80) Dorothy ‘Dot’ Campbell
Played by: Channing Chase
First Appearance: “New Amsterdam” (Season 1, Episode 4)
Dot had to endure a lot over the course of her time on the show, including the untimely death of her husband, and dementia that made her a hot potato to Pete and Bud. A winter-fall romance with her debonair caretaker, Manolo Colon, seemed like a light at the end of her life. Then she accidentally(?) fell off a cruise ship on her honeymoon. It wasn’t a nice way to go, but at least Dot’s death was worthy of the storied Dykeman name.
79) Hollis
Played by: La Monde Byrd
First Appearance: “Red in the Face” (Season 1, Episode 7)
Sterling Cooper’s chief elevator attendant, and sounding board off which its employees would bounce their weird race questions, Hollis was the inside man for one of Don’s earliest and greatest capers: getting Roger to spew in front of clients after eating too many oysters and climbing too many stairs. Hollis deserved better than he got, even before he was left behind with the Sterling Cooper detritus following the founding of SCDP.
78) Smitty Smith
Played by: Patrick Cavanaugh
First Appearance: “For Those Who Think Young” (Season 2, Episode 1)
One of the young guns brought in at the start of Season 2 to see what the kids are into these days, Smitty’s most memorable moment was talking up Don to Ted Chaough after he’d been left behind in the great office exodus of Season 3. He can’t even come up with a good tag while stoned, so it’s no wonder we don’t see him again after SCDP and CGC merged.
77) Rebecca Pryce
Played by: Embeth Davidtz
First Appearance: “Love Among the Ruins” (Season 3, Episode 2)
Posh and prickly, Lane’s wife hated New York with a passion few could rival. Rebecca’s appearances were few, and initially she mostly hung around to henpeck Lane. Sadly, it’s only immediately after Lane’s suicide (partly inspired by her impulsive and grimly funny purchase of a Jaguar) that Rebecca’s love and respect for her husband really came to light. She also classily put Don in his place when he tried to return Lane’s $50,000 investment in the firm, giving her the last, grief-stricken word on the failed British invasion of Sterling Cooper.
76) Carla
Played by: Deborah Lacey
First Appearance: “The Wheel” (Season 1, Episode 13)
Perhaps the most dependable parental figure in the lives of Sally and Bobby, Carla may have spent more time raising the Draper children in their early years than Don or Betty ever did. And what’d she get for all her years of hard work? The heave-ho from Betty, without so much as a reference letter. Admittedly, it’s because she allowed Glenn Bishop into the house, but she was under duress! One can only hope, nay, assume she found a better household after leaving the Draper residence.
75) Anita Olson Respola
Played by: Audrey Wasilewski
First Appearance: “Flight 1” (Season 2, Episode 2)
Supportive siblings are in short supply on Mad Men, so whenever Anita was there for her sister, it was nice to know that Peggy was getting some familial backup through her difficult career path. But Anita had a petty streak, and confessing on your sister’s behalf about the baby she had out of wedlock is the jerkiest jerk move one can make in the deeply religious Olson household.
74) Tom Vogel
Played by: Joe O’Connor
First Appearance: “New Amsterdam” (Season 1, Episode 4)
Tom should be the exception to the “don’t mix family and business” rule. He’s overwhelmingly, almost insufferably supportive of Pete, dotting on his son-in-law almost as much as his own daughter. But he’s also a massive hypocrite who doesn’t understand the concept of mutually assured destruction. Withdrawing business from you son-in-law because you saw him in a brothel is one thing – acting all holier than though when you were in that same brothel is another.
73) Joyce Ramsay
Played by: Zosia Mamet
First Appearance: “The Rejected” (Season 4, Episode 4)
Peggy’s “in” to the counter-culture crowd of the mid-‘60s, Joyce’s ability to blend in at the SCDP offices was reflective of the firm’s increasingly DGAF attitude toward propriety. She can’t be held responsible for how poorly pairing Peggy and Abe together would turn out, as Joyce’s willingness to hook a gal up after being rejected herself is the sign of a true friend.
72) Bonnie Whiteside
Played by: Jessy Schram
First Appearance: “Time Zones” (Season 7, Episode 1)
At first blush, Bonnie seems almost too perfect for Pete. She’s a real estate saleswoman with a no-nonsense approach to business that Pete often aspires to. That she’s also attracted to Pete is a plus, and you can imagine an alternate reality where the two have a successful, sociopathic little family together in L.A. But the pull of New York and his old family was too much for Pete, and Bonnie promptly, efficiently dumped the fixer-upper Campbell.
71) Bud Campbell
Played by: Rich Hutchman
First Appearance: “Flight 1” (Season 2, Episode 2)
Like William Hofstadt, Bud exists to make a sibling look better by proxy. Bud’s just Pete with better hair and lesser ambitions, thought this made him the favourite son of his not-so-loveable parents. At least by the end of the series, Bud had wised up enough to heed his younger brother’s advice about not wasting a good home life when you’ve got one.
