CBS via Getty Images The show’s title was eventually shortened to “Alice,” with Lavin becoming a role model for playing a widowed working mom of a 12-year-old. The series ran from 1976 to 1985.

Linda Lavin, the Tony-winning actor who starred in the 1970s CBS sitcom 'Alice,' died from cardiac arrest and lung cancer, according to her death certificate.

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who became a working-class icon as a paper hat-wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los Angeles on ...

Linda Lavin, star of the 1970s sitcom 'Alice' and a Tony winner who remained active in TV and on stage into her 80s, died Sunday. She was 87.

Linda Lavin, a revered Broadway and TV actress and singer best known for hit CBS series Alice, has died at 87. Lavin died unexpectedly in Los Angeles due to complications from lung cancer ...

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The series in which she starred after “Alice” were, like most ... paired her with screen daughter Patricia Heaton, whose New York TV morning show she joins as a quirky commentator.

The Tony winner starred in Neil Simon's 'Last of the Red Hot Lovers' and 'Broadway Bound' and was a tireless advocate for women's rights: "I had a commitment." ...

including 10 episodes of "Alice," and executive produced a number of TV movies and docuseries episodes. In 1992, she executive produced and starred in the short-lived series "Room for Two" in ...

LOS ANGELES -- Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom "Alice ... The series bounced around the CBS ...