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Anne Ramsey (1 September 1929 - 11 August 1988) was an American actress who is most recognized for two roles: as Mama Fratelli in Steven Spielberg's The Goonies; and as Mrs. Lift, the mother of Danny DeVito's character in her Academy Award nominated performance in Throw Momma from the Train.

Born Anne Mobley in Omaha, Nebraska, she attended Bennington College and became interested in the theatre. She performed in several Broadway productions in the 1950s. She married actor Logan Ramsey in 1954 and moved to Philadelphia.

In the early 1970s, she began a long and successful career as a character actor in Hollywood. She appeared with her husband in five films, including The Sporting Club and Meet the Hollowheads, her first and last movie roles.

Ramsey's slurred speech, a trademark of her later performances, was caused in part from having some of her tongue and jaw removed during a cancer operation in the mid 1980s.

In 1988, the disease relapsed and she succumbed to throat cancer in Los Angeles, aged 58.

• Meet the Hollowheads (1989) - Babbleaxe
• Homer & Eddie (1989) - Edna
• Another Chance (1989) - Leadlady
• Scrooged (1988) - Eva, woman in shelter
• Love at Stake (1988) - Old Witch
• Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood (1988) - The Hag
• Throw Momma from the Train (1987) - Mrs. Lift
• Weeds (1987) - Mom Umstetter
• Deadly Friend (1986) - Elvira Parker
• Say Yes (1986) - Major
• The Goonies (1985) - Mama Fratelli
• The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Bag Lady
• Getting Physical (1984) - Lady at Police Station
• The Seduction of Gina (1984) - Woman on Bus
• The Killers (1984) - First Ragpicker
• Herndon (1983) - Miss Helter
• I Want to Live! (1983) - Matron
• National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982) - Mrs. Tabazooski
• Marian Rose White (1982) - Teacher
• A Small Killing (1981) - Doris
• Any Which Way You Can (1980) - Loretta Quince
• White Mama (1980) - Heavy Charm
• The Black Marble (1980) - Bessie Callahan
• When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979) - Rhea Childress
• The Gift of Love (1978) - Maeve O'Halloran
• Goin' South (1978) - Spinster #2
• Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) - Employment applicant
• The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976) - Rachel
• Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976) - Librarian
• From Noon Till Three (1976) - Massive Woman
• The New Original Wonder Woman (1975) - Taxi Driver
• The Law (1974) - Eleanor Bleisch
• For Pete's Sake (1974) - Telephone Lady
• Rhinoceros (1974) - Woman with Cat
• The Third Girl from the Left (1973) - Madelaine
• Up the Sandbox (1972) - Battleaxe
• The New Centurions (1972) - Wife of crazy man (uncredited)
• The Sporting Club (1971) - Scott's Wife

• Anne Ramsey at the Internet Movie Database