# Name That "Night Court" Actress...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-night-court-actress/715932>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 25, 2015, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-night-court-actress/715932 "2015-03-25T11:22:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-night-court-actress/715932/21 "2015-03-27T21:23:14Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Or to put it another way: Marcia Warfield was as different a character from Diamond and from everybody else on the show as was possible to invent without hiring an alien.

Huh? She was a crabby, female bailiff with a sharp tongue who nobody messed with. How is that so opposite from the two that preceded?

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-night-court-actress/715932/22 "2015-03-27T22:16:16Z")

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> [@Biggirl](#):
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> Huh? She was a crabby, female bailiff with a sharp tongue who nobody messed with. How is that so opposite from the two that preceded?

Nobody messed with any of the baliffs, including Bull. But he and the female baliffs were totally different from one another and Martha Warfield was totally different from her predecessors.

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-night-court-actress/715932/23 "2015-03-27T22:22:00Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Nobody messed with any of the baliffs, including Bull. But he and the female baliffs were totally different from one another and Martha Warfield was totally different from her predecessors.

I disagree. Selma and Florence were practically indistinguishable and Marsha fit in quite seamlessly with all the the Night Court crew. I was wondering in what way Marsha one step away from an alien.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-night-court-actress/715932/24 "2015-03-27T22:52:01Z")

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One thing I remember about Warfield was an interview she did talked about her height. Warfield’s 5’11". But the men on _Night Court_ were all unusually tall: Charlie Robinson’s 6’3", Harry Anderson and John Larroquette are 6’4", and Richard Moll is 6’8". Warfield said that working on _Night Court_ is the only time in her life where she felt “petite”.

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-night-court-actress/715932/25 "2015-03-27T22:54:00Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Nobody messed with any of the baliffs, including Bull. But he and the female baliffs were totally different from one another and Martha Warfield was totally different from her predecessors.

I agree. I mean they had that in common but nothing else.

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