Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore | |
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Born | |
Died | January 25, 2017 Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 80)
Cause of death | Cardiopulmonary arrest caused by type 1 diabetes related pneumonia |
Years active | 1957–2015 |
Known for | Acting roles: Beth Jarrett in Ordinary People Laura Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show, "Rob Petrie USMC" Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
Spouse(s) | Robert Levine (1983–2017; her death) Grant Tinker (1962–1981) Dick Meeker (1955–1961) |
Children | Richard Meeker Jr. (deceased) |
Awards | Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie 1993 Stolen Babies eight other Emmy Awards Tony Awards: Special Award 1980 Whose Life is it Anyway? |
Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an Academy Award-nominated American actress, activist and philanthropist.
She is famous for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), where she played the role of Mary Richards, a single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, and for her role as Laura Petrie, wife of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (played by Dick Van Dyke) on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966).
Health and death
[change | change source]Moore was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 33. In 2011, she had brain surgery to remove a brain tumor. In 2014 friends reported that she had heart and kidney problems and was nearly blind.[1] In October 2015, Moore's former co-star Dick Van Dyke said on an episode of Larry King Now that Moore was in poor health and unable to communicate.[2]
In January 2017, she was hospitalized from a diabetic-related condition. Her condition worsened and was placed on a respirator the previous week.[3] She died on January 25, 2017 in Greenwich, Connecticut from cardiopulmonary arrest caused by diabetic-related pneumonia, aged 80.[4]
TV work
[change | change source]- Richard Diamond, Private Detective (cast member in 1959)
- The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
- Run a Crooked Mile (1969)
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977)
- Mary (1978) (cancelled after three episodes)
- First, You Cry (1978)
- The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979) (canceled after three months)
- Heartsounds (1984)
- Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
- Mary (1985–1986)
- Lincoln (1988)
- Annie McGuire (1988) (canceled after two months)
- The Last Best Year (1990)
- Thanksgiving Day (TV series) (1990)
- Stolen Babies (1993)
- New York News (1995) (canceled after two months)
- Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996)
- Payback (1997)
- Good as Gold (2000)
- Mary and Rhoda (2000) (also executive producer)
- Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Gimes (2001) (also executive producer)
- Miss Lettie and Me (2002)
- The Gin Game (2003)
- Blessings (TV movie) (2003)
- The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited (2004)
- That 70's Show (2006)
Movies
[change | change source]- X-15 (1961)
- Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
- What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)
- Don't Just Stand There! (1968)
- Run a Crooked Mile (1969) (TV)
- Change of Habit (1969)
- Ordinary People (1980)
- Six Weeks (1982)
- Just Between Friends (1986)
- Flirting with Disaster (1996)
- The Blue Arrow (1996) (voice)
- Keys to Tulsa (1997)
- Reno Finds Her Mom (1998) (documentary)
- Labor Pains (2000)
- Cheats (2002)
- Against The Current (2009)
References
[change | change source]- ↑ McDonald, Soraya Nadia (May 22, 2014). "Mary Tyler Moore's friends say diabetes has rendered her nearly blind". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
- ↑ "Dick Van Dyke Opens Up About Mary Tyler Moore's Health". YouTube. October 2015.
- ↑ "Mary Tyler Moore in Grave Condition". TMZ.
- ↑ Wiseman, Lauren (January 25, 2017). "Mary Tyler Moore, TV and movie star, dies at 80". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Nash Holdings LLC. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Mary Tyler Moore Pictures Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
- Mary Tyler Moore at the Internet Broadway Database
- Mary Tyler Moore on IMDb
- Mary Tyler Moore at the Notable Names Database
- Mary Tyler Moore at the TCM Movie Database
- The Museum of Broadcast Communications biography of Moore Archived 2009-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show Online
- Take The Mary Tyler Moore Show Quiz
- Mary Tyler Moore at TV.com
- 1936 births
- 2017 deaths
- Actors from Brooklyn
- American activists
- American animal rights activists
- Actors from Greenwich, Connecticut
- American movie actors
- American philanthropists
- American stage actors
- American television actors
- Deaths from diabetes
- Deaths from cardiopulmonary arrest
- Deaths from pneumonia
- Emmy Award winning actors
- Golden Globe Award winning actors
- Screen Actors Guild Award winners
- Tony Award winning actors