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Actress Suzanne Pleshette Dies at 70

LOS ANGELES — "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."

Actor Who Played Sam the Butcher on 'The Brady Bunch' Dies at 84

LOS ANGELES — "Allan Melvin, a character actor best known for playing Sam the Butcher on "The Brady Bunch," has died. He was 84.

Melvin died of cancer Thursday at his home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, said Amalia Melvin, his wife of 64 years."

While Suzanne was most noted for the Newheart sitcom, Allan was the face seen round the world and had far meatier and funnier roles than the Brady Bunch ever had to offer.