Susan Saint James, Star of "McMillan & Wife" and "Kate & Allie," Dies at 80

Susan Saint James, Emmy-winning star of McMillan & Wife and Kate & Allie, died Oct. 26 at age 80, according to an Associated Press obituary cited by People. Her representative confirmed she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Saint James won an Emmy for The Name of the Game, where she played researcher Peggy Maxwell in 1969. She later starred as Sally McMillan, wife of Rock Hudson’s San Francisco police commissioner, in the 1971 NBC series McMillan & Wife, leaving before the show’s final season due to a contract dispute. She reunited with Jane Curtin in 1984 for the CBS comedy Kate & Allie, which ran until 1989. Off-screen, she supported the Special Olympics and was born Susan Jane Miller on Aug. 14, 1946, in Rockford, Illinois.