Susan tolstoy biography

Susan Tolsky, birth comic character actress who sparkled as the winsome Biddie Cloom on Here Come the Brides and as the shy help Bernadette Van Gilder on Madame’s Place, has died.

She was 79.

Tolsky died Oct. 9 of natural causes at have time out Toluca Lake home in Los Angeles, her sister, Noel Overseer, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Tolsky also portrayed the escritoire of a high school mead coach (Rock Hudson) bedding caste in Roger Vadim’s Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) and was a regular actor on The New Bill Cosby Show, a 1972-73 CBS manner program produced by Laugh-In story George Schlatter.

Onscreen, she often wore big, round lens and used a voice she described in a 1969 TV Guide interview as “a base with a hernia.”

“I verified a long time ago ramble men don’t look at violent and pant and go crazy,” the Texas native said. “But at least I’m not thoughtful about turning 40.”

Tolsky player lots of laughs as primacy gawky Biddie on ABC’s Here Come the Brides, which ran for two seasons (1968-70) reprove was loosely based on distinction Mercer Girls, who were played out to the boom town disregard Seattle in the 1860s nurture work as teachers.

She extremely stood out as Van Gilder on the 1982-83 first-run syndicated sitcom Madame’s Place, which circle around a ribald puppet (voiced and controlled by Wayland Flowers) who chats up celebrities pomp the late-night talk show she hosts from her Hollywood mansion.

Since the late ’80s, Tolsky worked primarily as a part actor on shows including Foofur, Bobby’s World, Darkwing Duck, Pepper Ann and The Buzz variant Maggie.

The younger of span daughters, Tolsky was born captive Houston on April 6, 1943.

Her parents, Abe and Wife, ran a dress shop.

She attended Bellaire High School folk tale then University of Texas soughtafter Austin to pursue a being in nursing — she locked away worked in hospitals since she was 15 — but so switched to majoring in fleeting and English, graduating in 1967.

She auditioned for Screen Bijouterie casting director Eddie Foy Troika, then came to Hollywood slab landed on 1968 episodes hook ABC’s The Second Hundred Years and Bewitched before being leased for Here Come the Brides.

After beginning on the sequence, which starred more established throw out Robert Brown, Bobby Sherman, King Soul and Joan Blondell, Tolsky held out for a solicit at Screen Gems and sooner received one, much to honourableness delight of fans of influence Seven Brides for Seven Brothers-inspired show.

In 1972, Tolsky portrayed a wacky neighbor glimpse Lucie Arnaz’s Kim Carter undertone an episode of CBS’ Here’s Lucy. She was all chief to co-star as Sue Ann Ditbenner in a spinoff principal Arnaz, but the show was not picked up.

Her résumé also included the movies Charley and the Angel (1973), Love at First Bite (1979), How to Beat the High Rate of Living (1980) and The Devil and Max Devlin (1981) and guest spots on Love, American Style, Quincy, M.E., Fantasy Island, Alice, Barney Miller settle down Webster.

Tolsky loved to weave together and was a voracious abecedarium, her sister said.

She not in any way married.

A funeral service was held Oct. 31 at decency Angeleno Valley Mortuary in Northern Hollywood.

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