Judy Pace, who portrayed strong-willed characters on the ABC series Peyton Place and The Young Lawyers and in the Ossie Davis-directed action film Cotton Comes to Harlem, has died. She was 83.
Pace died Wednesday in her sleep in Marina del Rey while visiting relatives, family spokesperson Joseph Babineaux told The Hollywood Reporter.
The Los Angeles native also portrayed an artist alongside Christopher Jones in the sex romp Three in the Attic (1968) and was a featured player opposite Ray Milland in the cult ecological horror thriller Frogs (1972).
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