Georgia Engel, an actress who played the charmingly innocent, small-voiced Georgette on the popular 1970s sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and amassed a string of other TV and stage credits, died April 12 in Princeton, N.J. She was 70. The cause was unknown because she was a Christian Scientist and didn’t see doctors, said her friend John Quilty. Ms. Engel was best known for her role as Georgette on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” the character who was improbably destined to marry pompous anchorman Ted Baxter, played by Ted Knight. Her father was a Coast Guard officer, and the family lived on Governors Island in New York City and Hawaii. “If you ever interview someone who hasn’t had a down time,” she said, “then you’re talking to someone who just hasn’t lived.”

Source: Washington Post April 16, 2019 16:30 UTC