Ellen Weston, Actress on 'Get Smart' and Writer for 'Guiding Light' and Lesley Gore, Dies at 87
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Mike Barnes
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Ellen Weston, a versatile actress, writer and producer known for her work on Broadway, television series like Get Smart and S.W.A.T., and soap operas including The Guiding Light, Another World, and The Young and the Restless, has died at age 87. She also wrote lyrics for dozens of Lesley Gore songs and contributed to Gore's comeback albums. Weston passed away on May 28 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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· 3 pulledWeston died May 28 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, her friend, producer and manager Susan Zachary, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The New York native portrayed Robin Fletcher on CBS' The Guiding Light in 1963-64, Carol Pearson and Karen Gregory on NBC's Another World in 1964-65 and Suzanne Thurston on CBS' The Young and the Restless in 1978-80.
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