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Mary Jo Catlett

ActorBorn September 2, 1938 (86 years)
Mary Jo Catlett (born September 2, 1938) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is notable for her role as housekeeper Pearl Gallagher on the television sitcom seriesDiff'rent Strokes, and currently for her role as Mrs. Puff in Spongebob Squarepants, which she has held since the show's debut.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • ALF
  • Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
  • Blood Beach
  • Pandemic
  • Legend of the Mummy
  • Ablaze
  • The Littlest Angel

Known For

  • SpongeBob SquarePants
  • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
  • Diff'rent Strokes
  • The Champ
  • How to Be a Serial Killer
  • Plankton: The Movie
  • Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
  • The Beach Girls
  • Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
  • Legend of the Mummy

Filmography

2025
Plankton: The Movie · as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2024
Kreepaway Kamp · as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2024
2024
2021
The Patrick Star Show (TV Series) · as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2021
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years (TV Series) · as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2020
2020
Toca Life Stories (TV Series) · as Nari
2018
The Kids Are Alright (TV Series) · as Mrs. Strausser
2018
Good Girls (TV Series) · as Dorothy
2017
2017
Great News (TV Series) · as Marie
2017
Trial & Error (TV Series) · as Brianne
2016
Better Things (TV Series) · as Rosie
2016
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ (TV Series) · as Ethel Simmons
2015
The Odd Couple (2015) (TV Series) · as Elderly Woman
2015
2014
The McCarthys (TV Series) · as Mrs. Murphy
2014
Lucky Stiff · as Shoe Store Lady
2014
Let's Be Cops · as Old Lady
2013
2013
Instant Mom (TV Series) · as Mrs. Sharp
2012
Mr. Box Office (TV Series) · as Gertrude
2011
2011
2 Broke Girls (TV Series) · as Elaine
2011
2010
Shake It Up (TV Series) · as Elderly Woman
2010
Rizzoli & Isles (TV Series) · as Bunny
2010
Anderson's Cross · as Mrs. Elway
2010
2010
Surprise, Surprise · as Winnie Blythman
2009
Modern Family (TV Series) · as Edith
2009
Glee (TV Series) · as Mrs. Carlisle
2009
2008
How to Be a Serial Killer · as Mrs. Wilson
2008
The Mentalist (TV Series) · as Ruth
2007
State of Mind (TV Series) · as Mrs. Delvecchio
2007
Pandemic (TV Series) · as Sister Grace Woodward
2006
Red Riding Hood · as Shopkeeper Woman
2006
The Benchwarmers · as Mrs. Ellwood
2005
American Dad! (TV Series) · as Guest #1 (voice)
2004
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie · as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2004
Desperate Housewives (TV Series) · as Debi Brown
2004
2003
Beethoven's 5th · as Sweet Grandmother
2003
Cold Case (TV Series) · as Betty Joe Henders (2009)
2003
That's So Raven (TV Series) · as Mrs. Applebaum
2003
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (TV Series) · as Witch
2002
Kim Possible (TV Series) · as Aunt June (voice)
2001
Ablaze · as Nurse Winslow
2001
All You Need · as Ruth
2001
Lloyd in Space (TV Series) · as Cast
1999
SpongeBob SquarePants (TV Series) · as Mrs. Puff (voice)
1999
1998
1997
Trading Favors · as Mrs. Langley
1997
1997
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (TV Series) · as Mrs. Hanson (segment "the Motorcycle")
1996
1996
Quack Pack (TV Series) · as The Claw's Mother
1994
Serial Mom · as Rosemary Ackerman
1993
Saved by the Bell: The New Class (TV Series) · as Mrs. Bluntley
1993
Bonkers (TV Series) · as Helga
1992
The Powers That Be (TV Series) · as Evelyn
1992
Battling for Baby · as Mrs. Capello
1991
Drexell's Class (TV Series) · as Patty
1991
Rugrats (TV Series) · as Doreen
1990
Over My Dead Body (TV Series) · as Sister Margolin
1990
Bobby's World (TV Series) · as Cast
1987
DuckTales (TV Series) · as Cookie Blurf
1986
The Mouse and the Motorcycle · as Kindergarten Teacher
1986
ALF (TV Series) · as Mary Jo
1985
Mr. Belvedere (TV Series) · as Betsy 'beebe' Baxter
1984
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Mrs. Metcalf
1984
Gone Are the Dayes · as Marge
1984
Night Court (TV Series) · as Cynthia Dalbey
1982
Flush · as Bertha
1982
1982
O'Hara's Wife · as Gloria
1982
The Beach Girls · as Mrs. Brinker
1981
Gimme a Break! (TV Series)
1981
The Smurfs (TV Series) · as Additional Voices
1980
Blood Beach · as Harriett Crabbe
1979
Out of the Blue (TV Series) · as Nurse
1979
The Champ · as Josie
1979
The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series) · as Alice
1978
Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series) · as Pearl Gallagher
1977
Semi-Tough · as Earlene
1977
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) · as Dora Warner
1977
ABC Weekend Special (TV Series) · as Kindergarten Teacher
1977
Fantasy Island (TV Series) · as Carlotta Smith
1976
1975
Welcome Back, Kotter (TV Series) · as Mrs. Myrna Fishbein
1975
Starsky & Hutch (TV Series) · as Terrible Tessie
1974
Police Woman (TV Series) · as Car Rental Clerk
1973
Kojak (TV Series) · as Verna
1972
M*A*S*H (TV Series) · as Nurse Walsh
1972
1972
The Waltons (TV Series)
1972
Maude (TV Series) · as Nurse
1971
Bananas · as Woman In Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)
1969
The Littlest Angel · as The Scribe I
1969
Sesame Street (TV Series) · as Narrator
1965
Days of our Lives (TV Series) · as Bev
1963
General Hospital (TV Series) · as Mary Finnegan

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