Most Recent Role: Mother Superior on The Jamie Foxx Show
Gender: Female
Birthplace: St. Louis, Mo.
Birthday: 7-23-1909
Date of Death: 3-25-2000
Gender: Female
Birthplace: St. Louis, Mo.
Birthday: 7-23-1909
Date of Death: 3-25-2000
Helen Martin, the character actress remembered as the little old lady next door in Marla Gibbs' mid-1980s television series "227" and as Halle Berry's matriarch "Momma Doll" in the Warren Beatty film "Bulworth," has died. She was 90.
Martin died Saturday at her home in Monterey, Calif., of a heart attack. The actress appeared regularly in more than half a dozen television series about...
Most Recent Appearance
Convent-ional Gifts
Sunday 1 February 1998 on WB
Jamie's bawdy present for Braxton winds up in the hands of Helen (Ellia English), who mistakes it for a gift she's giving a nun. Mother Superior: Helen Martin. Fancy: Garcelle Beauvais. Junior: Garrett Morris. Annabeth: Ella Joyce.
Other Appearances
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227
Pearl Shay (Season 2+, recurring previously) |
Baby I'm Back
Luzelle Carter Wilson |
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227
Pearl Shay |
Good Times
Wanda |
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Benson
The Reunion Aunt Lil |
Full House
Luck Be a Lady (2) Shirley |
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Hardcastle & McCormick
Third Down and Twenty Years to Life |
Hill Street Blues
Moon Over Uranus: the Sequel Woman Onlooker |
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Hitz
Yo' Mama |
Maude
Florida's Affair Stella |
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