Dixie Carter has passed away at the age of 70. Her last acting role was just a year ago in the film The Evening Sun with her husband, Hal Holbrook. Of her death, he said, "This has been a terrible blow to our family."
Carter was best known to TV audiences as Julia Sugarbaker from Designing Women, a show about a group of women running an interior design firm. She starred along with Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart, and Meshach Taylor.
Her television career included many other series as well, both before and after the popular CBS sitcom. They included stints on soaps One Life to Live and The Edge of Night, the 1977-78 CBS sitcom On Our Own, and Out of the Blue for ABC. In the early 1980s, she starred with Delta Burke in a parody of Dallas called Filthy...
Carter was best known to TV audiences as Julia Sugarbaker from Designing Women, a show about a group of women running an interior design firm. She starred along with Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart, and Meshach Taylor.
Her television career included many other series as well, both before and after the popular CBS sitcom. They included stints on soaps One Life to Live and The Edge of Night, the 1977-78 CBS sitcom On Our Own, and Out of the Blue for ABC. In the early 1980s, she starred with Delta Burke in a parody of Dallas called Filthy...
- 4/12/2010
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Just last night I was watching a TV commercial featuring Dixie Carter, talking to the camera about a terrible disease whose name escapes me at the moment. And tonight comes the news that Carter has passed away at the age of 70. No further details have been released yet.
Carter is probably best known for her role as feisty, outspoken (well, all of the women were pretty feisty and outspoken on that show, weren't they?) Julia Sugarbaker on 'Designing Women,' which ran on CBS for eight years. But younger TV watchers might know her from her role on 'Desperate Housewives' as Gloria, the loopy mom of Orson (she was nominated for an Emmy for the role). But she actually starred in several other TV shows over the years, including 'Family Law,' 'Ladies Man,' 'Filthy Rich,' 'Out of the Blue,' and 'On Our Own,...
Carter is probably best known for her role as feisty, outspoken (well, all of the women were pretty feisty and outspoken on that show, weren't they?) Julia Sugarbaker on 'Designing Women,' which ran on CBS for eight years. But younger TV watchers might know her from her role on 'Desperate Housewives' as Gloria, the loopy mom of Orson (she was nominated for an Emmy for the role). But she actually starred in several other TV shows over the years, including 'Family Law,' 'Ladies Man,' 'Filthy Rich,' 'Out of the Blue,' and 'On Our Own,...
- 4/11/2010
- by Bob Sassone
- Aol TV.
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