Suzanne Pleshette, who prided herself on being an actress rather than a star, has died. She was 70 years old.
LOS ANGELES — Suzanne Pleshette, the beautiful, husky-voiced film and theater star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died, said her attorney Robert Finkelstein. She was 70.
Pleshette, who underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006, died of respiratory failure Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, said Finkelstein, who is also a family friend.
"The Bob Newhart Show, a hit throughout its six-year run, starred comedian Newhart as a Chicago psychiatrist surrounded by eccentric patients. Pleshette provided the voice of reason.
I remember her well from that old sitcom. That was back in the day when I still watched television. Rest in peace.
I also remember watching her get pecked to death in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.”
Suzanne…..what a beauty!
She will be missed.
Her husband, Tom Posten, passed this past spring. Interesting how that works. Supposedly they had fallen in love in the early 60′s but were married to others. It wasn’t until their later years that they got together.
And another actress I had a crush on as a boy passes away. It was the voice – that beautiful, sexy, husky voice. She will be missed.
She was always one of my favorite actresses.
Suzzanne Pleshette and Natalie Wood.
My favorite actresses.