
Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
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. She received a third Tony Award nomination for the revival of the play Born Yesterday in 1989, before winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig. Her other film appearances included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (1984), Clue (1985), and Nixon (1995).

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1962

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1967

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1968

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1993

as Gypsy Moth (voice)
1998

as Self - Narrator (voice)
1983

as Ellie Coleman
1972

as Pigeon Plumtree
1990
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2009

as Gypsy (voice) (archive footage)
2007

as Gorgeous Teitelbaum (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
2006

as Pat Nixon (archive footage)
2005

as Self (archive footage)
2001

as Alice Gold
1999

as Gypsy Moth (voice)
1998

as Sharon Semple
1996

as Sabrina
1996

as Elizabeth (archive footage)
1996

as Martha Mitchell
1995

as Cora Hoover Hooper
1995

as Blanche Munchnik
1994

as Self (archive footage)
1994

1993
as Self - Nominee
1 ep.

as Self
5 episodes

as Self - Host
3 episodes

as Self - Nominee
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Self - Nominee
3 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Self - Guest
2 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Self - Narrator (voice)
1 episodes

as Ellie Coleman
1 episodes

as Pigeon Plumtree
78 episodes

as Self - Special Guest Star
1 episodes

as Pauline Fox
97 episodes

65 episodes

as Elizabeth (archive footage) (uncredited)
1 episodes

as Self - Guest
1 episodes

as Nan Chase
13 episodes

as Self - Guest Host
1 episodes

as Violet Kingsley
1 episodes

1 episodes

as Nurse Ruth Kelly
1 episodes

as Doris
2 episodes

as Esperanza
1 episodes

as Madeline Wayne
19 episodes