Doris Belack

She has sometimes been misidentified as the first Bernice Fish, the wife to Abe Vigoda's character Fish on Barney Miller. She was actually only a one-episode replacement for actress Florence Stanley, who played the role. Before that, Belack was seen mainly in soap operas. She originated the role of Anna Wolek for nearly a decade on One Life to Live. She also appeared in Another World (three different roles over several years), The Doctors (1980, as psychiatrist Dr. Claudia Howard), and The Edge of Night (1981, as Beth Bryson). Later in the 1980s, she had the recurring role of Pine Valley's mayor on All My Children.

She played the formidable soap opera producer Rita Marshall in the 1982 comedy film Tootsie, which starred Dustin Hoffman. Her other film credits included roles in Fast Forward (1985), Batteries Not Included (1987), Splash, Too (1988), She-Devil (1989), Opportunity Knocks (1990), What About Bob? (1991), . (1994), Krippendorf's Tribe (1998), The Odd Couple II (1998) and Fail Safe (2000).

Belack played the lead role in the short-lived television sitcom Baker's Dozen as "Florence Baker", the no-nonsense captain of an undercover anti-crime unit of the NYPD. The show lasted a month on CBS. She guest starred on an episode of The Golden Girls in 1985 as Gloria, the sister of Bea Arthur's character Dorothy Zbornak. From 1990 to 2001, Belack played tough, sharp-tongued Judge Margaret Barry, a recurring role on Law & Order and . She voiced Maureen McReary in Grand Theft Auto IV and provided the voices of Mrs. Dink and Mrs. Wingo in the Nickelodeon show Doug. Her last television appearance was on a 2003 episode of Sex and the City.

Belack died on October 4, 2011, in New York City, aged 85.

• Looking Up (1977) - Libby Levine
• The Black Marble (1980) - Harried Woman
• Hanky Panky (1982) - Building Manager
• Tootsie (1982) - Rita Marshall
• Fast Forward (1985) - Mrs. Gilroy
• Batteries Not Included (1987) - Mrs. Thompson
• The Luckiest Man in the World (1989) - Mrs. Posner
• She-Devil (1989) - Paula
• Opportunity Knocks (1990) - Mona
• What About Bob? (1991) - Dr. Catherine Tomsky
• (1994) - Dr. Roberts
• What's Your Sign? (1997)
• Krippendorf's Tribe (1998) - President Porter
• The Odd Couple II (1998) - Blanche Madison Povitch
• Doug's 1st Movie (1999) - Mayor Tippi Dink (voice)
• Prime (2005) - Blanche
• Delirious (2006) - Les's mother
• Arranged (2007) - Elona (final film role)