Pat Crawford Brown


Pat Crawford Brown was an American actress.

Life and career

Brown was born in New York City and worked as an English teacher at Carson High School. After retiring from her teaching job, she made her screen debut in 1985 made-for-television movie Do You Remember Love. The following years she made various guest-starring appearances on television series such as The Twilight Zone, Who's the Boss?, Mama's Family, Designing Women, Murder, She Wrote and Murphy Brown. From 1989 to 1997 she had a recurring role as Mrs. Alma Thorkelson on the ABC sitcom Coach. She also appeared in feature films, including Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, The Rocketeer, Sister Act and its sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Reality Bites, Forces of Nature and Playing Mona Lisa. She played Joan Collins's character mother in the 2001 made-for-television movie These Old Broads.
On television, Brown is best known for her role as Ida Greenberg in the ABC comedy-drama series, Desperate Housewives, a role she played from 2004 to 2007. She also had recurring roles on daytime soap operas General Hospital and Days of Our Lives and the prime time dramas Gilmore Girls and General Hospital: Night Shift.

Personal life and death

Brown was a self-described lifelong Democrat and a practicing Roman Catholic.
Brown was a resident of the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, where she died on July 2, 2019, 3 days after her 90th birthday.

Selected filmography

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