Gloria Stroock, who played Rock Hudson’s secretary on McMillan & Wife and appeared in films including Fun With Dick and Jane, The Competition and The Day of the Locust, has died. She was 99.
Stroock died May 5 of natural causes in Tucson, Arizona, her daughter, Kate Stern, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Stroock was married to Emmy-winning writer-producer Leonard B. Stern (Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Phil Silvers Show, The Honeymooners, Get Smart and much more) from 1956 until his death in 2011 at age 87.
Her late younger sister was Geraldine Brooks, a Tony nominee and Warner Bros. contract player (Cry Wolf, Embraceable You).
Stroock recurred as Maggie, the secretary of Hudson’s San Francisco police commissioner Stewart McMillan, on the final three seasons (1974-77) of McMillan & Wife, the NBC series created by her husband.
She portrayed the wife of Richard Dysart’s art director in John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust...
Stroock died May 5 of natural causes in Tucson, Arizona, her daughter, Kate Stern, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Stroock was married to Emmy-winning writer-producer Leonard B. Stern (Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Phil Silvers Show, The Honeymooners, Get Smart and much more) from 1956 until his death in 2011 at age 87.
Her late younger sister was Geraldine Brooks, a Tony nominee and Warner Bros. contract player (Cry Wolf, Embraceable You).
Stroock recurred as Maggie, the secretary of Hudson’s San Francisco police commissioner Stewart McMillan, on the final three seasons (1974-77) of McMillan & Wife, the NBC series created by her husband.
She portrayed the wife of Richard Dysart’s art director in John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust...
- 5/14/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Get Smart Producer Stern Dies
Leonard B. Stern, the man behind classic U.S. TV shows Get Smart and The Honeymooners, has passed away. He was 87.
The writer and producer suffered heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
A three-time Emmy Award winner, Stern started out writing on the The Jackie Gleason Show, where he came up with Honeymooners sketches, which spawned the popular series.
He went on to write 17 episodes of Get Smart and served as executive producer on the spy spoof, which starred Don Adams.
Stern also had a string of film screenplays under his belt, including Just You and Me, Kid and Target.
He is survived by his actress wife of 55 years, Gloria Stroock, a son and a daughter.
The writer and producer suffered heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
A three-time Emmy Award winner, Stern started out writing on the The Jackie Gleason Show, where he came up with Honeymooners sketches, which spawned the popular series.
He went on to write 17 episodes of Get Smart and served as executive producer on the spy spoof, which starred Don Adams.
Stern also had a string of film screenplays under his belt, including Just You and Me, Kid and Target.
He is survived by his actress wife of 55 years, Gloria Stroock, a son and a daughter.
- 6/9/2011
- WENN
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