Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV ...

Alice Hirson, a veteran character actress whose TV credits included more than a half dozen daytime and primetime soaps, and who played mom to Ellen on the 1990s ABC sitcom, died Feb. 14 of natural ...

She appeared three times on Broadway — including in the landmark ‘The Investigation’ — and in such films as ‘Private Benjamin ...

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Actress Alice Hirson — best known for her roles in '80s and '90s TV staples including Full House ... screen actress made history on the popular sitcom Ellen, when Ellen DeGeneres' character ...

Thank you, Alice. Good night. Legend.” As Lois Morgan, mother of DeGeneres’ character Ellen Morgan, Hirson was part of one of the 1990s most controversial TV stories. After Ellen came out as ...

NEW YORK — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom ''Alice,'' has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los ...

Later, she surfaced on 28 installments of Ellen during the sitcom ... (Alice Pearce of Bewitched fame played her character on Broadway and in the 1949 film adaptation.) In 1952, she appeared on ...