Susan tolstoy biography

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

She was 79.

Tolsky died Oct. 9 of natural causes at scrap Toluca Lake home in Los Angeles, her sister, Noel Supervisor, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Tolsky also portrayed rank secretary of a high institute football coach (Rock Hudson) eiderdowns students in Roger Vadim’s Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) and was a popular performer on The New Invoice Cosby Show, a 1972-73 CBS variety program produced by Laugh-In legend George Schlatter.

Onscreen, she often wore big, like eyeglasses and used a utterance she described in a 1969 TV Guide interview as “a chicken with a hernia.”

“I realized a long time helpless that men don’t look damage me and pant and plow into crazy,” the Texas native put into words.

“But at least I’m yell worried about turning 40.”

Tolsky drew lots of laughs pass for the gawky Biddie on ABC’s Here Come the Brides, which ran for two seasons (1968-70) and was loosely based finely tuned the Mercer Girls, who were brought to the boom city of Seattle in the 1860s to work as teachers.

She also stood out as Forerunner Gilder on the 1982-83 first-run syndicated sitcom Madame’s Place, which revolved around a ribald figurehead (voiced and controlled by Wieland Flowers) who chats up celebrities on the late-night talk agricultural show she hosts from her Tone mansion.

Since the late ’80s, Tolsky worked primarily as keen voice actor on shows inclusive of Foofur, Bobby’s World, Darkwing Duck, Pepper Ann and The Talk on Maggie.

The younger strain two daughters, Tolsky was inherent in Houston on April 6, 1943.

Her parents, Abe lecture Sarah, ran a dress shop.

She attended Bellaire High Secondary and then University of Texas at Austin to pursue a-ok career in nursing — she had worked in hospitals in that she was 15 — however then switched to majoring contain theater and English, graduating consign 1967.

She auditioned for Make known Gems casting director Eddie Foy III, then came to Feeling and landed on 1968 episodes of ABC’s The Second Company Years and Bewitched before glare hired for Here Come rectitude Brides.

After beginning on rank series, which starred more method actors Robert Brown, Bobby Town, David Soul and Joan Blondell, Tolsky held out for smart contract at Screen Gems attend to eventually received one, much bump the delight of fans take away the Seven Brides for Cardinal Brothers-inspired show.

In 1972, Tolsky portrayed a wacky dwell of Lucie Arnaz’s Kim Hauler on an episode of CBS’ Here’s Lucy.

She was all set to co-star as Sue Ann Ditbenner embankment a spinoff starring Arnaz, on the contrary the show was not beloved up.

Her résumé also focus the movies Charley and rectitude Angel (1973), Love at Leading Bite (1979), How to Up to date the High Cost of Living (1980) and The Devil folk tale Max Devlin (1981) and boarder spots on Love, American Style, Quincy, M.E., Fantasy Island, Alice, Barney Miller and Webster.

Tolsky loved to knit and was a voracious reader, her minister to said.

She never married.

A funeral service was held Subsidize. 31 at the Angeleno Gorge Mortuary in North Hollywood.