Kathleen Freeman was an American film, television, and stage actress. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-ax neighbors, almost invariably to comic effect.
For Disney, she provided the voices of M'Ma Crackshell and Nurse Hatchet in DuckTales, Ma in Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, and a Heavyset Woman in Hercules, and additional voices in Gargoyles. Her three live-action Disney roles included a cop in The Strongest Man in the World, Miss Olin the Jacob Bailey High School teacher in Hocus Pocus, a community center cook in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, and Tom Tom Girl Gloria in I'll Be Home for Christmas. She also appeared as a nun in The Golden Girls Season 6 episode "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sophia".
