Ann B. Davis, most famous for her role as Alice the housekeeper on The Brady Bunch has died aged 88.
TMZ reports that Davis fell in her bathroom early this morning hitting her head and suffered a subdural hematoma.
Her close friend Bishop William Frey confirmed she sadly never regained consciousness.
Davis lived with another couple and was described by one of her roommates as “pretty healthy for an 88-year old woman.”
Her death has come as “a total shock” to those close to her.
Davis played Alice Nelson from 1969 to 1974 in the hugely successful Brady Bunch television series.
She also appeared in several Brady Bunch TV movies and reprised her role as Alice in two short-lived Brady Bunch spin-off television series which aired in 1981 and 1990.
The New York born actress first rose to fame in 1955 in her role as Charmaine “Schultzy” Schultz in the NBC sitcom The Bob Cummings Show.
She won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series during her four years on the program.
On February 9, 1960, Davis received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In a 2004 interview with the Archive of American Television, Davis described how she created the beloved character.
“I made up a background story,” she said. “I did have a twin sister, so I used that as a basis. … I cared very much about this family. It was my family. It was close to my family as Alice would ever get. I would have died for any single one of them at any point.
“You know, they wrote me such gorgeous things to do, as the intermediary between the kids and the adults, and between the boys and the girls. And they gave me funny things to do.”
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