Sada Thompson & Dana Wynter

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12 years 11 months ago #1 by riada
Sada Thompson, who played Meredith Baxter's mother in the 1970s series "Family," has died at age 81.

Thompson died on Wednesday, May 4, of lung disease at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, her agent David Shaul told the Associated Press on Sunday.

The actress won an Emmy Award for playing matriarch Kate Lawrence in the ABC drama "Family," which ran between 1976 and 1980. Baxter, known for her own motherly role in the sitcom "Family Ties," portrayed Lawrence's oldest daughter Nancy.

Dana Wynter

Invasion of the Body Snatchers star Dana Wynter died last Thursday, May 5th at the Ojai Valley Community Hospital in Ojai, California due to congestive heart failure. The German born, British actress was best known for her leading role in the sci-fi movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Becky Driscoll.

Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.

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