Alice Hirson, who played a confidante of Barbara Bel Geddes’ Miss Ellie Ewing on Dallas and the mother of Ellen DeGeneres’ character on the comic’s groundbreaking ABC sitcom, has died. She ...

Alice Hirson, who played a confidante of Barbara Bel Geddes' Miss Ellie Ewing on Dallas and the mother of Ellen DeGeneres' character on the comic's groundbreaking ABC sitcom, has died. She was 95.

Bel Geddes called "Dallas "real fun," but it was also marked by tragedy. In 1981, Jim Davis, who played Miss Ellie's husband, Jock Ewing, died.

Emmy-winning Dallas star Barbara Bel Geddes, who played matriarch Miss Ellie Ewing on the seminal night-time soap, died Monday of lung cancer at her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine. She was 82.

LOS ANGELES - Barbara Bel Geddes, the winsome actress who rose to stage and movie stardom but reached her greatest fame as Miss Ellie Ewing in the TV series Dallas , has died. She was 82. The San F… ...

Actress Barbara Bel Geddes, who played the Ewing matriarch Miss Ellie Ewing, was only nine-years older than her TV son, Larry Hagman. Dallas cast, 1980 Richard Harrison/Fotos International/Archive ...

Speaking to PEOPLE, 'Dallas' star Victoria Principal recalled the episode that originally sparked a huge reaction before she came to realize it as an 'act of courage' ...

But she learned from her costars, whom she says had a "stellar work ethic" As J.R. Ewing's scheming niece Lucy on Dallas , Charlene Tilton was one of the most well-known actresses of the 1980s.

Alice Hirson, who played a confidante of Barbara Bel Geddes’ Miss Ellie Ewing on Dallas and the mother of Ellen DeGeneres’ character on the comic’s groundbreaking ABC sitcom, has died. She ...

Alice Hirson, who played a confidante of Barbara Bel Geddes’ Miss Ellie Ewing on Dallas and the mother of Ellen DeGeneres’ character on the comic’s groundbreaking ABC sitcom, has died. She was 95.