, 1965)
- Episode 2x23: Paul Ford / Shirley Bassey (UK singer) (Feb 24, 1965)
The Outer Limits (1963)
Guest starring as Rhea Cashman
- Episode 1x29: A Feasibility Study (Apr 13, 1964)
The Wide Country (1962)
Guest starring as Nina Corbello
- Episode 1x04: Who Killed Eddie Gannon? (Oct 11, 1962)
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Guest starring as Eileen Ransome
- Episode 4x17: Passage on the Lady Anne (May 9, 1963)
Perry Mason (1957)
Guest starring as Fay Gilmer
- Episode 8x16: The Case of the Thermal Thief (Jan 14, 1965)