Actress Pat Crowley, known to classic TV fans for her roles in the 1960s sitcom Please Don’t Eat the Daisies and Dynasty, has died.
Crowley passed away Sunday in Los Angeles from natural causes, as announced by her son, Jon Hookstratten, executive VP of administration and operations at Sony Pictures Entertainment, via The Hollywood Reporter. She died just two days before her 92nd birthday.
Patricia Crowley had many impressive credits, but her most famous role was Joan Nash in the sitcom Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, which she starred in from 1965 to 1967.
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies was based on Jean Kerr’s 1957 book and the 1960 movie starring Doris Day and David Niven. Crowley played Joan Nash, a newspaper writer and mother of four boys (Kim Tyler, Brian Nash, Jeff Fithian, and Joe F