{"id":141072,"date":"2025-09-16T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141072\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:59:09","slug":"patricia-crowley-star-of-port-charles-and-dynasty-has-died-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141072\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Crowley, star of Port Charles and Dynasty, has died aged 91"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\tPatricia Crowley has died at the age of 91 (Picture: Everett\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

Patricia \u2018Pat\u2019 Crowley, a renowned Golden Globe winner with a 60-year-long career in film and TV, has died at 91.<\/p>\n

Crowley\u2019s death was announced by her son Jon Hookstratten, who is Executive Vice President of Administration & Operations for Sony<\/a> Pictures Entertainment, and revealed that she died of natural causes.<\/p>\n

The star died on Sunday in Los Angeles, two days before what would have been her 92nd birthday.<\/p>\n

Crowley was best known for playing Joan Nash in the 1960s sitcom\u00a0Please Don\u2019t Eat the Daisies, from 1965 to 1967.<\/p>\n

Her character was married to Jim Nash, played by Mark Miller, with whom she had four rowdy boys and worked as a newspaper writer.<\/p>\n

She also appeared in various TV shows and films around the 1960s and 70s, including Hawaii 5-0 and Columbo, before becoming a series regular on some beloved shows in the 80s and 90s.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tShe appeared in hundreds of TV shows and films (Picture: Jennifer Lourie\/FilmMagic)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tCrowley (R) was a key member of Port Charles (Picture: Chris Sjodin \/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tShe also delighted fans on Dynasty (Picture: ABC Photo Archives\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The star appeared in 65 episodes of\u00a0Generations\u00a0as Rebecca Whitmore from 1989 until 1990 and played Mary Scanlon in 251 episodes of\u00a0Port Charles\u00a0from 1997 to 2003.<\/p>\n

In 2005, she appeared in The Bold and the Beautiful\u00a0as Natalie DeWitt. And appeared as\u00a0Emily Fallmont\u00a0in 10 episodes of the nighttime soap opera\u00a0Dynasty\u00a0in 1986.<\/p>\n

In Dynasty, she played the wife of Senator Buck Fallmont and the mother of Clay and Bart. Her main storyline in the show focused on trying to maintain the lid of a former affair that called into question the legitimacy of her son.<\/p>\n

In the 70s, she was awarded the Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for her performances in\u00a0Forever Female\u00a0and\u00a0Money From Home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tThe star had a hugely successful career (Picture: Trascendental Graphics\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tCrowley appeared on The Dean Martin Show (Picture: Frank Carroll\/NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Crowley is survived by her husband, Andy Friendly, whom she married in 1986.<\/p>\n

Before her marriage to Friendly, she was married to Ed Hookstratten, a former sports and entertainment attorney who represented\u00a0Elvis Presley, Johnny Carson and Vin Scully.<\/p>\n

The star had two children, Jon and Ann Hookstratten Osher, and her sister was the singer Ann Crowley. <\/p>\n

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