Madeline Kahn
Age: N/A | From: Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Madeleine Kahn , Madeliene Kahn , Madeline Gail Wolfson
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 20
TV Involvements: 11
Most Famous Work
Biography
Madeline Gail Kahn (née Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974). Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the original production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978. She starred as Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline (1983–84) and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special. She received a third Tony Award nomination for the revival of the play Born Yesterday in 1989, before winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig. Her other film appearances included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (1984), Clue (1985), and Nixon (1995). Description above from the Wikipedia article Madeline Kahn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
ABC Afterschool Special
(1972) Ellie Coleman
Tony Awards
(1956) Self - Nominee
Intimate Portrait
(1993) Self
Road to Avonlea
(1990) Pigeon Plumtree
Reading Rainbow
(1983) Herself - Narrator (voice)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(1951) Nurse Ruth Kelly
New York News
(1995) Nan Chase
Nixon
(1995) Martha MitchellActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2020 | Self | |
| 2018 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2010 | Self (uncredited) (archive footage) | |
| 2009 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2007 | Gypsy (voice) (archive footage) | |
| 2006 | Elizabeth (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Gorgeous Teitelbaum (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig") | ||
| 2005 | Pat Nixon | |
| 2001 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1999 | N/A | |
| Alice Gold | ||
| 1998 | Gypsy Moth (voice) | |
| 1996 | Pauline Fox | |
| Sharon Semple | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Sabrina | ||
| Elizabeth (archive footage) | ||
| 1995 | Martha Mitchell | |
| Nan Chase | ||
| Cora Hoover Hooper | ||
| 1994 | Blanche Munchnik | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1993 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| 1992 | Self | |
| Esperanza | ||
| Esmeralda | ||
| Billie | ||
| 1991 | Grace Anderson | |
| Esperanza | ||
| 1990 | Lola Hopper | |
| Pigeon Plumtree | ||
| 1988 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| 1987 | Lois Gullickson | |
| Special Appearance | ||
| 1986 | Gussie Mausheimer (voice) | |
| Ellie Coleman | ||
| N/A | ||
| Draggle (voice) | ||
| 1985 | Mrs. White | |
| Self | ||
| Violet Kingsley | ||
| 1984 | Caroline Howley | |
| 1983 | Madeline Wayne | |
| Betty | ||
| Self / Mrs. Yellowbeard | ||
| Herself - Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1982 | Eliza Swain / Lutetia Swain | |
| Madeline | ||
| 1981 | Self | |
| Empress Nympho | ||
| 1980 | Mrs. Link | |
| The Witch | ||
| Bunny Weinberger | ||
| N/A | ||
| Dr. Cynthia Mallory | ||
| 1979 | El Sleezo Patron | |
| 1978 | Mrs. Montenegro | |
| 1977 | Victoria Brisbane | |
| 1976 | Self - Special Guest Star | |
| Estie Del Ruth | ||
| 1975 | Jenny Hill | |
| Self - Host | ||
| Kitty O'Kelly (Kathy Krumm) | ||
| 1974 | Elizabeth | |
| Lili Von Shtupp | ||
| 1973 | Doris | |
| Schoolteacher | ||
| Trixie Delight | ||
| 1972 | Ellie Coleman | |
| Nurse Ruth Kelly | ||
| Eunice Burns | ||
| Self | ||
| 1971 | Self | |
| 1968 | Sigfried | |
| Self - Guest | ||
| 1967 | Self | |
| 1962 | Self | |
| 1956 | Self - Nominee | |
| 1951 | Nurse Ruth Kelly | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
