Jessie Jones, a veteran TV character actor who guested on such popular series as Murphy Brown, Newhart and Night Court and also was a prolific comedy playwright, has died. She was 75.
Her writing partner Jamie Wooten told Deadline that Jones died March 20 in Washington, D.C., after a long illness.
Born on August 21, 1950, in the Texas Panhandle, Jones won a high school essay/speech contest before graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. She got her screen start in the late 1980s with guest roles on TV’s Newhart and Hooperman and continued to work regularly during the ’90s. Her credits include a number of the era’s top series including on Night Court, Designing Women, Perfect Strangers, Grace Under Fire, Melrose Place, Judging Amy, Cold Case, Who’s the Boss? and others.
She had a brief but memorable role in the first Season 3 episode
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