Cast & creator
Phyllis Newman
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show
Movies
22
film credits
Series
28
television credits
Career
49
1947–2022 · acting roles
Credit score
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (50)
Showing 50 of 50 credits
Series
★ 7.6
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self - Guest Host
1962Series
★ 7.6
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
★ 5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
★ 6.8
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Series
★ 7.0
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Series
★ 6.1
Great Performances
Self
1971
Series
★ 7.5
Murder, She Wrote
Edna Hayes
1984
Series
★ 6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
Series
★ 7.5
Quincy, M.E.
Mrs. Ellis
1976
Series
★ 6.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Series
★ 7.6
The Wild Wild West
Wanakee
1965
Series
★ 7.2
The Equalizer
Gwen Hunter
1985
Series
★ 6.2
Burke's Law
Comrade Alexia Salov
1963
Series
★ 7.0
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
Series
★ 7.8
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
Series
★ 6.3
thirtysomething
1987
Series
★ 7.2
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Sophie
1964
Series
★ 6.3
The United States Steel Hour
1953
Series
★ 8.2
100 Centre Street
Sarah Rifkind
2001
Series
★ 6.8
ABC Stage 67
Mary Severance
1966
Series
★ 6.5
Decoy
Joanne Kittredge
1957Series
★ 6.5
Decoy
Elsa Kramer
1957
Series
★ 7.5
Password
1961C
Series
★ 7.0
CBS Playhouse
Tina Hoffman
1966
Series
★ 9.0
The Jury
2004
Movie
★ 6.0
The Human Stain
Iris Silk
2003
Movie
★ 6.9
Mannequin
Emmy's Mother
1987
Movie
★ 6.7
Only You
Faith's Mother
1994
Movie
★ 6.7
The Beautician and the Beast
Judy Miller
1997
Movie
★ 6.1
It Had to Be You
Judith Penn
2000C
Series
★ 7.0
Coming of Age
1988
Movie
★ 6.5
A Fish in the Bathtub
Sylvia Rosen
1999
Movie
★ 6.4
Picnic
Juanita Badger
1955
Movie
★ 5.4
A Price Above Rubies
Mrs. Gelbart
1998
Series
★ 6.0
Diagnosis: Unknown
1960A
Movie
A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
Self
1996
Movie
★ 7.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
2003
Movie
★ 6.4
To Find a Man
Betty
1972
Movie
★ 7.6
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino
Makeup Artist
1982
Movie
Live from Broadway: Hello, Dolly!
1995
Movie
★ 6.7
Bye Bye Braverman
Myra Mandelbaum
1968
Movie
★ 7.0
Groucho & Cavett
Self (archive footage)
2022
Movie
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Self
2007
Movie
★ 6.1
The Vagabond King
Lulu
1956
Movie
★ 7.0
Follies: In Concert
Stella Deems
1986S
Movie
★ 7.0
Saying Kaddish
Lynn
1991L
Movie
★ 4.5
Let's Rock!
Kathy Abbott
1958
Movie
★ 8.0
Just for the Time Being
Maggie
2000
Movie
★ 5.3
The Naked Witch
Robert's Mother
1967