Marlene Warfield
# Marlene Warfield

Marlene Warfield (born in Queens, New York) is an American actress.

Warfield has acted in films and American television. She portrayed the underground revolutionary Laureen Hobbs in the 1976 film Network and played Victoria Butterfield on the television sitcom Maude (1977–1978). Warfield starred in the play Janie Jones at the New Theatre, London (opened July 15, 1968).

She won the Clarence Derwent Award in 1969 for Outstanding Broadway Debut Performance and a Theatre World Award for the role of Clara in The Great White Hope, which she reprised in the 1970 film version.

## Filmography

Film and television :

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1970 | Joe | Bellevue Nurse | Feature film |
| 1970 | The Great White Hope | Clara | Feature film |
| 1970 | The Name of the Game | Sdhari | Episode: "The Time Is Now" |
| 1971 | Goodbye, Raggedy Ann | Louise Walters | Television film |
| 1972 | Cutter | Susan Macklin | Television film |
| 1972 | Madigan | Clara | Episode: "The Midtown Beat" |
| 1972 | Across 110th Street | Mrs. Jackson | Feature film |
| 1973 | Pomroy's People | School Teacher | Television pilot |
| 1976 | Network | Laureen Hobbs | Feature film |
| 1977–1978 | Maude | Victoria Butterfield | Main cast (8 episodes) |
| 1978 | Lou Grant | Joanne Bartlett | Episode: "Hero" |
| 1979 | The Jeffersons | Mrs. Owens | Episode: "Me and Mr. G" |
| 1981 | The Sophisticated Gents | Lil Joplin | Television miniseries |
| 1981 | Little House on the Prairie | Mattie Ledoux | Episode: "Dark Sage" |
| 1983 | Hill Street Blues | Ada Baxter | Episode: "Moon Over Uranus: The Sequel" |
| 1984 | Cagney & Lacey | Detective #2 | Episode: "Old Debts" |
| 1986 | Child's Cry | Maxine | Television film |
| 1986 | Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling | Sonja | Feature film |
| 1989 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson | Prosecutor | Television film |
| 1989 | How I Got Into College | Librarian | Feature film |
| 1990 | Freddy's Nightmares | Helen Woodman | Episode: "A Family Affair" |
| 1990 | Equal Justice | Judge Evelyn Kass | Episode: "Sugar Blues" |
| 1996 | In the House | Grandma Hill | Episode: "The Max Who Came to Dinner" |
| 1997 | ER | Babs Chenovert | Episode: "Tribes" |
| 1999 | The West Wing | Ruth | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2000 | So Weird | Mrs. Clemens | Episode: "Blues" |
| 2001 | Dead Last | Woman | Episode: "The Crawford Touch" |
| 2002 | The Shield | Dottie Cummings | Episode: "Dawg Days" |
| 2003 | Cold Case | Samuela Robbins | Episode: "The Runner" |
| 2011 | Aurora Borealis | Mrs. Parker | Short film |
