Suzanne Pleshette, the beautiful, husky-voiced film and theater star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died, said her attorney Robert Finkelstein. She was 70.

Pleshette, who underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006, died of respiratory failure Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, said Finkelstein, who is also a family friend.

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oh no! loved her.

me too

My favorite Pleshette roles
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She was great. Her husband, Tom Poston, died last year and I knew they'd both been ill. So, I figured she wouldn't be long in following him. I really don't know of any one in recent years who has presented the same no-nonsense, comical and beautiful package on TV. But I don't really watch it anymore, so I wouldn't.

She'll be missed.

Nuh uh... i loooooved her

Not another one! I loved the role she played on "Bob Newhart". RIP

totally one of my favorite 70s tv people. very sad news.

Sad... Ironically just this weekend from out of nowhere I was looking up press on her on the internet. For some reason I was just suddlenly interested in all things Pleshette and I was trying to find all her clips on Youtube

Oh well...hopeful she is resting at peace now. I wasn't aware she had cancer

she was a good one. i grew up on a steady diet of the Bob Newhart Show. i loved her voice, which got more and more character with age.

Oh, no.

damn...

I liked her role in the movie "The Birds." I wasn't a fan of the Newhart shows, but I was always drawn to her voice and how she carried herself, RIP.

Aww man.

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She was married to Tom Poston...from Newhart...I didn't know that.

i was bummed about this all day. well, not about this. more important things in my life than this. but this came up in my thoughts a few times. sad to see her go

i didn't know she was married to Tom Poston either.

Oh wow! This is sad news.