Another day, another death to cancer. This time, Actress Suzanne Pleshette, who died today at age 70 in Los Angeles. She was one of my favorite sitcom actresses ever.

Suzanne was best known as Bob Newhart’s wife on television’s long-running “The Bob Newhart Show”.

The cause of her death: respiratory failure from cancer.

After the show’s six year run, Newhart went onto have another show, called “Newhart” as an inn keeper but with a different wife. When that show ended in 1990, Newhart found himself waking up in the bedroom of his original “The Bob Newhart Show” home with Pleshette besids him. He told her had just had a terrible dream and dreamed he was an inn keeper.

When offered the appearance roll, Suzanne said “If I’m in Timbuktu, I’ll fly home to do that”.

Films included Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and the Disney comedies “The Ugly Dachshund,” “Blackbeard’s Ghost” and “The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin.” In the 1990s she played “Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean.”