The soap opera and Dallas star Pat Colbert has died. She was 77 years old.
The actress from the show who played Dora Mae
In the last ten years, she had three strokes.
Pat was in the seventh season of Dallas in 1983.
The person she is Dora ran the Oil Baron’s Club and played the lead role in the show until the last season in 1991.
After that, she was in more than 65 episodes, all the way up to the 14th and final season.
Following the end of Dallas, she was in episodes of Sisters (1991) and True Colors (1991).
Eischiled, which aired in 1979 and starred Joe Don Baker, gave her her first acting credit. In that show, she played a model.
Some of the other roles she has had are in Fall Guy and Capitol.
If you watched soap operas, Capitol ran from 1982 to 1987. On the show, Pat played Cora Mullens.
The actor was also in the 1987 movie Leonard Part 6 with Bill Cosby. In the spy comedy about a retired spy who runs a restaurant, Colbert played Allison Parker.
The actress would go on to be in movies like If Not for His Grace (2015) and Thom & Dusty Go to Mexico: The Lost Treasure (2014).
She was born in Los Angeles on January 16, 1947.
Between 1978 and 1981, she was in Flamingo Road, and in 1985, she had a part in the TV miniseries “A Death in California.”
Beyond her sister, she is survived by two other siblings and her son Michael.
According to Shaun Chang of the movie and TV blog Hill Place, Dora Mae was the only African American character who appeared more than once on the show. Chang said, “She played the part with elegance and intelligence, but she never had a storyline because Dallas never tried to be anything more than the story of the Ewing family.”
“The show’s main characters and itself treated her with respect and didn’t think less of her.”
“For a show set in a big city, Dallas had a lot of recurring supporting characters who helped make the community feel real, and Dora Mae was an important part of the show.”
Dallas has been on since 1978. This show was supposedly canceled in 1991 because it was “too expensive for its own good.”
