Acting · Lima, Ohio, USA · Born July 17, 1917
Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh. Diller was one of the first female comics to become a household name in the U.S., credited as an influence by Joan Rivers, Roseanne Barr, and Ellen DeGeneres, among others. She had a large gay following and is considered a gay icon. She was also one of the first celebrities to openly champion plastic surgery, for which she was recognized by the cosmetic surgery industry. Diller contributed to more than 40 films, beginning with 1961's Splendor in the Grass. She appeared in many television series, featuring in numerous cameos as well as her own short-lived sitcom and variety show. Some of her credits include Night Gallery, The Muppet Show, The Love Boat, Cybill, and Boston Legal, plus 11 seasons of The Bold and the Beautiful. Her voice-acting roles included the monster's wife in Mad Monster Party, the Queen in A Bug's Life, Granny Neutron in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and Thelma Griffin in Family Guy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Phyllis Diller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TVStand-Up: The Laughing Therapy
2024
as Self (archive footage)
MoviePat Rocco Dared
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThis Is Bob Hope...
2017
as Self (archive footage)
MovieRobot Chicken: Christmas Specials
2014
as Various (voice) (archive sound)
MovieCarol Channing: Larger Than Life
2012
as Self
MovieRuth Lyons: First Lady of Television
2011
as Self
MovieHow to Live Forever
2011
as Self
MovieLooking for Lenny
2011
as Self
MovieI Am Comic
2010
as Self
TVCelebrity Ghost Stories
2009
as Self
MovieFound Footage Festival Volume 4: Live in Tucson
2009
as (archive footage)
MoviePhyllis Diller: Not Just Another Pretty Face
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Chuck Barris Story: My Life On The Edge
2006
as Self
MovieCasper's Scare School
2006
as Aunt Spitzy (voice)
MovieForget About It
2006
as Mrs. Hertzberg
TVThe Megan Mullally Show
2006
as Self - Guest
MovieUnbeatable Harold
2006
as Mrs. Clancy
MovieRobot Chicken's Christmas Special
2005
as Mrs. Claus (voice)
MovieThe Aristocrats
2005
as Self
TVRobot Chicken
2005
as Phillys Diller / Mrs. Claus / Hooker (voice)
TVBoston Legal
2004
as Self
TVQuintuplets
2004
as Aunt Sylvia
MovieGoodnight, We Love You
2004
as Self
MovieBiography: Bob Hope: America's Entertainer
2003
as Self
TVNip/Tuck
2003
TVLife with Bonnie
2002
as Phyllis Frost
TVThe Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
2002
as Granny Neutron (voice)
The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo
2002
as Self
Entertaining the Troops: Bob Hope & the USO
2002
as Self
MovieThe Last Place on Earth
2002
as Mrs. Baskin
MovieKiss My Act
2001
as Phyllis Diller
MovieThe Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 2
2001
as Self (archive footage)
MovieEverything's Jake
2000
as Victoria Pond
TVEven Stevens
2000
as Coach Korns
TVTitus
2000
as Grandma Titus
MovieLet Me In, I Hear Laughter: A Salute to the Friars Club
1999
as Self
MovieThe Nuttiest Nutcracker
1999
as Sugar Plum Fairy (Voice)
MovieFunny Is Money
1999
as Self
MovieThe Debtors
1999
MovieYesterday's Tomorrows
1999
as Self
TVFamily Guy
1999
as Thelma Griffin (voice)
MovieA Bug's Life
1998
as Queen (voice)
TVThe Powerpuff Girls
1998
as Mask Scara (voice)
TVThe Wild Thornberrys
1998
as Sam (voice)
TVEmily of New Moon
1998
as Great Aunt Nancy Priest
MovieThe Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1998
as Self (archive footage)
TVCow and Chicken
1997
as Red's Mom / Cop (voice)
TVThe View
1997
as Self
TVI Am Weasel
1997
as Red's Mother (voice)
TVKing of the Hill
1997
as Lillian (voice)
TVHey Arnold!
1996
as Mitzi
TV7th Heaven
1996
as Gabrielle
TVE! True Hollywood Story
1996
TVArli$$
1996
as Phyllis Diller
TVThe Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self
TVMADtv
1995
as Self - Hostess
TVThe Drew Carey Show
1995
as Bebe
TVCybill
1995
The Perfect Man
1994
as Mother
MovieThe Silence of the Hams
1994
as Old Secretary
TVDiagnosis: Murder
1993
as Phyllis Diller
TVBoy Meets World
1993
as Madame Ouspenskaya
Carol Leifer: Gaudy, Bawdy & Blue
1992
as Phyllis Diller
Vicki!
