Vale: Sally Kellerman

Veteran US star Sally Kellerman, best known for the MASH feature film, has died, aged 84.

She died on Thursday in California her publicist confirmed.

Kellerman made her feature debut in 1957’s Reform School Girls but her first high-profile film was 1968’s The Boston Stranger, starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda.

On 1970’s MASH for Robert Altman she starred as U.S. Army Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan (on the small screen portrayed by Loretta Swit).

She starred opposite Alan Arkin in Last of the Red Hot Lovers and a long list of screen credits including The April Fools, The Player, Back to School, Brewster McCloud, Slither, Lost Horizon, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, The Big Bus, Welcome to L.A., A Little Romance, Foxes, Moving Violations, Back to School, That’s Life, Meatballs III, Someone to Love, Younger and Younger, Ready to Wear, The Lay of the Land, Boris and Natasha and more.

Her lengthy TV credits include Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, My Three Sons, The Outer Limits, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, I Spy, That Girl, Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Centennial, Big Blonde, September Gun, The Young and the Restless, Evening Shade, Murder She Wrote, Dream On, The Naked Truth, Touched by an Angel, Diagnosis Murder, Columbo, Providence, Maron and 90210. There was also voice work on Dinosaurs and more.

Kellerman was also a singer, who signed a recording contract with Verve Records when she 18, with albums in 1972 and 2009. Her memoir “Read My Lips: Stories of a Hollywood Life,” was published in 2013.

Source: Variety