Cloris Leachman, Emmy-Winning Actor and Comedian, Dead at 94 Cloris Leachman, Emmy-Winning Actor and Comedian, Dead at 94 Mary Tyler Moore Show and Young Frankenstein star appeared in TV shows every decade from the 1940s until today Jerry Portwood, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Leachman was perhaps best known for her role as Phyllis Lindstrom from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her own subsequent sitcom Phyllis, but she also won an Oscar for her work in The Last Picture Show and had hilarious turns in the Mel Brooks movie Young Frankenstein, and on the TV shows Malcolm in the Middle and Raising Hope. She also appeared for Brooks as the evil Nurse Diesel in