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David confirmed that his mother had been hospitalized for about a year prior to her death. The actress appeared on several soap operas between 1969 and 1993 including CBS ' The Edge of Night , NBC 's Another World and its spinoff Somerset and ABC 's One Life to Live , General Hospital and Loving .
Hirson also starred in several films including Private Benjamin (1980) and Revenge of the Nerds (1984). The New York native appeared in 26 episodes of Dallas from 1982-88 as Miss Ellie, the wife of Punk Anderson (played by Morgan Woodward) alongside her real-life husband, Stephen Elliott, who played lawyer Scotty Demarest.
Hirson later played Lois Morgan, the mother of Ellen Degeneres' titular character Ellen Morgan on the sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998. The actress preivously appeared in musicals early in her career and made her Broadway debut in Traveller Without Luggage in 1964, before later returning for The Investigation in 1966, which debuted across Germany and London on the same day one year prior, and Solitaire/Double Solitaire in 1971 before moving to Los Angeles in 1976.
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