Thelma Harper, better known as Mama, is a fictional character played by American actress Vicki Lawrence. Mama is a purse-lipped, thickset senior citizen...

American sitcom television series starring Vicki Lawrence as Mama (Thelma Harper). The series is a spin-off of a recurring series of comedy sketches...

Edward VIII Thelma Harper (politician) (1940–2021), Tennessee politician Thelma Hill (1906–1938), American silent screen actress Thelma Holt (born 1932)...

sister, Ellen Harper-Jackson; Vicki Lawrence as Eunice's "Mama", Thelma Harper; and Dick Clair as the voice of Eunice's father Carl Harper. The film takes...

actress, comedian, and singer. She is best known for her character Mama (Thelma Harper). Lawrence also originated many other characters on CBS's The Carol...

Thelma M. Harper (December 2, 1940 – April 22, 2021) was an American politician and the first African-American woman state senator in Tennessee and the...

Burnett as Eunice Harper Higgins Harvey Korman as Ed Higgins Vicki Lawrence as Thelma Harper Ken Berry as Phillip Betty White as Ellen Harper Dick Clair as...

Eunice Higgins, "The Family" skits also featured Vicki Lawrence as Mama, Thelma Harper, and Harvey Korman as Eunice's husband Ed Higgins. In "The Family" sketches...

(1983–90), McClanahan portrayed Fran, an uptight spinster sister to Mama Thelma Harper (Vicki Lawrence). Fran was a journalist for the local paper. Also in...

syndicated run of Mama's Family, playing Alberta Meechum, the nemesis of Thelma Harper. On Our House she played fussy neighbour Virginia Taft. She was also...