Suzanne Pleshette

 Suzanne Pleshette (January 31, 1937 – January 19, 2008)

After beginning her career in the theater, she began appearing in films in the early 1960s, such as Rome Adventure (1962) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). She later appeared in various television productions, often in guest roles, and played Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show from 1972 until 1978, receiving several Emmy Award nominations for her work. She reprised her role of Emily Hartley in the memorable final episode of a subsequent comedy series, Newhart, in which viewers discovered that the entire series had been her husband Bob's dream when he awakens next to Pleshette in the bedroom set from the earlier series. She last appeared on TV as Karen Walker's mother on the series Will & Grace. Suzanne Pleshette died in 2008 of respiratory failure, she had lost part of a lung two years earlier to cancer. She is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, CA (close to her last husband, actor Tom Poston).