Cloris Leachman, who won eight career Emmy Awards spanning six programs and 22 nominations and also earned a Supporting Actress Oscar for The Last Picture Show during a sterling seven-decade career, died Tuesday of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, CA.
She was 94.Her manager confirmed the news.Among her most famous roles were recurring as Phyllis Lindstrom in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its 1975-77 spinoff Phyllis.
She also famously played the cigar-chomping, violing-playing over-accented Frau Blücher in Mel Brooks’ 1974 classic horror spoof Young Frankenstein.
She reunited with Brooks to play Nurse Diesel in the 1977 Alfred Hitchcock takeoff High Anxiety.More recently, she earned an Emmy nom for playing the too-hip Maw Maw in Fox
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