Suzanne Pleshette

Suzanne Pleshette was an American actress and voice actress who departed this life at the age of 70 due to respiratory failure. She is most well known for playing Emily Hartley on "The Bob Newhart Show" for six years garnering several Emmy awards. She worked up to four years before she passed away. Born 1937 in Brooklyn Heights, New York, Pleshette graduated from Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts and then attended Syracuse University for one semester before transferring to Finch College. Pleshette made her Broadway debut in Meyer Levin's 1957 play "Compulsion." In February 1961, she succeeded Anne Bancroft as Anne Sullivan Macy opposite 14-year-old Patty Duke's Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. Then in 1963 she moved to the silver screen and co-starred in "The Birds." Pleshette starred as Emily the wife of Bob Newhard on the hit CBS sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show" for which she was nominated twice for an Emmy award. Later in her life, Pleshette was a voice actor on 1998's "Lion King 2: Simba'