Anna Lee, veteran film and TV actress, dead at 91

Anna Lee, veteran film and TV actress, dead at 91

The Associated Press
Last Updated 4:30 pm PDT Sunday, May 16, 2004

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Anna Lee, whose nearly 70-year acting career in movies and television spanned from her breakthrough role in "How Green Was My Valley" to an extended run on "General Hospital," died Friday of pneumonia, her son said. She was 91.

Lee had been ailing for the past several months and died at her home near Beverly Hills with son Jeffrey Byron, 48, by her side, Byron said Sunday.

Paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident just a year after she began playing Lila Quartermaine in "General Hospital," Lee acted in a wheelchair for more than two decades until she left the soap last year, Byron said.

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In the early 1930s she moved to California to work in Hollywood, and appeared in more than 60 films including "The Sound of Music" (1965), "Fort Apache" (1948) and "King Solomon's Mines" (1937).

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WOW - She was still quite the beauty in her later years on GH. I don't watch that show anymore (too damm dark and depressing), but she was the epitome of class.

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