Sandy Sprung (November 23, 1937) is a stage and screen actress, writer and producer who appeared as the Woman in the Clinic Mork has a conversation with about prospective plastic surgery in Season 3's Mork's New Look.
Biography[]
Sandy Sprung was born November 23, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York City.
In addition to her work as actor, writer and producer, she is a published author. Her first book I Haven't A Thing To Wear Or Getting Down To Basics In Fashion And Beauty, published in 1969. Her second, "Candy, Chocolate, Ice Cream and How to Lick 'Em." in 1973.
She continues to reside n Los Angeles.
Career[]
Ms. Sprung was a veteran stage actress before she made her screen bow, having performed in national and international staging's of Mame (as the waspish Ver Charles); Last of the Red Hot Lovers and Any Wednesday. In 1977 she played The Nurse in the Huntington Hartford Theatre production of Equus, directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins and a pre Amadeus Tom Hulce. On Broadway she appeared in the revue Talent! directed by Charles Nelson Reilly and in Off Broadway productions of Shoestring Revue, Of Thee I Sing and Goldilocks. And played to acclaim, multiple roles in Lovers and Other Strangers.[1]
She made her screen bow in Norman Lear's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, sparking a 20 year career in TV and Movies in front of the camera.
Filmography[]
| Year | TV Series | Episode(s) | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman | Episode #1.31
Episode #1.34 |
Nurse Crimmons |
| 1976 | Future Cop | Pilot | Evans |
| 1976 | Doc | The Westside Clinic and Deli | Mrs. Milford |
| 1976 | All's Fair | Election Eve
Happy Anniversary: Part 1 |
Blue Eyes' Wife
Nurse |
| 1978 | Barney Miller | The Bank | Helen Bateman |
| 1981 | Mork & Mindy | Mork's New Look | Woman in Clinic |
| 1981 | Archie Bunker's Place | Murray Klein's Place | Joyce |
| 1982 | It's a Living | Strange Bedfellows | Nurse |
| 1983 | Too Close for Comfort | A Portrait of Henry | Nurse |
| 1987 | Married... with Children | Poppy's by the Tree: Part 1 | Dottie |
| 1995 | Unhappily Ever After | Rock Star | Motel Manager (voice) |
| Year | TV Movie | Role | |
| 1977 | The Natural Look | Edna | |
| 1981 | Please Don't Hit Me, Mom | ||
| Year | Movie | Role | |
| 1982 | The Last American Virgin | Mother | |
She added a career behind the camera to her bow in the 1980s, starting with working as a production assistant on the TV Movie Small World (1981). Like many other actors of the time she wrote, and got her first main job behind the screen working as a writer and program consultant on The Jeffersons (1983 - 1984) and writer and story editor on It's Your Move (1984 - 1985). She also wrote episodes of Melba (1986) and Cagney & Lacey (1986 - 1987), before multitasking again writing and producing on Charles In Charge (1987).[2]
She and oft-time collaborator Marcy Vosburgh produced 64 episodes of Married With Children (1987 - 1990) while she also wrote or co-wrote fourteen episodes, before she and Vosburgh moved on to work on Unhappily Ever After.
Mork & Mindy[]
Sandy plays the Woman in Dr. Dubin's office that is waiting on a consult about plastic surgery when Mork arrives to do the same. Sitting beside her as she peruses a folder of 'options', he starts chatting with her, he breaks the ice with a joke which doesn't quite work on her, before asking her if Dr. Dubin is any good. Telling him she is, she helped her husband with his crow's feet. Mork cracking how they can really tear up the carpet. While that joke doesn't work either, when he suggests if he has crows feet, she must be here for frog's legs, she laughs then tells him in no uncertain terms, No. Pointing to a picture in the folder she tells him she's getting that woman's nose, Mork joking about what she'd sound like without her nose. When she asks him what he's having done, he tells her he's going to 'shoot the works' he wants to get his face tucked, his cheeks pinched and his bags packed.