Bobbie Faye Ferguson obit

Bobbie Faye Ferguson Dies: ‘Designing Women’, ‘Dallas’ & ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Actress Was 78

 

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Bobbie Faye Ferguson, an actress whose credits include Designing Women, Dallas and The Dukes of Hazzard, has died at 78. Multiple news reports said she died June 25 of natural causes in Sherman Oaks, CA.

Born on Oct. 10, 1943, in Memphis, she grew up in Eudora, AR, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello. She is the mother of The Conners actor Jay R. Ferguson.

Bobbie Faye Ferguson was Teacher of the Year in Little Rock, where she taught history at McClellan High School, and she later moved to Dallas, where she taught speech and debate at Skyline High School and was one of the founding members and acting teachers at the KD Studio.

That experience led to TV credits including The Dukes of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, Remington Steele and recurring roles on Dallas, Designing Women, Evening Shade and Hearts Afire. She also taught acting at the LA Film Actor’s Lab.

She started NASA’s multimedia program in Washington, D.C., and would later serve in the same position for the Department of Homeland Security in Los Angeles. She also was a NASA consultant on the 2000 film Space Cowboys, starring Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner.

Survivors include her son, daughter-in-law, three grandsons, two brothers, a sister-in-law, nieces and nephews.

A Celebration of Life will be held at noon August 20, in Los Angeles.

Actress

A Christmas Witch

Bobbie

Post-productionShort

 

Hearts Afire (1992)

Hearts Afire

6.9

TV Series

Christina HobermanNurse #2Cranky Lady

1992–1994

4 episodes

 

Evening Shade (1990)

Evening Shade

7.0

TV Series

Mrs. LindsayMrs. Lindsey

1991–1992

2 episodes

 

Freddy's Nightmares (1988)

Freddy's Nightmares

6.2

TV Series

Mom Lindstrom (as Bobbie Furguson)

1989

1 episode

 

Annie Potts, Delta Burke, Jean Smart, and Dixie Carter in Designing Women (1986)

Designing Women

7.3

TV Series

Monette Marlin'Monica'

1987–1989

3 episodes

 

Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist in Remington Steele (1982)

Remington Steele

7.3

TV Series

Female Passerby

1986

1 episode

 

What's Happening Now! (1985)

What's Happening Now!

6.2

TV Series

Christina

1986

1 episode

 

Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes, Patrick Duffy, Larry Hagman, Charlene Tilton, Jim Davis, Linda Gray, and Steve Kanaly in Dallas (1978)

Dallas

7.1

TV Series

Terri, NewscasterTerri

1979–1985

5 episodes

 

A Reason to Live (1985)

A Reason to Live

5.8

TV Movie

Carla Yusem

1985

 

London and Davis in New York (1984)

London and Davis in New York

TV Movie

Woman

1984

 

Lee Majors and Heather Thomas in The Fall Guy (1981)

The Fall Guy

7.1

TV Series

1983

1 episode

 

One Cooks, the Other Doesn't (1983)

One Cooks, the Other Doesn't

5.9

TV Movie

(as Bobbie Ferguson)

1983

 

Catherine Bach, Ben Jones, Denver Pyle, John Schneider, and Tom Wopat in The Dukes of Hazzard (1979)

The Dukes of Hazzard

7.1

TV Series

Kate (as Bobbie Ferguson)

1983

1 episode

 

CBS Afternoon Playhouse (1978)

CBS Afternoon Playhouse

7.4

TV Series

Lillian O'Neill

1981

1 episode

 

The Bermuda Triangle (1979)

The Bermuda Triangle

5.5

Stewardess on 727

1979

 

Additional Crew

Mira Sorvino in Human Trafficking (2005)

Human Trafficking

7.5

TV Mini Series

consultant: D.H.S. (as Bobby-Faye Ferguson)

2005

4 episodes

 

The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

The Wild Blue Yonder

6.1

consultant: NASA

2005

 

Promo Poster

Space Cowboys

6.5

consultant: NASA (as Bobby Faye Ferguson)

2000

 

Thanks

Airport 24/7: Miami (2012)

Airport 24/7: Miami

5.9

TV Series

special thanks: DHS

2012

4 episodes

 

Steve Carell in Evan Almighty (2007)

Evan Almighty

5.4

special thanks to: Director, Office of Multimedia, DHS

2007

 

Conquering Space: The Moon and Beyond (2005)

Conquering Space: The Moon and Beyond

6.4

Video

special thanks

2005

 

Shah Rukh Khan and Gayatri Joshi in Swades (2004)

Swades

8.2

sincere thanks: NASA Public Affairs, NASA HQ (as Bobbie Gaye Ferguson)

2004

 

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets (2004)

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets

7.6

TV Movie

thanks: NASA (as Bobbie Faye-Ferguson)

2004

 

The Dust Factory (2004)

The Dust Factory

5.8

the producers would like to thank: NASA

2004

 

Mission to Mars (2000)

Mission to Mars

5.7

the producers wish to thank: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

2000