Mitzi Hoag obit

Mitzi Hoag, Actress on ‘The Facts of Life’ and ‘Here Come the Brides,’ Dies at 86

Mitzi Hoag, who had recurring roles on such TV series as 'The Facts of Life' and 'Here Come the Brides,' died Tuesday at her home in Sherman Oaks. She was 86.

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Mitzi Hoag, who had recurring roles on such TV series as The Facts of Life and Here Come the Brides, died Tuesday at her home in Sherman Oaks, her family announced. She was 86.

A native of Cleveland, Hoag portrayed a mother with three kids and a lawyer husband (Paul Sorvino) on We’ll Get By, a short-lived comedy created by Alan Alda that lasted just 13 episodes in 1975.

She got to know Michael Landon while guest-starring on Bonanza and appeared on subsequent NBC shows he produced, including Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven and Father Murphy.

Hoag played Evie Green, the adoptive mother of Mindy Cohn’s Natalie Green, on a handful of episodes of NBC’s The Facts of Life. And on ABC’s Here Come the Brides, she portrayed Miss Essie, the schoolteacher girlfriend/wife of Bo Svenson’s Big Swede, on that show’s first season (1968-69).

Born Margaret Myrtle Hoag on Sept. 25, 1932, she graduated from Shimer College in Mount Carroll, Illinois, at age 19 and then attended graduate school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Hoag moved to New York and studied at the Actors Studio, then starred off-Broadway in a production of James Forsyth’s Heloise. She arrived to Los Angeles in 1959 and played a nurse in Tammy and the Doctor (1963), then would work in another Peter Fonda starrer, The Trip (1967).

Also in 1967, she appeared with John Cassavetes in the Roger Corman biker flick Devil’s Angels.

Hoag was Steve McGarrett’s (Jack Lord) secretary on the September 1968 pilot episode of Hawaii Five-O and showed up on series including That Girl, Gunsmoke, Police Woman, The Rockford Files, The Partridge Family, Archie Bunker’s Place and Grace Under Fire.

Survivors include her husband of 47 years, Jonathan; her daughter, Abbie; and grandsons James and Joseph Sanger. Donations in her memory can be made to Tree People or the Sierra Club.

Actress

Grace Under Fire (1993)

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1993

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1987

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1984

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1984

 

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1983

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1982

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Father Murphy (1981)

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1982

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The Five of Me (1981)

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1981

 

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1981

 

Rick Baker and Lily Tomlin in The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

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1981

 

Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford in The Jeffersons (1975)

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1980

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Why Would I Lie? (1980)

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1980

 

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1979

 

Blind Ambition (1979)

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Vincent Price, Coral Browne, Woodrow Parfrey, William Phipps, and James Reynolds in Time Express (1979)

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TV Series

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1979

1 episode

 

Noah Beery Jr. and James Garner in The Rockford Files (1974)

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1979

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Fred Grandy, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Gavin MacLeod, and Lauren Tewes in The Love Boat (1977)

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TV Series

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1978

1 episode

 

Richard Thomas, Will Geer, Judy Norton, Ellen Corby, Kami Cotler, David W. Harper, Michael Learned, Mary Beth McDonough, Eric Scott, Ralph Waite, and Jon Walmsley in The Waltons (1972)

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1978

1 episode

 

Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby in The Incredible Hulk (1977)

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1978

1 episode

 

The Suicide (1978)

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1978

 

Angie Dickinson in Police Woman (1974)

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6.6

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1978

1 episode

 

Deadly Game (1977)

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6.2

TV Movie

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1977

 

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1977

 

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1977

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Robert Forster, David Birney, and Richard E. Kalk in Police Story (1973)

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1977

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Meredith Baxter, Kristy McNichol, James Broderick, Gary Frank, Sada Thompson, Michael Schackelford, and David Schackelford in Family (1976)

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1976

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1976

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Harry O (1973)

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1974

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The Partridge Family (1970)

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1974

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7.0

TV Series

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1973

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This Is the Life (1952)

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TV Series

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Love, American Style (1969)

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6.8

TV Series

Grace Watkins (segment "Love and Lover's Lane")Helene - Alfred's Wife (segment "Love and Murphy's Bed")Nona (segment "Love and the Minister")

1970–1972

3 episodes

 

My Three Sons (1960)

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TV Series

Mrs. Cagle

1971

1 episode

 

Getting Together (1971)

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7.3

TV Series

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1971

1 episode

 

"The Smith Family" Janet Blair, Henry Fonda, Darleen Carr, Ron Howard, Michael-James Wixted

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TV Series

Mrs. Torrey

1971

1 episode

 

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7.6

TV Series

Winifred Bowers

1971

1 episode

 

The Interns (1970)

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7.2

TV Series

Geraldine Clarke

1970

1 episode

 

Cover Me Babe (1970)

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4.4

Mother of Drowned Boy

1970

 

Pieces of Dreams (1970)

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5.1

Anne Lind (Gregory's Sister)

1970

 

Robert Brown, Bobby Sherman, and David Soul in Here Come the Brides (1968)

Here Come the Brides

7.6

TV Series

Sister AgnesIonaMiss Essie

1968–1970

9 episodes

 

Kam Fong, Al Harrington, Jack Lord, and James MacArthur in Hawaii Five-O (1968)

Hawaii Five-O

7.4

TV Series

May

1968

2 episodes

 

The Second Hundred Years (1967)

The Second Hundred Years

7.6

TV Series

Sears' Secretary

1968

1 episode

 

Goldie Hawn, Joby Baker, Billy De Wolfe, Julie Parrish, and Ronnie Schell in Good Morning World (1967)

Good Morning World

6.6

TV Series

Martha

1968

1 episode

 

James Arness, Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone, and Dennis Weaver in Gunsmoke (1955)

Gunsmoke

8.1

TV Series

Clara RemickPolly

1963–1967

2 episodes

 

Family Affair (1966)

Family Affair

7.0

TV Series

Miss Ainsley

1967

1 episode

 

Salli Sachse in The Trip (1967)

The Trip

6.1

Wife

1967

 

Devil's Angels (1967)

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5.0

Karen

1967

 

Iron Horse (1966)

Iron Horse

7.1

TV Series

Mrs. Harris

1967

1 episode

 

That Girl (1966)

That Girl

7.3

TV Series

PattyHelen

1967

2 episodes

 

12 O'Clock High (1964)

12 O'Clock High

8.1

TV Series

Dorothy Hall

1964

1 episode

 

Sandra Dee and Peter Fonda in Tammy and the Doctor (1963)

Tammy and the Doctor

6.0

Nurse Pamela Burke

1963

 

Dr. Kildare (1961)

Dr. Kildare

7.0

TV Series

Nun (uncredited)

1961

1 episode

 

Archive Footage

That Girl (1966)

That Girl

7.3

TV Series

Sales Girl (archive footage, uncredited)

1971

1 episode