Betty Harford , the television actress best known for her roles on ABC soap opera Dynasty and CBS/Showtime’s serialized adaptation of The Paper Chase , has died at the age of 98.

Her death was confirmed by friend Wendy Mitchell, who wrote on Facebook that Harford “passed away peacefully with family at her side, noon on November 2, 2025.”

In The Paper Chase — based on the 1971 John Jay Osborn Jr. novel and subsequent 1973 film adaptation starring John Houseman (for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) — Harford portrayed supremely efficient legal secretary Mrs. Nottingham for longtime law professor Charles W. Kingsfield, the role originated by Houseman and which he reprised in the series. The show, which followed the lives of law students like lead James T. Hart (James

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