She appeared three times on Broadway — including in the landmark ‘The Investigation’ — and in such films as ‘Private Benjamin,’ ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ and ‘Being There.’ ...

We have also lost Dallas matriarch Barbara Bel Geddes, who played Miss Ellie Ewing. She retired in 1990 after the show ended and passed away from lung cancer in 2005 at age 82. Before Dallas ...

Alice Hirson, who played a confidante of Barbara Bel Geddes’ character, Miss Ellie Ewing, on “Dallas,” died Friday of natural causes at the age of 95. Hirson’s death was confirmed by her son David. He ...

Alice Hirson, who played a confidante of Barbara Bel Geddes’ Miss Ellie Ewing on Dallas and the mother of Ellen DeGeneres’ character on the comic’s groundbreaking ABC sitcom, has died.