1992
as Self
MovieWisecracks
1992
TVThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Herself
Pebble Mill
1991
as Self
MovieThe Boneyard
1991
as Miss Poopinplatz
MovieThe Nutcracker Prince
1990
as Mousequeen (voice)
TVCaptain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
TVDream On
1990
as Mrs. Barish
TVBlossom
1990
MoviePucker Up and Bark Like a Dog
1989
as Mrs. Frasco
MovieHanna-Barbera's 50th
1989
as Self
MovieHappily Ever After
1989
as Mother Nature (voice)
MovieFriend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief
1989
as Self
MovieDr. Hackenstein
1989
as Mrs. Trilling
MovieHappy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
as Self
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1988
as Self
MovieHow to Have a Moneymaking Garage Sale
1987
as Herself
TVFull House
1987
as Phyllis Diller
MovieJonathan Winters: On the Ledge
1987
as Jonathan's Mother
MovieAlice Through the Looking Glass
1987
as The White Queen
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
1986
as Self (uncredited)
TV227
1985
as Louanne costello
TVLarry King Live
1985
as Self
TVTales from the Darkside
1984
as Nora Mills
The Bob Monkhouse Show
1983
MovieGeorge Burns Celebrates 80 Years in Show Business
1983
as Self
TVReading Rainbow
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MoviePink Motel
1982
as Margaret
TVMadame's Place
1982
as Self
TVWogan
1982
as Self
TVBarbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
1980
as Self
A Pleasure Doing Business
1979
as Mrs. Wildebeest
MovieThe Muppets Go Hollywood
1979
as Self
MovieChristmas at Walt Disney World
1978
as Self
MovieMickey's 50
1978
as Self
MovieLeapin' Lizards, It's Liberace!
1978
as Herself
MovieRock 'n' Roll Sports Classic
1978
as Self
TVThe Love Boat
1977
as Martha Morse
TVCHiPs
1977
as Wanda
On Location: Phyllis Diller
1977
as himself
TVThe Muppet Show
1976
as Self - Special Guest Star
Easy Does It... Starring Frankie Avalon
1976
TVThe Gong Show
1976
MovieJoys
1976
as Self
MovieThe Sunshine Boys
1975
as Self
TVThe Jeffersons
1975
The Lion Roars Again
1975
as Self
TVTony Orlando and Dawn
1974
as Self
TVDinah!
1974
as Self
TVTattletales
1974
as Herself
TVThe Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
1973
as Self
TVThe Bobby Darin Show
1973
TVThe Julie Andrews Hour
1972
as Self
TVWait Till Your Father Gets Home
1972
TVThe New Scooby-Doo Movies
1972
as Phyllis Diller (voice)
MovieMooch Goes to Hollywood
1971
as Phyllis Diller (uncredited)
TVThe Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971
as Self
TVNight Gallery
1970
as Pamela (segment "Pamela's Voice")
TVThe Flip Wilson Show
1970
as Self
MovieThe Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians
1970
as Self (voice)
MovieSwing Out, Sweet Land
1970
as Belva Lockwood
TVLove, American Style
1969
as Bella
The Jim Nabors Hour
1969
MovieThe Adding Machine
1969
as Mrs. Zero
TVThe Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
as Self
Jack Benny's Bag
1968
as Self
That's Life
1968
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show
1968
as Self - Host
MovieDid You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?
1968
as Agatha Knabenshu
TVThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
MovieThe Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968
as Nurse Nellie Krause
TVRowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
as Self
MovieThe Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)
MovieRowan & Martin at the Movies
1968
as Self
TVThe Carol Burnett Show
1967
as Self - Guest
MovieEight on the Lam
1967
as Golda
MovieMad Monster Party?
1967
as The Monster's Mate (voice)
TVThe Pruitts of Southampton
1966
as Phyllis Pruitt
MovieBoy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
1966
as Lily
MovieThe Fat Spy
1966
as Camille Salamander
TVBatman
1966
as Scrubwoman
TVGet Smart
1965
as Maxwell Smart (uncredited)
TVThe Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
MovieSplendor in the Grass
1961
as Texas Guinan
TVKraft Music Hall
1958
as Self - Host
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVThe Red Skelton Show
1951
as Clara
TVThe Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self
TVWhat's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
TVMacy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
1948
as Self
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter
