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Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) Actress, known for her roles in the television sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a thirty-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis; and The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966), in which she played Laura Petrie, a former dancer turned Westchester homemaker, wife and mother. Her notable film work includes 1967’s Thoroughly Modern Millie and 1980’s Ordinary People,
in which she played a role that was very different from the television
characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Moore’s first regular television role was as a mysterious and glamorous telephone receptionist on Richard Diamond, Private Detective. On the show, Moore’s voice was heard, but only her shapely legs appeared on camera, adding to the character’s mystique. About this time, she guest-starred on John Cassavetes’s NBC detective series Johnny Staccato. She also guest-starred in Bachelor Father
in the episode titled “Bentley and the Big Board”. In 1960, she
guest-starred in two episodes, “The O’Mara Ladies” and “All The O’Mara
Horses”, of the William Bendix–Doug McClure NBC western series, Overland Trail. Several months later, she appeared in the first episode, entitled “One Blonde Too Many”, of NBC’s one-season The Tab Hunter Show, a sitcom
starring the former teen idol as a bachelor cartoonist. In 1961, Moore
appeared in several big parts in movies and on television, including Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Steve Canyon, Hawaiian Eye, Thriller and Lock-Up.

Moore attempted to try the musical-variety genre by starring in two unsuccessful CBS variety series in a row: Mary, which featured David Letterman, Michael Keaton, Swoosie Kurtz and Dick Shawn in the supporting cast. CBS canceled the series. In March 1979, the network brought Moore back in a new, retooled show, The Mary Tyler Moore Hour,
which was described as a “sit-var” (part situation comedy/part variety
series) with Moore portraying a TV star putting on a variety show. Michael Keaton was the only cast member of Mary
who remained with Moore as a supporting regular in this revised format.
Dick Van Dyke appeared as her guest for one episode. The program was
canceled within three months.

In the 1985–86 season, she returned to CBS in a series titled Mary,
which suffered from poor reviews, sagging ratings, and internal strife
within the production crew. According to Moore, she asked CBS to pull
the show as she was unhappy with the direction of the program and the
producers. She also starred in the short-lived Annie McGuire in 1988.
In 1995, after another lengthy break from TV series work, Moore was
cast as tough, unsympathetic newspaper owner Louise “the Dragon” Felcott
on the CBS drama New York News, her third series in which her character worked in the news industry. As with her previous series Mary (1985), Moore quickly became unhappy with the nature of her character and asked to be written out of New York News; the series, however, was canceled before the writers could remove her. 

(Wikipedia)