Editing Ruth Gordon (section)

=== Later career ===
She appeared in 22 more films and many television appearances through her 70s and 80s, including successful sitcoms such as ''[[Rhoda]]'' (as the mother of the unseen doorman Carlton, which earned her an [[Emmy Award|Emmy]] nomination) and ''[[Newhart]]''. She portrayed a murderous author on the 1977 episode ''[[List of Columbo episodes#Seventh season (1977–1978, 5 episodes)|Columbo: Try and Catch Me]]''. She made countless talk-show appearances, in addition to hosting ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' in 1977.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/tv/episode/5528357/Saturday-Night-Live/overview|title=Saturday Night Live − TV Series − Seasons and Episodes |newspaper=New York Times |access-date=2015-08-25}}</ref>

Gordon won an Emmy Award for an appearance on the sitcom ''[[Taxi (TV series)|Taxi]]'', for a 1979 episode titled "Sugar Mama", in which her character tries to solicit the services of a taxi driver, played by series star [[Judd Hirsch]], as a male escort.<ref name=obit/>

Her last Broadway appearance was as Mrs. Warren in [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''[[Mrs. Warren's Profession]]'', produced by [[Joseph Papp]] at the [[Vivian Beaumont Theater]] in 1976. In the summer of 1976, Gordon starred in the leading role of her own play, ''Ho! Ho! Ho!'' at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts. She had a minor role as Ma Boggs, the mother of Orville Boggs ([[Geoffrey Lewis (actor)|Geoffrey Lewis]]), in the [[Clint Eastwood]] films ''[[Every Which Way but Loose]]'' and ''[[Any Which Way You Can]]''.

In 1983, Gordon was awarded the [[Women in Film Los Angeles|Women in Film]] [[Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards#THE CRYSTAL AWARD|Crystal Award]] for outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wif.org/past-recipients|title=Past Recipients|date=Jun 30, 2011|access-date=Nov 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630083646/http://www.wif.org/past-recipients|archive-date=2011-06-30}}</ref>

''Harold and Maude'', ''Adam's Rib'', and ''Rosemary's Baby'' have been selected for preservation in the [[National Film Registry]] of the United States [[Library of Congress]].