Celebrity
‘Alice’ star Beth Howland dies; husband Charles Kimbrough honors unusual request
Celebrity deaths in 2016
Actress Beth Howland played Vera on ’70s and ’80s TV sitcom “Alice.”
“Alice” actress Beth Howland is dead, her husband Charles Kimbrough revealed Tuesday. She was 74.
Howland died on Dec. 31 after a battle with lung cancer, Kimbrough told The New York Times. According to the newspaper, he waited to announce her death because of an unusual request by Howland not to say anything earlier; no funeral was held, either, as she wished.
According to TV Line, Howland also performed on Broadway and appeared on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Sabrina The Teenage Witch” and “The Tick.” Her last acting credit was voicing a character on Nickelodeon’s “As Told by Ginger” in 2002.