{"id":61241,"date":"2021-01-28T21:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=61241"},"modified":"2021-01-28T21:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:33:56","slug":"vale-cloris-leachman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2021\/01\/28\/vale-cloris-leachman\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Cloris Leachman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Academy Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman has passed away.<\/p>\n

A noted television actress during the 1950’s, Ms Leachman appeared in shows such as Lassie, Studio One<\/em>, and The Twilight Zone<\/em>, as well as various episodes of The Muppet Show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents<\/em> and One Step Beyond<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Leachman in a publicity photo for the 50’s television series Lassie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the big screen, Ms Leachman had appeared in supporting minor roles from 1955’s Kiss me Deadly, Butch Cassidy & The Sunshine Kid<\/em> (1969) and Love And Other Strangers<\/em>, but it was her Oscar-winning turn in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show<\/em> (1971) that cemented her as a major talent. A semi-regular ensemble player for director Mel Brooks, Leachman appeared in a trio of his films: Young Frankenstein<\/em> (1974), High Anxiety<\/em> (1977) and History Of The World Part I<\/em> (1981), whilst also playing comedy roles in The Muppet Movie<\/em> (1979), Disney’s Herbie Goes Bananas<\/em> (1980), and as Granny in the 1993 remake of The Beverley Hillbillies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Leachman in her Oscar-winning role in The Last Picture Show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Post-2000, Ms Leachman’s output maintained its consistency, appearing in a large number of movies. In 2004 she appeared in the Adam Sandler dramadey Spanglish<\/em>, and again with the comedian in The Longest Yard<\/em> (2005), alongside Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa<\/em> (2003), horror film parody Scary Movie 4<\/em> (2006), The Women<\/em> (2008), the 2012 remake of Gambit<\/em>, and more recently in Taylor Hackford’s The Comedian<\/em> (2016), and Jump Darling<\/em> (2020). Her voice roles include My Little Pony: The Movie<\/em> (1986), The Iron Giant<\/em> (1999), and both The Croods<\/em> (2013) and the 2020 sequel, The Croods: A New Age<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Cloris Leachman as she appeared in Spanglish (2004)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alongside her Academy Award for The Last Picture Show<\/em>, Cloris Leachman also won the BAFTA Award for the same film, as well as a number of Emmy Awards for her work in television for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Malcolm In The Middle<\/em>, and 1998’s Promised Land<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Cloris Leachman passed away this week aged 84, from natural causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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