‘Golden Girls’ star, Mary Tyler Moore Show is 99 – The Hollywood Reporter

Betty White, a quick-witted comedian with a ribald sense of humor is introduced Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden girls and Hot in Cleveland making her America’s ageless darling, dead. She is 99 years old.

The beloved five-time Emmy Award winner and animal advocate, whose career took her career to the next level after she became a doctor of science, died at home on Friday, the her face says Everyone magazine.

White joins the cast of Mary Tyler Moore Show for the fourth season of the CBS comedy series in 1973 as Sue Ann Nivens, the blunt, manly star of WJM-TV recital Happy housewife, and she won two in a row Emmys for the consistently outstanding performance of a supporting actress in a comedy series.

On NBC’s Golden girls, which aired for seven seasons, White plays the simple-minded person Minnesotan rose Nylund opposite Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty. She was nominated for lead actress in a comedy series from 1986 to 1992, winning the trophy on her first try.

And on TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland, having completed six seasons in 2015, White was cast as her late 80s like a sharp tongue Elka Ostrovsky, custodian of the Victorian home inhabited by LA transplants played by Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendy Malick. That earned her an Emmy Award nomination for supporting actress in 2011.

“Betty White is one of the few people who walks into the room and you know her,” said Carl Reiner on the 2018 PBS special. Betty White: Television First Lady. “You’ve known her your whole life. She’s one of those people who is always welcome on any show she’s on. ”

Earlier in her career, her hilarious jokes and dizzying smile made her a famous guest on game shows like Tell the truth, What is my line?, Game match, Password and Liar’s Club – the last two were organized by her husband, the late Allen Ludden. (They met while she was on Password in 1961.)

She also won a Daytime Emmy in 1983 for hosting the game show Just Men!, the first award given to a female star.

White won another Emmy and attracted 12 million viewers Saturday night live in 2010 at the age of 88 following a fan-based Facebook campaign; starred in a clever Snickers Super Bowl commercial with Abe Vigoda; and nets noms from 2012-14 (her career total is 21) as an NBC reality show host Turn off their Rockers.

In 1988, White was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame and received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2010.

The Guinness Book of World Records in 2013 said she held the record for longest television career for a (female) artist. She told Larry King in 2010: “I think the reason for its longevity is because generations have known me over the years, so I have become part of the family.

Betty Marion White was born on January 17, 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois, the only child of an electrical engineer and a housewife. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 2 years old and she graduated from Beverly Hills High School. Her idol is singer and actress Jeanette MacDonald.

White told NPR in a 2014 interview: “I was in the graduation play from high school and was the president of our senior class, and I sang ‘The Merry Widow’ and danced a bit. “I think that’s when showbiz the bug bit me – and they haven’t been able to get rid of me since. “

She took part in radio shows and was accepted in 1949 plate jockey Al Jarvis’ offer to ‘become his “Girl Friday” on Hollywood on TV, a new variety show he’s working on KLAC-TV. The show runs for 5 and a half hours a day, six days a week (Sunday off!). When Jarvis left in 1952, she hosted the show for a few years.

Also in 1952, the lovely White co-founded Bandy Productions – she was a rare powerful woman in the show business at the time – and went on to star in the syndicated sitcom. Life with Elizabeth, filmed live from the Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills. She also hosts the show The Betty White Show during the day for NBC (only half an hour a weekday) and played a newlywed in Dating with angels, a 1957-58 ABC comedy series.

Next Mary Tyler Moore Show, White starred in another series called The Betty White Show, which is a short CBS sitcom/MTM Enterprise. She plays a television actress in a series of police dramas directed by her character’s ex-husband (John Hillerman).

inside 1980s, White reprises her role as Ellen Harper Jackson, the oldest daughter of Thelma (Vicki Lawrence), on Mama’s Familyand appeared as Rose in the series Empty nest, short-lived golden girls spinoff Golden Palace and Nurse.

White is a regular on CBS’ Bob, starring Bob Newhart (the actors’ characters will get married on Hot in Cleveland final’s night); played Marie Osmond’s mother on the ABC sitcom Maybe now in 1995; won an Emmy for playing himself on John Larroquete Shows; and mother of Alfred Molina on the CBS sitcom 1999-2001 Ladies Man.

She plays Catherine Piper, a childhood friend and blackmailer William Shatner Denny Crain, on Practice and Boston Legal and described Bea as rude Sigurdson above That 70’s Shows. Another notable guest appearance has arrived St. In other places; Suddenly Susan; Yes, my darling; My name is Earl; 30 Rock; Community; and central.

In the films, she played a senator from Kansas in Otto . Preminger Advice & consent (1962), was the bad breath Delores Bickerman in Lake Placid (1999) and played Ryan Reynolds’ peculiar grandmother in Offer (2009). She also appeared in comedies Story about us (1999), Take it home (2003) and It’s you again (2010).

She turned down the role of Helen Hunt’s mother in As good as it learns (1997) because she protested the sight of a dog being thrown into a trash chute.

“Of course it landed on some cushions and it was okay, but I don’t want to give that example, because you never know what the fuck or kids will see it and think I can. do it,” she said above Tonight’s show. “The director said, ‘The dog is fine, the dog is fine!’ But I said, ‘I can’t do that.’ ”

White has carried out many charitable projects related to animal disease research. She served for three years as president of the Morris Animal Foundation and served on the board of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Assn.

She is married to Ludden, her third husband, from 1963 until his death from cancer in 1981.

Duane Byrge contributed to this report.