15 Facts About Edie McClurg

Edie McClurg has played supporting roles in the films Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, and bit parts in Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, Mr Mom, Back to School, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, A River Runs Through It, Natural Born Killers, and Flubber.

On television, Edie McClurg regularly performed on The David Letterman Show, before playing Bonnie Brindle in Small Wonder and Mrs Patty Poole on The Hogan Family.

Edie McClurg was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, to Mac, a mailman, and Irene Edie McClurg, an FAA secretary.

Edie McClurg has an older brother, Bob, who is an actor.

Edie McClurg earned a master's degree from Syracuse University in 1970.

Edie McClurg was a comedy regular on the Tony Orlando and Dawn variety show and then a cast member of The Kallikaks and The Richard Pryor Show.

In 1980, Edie McClurg regularly performed on The David Letterman Show as Mrs Marv Mendenhall.

Edie McClurg worked with fellow Groundling player Paul Reubens on his first play The Pee-wee Herman Show, in which she appeared in 1981 as "Hermit Hattie".

Edie McClurg appeared in the 1988 film Elvira: Mistress of the Dark with fellow Groundling player Cassandra Peterson, who appeared as her alter ego Elvira.

Edie McClurg has appeared in almost 90 films and 55 television episodes, usually typecast as a middle-aged, somewhat stubborn, and dim-witted Midwesterner.

Edie McClurg guest starred as Barri's mother in an episode of Campus Ladies.

Edie McClurg contributed assorted voices for The Jetsons, The Snorks, Life with Louie, A Bug's Life, Justin and the Knights of Valour, Cars and Cars 2.

Edie McClurg portrayed a nurse nicknamed "Angel of Death" in an episode of The Golden Girls.

Edie McClurg appeared in an episode of Hannah Montana as Cindy Merriweather.

In 2019, TMZ reported that family and friends of Edie McClurg filed court documents requesting a conservatorship to manage her affairs.