Mary Jo Catlett
Biography
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.
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Acting History
2025
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants as Mrs. Puff (voice) (uncredited)
2025Plankton: The Movie as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2024SpongeBob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2024Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2021The Patrick Star Show as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2021Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2020The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2020SpongeBob As Told By as Self
2020Toca Life Stories as Nari
2019SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout as Mrs. Puff
2018Good Girls as Dorothy
2017Great News as Marie
2017Trial & Error as Brianne
2016SpongeBob LongPants as Mrs. Puff / Driving Student (voice)
2016Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ as Ethel Simmons
2015The Odd Couple as Elderly Woman
2015The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2014Lucky Stiff as Shoe Store Lady
2014Let's Be Cops as Old Lady
2013Instant Mom as Mrs. Sharp
2012Carol Channing: Larger Than Life as Self
2011Spongebob’s Runaway Roadtrip as Mrs. Puff
20112 Broke Girls as Elaine
2010Shake It Up as Elderly Woman
2010Rizzoli & Isles as Bunny
2010Anderson's Cross as Mrs. Elway
2010SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongebob's Last Stand as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2009Modern Family as Edith
2009How to Be a Serial Killer as Mrs. Wilson
2009Glee as Mrs. Carlisle
2006Red Riding Hood as Shopkeeper Woman
2006The Benchwarmers as Mrs. Ellwood
2005American Dad! as Guest #1 (voice)
2004The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie as Mrs. Puff (voice)
2003Beethoven's 5th as Sweet Grandmother
2003Cold Case as Betty Joe Henders (2009)
2003That's So Raven as Mrs. Applebaum
2002Ablaze as Nurse Winslow
2002Kim Possible as Aunt June (voice)
2001Size 'Em Up as Florence
2001The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as Witch
2001All You Need as Ruth
1999SpongeBob SquarePants as Mrs. Puff (voice)
1998Legend of the Mummy as Mrs. Grant
1997Extreme Ghostbusters
1997Trading Favors as Mrs. Langley
1997Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction as Mrs. Hanson (segment "The Motorcycle")
1996Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice
1996Quack Pack as (voice)
1994Serial Mom as Rosemary Ackerman
1993Saved by the Bell: The New Class as Mrs. Bluntley
1992Battling for Baby as Mrs. Capello
1986The Mouse and the Motorcycle as Kindergarten Teacher
1986ALF as Mary Jo
1984Murder, She Wrote as Mrs. Metcalf
1984Gone Are the Dayes as Marge
1984Night Court as Cynthia Dalbey
1982The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas as Rita
1982The Beach Girls as Mrs. Brinker
1982O'Hara's Wife as Gloria
1981Gimme a Break!
1981Foul Play as Stella Finkle
1980Blood Beach as Harriett Crabbe
1980Semi-Tough
1980Where the Ladies Go as Frances
1979Out of the Blue as Nurse
1979The Champ as Josie
1978Diff'rent Strokes as Pearl Gallagher
1978Fantasy Island as Carlotta Smith
1977Semi-Tough as Earlene
1976The McLean Stevenson Show
1976How to Break Up a Happy Divorce as Soprano
1975Starsky & Hutch
1975Starsky & Hutch as Terrible Tessie
1973Kojak as Verna
1972M*A*S*H as Nurse Walsh
1972The Bob Newhart Show as Mrs. Englehart
1972The Waltons
1971Bananas as Woman in Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)
1969The Littlest Angel as The Scribe I
—When the Moon Was Twice as Big as Elsie