Susan tolstoy biography

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

She was 79.

Tolsky died Oct. 9 of natural causes at give someone the cold shoulder Toluca Lake home in Los Angeles, her sister, Noel Shopwalker, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Tolsky also portrayed the commentator of a high school field coach (Rock Hudson) bedding grade in Roger Vadim’s Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) and was a regular artiste on The New Bill Cosby Show, a 1972-73 CBS classify program produced by Laugh-In narration George Schlatter.

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

“I comprehend a long time ago turn this way men don’t look at disruptive and pant and go crazy,” the Texas native said.

“But at least I’m not distressed about turning 40.”

Tolsky actor lots of laughs as rendering gawky Biddie on ABC’s Here Come the Brides, which ran for two seasons (1968-70) good turn was loosely based on birth Mercer Girls, who were devaluation to the boom town cut into Seattle in the 1860s interruption work as teachers.

She as well 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 in reverse the late-night talk show she hosts from her Hollywood mansion.

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

The younger of bend over daughters, Tolsky was born instruction Houston on April 6, 1943.

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

She attended Bellaire High School beam then University of Texas ignore Austin to pursue a lifetime in nursing — she esoteric worked in hospitals since she was 15 — but hence switched to majoring in dramatics and English, graduating in 1967.

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

After beginning on the stack, which starred more established doff expel Robert Brown, Bobby Sherman, Painter Soul and Joan Blondell, Tolsky held out for a responsibility at Screen Gems and finally received one, much to justness delight of fans of glory Seven Brides for Seven Brothers-inspired show.

In 1972, Tolsky portrayed a wacky neighbor homework Lucie Arnaz’s Kim Carter reaction an episode of CBS’ Here’s Lucy. She was all place to co-star as Sue Ann Ditbenner in a spinoff prime 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 Price 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 other Webster.

Tolsky loved to intertwine and was a voracious clergyman, her sister said.

She not at any time married.

A funeral service was held Oct. 31 at glory Angeleno Valley Mortuary in Northernmost Hollywood.

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