Marcia Wallace obit

Marcia Wallace, star on Newhart show and 'The Simpsons,' dies

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Marcia Wallace, whose four-decade television career included playing the receptionist on "The Bob Newhart Show" and Bart's fourth-grade teacher on "The Simpsons," has died, her agent said Saturday.

Wallace was 70, according to imdb.com. Her cause of death was not immediately confirmed.

Wallace starred for six seasons as Carol Kester on "The Bob Newhart Show" in the 1970s and reprised the role in the 1990s on "Murphy Brown."

But it was her Emmy-winning role as Edna Krabappel, Bart Simpson's teacher with the snarky laugh, that may have earned her the most fame in recent years. It was a part she held since the show's premiere in 1990.

"I was tremendously saddened to learn this morning of the passing of the brilliant and gracious Marcia Wallace," executive producer Al Jean of "The Simpsons" said in a statement. "She was beloved by all at 'The Simpsons' and we intend to retire her irreplaceable character."

Jean said rumors that the show had already planned to retire Wallace's character are not true, he added.

"Marcia's passing is unrelated and again, a terrible loss for all who had the pleasure of knowing her," Jean said.

Wallace was a regular guest star on a host of popular TV shows in the 1970s and 1980s, from "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island" to "Gimme a Break!", "ALF," "Night Court," "Charles in Charge" and "Magnum, P.I."

She was also a mainstay of TV game shows such "The Hollywood Squares," "Password" and "The (New) $25,000 Pyramid" and starred in numerous stage productions, including a touring production of "The Vagina Monologues."

In recent years, Wallace also advocated for awareness of breast cancer, a disease she battled herself. Her 2004 book, "Don't Look Back, We're Not Going That Way," in part chronicled her fight.

When The Bob Newhart Show ended its six-season run in 1978, Wallace began three decades of television appearances on game shows, including Match Game, Hollywood Squares, Password Plus and Super Password, Celebrity Whew!, Crosswits, Hot Potato, Body Language, The $25,000 Pyramid, Double Talk, Win, Lose or Draw, To Tell the Truth, and Acting Crazy. She was also on special celebrity episodes of the Ray Combs version of Family Feud and the Jim Perry version of Card Sharks. In April 2008, she appeared on the interactive show GSN Live.

Other television roles include: as Darrin's secretary in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh", a Bewitched episode in 1971; two appearances on The Brady Bunch: once as Marcia's teacher in "Getting Davy Jones" and once as the woman who sells Jan a mod wig in "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?"; as school principal Mrs. Lyman in two episodes of ALF; as Mrs. Carruthers in a few episodes of Full House. Wallace also had guest appearances on Charles in Charge, Murder, She Wrote, Magnum, P.I., Columbo, and A Different World. On one of the last episodes of Taxi, she portrayed herself, chosen as the ideal date of Rev. Jim Ignatowski. Later, Wallace played the maid on the satirical series That's My Bush!, and in 2009 appeared on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, playing Annie Wilkes, an inefficient assistant kidnapper.

After The Simpsons started in 1989, Wallace joined the voice acting cast as the voice of Edna Krabappel, who she played until her death in 2013. In 1992, she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for the episode "Bart the Lover".

On film, Wallace appeared in such features as My Mother the Werewolf, Teen Witch, and Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College. In the 2008 film Tru Loved, she played a high school drama teacher who sponsors a gay–straight alliance.

Wallace's work onstage included An Almost Perfect Person in Los Angeles, which she also produced; a tour of the female version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple; and productions of Same Time, Next Year, Twigs, It Had to Be You, Supporting Cast, Prisoner of Second Avenue, and Plaza Suite. Wallace made her musical stage debut in the 1983, Sacramento Music Circus production of Gypsy. She returned the following season in Promises, Promises. Other stage productions include Born Yesterday, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Steel Magnolias, and Last of the Red Hot Lovers, in which she played all three female roles at various times. She performed in The Vagina Monologues in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and San Diego. In 2013, she voiced the librarian in Monsters University, and in 2014 (posthumously) she portrayed herself in the movie Muffin Top: A Love Story.



