U.S. comedy legend Cloris Leachman dies at 94
Leachman, who appeared in three of Mel Brooks comic movies, kept acting regularly well into her 90s. She was a contestant on Dancing With the Stars at age 82 and appeared in the 2019 reboot of the comedy series Mad About You.
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Actress Cloris Leachman poses at a 40th anniversary screening of Young Frankenstein at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Samuel Goldwyn theatre in Beverly Hills, California September 9, 2014. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
LOS ANGELES, Jan 27 (Reuters) - American actress Cloris Leachman, who won eight Emmys for her work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and other television programs as well as an Academy Award for The Last Picture Show, died on Wednesday at the age of 94, her representatives said.
Leachman, who appeared in three of Mel Brooks' comic movies, kept acting regularly well into her 90s. She was a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars" at age 82 and appeared in the 2019 reboot of the comedy series "Mad About You."
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Cloris Leachman, known for work in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Last Picture Show, has died. Credit: AP/PA
Actress Cloris Leachman, who won an Oscar for The Last Picture Show and Emmy for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died at the age of 94.
The US actress died of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, California, with her daughter at her side, her publicist said.
Leachman was known for playing the self-absorbed neighbour Phyllis in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She also appeared as the mother of Timmy on the Lassie series.
She played a frontier prostitute in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, a crime spree family member in Crazy Mama and the infamous Frau Bucher in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein.
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