Barbara Rush, who gained a Golden Globe for many promising newcomer in “It Came From Outer Space” and went on to seem in “Peyton Place” and lots of different motion pictures and TV exhibits, died Sunday. Her daughter, Fox News Channel correspondent Claudia Cowan, confirmed her dying to Fox News Digital.
“My wonderful mother passed away peacefully at 5:28 this evening. I was with her this morning and know she was waiting for me to return home safely to transition,” Cowan instructed Fox. “It’s fitting she chose to leave on Easter as it was one of her favorite holidays and now, of course, Easter will have a deeper significance for me and my family.”
Rush appeared in cleaning soap operas together with “All My Children” and on “7th Heaven,” and appeared in movies resembling “The Young Philadelphians,” “Robin and the 7 Hoods,” “Hombre” and “The Young Lions.” Her co-stars included Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and Richard Burton.
Born in Denver, Rush graduated from the U. of California, Santa Barbara, after which educated on the Pasadena Playhouse.After signing with Paramount Pictures, she made her film debut with “The Goldbergs” after which starred within the sci-fi movie “When Worlds Collide.”
Her Golden Globe got here for an additional sci-fi function, because the fiancée of an novice astronomer who makes contact with aliens in 1954’s “It Came From Outer Space.”
Among her TV roles had been Nora Clavicle within the “Batman” TV sequence and The Bionic Woman’s mom. Other TV visitor spots included “Maude,” “Cannon,” “Streets of San Francisco,” “Fantasy Island,” “Love Boat” and “Murder, She Wrote.” Rush made an look within the 1980 disco film “Can’t Stop the Music,” then took on extra TV roles within the cleaning soap opera “Flamingo Road.”
She additionally appeared onstage all through her profession and in 1989, starred in a nationwide tour of “Steel Magnolias.”
Married 3 times, her husbands included publicist Warren Cowan.
She is survived by two youngsters, Claudia Cowan and Jeffrey Hunter.