Mary Tyler Moore

**Mary Tyler Moore** (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an Academy Award-nominated American actress, activist and philanthropist.

She is famous for _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (1970–1977), where she played the role of  _Mary Richards_, a single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, and for her role as _Laura Petrie_, wife of television comedy writer _Rob Petrie_ (played by Dick Van Dyke) on _The Dick Van Dyke Show_ (1961–1966).

## Health and death

Moore was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 33. In 2011, she had brain surgery to remove a brain tumor. In 2014 friends reported that she had heart and kidney problems and was nearly blind. In October 2015, Moore's former co-star Dick Van Dyke said on an episode of _Larry King Now_ that Moore was in poor health and unable to communicate.

In January 2017, she was hospitalized from a diabetic-related condition. Her condition worsened and was placed on a respirator the previous week. She died on January 25, 2017 in Greenwich, Connecticut from cardiopulmonary arrest caused by diabetic-related pneumonia, aged 80.

## TV work

- _Richard Diamond, Private Detective_ (cast member in 1959)
- _The Dick Van Dyke Show_ (1961–1966)
- _Run a Crooked Mile_ (1969)
- _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (1970–1977)
- _Mary_ (1978) (cancelled after three episodes)
- _First, You Cry_ (1978)
- _The Mary Tyler Moore Hour_ (1979) (canceled after three months)
- _Heartsounds_ (1984)
- _Finnegan Begin Again_ (1985)
- _Mary_ (1985–1986)
- _Lincoln_ (1988)
- _Annie McGuire_ (1988) (canceled after two months)
- _The Last Best Year_ (1990)
- _Thanksgiving Day (TV series)_ (1990)
- _Stolen Babies_ (1993)
- _New York News_ (1995) (canceled after two months)
- _Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden_ (1996)
- _Payback_ (1997)
- _Good as Gold_ (2000)
- _Mary and Rhoda_ (2000) (also executive producer)
- _Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Gimes_ (2001) (also executive producer)
- _Miss Lettie and Me_ (2002)
- _The Gin Game_ (2003)
- _Blessings (TV movie)_ (2003)
- _The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited_ (2004)
- _That 70's Show_ (2006)

## Movies

- _X-15_ (1961)
- _Thoroughly Modern Millie_ (1967)
- _What's So Bad About Feeling Good?_ (1968)
- _Don't Just Stand There!_ (1968)
- _Run a Crooked Mile_ (1969) (TV)
- _Change of Habit_ (1969)
- _Ordinary People_ (1980)
- _Six Weeks_ (1982)
- _Just Between Friends_ (1986)
- _Flirting with Disaster_ (1996)
- _The Blue Arrow_ (1996) (voice)
- _Keys to Tulsa_ (1997)
- _Reno Finds Her Mom_ (1998) (documentary)
- _Labor Pains_ (2000)
- _Cheats_ (2002)
- _Against The Current_ (2009)

## Other websites

- Mary Tyler Moore Pictures
- The Museum of Broadcast Communications biography of Moore
- _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ Online
- _Take The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ Quiz

## Infobox (actor)

- **name**: Mary Tyler Moore
- **image**: Mary Tyler Moore 2000 (1) (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Moore in 2000
- **birth place**: Brooklyn, New York, United States, U.S.
- **death place**: Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
- **death cause**: Cardiopulmonary arrest caused by type 1 diabetes related pneumonia
- **years active**: 1957–2015
- **spouse**: Robert Levine (1983–2017; her death)
Grant Tinker (1962–1981)
Dick Meeker (1955–1961)
- **children**: Richard Meeker Jr. (deceased)
- **known for**: Acting roles:
Beth Jarrett in _Ordinary People_
Laura Petrie in _The Dick Van Dyke Show_, "Rob Petrie USMC"
Mary Richards in _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_
- **awards**: **Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie**
1993 _Stolen Babies_
eight other Emmy Awards
**Tony Awards: Special Award**
1980 _Whose Life is it Anyway?_