Polly Holliday, a Tony Award-nominated screen and stage actor who turned the catchphrase “Kiss my grits!” into a national retort as the gum-chewing, beehive-wearing waitress aboard the long-running CBS sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 88. Holliday died Tuesday at her home in New York, said her theatrical agent, Dennis Aspland. She was the last…
Danielle Spencer, who played little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!,” died Monday after a battle with cancer. She was 60. Source link
Australian actor Henri Szeps has died, aged 81, following a battle with Alzheimer’s. He was best known for his role in sitcom Mother and Son alongside Ruth Cracknell and Garry McDonald, playing philandering dentist Robert Beare for a decade from 1984-1994. His family confirmed the news of his death on Thursday evening, which comes two…
Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died unexpectedly Sunday of complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her representative, Michael Gagliardo, told CBS News in an email. A success on Broadway, Lavin tried…
