
Known for
Acting
Born
September 29, 1942
Birthplace
Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
Died
December 3, 1999 (aged 57)
Madeline Gail Kahn (née Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the original production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978. She starred as Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline...
2022
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
2020
as (archive footage)
2019
as Self (archive footage)
2018
as Self (archive footage)
2014
as Self (archive footage)
2014
as Self (archive footage)
2013
as Self (archive footage)
2010
as Self (uncredited) (archive footage)
2009
as Self (archive footage)
2009
as Self (archive footage)
2007
as Gypsy (voice) (archive footage)
2006
2006
as Gorgeous Teitelbaum (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
2005
as Pat Nixon (archive footage)
2004
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
as Self (archive footage)
1999
1999
as Alice Gold
1999
as (archive footage)
1998
as Gypsy Moth (voice)
1996
1996
as Sharon Semple
1996
1996
as Sabrina