Alice Hirson
Lifeless at 95 …
‘Ellen,’ ‘Full Home’ Star
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Alice Hirson — a veteran TV actress with credit on quite a lot of hit reveals within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties — has died … in keeping with her son.
David Hirson instructed The Hollywood Reporter his mom handed away Friday on the Movement Image & Tv Nation Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills of pure causes.
Alice began appearing professionally on movie and TV and on Broadway starting within the Fifties … although she did not escape in Hollywood till the early Seventies.
She took on an everyday position on the cleaning soap opera “One Life to Stay” in 1972 — showing on 59 episodes of the present as Eileen Riley Siegel.
Within the Nineteen Eighties she performed Mavis Anderson on the present “Dallas” and had a small position as Bob Saget‘s character’s mom within the first season of the hit sitcom “Full Home,” earlier than she was changed by Doris Roberts.
Sitcom followers will in all probability acknowledge Hirson most from her flip as Lois Morgan — Ellen DeGeneres‘ mom on the present “Ellen.” She appeared in 28 of the present’s 109 episodes.
Amongst her quite a few different credit … “Basic Hospital,” “Revenge of the Nerds,” “Will & Grace,” “Judging Amy,” “Murphy Brown,” “Taxi,” “Lodge,” “The Magical World of Disney,” “The Waltons,” and lots of extra well-known tasks.
Regardless of her quite a few TV credit, David instructed THR his mom at all times noticed herself as a stage actress first and a TV and movie actress second.
She is survived by her sons David and Christopher, and a grandson, Daniel.
Alice was 95.
RIP