Pat Crawford Brown

Pat Crawford Brown (b. 1929) is a character actress who has made a career out of playing addled little old ladies. She voiced the court stenographer in the Dinosaurs episode "Charlene's Flat World" and played a hockey scorekeeper in the Creature Shop film Jack Frost.

A familiar television face since the mid 1980s, Brown has guest starred on Matlock, ER, Mad About You, Soul Man, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and had recurring roles on Cocah (Mrs. Thorkelson), Gilmore Girls (Mrs. Cassini), and Desperate Housewives (Ida Greenberg). In film, she was one of Whoopi Goldberg's choir nuns in Sister Act and Sister Act II, and also appeared in Liberace: Behind the Music, 18 Again (with George Burns), The Rocketeer, and the Farrelly Brothers' Stuck on You.