Elizabeth MacRae, whose career was defined by her work on popular television shows including Gomer Pyle, USMC and the soap opera General Hospital, has died at the age of 88.
MacRae died peacefully at her home in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Monday, May 27, her mother said. obituary.
Although the actress was best known for her work on television, she appeared in a handful of films throughout her career, including a critically acclaimed late-career triumph opposite Gene Hackman in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 paranoia thriller The Conversation.
MacRae was born in 1936 in Columbia, South Carolina, and by 1956 she had decided to concentrate on acting.
A 1956 audition for director Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan was a failure, but she credited the legendary filmmaker with encouraging her to pursue acting and encouraging her to pursue professional acting training.
Elizabeth MacRae, whose career was defined by her work on popular television shows including Gomer Pyle, USMC and the soap opera General Hospital, has died at the age of 88; pictured on Judd For The Defense (1969)