Susan Saint James, Renowned 1970s and 80s TV Personality, Passes Away Aged 80
Susan Saint James, who starred alongside Rock Hudson in the 1970s TV crime series “McMillan & Wife” and later costarred with Jane Curtin in the 1980s sitcom “Kate & Allie,” has died. She was eighty years old. The actor’s representative told “People” magazine that Saint James died Monday. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
“She never met a stranger,” her family claimed in a statement to People. Whoever she spoke to, whether a fellow board member or the clerk at the shoe store, was the most important person in the room at that moment, and they usually left knowing her whole life story.
Born Susan Jane Miller on Aug. 14, 1946, in Los Angeles, she grew up in Rockford, a northern Illinois city her father moved to for work. She started modelling as a teenager in Paris. At 20 she went back to Los Angeles and signed a seven-year contract with Universal Studios. She made her TV debut in the 1966 movie “Fame is the Name of the Game” alongside Tony Franciosa. While guest-hosting Saturday Night Live in 1981, Saint James met Dick Ebersol, the show’s then-executive producer and the future chairman of NBC Sports. They married barely six weeks after meeting and had three sons, Charlie, Willie and Teddy.
She got another chance when it spun off into a series in 1968, titled “The Name of the Game,” with rotating leads portrayed by Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack. Saint James showed continuity as Peggy Maxwell, a research assistant to all three men. In 1969, she earned an Emmy Award for her performance.
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