MADELINE KAHN
ACTING
Madeline Gail Kahn (née Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the original production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978.
She starred as Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline (1983–84) and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special.
- History of the World: Part I 1981
- Young Frankenstein 1974
- Nixon 1995
- At Long Last Love 1975
- An American Tail 1986
- Blazing Saddles 1974
- The Muppet Movie 1979
- Paper Moon 1973
- Yellowbeard 1983
- What's Up, Doc? 1972
- Mixed Nuts 1994
- High Anxiety 1977
- Wholly Moses 1980
- A Bug's Life 1998
- Judy Berlin 1999
- The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother 1975
- The Cheap Detective 1978
- Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood 1976
- Clue 1985
- City Heat 1984
- Betsy's Wedding 1990
- Slapstick (Of Another Kind) 1982
- For Richer, for Poorer 1992
- First Family 1980
- For Love Alone: The Ivana Trump Story 1996
- My Little Pony: The Movie 1986
- Simon 1980
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd 2005
- Happy Birthday, Gemini 1980
- The Pixar Story 2007
- Sesame Street: Sing Along 1987
- Cosby 1996
- Road to Avonlea 1990
- New York News 1995
- Lucky Luke 1992
- Lucky Luke 1992
- Oh Madeline 1983
- ABC Afterschool Special 1972
- Reading Rainbow 1983