Scott died of natural causes April 5
Natural causes? ...at 52?
Posted on 04/08/2005 11:26:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. - Actress Debralee Scott, a regular on the TV sitcom "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," and frequent face on the 1970s game show circuit, has died. She was 52.
Scott died of natural causes April 5, three days after her birthday, at her home in Amelia Island, said her sister Jeri Scott, a talent manager in Beverly Hills. The exact cause was not released.
Scott came from a family of show business insiders. Her eldest sister, Scott Bushnell, produced many of director Robert Altman's films. Middle sister Jeri Scott is an agent turned manager.
The two older Scotts moved to San Francisco from their home town of Elizabeth, N.J., as young adults. A few years later, their father said their younger sister Debralee was "getting restless" and he asked if she could join them, Jeri Scott recalled Friday.
"She was 16. She was supposed to finish high school, but I doubt she showed up," Scott said. "It was the '70s in San Francisco. It was wear a flower in your hair."
Scott eventually met an agent in Los Angeles, and got her first major role on "Mary Hartman" at age 22. She later played the role of Hotsy Totsy on the show "Welcome Back Kotter" and appeared in two of the "Police Academy" movies.
She had been engaged to John Dennis Levi, a police officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Scott had just moved to north Florida to be with her older sister.
Funeral plans were pending.
I'm still amazed that Louise Lasser is still alive.
Scott died of natural causes April 5
Natural causes? ...at 52?
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I'm still amazed that Robert Altman is still alive.
Are Charles Nelson Reilly and Bill Daly still alive? How about Brett Somers?
I saw Charles Nelson Reilly on Bravo a few months back on John Favreau's show, so he is still alive.
Sadly, Paul Lynde has been dead for awhile. The GREATEST game show guest ever!
That's Debralee on the left, but isn't that the mother from 'Everybody Loves Raymond' in the middle? Or am I thinking of somebody else's sitcom mother?
By the way, not to speak ill of the dead or anything, but Debralee looks KirstyAlleyesque in those more recent game show pix.
I think Bill Daly lived out here in New Mexico I read about him a while back
I'm watching Match Game PM right now, on GSN.
I saw that episode of 'X-Files' where CNR did a bit and I was floored. That was a stroke of casting genius.
As far as I know Brett Somers is still alive and kicking on Broadway. That's a shame about Debralee. 52 is way too young.
LOL! I watch those old game shows on GSN once in a while, too!
Some of those shows from the '70s look like they happened yesterday - - but then, I am growing old.
Ping the Mary Hartman list! I watched that show every weekday night for practically its whole run. Scott was decent as Lasser's indecent sister.
According to deadoraliveinfo.com, she's still alive.
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