Patty Maloney
Patty Maloney | |
|---|---|
| Born | Patricia Anne Maloney March 17, 1936 Perkinsville, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1939–2011 |
| Height | 119.3 cm (47.0 in)[1] |
Patricia Anne Maloney (born March 17, 1936) is an American actress with dwarfism.
Biography[]
She was born in Perkinsville, New York. She stands 3 feet 11 inches (119 cm) and weighs 60 pounds (27 kg). Maloney is best known as Honk from Far Out Space Nuts, as Lumpy from the Star Wars Holiday Special, and as Darla Hood from the animated TV series version of The Little Rascals. She appeared in Star Trek: Voyager in 1996.
She was often a guest on the 1970s variety series Donny & Marie, and portrayed the robot waitress Tina in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Cruise Ship to the Stars". In 1977 she appeared in the episode "Ida Works Out" on Rhoda as a witch on Halloween looking for a costume party in Rhoda's apartment building.
Since 1982, she has also been an animation voice actor, worked on the Monopoly game show pilot, and even operated the Crypt Keeper puppet on Tales from the Crypt. Maloney appeared in Ernest Saves Christmas with California native Buddy Douglas as Santa's two elves. In 2011, she appeared as herself in Hanlet: Episode 41⁄2 – Attack of the Phantom Special, an independent documentary film about the making of Star Wars Holiday Special.
Another of her voice roles was in 1988, alongside Jeff Cohen, Glynis Johns and Casey Kasem in the movie Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School as Tanis the Mummy.
Personal life[]
In 1961, Maloney married Joseph Vitek, a Chicago printer, at the Actors' Chapel in New York. During their marriage, she worked as a keypunch operator at Clipper Carloading in Chicago until Vitek died in 1968.[2]
Circa 2010, she was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration, a visual impairment which severely limited her ability to read scripts and other textual matter.
References[]
- ^ Hal Erickson (January 1998). Sid and Marty Krofft: A Critical Study of Saturday Morning Children's Television. McFarland. p. 160. ISBN 9780786405183. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
- ^ "Vitek". newspapers.com. The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
External links[]
 |
Wikiquote has quotations related to: Patty Maloney |
 | This article about an American actor is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
- 1936 births
- Living people
- Actors with dwarfism
- American film actresses
- American television actresses
- Actresses from New York (state)
- Actresses from Orlando, Florida
- University of Florida alumni
- People from Winter Park, Florida
- People from Steuben County, New York
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American women
- American actor stubs