Filmography

2017 Muffin Top: A Love Story - Marcia Wallace

1990-2014 The Simpsons (TV Series) - Edna Krabappel / Crowd / Woman in Bar /

2013 Monsters University - Additional Voices (voice)

2010 Vampire Mob (TV Series)

Virginia Jones (2010)

2009 The Young and the Restless (TV Series) - Annie Wilkes

2008 Tru Loved

Mrs. Lewis

2007 Big Stan - Alma

2007 The Simpsons Game (Video Game) - Edna Krabappel (voice)

2007 The Simpsons Movie - Mrs. Krabappel (voice, scenes deleted)

2004 Forever for Now - Ellie

2004 Triple Play (TV Movie) - Waitress

2004 Rugrats (TV Series) – voice of Mrs. Rapple

2003 7th Heaven (TV Series) - Nurse

2002 Providence (TV Series) - Gelinda

2001 The Simpsons: Road Rage (Video Game) - Edna Krabappel (voice)

2001 You Never Know (Short)

2001 That's My Bush! (TV Series) - Maggie Hawley

1999 Maggie (TV Series) - Head Nurse -

1998 The Angry Beavers (TV Series) – voice of Mrs. Beaver

1998 I Am Weasel (TV Series short) – voice of Woman / Old Woman

1994-1998 Murphy Brown (TV Series) - Molly / Secretary #66

1997 The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield (Video Game) - Edna Krabappel (voice, uncredited)

1997 George & Leo (TV Series) - Marcia

1997 Teen Angel (TV Series) - Angela

1995 Kirk (TV Series) - Lamerle

1993-1995 Full House (TV Series) - Mrs. Carruthers

1994 Aladdin (TV Series) – voice of Oopa

1993 Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV Series short) - voice of Mrs. Wheeler

1993 The Addams Family (TV Series) - Mrs. Blossom voice

1993 Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series) - 'Dark Interlude' Actress

1992 Camp Candy (TV Series short) - When It Rains... It Snows (1992) ... (voice)

1992 A Different World (TV Series) - Waitress

1992 Raw Toonage (TV Series short) - Female Tourist

1991-1992 Darkwing Duck (TV Series) - Clovis / Mrs. Cavanaugh / Radiowave

1991 The Munsters Today (TV Series) - Dr. Susan Evans

1990 Bart Simpson: Do the Bartman (Video short) -Edna Krabappel (voice)

1990 What a Dummy (TV Series)

1990 Ghoulies Go to College (Video) - Miss Boggs

1989-1990 Charles in Charge (TV Series) - Dodo

1989 My Mom's a Werewolf - Peggy

1989 Teen Witch - Ms. Malloy

1988 Small Wonder (TV Series) - Miss Cratchit

1988 Mathnet (TV Series) - Mrs. Wynn

1988 Night Court (TV Series)- Miss Phillips

1987 ALF (TV Series) - Mrs. Lyman

1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Polly Barth

1985 Down to Earth (TV Series) - Grace

1984 Finder of Lost Loves (TV Series) - Daisy and Cary's Friend

1983 Gimme a Break! (TV Series) - Hilda

1981 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Barbara Terranova

1981 Pray TV (TV Movie) - Alice Kidd

1980 CHiPs (TV Series) - Marcia Wallace

1980 Characters (TV Movie) -Leila Flynn

1980 Gridlock (TV Movie) - Boom Boom Shavelson

1979 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Martha Meeks

1979 The Castaways on Gilligan's Island (TV Movie) - Myra Elliott

1978 Flying High (TV Series) - Connie Martin

1978 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Ms. O' Roarke

1978 Insight (TV Series)

Augusta - Second Chorus (1978) ... Augusta

1972-1978 The Bob Newhart Show (TV Series)

1972 Love, American Style (TV Series)

1971 Columbo (TV Series) Woman at Inquest / Woman

1971 The Brady Bunch (TV Series) Mrs. Robbins / Saleswoman

- Getting Davy Jones (1971) ... Mrs. Robbins

- Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up? (1971) ... Saleswoman

1971 Bewitched (TV Series) Betty

1967 The Invaders (TV Series) Courtroom Spectator