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Known from “WKRP in Cincinnati”: Loni Anderson is dead
As a witty receptionist on TV and later on Burt Reynold’s side: Loni Anderson was in the headlines for many years. She died shortly before her 80th birthday.
The US actress Loni Anderson is dead. She died on Sunday at the age of 79 in a hospital in Los Angeles, as her spokeswoman for the German press agency confirmed. US media had previously reported. Anderson would have turned 80 on Tuesday. She died after a lengthy illness, as US media cited the spokeswoman.
Loni Anderson also known as ex-wife of Burt Reynolds
The actress was known to a wider audience through her role of the smart reception lady of a radio station in the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati”, which was produced in the late 1970s to the early 1980s. So she was nominated twice for an Emmy and three times for a Golden Globe.
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In 1980 she played with Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Jayne Mansfield Story”. Some were also known as an ex-wife of Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds-the marriage of the two ended in a bitter legal dispute over alimony for the adoptive son.
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