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Title: Jessica Walter dead at age 80
Post by: MillCreek on March 25, 2021, 04:27:33 PM

https://deadline.com/2021/03/jessica-walter-dead-actress-arrested-development-1234721873/

APS members may think of her primarily as playing Mallory Archer in 'Archer'.

Title: Re: Jessica Walter dead at age 80
Post by: Ben on March 25, 2021, 04:54:21 PM

"I mean it's one banana, Michael. How much can it cost? Ten dollars?"

RIP

Title: Re: Jessica Walter dead at age 80
Post by: Perd Hapley on March 25, 2021, 07:01:45 PM

Sad. I'm sure it wasn't her only role, but she was really great in AD.

Title: Re: Jessica Walter dead at age 80
Post by: TommyGunn on March 25, 2021, 07:15:16 PM

Gee,  I actually remember her playing Chief Amy Prentiss in the old Raymond Burr IRONSIDE series.  Pretty good role,  in a early womens' lib era.  She played a tough female chief, promoted  amongst some nasty internecine  political pultroonery in the SFPD after the death of the sitting  chief.  Tough but not the (as Rush Limbaugh used to say) FemiNazi  type.

I don't recall her subsequent roles,  but then,   from what I read in the obit I never followed those shows.

Title: Re: Jessica Walter dead at age 80
Post by: JTHunter on March 26, 2021, 04:52:10 PM

"Grand Prix" in '66 with James Garner.
"Play Misty for Me" in '71 with Clint Eastwood.
"Victory at Entebbe" in '76 with Kirk Douglas, Linda Blair, Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Lancaster, and Liz Taylor.
Multiple episodes of "The Love Boat" from '69-'73 & '78-'85, as well as innumerable TV shows starting in 1961.

Title: Re: Jessica Walter dead at age 80
Post by: zxcvbob on March 26, 2021, 05:55:07 PM

"Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant. It just makes me want to set myself on fire!"   :laugh:   :'(  R.I.P.