Mary Jo Catlett

Known for: Acting

Born: 1938-09-02 (age 87)

From: Denver, Colorado, USA

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.

Filmography (85)

MOVIE★ 6.8
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
2025
as Mrs. Puff (voice) (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.8
Plankton: The Movie
2025
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
MOVIE
Spongebob and Sandy’s Country Christmas
2024
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
MOVIE
SpongeBob SquarePants: Snow Yellow
2024
as Puffy (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.1
SpongeBob Squarepants: Kreepaway Kamp
2024
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.2
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
2024
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
TV★ 6.0
The Patrick Star Show
2021
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
TV★ 7.2
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
2021
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.4
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
2020
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
TV
SpongeBob As Told By
2020
as Self
TV
Toca Life Stories
2020
as Nari
MOVIE
SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout
2019
as Mrs. Puff
TV★ 7.8
Good Girls
2018
as Dorothy
TV★ 6.6
Great News
2017
as Marie
TV★ 7.0
Trial & Error
2017
as Brianne
MOVIE★ 4.9
SpongeBob LongPants
2016
as Mrs. Puff / Driving Student (voice)
TV★ 6.0
Bajillion Dollar Propertie$
2016
as Ethel Simmons
TV★ 5.8
The Odd Couple
2015
as Elderly Woman
MOVIE★ 6.1
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
2015
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.4
Lucky Stiff
2014
as Shoe Store Lady
MOVIE★ 6.5
Let's Be Cops
2014
as Old Lady
TV★ 8.2
Instant Mom
2013
as Mrs. Sharp
MOVIE★ 7.8
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
2012
as Self
MOVIE★ 1.0
Spongebob’s Runaway Roadtrip
2011
as Mrs. Puff
TV★ 7.2
2 Broke Girls
2011
as Elaine
TV★ 7.6
Shake It Up
2010
as Elderly Woman
TV★ 7.9
Rizzoli & Isles
2010
as Bunny
MOVIE★ 4.4
Anderson's Cross
2010
as Mrs. Elway
MOVIE★ 7.0
SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongebob's Last Stand
2010
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
TV★ 7.9
Modern Family
2009
as Edith
MOVIE★ 5.0
How to Be a Serial Killer
2009
as Mrs. Wilson
TV★ 6.8
Glee
2009
as Mrs. Carlisle
MOVIE★ 7.0
SpongeBob SquarePants: Pest of the West
2008
as Polene Puff (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.8
Red Riding Hood
2006
as Shopkeeper Woman
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Benchwarmers
2006
as Mrs. Ellwood
TV★ 7.0
American Dad!
2005
as Guest #1 (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.1
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
2004
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.3
Beethoven's 5th
2003
as Sweet Grandmother
TV★ 7.8
Cold Case
2003
as Betty Joe Henders (2009)
MOVIE★ 10.0
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Sponge Who Could Fly
2003
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
TV★ 7.2
That's So Raven
2003
as Mrs. Applebaum
MOVIE★ 4.0
Ablaze
2002
as Nurse Winslow
TV★ 7.5
Kim Possible
2002
as Aunt June (voice)
MOVIE★ 8.0
Size 'Em Up
2001
as Florence
TV★ 8.1
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
2001
as Witch
MOVIE★ 4.7
All You Need
2001
as Ruth
TV★ 7.7
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999
as Mrs. Puff (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.2
Legend of the Mummy
1998
as Mrs. Grant
TV★ 6.7
Extreme Ghostbusters
1997
MOVIE★ 4.6
Trading Favors
1997
as Mrs. Langley
TV★ 7.2
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997
as Mrs. Hanson (segment "The Motorcycle")
MOVIE★ 8.3
Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice
1996
TV★ 7.0
Quack Pack
1996
as (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.7
Serial Mom
1994
as Rosemary Ackerman
TV★ 5.9
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
1993
as Mrs. Bluntley
MOVIE★ 5.3
Battling for Baby
1992
as Mrs. Capello
TV★ 7.7
DuckTales
1987
as Cookie Blurf (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
1986
as Kindergarten Teacher
TV★ 7.7
ALF
1986
as Mary Jo
TV★ 7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Mrs. Metcalf
MOVIE★ 8.0
Gone Are the Dayes
1984
as Marge
TV★ 7.3
Night Court
1984
as Cynthia Dalbey
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
1982
as Rita
MOVIE★ 4.6
The Beach Girls
1982
as Mrs. Brinker
MOVIE★ 5.7
O'Hara's Wife
1982
as Gloria
TV★ 6.7
Gimme a Break!
1981
TV★ 5.0
Foul Play
1981
as Stella Finkle
MOVIE★ 4.9
Blood Beach
1980
as Harriett Crabbe
TV
Semi-Tough
1980
MOVIE★ 10.0
Where the Ladies Go
1980
as Frances
TV★ 7.3
Out of the Blue
1979
as Nurse
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Champ
1979
as Josie
TV★ 7.1
Diff'rent Strokes
1978
as Pearl Gallagher
TV★ 6.5
Fantasy Island
1978
as Carlotta Smith
MOVIE★ 5.5
Semi-Tough
1977
as Earlene
TV★ 7.5
The McLean Stevenson Show
1976
MOVIE★ 10.0
How to Break Up a Happy Divorce
1976
as Soprano
TV★ 7.3
Starsky & Hutch
1975
TV★ 7.2
Kojak
1973
as Verna
TV★ 7.9
M*A*S*H
1972
as Nurse Walsh
TV★ 7.5
The Bob Newhart Show
1972
as Mrs. Englehart
TV★ 7.2
The Waltons
1972
MOVIE★ 6.7
Bananas
1971
as Woman in Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Littlest Angel
1969
as The Scribe I
MOVIE
When the Moon Was Twice as Big
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as Elsie