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.

Known ForActing

BornSeptember 2, 1938 (88)

Place of BirthDenver, Colorado, USA

Movie

The Patrick Star Show: Week of Stars!

2026

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

2025

Mrs. Puff (voice) (uncredited)

Movie

Plankton: The Movie

2025

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob and Sandy’s Country Christmas

2024

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Snow Yellow

2024

Puffy (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Kreepaway Kamp

2024

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie

2024

Mrs. Puff (voice)

The Patrick Star Show

2021

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years

2021

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

2020

Mrs. Puff (voice)

SpongeBob As Told By

2020

Self

Toca Life Stories

2020

Nari

Movie

SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout

2019

Mrs. Puff

Good Girls

2018

Dorothy

Great News

2017

Marie

Trial & Error

2017

Brianne

Movie

SpongeBob LongPants

2016

Mrs. Puff / Driving Student (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Glove World Forever

2016

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Bajillion Dollar Propertie$

2016

Ethel Simmons

The Odd Couple

2015

Elderly Woman

Movie

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

2015

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

Lucky Stiff

2014

Shoe Store Lady

Movie

Let's Be Cops

2014

Old Lady

Movie

Spongebob Squarepants: Deep-Sea Games

2014

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob, You're Fired!

2014

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Extreme Kah-Rah-Tay

2013

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Instant Mom

2013

Mrs. Sharp

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob on Tour

2013

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Sweet & Sour Squidward

2013

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

Spongebob Squarepants: Disorder In The Deep

2013

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

2012

Self

Movie

SpongeBob’s Runaway Roadtrip

2011

Mrs. Puff (voice)

2 Broke Girls

2011

Elaine

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Heroes of Bikini Bottom

2011

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Shake It Up

2010

Elderly Woman

Rizzoli & Isles

2010

Bunny

Movie

Anderson's Cross

2010

Mrs. Elway

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongebob's Last Stand

2010

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Viking-sized Adventures

2010

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Modern Family

2009

Edith

Movie

How to Be a Serial Killer

2009

Mrs. Wilson

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants

2009

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Glee

2009

Mrs. Carlisle

Movie

Spongebob Squarepants: 10 Happiest Moments

2009

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Pest of the West

2008

Polene Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: To Love a Patty

2008

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Adventures

2007

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Friend or Foe?

2007

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Whale of a Birthday

2006

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants - Karate Island

2006

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

Red Riding Hood

2006

Shopkeeper Woman

Movie

The Benchwarmers

2006

Mrs. Ellwood

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Time

2006

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob Squarepants - Absorbing Favorites

2005

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

Spongebob Squarepants: Fear of a Krabby Patty

2005

Mrs. Puff (voice)

American Dad!

2005

Guest #1 (voice)

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SpongeBob SquarePants: Home Sweet Pineapple

2005

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

2004

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge for Hire

2004

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Desperate Housewives

2004

Debi Brown

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeGuard on Duty

2004

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric

2004

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

Beethoven's 5th

2003

Sweet Grandmother

Cold Case

2003

Betty Joe Henders (2009)

That's So Raven

2003

Mrs. Applebaum

Movie

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Sponge Who Could Fly

2002

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

Ablaze

2002

Nurse Winslow

Kim Possible

2002

Aunt June (voice)

Movie

Size 'Em Up

2001

Florence

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

2001

Witch

Movie

All You Need

2001

Ruth

SpongeBob SquarePants

1999

Mrs. Puff (voice)

Movie

Legend of the Mummy

1998

Mrs. Grant

Extreme Ghostbusters

1997

Movie

Trading Favors

1997

Mrs. Langley

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

1997

Mrs. Hanson (segment "The Motorcycle")

Movie

Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice

1996

Quack Pack

1996

The Claw's Mother (voice)

Movie

Serial Mom

1994

Rosemary Ackerman

Saved by the Bell: The New Class

1993

Mrs. Bluntley

Movie

Battling for Baby

1992

Mrs. Capello

Rugrats

1991

Doreen (voice)

DuckTales

1987

Cookie Blurf (voice)

Movie

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

1986

Kindergarten Teacher

ALF

1986

Mary Jo

Murder, She Wrote

1984

Mrs. Metcalf

Movie

Gone Are the Dayes

1984

Marge

Night Court

1984

Cynthia Dalbey

Movie

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

1982

Rita

Movie

The Beach Girls

1982

Mrs. Brinker

Movie

O'Hara's Wife

1982

Gloria

Gimme a Break!

1981

Foul Play

1981

Stella Finkle

Movie

Blood Beach

1980

Harriett Crabbe

Movie

Where the Ladies Go

1980

Frances

Semi-Tough

1980

Big Barb

Out of the Blue

1979

Nurse

Movie

The Champ

1979

Josie

Diff'rent Strokes

1978

Pearl Gallagher

Fantasy Island

1978

Carlotta Smith

Movie

Semi-Tough

1977

Earlene

The McLean Stevenson Show

1976

Movie

How to Break Up a Happy Divorce

1976

Soprano

Starsky & Hutch

1975

Kojak

1973

Verna

MAS*H

1972

Nurse Walsh

The Bob Newhart Show

1972

Mrs. Englehart

The Waltons

1972

Movie

Bananas

1971

Woman in Hotel Lobby Cheering Honeymoon (uncredited)

Movie

The Littlest Angel

1969

The Scribe I

Movie

When the Moon Was Twice as Big

Elsie