Suzanne Pleshette, a multi-talented star of stage, screen and TV, has died from respiratory failure at age 70. Pleshette, known for her throaty voice, was already a prominent actress when she co-starred with Bob Newhart in his long-running 1970s TV series the Bob Newhart Show. Playing the wisecracking wife to his often befuddled pyschiatrist, the two became one of the most popular TV couples of all time. Many years later, when Newhart was filming the final episode of his follow up series in which he played an innkeeper married to actress Mary Fran, Pleshette appeared in the final sequence that became one of the most famous series' finales of all time. Pleshette had starred on stage in The Miracle Worker and was often cast in hit comedies during the 1960s including The Geisha Boy with Jerry Lewis and a number of Disney films including Blackbeard's Ghost, The Shaggy D.A and The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin. However, she also excelled in dramatic roles in films such as Fate is the Hunter,Nevada Smith, A Distant Trumpet, and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. She had the lead role in A Rage to Live, an envelope-pushing 1965 drama that dealt with a woman trying desperately to cope with an uncontrollable sex drive. She also had the female lead in the hit 1960's big screen comedies Support Your Local Sheriff and If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. More recently, Pleshette was a popular fixture on sitcoms such as 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter and Will and Grace. In 2006, she began a battle with lung cancer. She had previously been married to Troy Donohue (for less than a year) and late in life she married character actor Tom Poston, who died last year. For more click here