Cloris Leachman was an American actress and comedian. She won eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations. In film, she appeared in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show as the jaded wife of a closeted schoolteacher in the 1950s. Her other notable film and television credits include The Twilight Zone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, WUSA, Yesterday, Spanglish, and Mrs. Harris. She died in a car accident in 2012, at the age of 89.
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Cloris Leachman was an American actress and comedian. She won eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. In film, she appeared in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show as the jaded wife of a closeted schoolteacher in the 1950s. Her other notable film and television credits include The Twilight Zone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, WUSA, Yesterday, Spanglish, and Mrs. Harris. She released her autobiography in 2009, and continued to act in occasional roles until her death in 2012. She was the eldest of three daughters of Berkeley and Berkeley Claiborne “Buck” Leach man, who owned a lumber company in Des Moines, Iowa. Her youngest sister, Mary, was not in show business and her youngest sister was an actress and singer. She died in a car accident in 2012, at the age of 89. She is survived by her husband, Robert Leach, and her daughter, Toni, who is also an actress, and two sons, Michael and Michael Jr., who are in their early 20s and Michael is in his early 40s. She had a son, Michael Jr. Leach III, with actor Michael Keaton, who appeared in the film version of The Godfather: Part II, which is considered one of the greatest films of all time.
She also had a daughter, Jennifer, who starred in the movie version of the Bible, which was released in 1973. She appeared in several television shows, including The Cosby Show, The Muny, and Malcolm in the Middle. She made her feature-film debut as an extra in Carnegie Hall, but had her first real role in Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly. She continued to work mainly in television, with appearances in Rawhide and The Good, The Bad, and The Rawhide episode of Rawhide’s Rawhide Rawhide, in which she played the mother of Lassie’s second master, Lock One. She starred in The Rack with Marvin Newman and Lee Lee, and in a brief role in Marvin Newman’s The Rack. She also appeared with Paul Newman and Marvin Newman in The Good Good, the Bad, The Rack, The Good and The Bad. Her last role was in the television film A Brand New Life; the variety sketch show Cher ; the ABC serial The Woman Who Willed a Miracle ; and the television shows Promised Land and Malcolm In the Middle. She was also a member of Gamma Phi Beta at Northwestern University and was a classmate of future comic actors Paul Lynde and Charlotte Rae. She competed in the 1946 Miss America pageant and won a scholarship to study acting under Elia Kazan.
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