Pat Carroll Obituary

Patricia Ann Carroll was an American actress and comedian. She was born on May 5, 1927 and died on July 30, 2022 from pneumonia at her home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts aged 95.

She was born to Maurice Clifton Carroll and Kathryn Angela (née Meagher) and graduated from Immaculate Heart High School. She attended Catholic University of America after enlisting in the United States Army as a civilian actress technician.

She began her acting career in 1947 and got her first acting credit as Lorelei Crawford in the 1948 film, Hometown Girl.

In 1956, she won an Emmy Award for her work on Caesar’s Hour and was a regular on the sitcom Make Room for Daddy from 1961 to 1964.

She guest-starred in the drama anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson. Carroll also appeared on many variety shows of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, such as The Steve Allen show, The Red Buttons Show, The Danny Kaye Show, The Red Skelton Show, and The Carol Burnett Show.

In 1965 she co-starred as “Prunella”, one of the wicked stepsisters in the 1965 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical version of Cinderella.

She also appeared on a variety of game shows including Celebrity Sweepstakes, You Don’t Say, To Tell the Truth, Match Game 73, Password, and I’ve Got a Secret.

She was a member of the Actors Studio, and she enjoyed a successful career in the theater, appearing in numerous plays including productions of Our Town and Sophocles’ Electra.

In 1990, she starred in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger in the role of Sir John Falstaff, a balding knight with whiskers.

She was married to Lee Karsian (m.1955) and they had three children, including actress Tara Karsian. However, the marriage ended in a divorce in 1976 and in 1991, she received an honorary doctorate from Siena College in Albany, New York.