Legendary comedian Phyllis Diller has died
LOS ANGELES -- Legendary comedian Phyllis Diller has died.
Diller died at her L.A. home, surrounded by family.
She was 95.
Diller was recovering from a fall and had been sick for the last few months.
She had been living in hospice care at her home.
Diller suffered a heart attack in 1999 and was later fitted with a pacemaker.
Phyllis began her career all the way back in 1952.
She rose to fame with her TV specials alongside Bob Hope in the 1960s.
Later that decade, Phyllis starred in her own show called "The Phyllis Diller Show" ... as well as a variety show called "The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show." She was also a regular on "Laugh In."
Though her main claim to fame is her stand-up comedy act, Diller has also appeared in other films besides the three mentioned above, including a cameo appearance as Texas Guinan, the wisecracking nightclub hostess in the 1961 film Splendor in the Grass.
She appeared in more than a dozen, usually low-budget, movies, including voice work as The Monster's Mate in the Rankin/Bass animated film Mad Monster Party [[1967), co-starring Boris Karloff.
More recent television appearances for Diller have included at least three episodes between 1999–2003 on the long-running family drama 7th Heaven, in one of which she got drunk while cooking dinner for the household, and a 2002 episode of The Drew Carey Show, as Mimi Bobek's grandmother. She posed for Playboy, but the photos were never run in the magazine.
Her voice can be heard in several animated TV shows, including The New Scooby-Doo Movies [[1972) as herself, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius [[2002)as Jimmy's grandmother, and on Family Guy in 2006 as Peter Griffin's mother, Thelma Griffin.
