Beloved TV & Film Actress Died Just Before Her 92th Birthday
Patricia Crowley, whose extensive acting career included roles on “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies,” “Generations,” “Port Charles,” and more, has died, according to multiple reports. She was 91.
Crowley died in Los Angeles on Sunday of natural causes, The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline reported, citing her son Jon Hookstratten, an executive vice president at Sony Pictures. She would have turned 92 on Wednesday.
Her first acting credits — of which there are more than 100, according to her IMDb page — date back to 1950 when she appeared in several television theatre specials. Then in 1953, Crowley landed her first film role in “Forever Female.”
For her role, Crowley won the Golden Globe for most promising newcomer-female, tying with Bella Darvi and Barbara Rush.
From there, Crowley had appearances on multiple television series, including “The Frank Sinatra Show,” “Studio 57,” “The Untouchables,” “The Twilight Zone,” and more. Her largest role, however, was arguably as Joan Nash in the 1960s NBC series, “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies.”
Through the following decades and into the 2010s, Crowley would guest star on countless TV shows: “Happy Days,” “Hawaii Five-O,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Fraiser,” “General Hospital,” “Friends,” “Beverly Hills, 90210,” and “The Bold and the Beautiful,” to name a few.
Her longest-running roles outside of “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” were as Rebecca Whitmore on “Generations” and Mary Scanlon on “Port Charles,” according to her IMDb. Crowley’s most recent acting credit came in 2012 when she appeared in the film “Mont Reve.”
In addition to her son, Crowley is survived by her husband of nearly 40 years, Andy Friendly; her daughter, Ann, and her five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.