Barbara Colby: Barbara Colby. Actress: The Mary Tyler Moore Show. At age 36, actress Barbara Colby was on the brink of TV-character stardom when the native New Yorker was senselessly shot and killed one evening on the streets of Los Angeles. The tall, toothy, husky-voiced, frizzy-haired actress equipped with a keen, Brooklyn-tough sensibility and dead-on comedy instincts had just started to make a name for herself on the West Coast when tragedy...
Known For: The Mary Tyler Moore Show (SherrySherry Ferris), Phyllis (Julie Erskine), Columbo (Lilly La Sanka), McMillan & Wife (Linda Comsack)