Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1927-10-20
Day of Death
2013-05-13
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Joyce Brothers
Biography
Joyce Diane Brothers (nÊe Bauer; October 20, 1927 â May 13, 2013) was an American psychologist, television personality, advice columnist, and writer. She first became famous in 1955 for winning the top prize on the American game show The $64,000 Question. Her fame from the game show allowed her to go on to host various advice columns and television shows, which established her as a pioneer in the field of "pop (popular) psychology". Brothers is often credited as the first to normalize psychological concepts to the American mainstream. Her syndicated columns were featured in newspapers and magazines, including a monthly column for Good Housekeeping, in which she contributed for nearly 40 years. As Brothers quickly became the "face of psychology" for American audiences, she often appeared in various television roles, usually as herself. From the 1970s onward, she also began to accept fictional roles that parodied her "woman psychologist" persona. She is noted for working continuously for five decades across various genres. Numerous groups recognized Brothers for her strong leadership as a woman in the psychological field and for helping to destigmatize the profession overall. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joyce Brothers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (39)
Inside Rupert Pupkin
2014
Dorm Daze 2
2006
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
2002
Analyze That
2002
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
2002
Elvis Is Alive! I Swear I Saw Him Eating Ding Dongs Outside the Piggly Wiggly's
2001Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
Dear God
1996
Lover's Knot
1996
Spy Hard
1996
A Night to Die For
1995
The Misery Brothers
1995
Exit to Eden
1994
The Day My Parents Ran Away
1993
