Helen Martin
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Helen Dorothy Martin (July 23, 1909 – March 25, 2000) was an American actress of stage and television who is perhaps most well known for her role in the sitcom 227 as Marla Gibbs' neighbor Pearl.
Martin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Amanda Frankie (née Fox) and William Martin, a minister.
Martin was a Broadway character actress for many decades, debuting in Orson Welles' production of Native Son in 1941. She appeared in at least a dozen Broadway shows including Jean Genet's The Blacks, Raisin from 1973 to 1975, Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious (and later the musical version, which was called Purlie), The Amen Corner and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment. She was an original member of the American Negro Theater.
She first became famous later in life for her guest role as Wanda on the television series Good Times, and later as the wisecracking neighbor Pearl Shay on the television sitcom 227. She also played on the short-run sitcoms Baby, I'm Back (as mother in-law, Luzelle) and That's My Mama; as Loc Dog's grandma, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996), the matronly grandmother Mama Doll in the 1998 film Bulworth, and the no-nonsense grandmother in the film Hollywood Shuffle. Helen Martin died of a heart attack on March 25, 2000.
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Como Ator/Atriz
Hill Street Blues
St. Elsewhere
Elderly Lady
Tres por tres
Shirley
T. J. Hooker
Mrs. Sears
Starsky y Hutch
Vivian Fellers
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self (archive footage)
The Bill
227
Pearl Shay
Los Jeffersons
Sanford and Son
Benson
Hardcastle and McCormick
The Jamie Foxx Show
Mother Superior
Good Times
The Wayans Bros.
Mother Evans
Maude
Flash
Sadie Grosso
The White Shadow
Old Woman
Roots
Aunt Sukey
The Parent 'Hood
Los Colegas del Barrio
Loc Dog's Grandma
What's Happening!!
Millie
Besos que matan
Nana Cross
El vengador anónimo
Alma Lee Brown
Un detective suelto en Hollywood III
Grandma
That's My Mama
Repo Man
Mrs. Parks
Bulworth
Momma Doll
Doc Hollywood
Maddie, Welcoming Committee
House Party 2
Mrs. Deevers