American actress Betty Anne Rees, known for playing strong women in action comedy. The ungodly rollers and the zombie movie sugar hill, two B movies from the ’70s, are dead, the Hollywood Reporter reports. She was 81 years old.
Betty Anne Rees died last Monday at her home in California after a series of falls and a heart attack, her niece Kathleen Loucks told the Hollywood Reporter. She also suffered from multiple sclerosis since the 1990s.
Born Elizabeth Anne Rees in 1943 in Ohio, she began her career in the 1960s, playing notably in General Hospitalwhich has since become the longest-running soap opera on American television.
Betty Anne Rees starred in the final season of the hit comedy. my three children in 1971 and 1972 before playing against a roller derby star in The ungodly rollers (1972), an action comedy produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese.
From Hulk to interior design
In the zombie movie sugar hill (1974), she plays the racist partner of a mobster who will confront Sugar, a woman who joins forces with a voodoo priestess to resurrect dead slaves and avenge her brother’s death.
On television, Betty Anne Rees starred in the series. shane with David Carradine, but also in several cult programs of the 1970s such as manix AND The streets of San Francisco.
He last appeared on screen in 1978 in The incredible Hulk before retraining in interior architecture and kitchen design in the 1980s.
Source: BFM TV
