Katherine Helmond(1929-2019)

Her husband, David Christian, was 14 years younger than she was. He was 19 and she was 33 when they met in 1962. They were together for seven years before they were married in 1969. At the time of her death in 2019, they had been together as a couple for 57 years.

The choice of roles as I grow older gets more and more limited, so if I pin myself to one kind of part I would get in trouble. So, these oddball ladies came along for me to do--I guess Terry Gilliam helped in this respect. I have found them more interesting, flashier and I get more mileage out of them. Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says "Far out", then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.