Patty McCormack

Infobox Actor
name = Patty McCormack
caption = Patty McCormack in "The Bad Seed" (1956)
birthname = Patricia Ellen Russo
birthdate = birth date and age|1945|8|21
location = Brooklyn, New York

Patty McCormack (born August 21, 1945) is an American actress.

She was born Patricia Ellen Russo in Brooklyn, New York, to Frank Russo, a firefighter and Elizabeth (McCormack) Russo, a professional roller skater. She was a child model at the age of four and began appearing on television at the age of seven. She made her motion picture debut in "Two Gals and a Guy" (1951) and appeared in the television series "Mama" from 1953-1956.

She briefly starred in her own series, "Peck's Bad Girl", in 1959, and again, decades later, in "The Ropers", an unsuccessful spinoff of "Three's Company", co-starring Audra Lindley, Norman Fell and Jeffrey Tambor.

Her Broadway debut was in "Touchstone" (1953), followed by her most famous role, as little Rhoda Penmark, an eight-year-old sociopath and fledgling serial killer, in "The Bad Seed" (1954). She went on to star in the film version (1956) and garner an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

As an adult with the stage name Patricia McCormack, she continued to act in secondary roles, mostly in television with occasional film appearances. She had recurring roles in popular television series, including "Dallas", "Murder, She Wrote" and "The Sopranos".

She married Italian-American restaurateur Bob Catania in 1967, and they had two children before their marriage was dissolved.

McCormack is the sole surviving cast member of Orson Welles' unfinished film version of "Don Quixote". The film has often been described as an unknown masterpiece. An international effort is now underway to bring together all parties and have the film released.

Partial Filmography

*"Two Gals and a Guy" (1951)
*"Here Comes the Groom" (1951)
*"The Bad Seed" (1956)
*"The Snow Queen" (1957) (voice in 1959 English version)
*"All Mine to Give" (1957)
*"Kathy O"' (1958)
*"Escuela de verano" (1959] )
*"One Step Beyond" episode "Make me not a Witch" (1959-1961?)
*"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1960)
*"The Explosive Generation" (1961)
*"Jacktown" (1962)
*"Maryjane" (1968)
*"The Mini-Skirt Mob" (1968)
*"The Young Animals" (1968
*"The Young Runaways" (1968)
*"Bug" (1975)
*"The Awakening of Cassie" (1982)
*"Night Partners" (1983)
*"Invitation to Hell" (1984)
*"Private Road: No Trespassing" (1987)
*"Saturday the 14th Strikes Back" (1988)
*"The Flamingo Kid" (1989)
*"Mommy" (1995)
*"Mommy's Day" (1997) aka Mommy 2: Mommy's Day
*"Silent Predators" (1999)
*"The Silencing" (2000)
*"The Medicine Show" (2001)
*"Acceptable Risk" (2001)
*"Choosing Matthias" (2001)
*"The Kiss" (2003)
*"The Silvergleam Whistle"
*"Inhabited (2003)" (2003)
*"Target" (2004)
*"Shallow Ground"(2004)
*"Gone But Not Forgotten" (2004)
*"Mystery Woman: Snapshot" (2005)
*"Heart of the Beholder" (2005)
*"Seth" (2006)
*"In the Wall" (2007)
*"Psycho Hillbilly Cabin Massacre!" (2007)
*"Frost/Nixon" (2008)
*"A Christmas Proposal" (2008)

References

*Rigdon, Walter (ed.) "The Biographical Encyclopedia of Who's Who of the American Theatre". New York: James H. Heineman, Inc. c1966.
*"Patty McCormack." "Biography Resource Center". Thomson Gale. February 15, 2005.

External links

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