Name Ann Williams Role Television actress | TV shows The Doctors | |
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Died December 13, 1985, Bedford Albums Charlie Parker Records: The Complete Collection, Vol. 11, First Time Out, Ann Williams HiFi Hits Similar People Robert Mandan, Elizabeth Hubbard, Brandon Maggart, Penny Fuller, Don Hastings | ||
Ann Morgan Williams (May 18, 1935 – December 13, 1985) was an American television, soap opera and Broadway actress.
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A native of Washington, D.C., Williams' notable soap roles included stints on The Doctors as the first Dr. Maggie Fielding Powers and on The Edge of Night as television station owner, Margo Huntington Dorn.
Her most memorable role, however, for which she is best-remembered, was as Eunice Gardner Wyatt#2, on Search for Tomorrow (1966–1976). Her last soap opera role was as alcoholic June Slater on Loving, a role that, for a short time, reunited Williams and her former Search for Tomorrow co-star, John Cunningham (He had played Janet Bergman's psychiatrist husband Wade Collins).
She appeared on the Broadway stage in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) by Tennessee Williams and the musical Applause (1970).
Death
Ann Williams died from cancer in 1985 in Bedford, New York. she was 50 years old.
Family
She was survived by her four children from her marriage to Robert Daniel Peter Welch (died April 21, 1982): Amanda Gordon Welch (born August 15, 1965), Elizabeth Morgan Welch (born February 3, 1969), Daniel Merryman Welch (born March 24, 1971) and Diana Rebecca Welch (born on September 30, 1977). The four siblings later wrote a book about their family life after their parents' untimely deaths, The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir (Harmony/Random House, 2009).