Judy Pace, Actress in ‘Peyton Place’ and ‘Cotton Comes to Harlem’, Dies at 83
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She also starred in ‘Three in the Attic,’ ‘The Slams’ and ‘Frogs’ and worked alongside Lee J. Cobb on ‘The Young Lawyers.’
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment 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). Related Stories TV Ernie Anastos, Longtime New York City TV News Anchor, Dies at 82 Lifestyle Jane Lapotaire, Tony and Olivier Winner for 'Piaf,' Dies at 81 And in Brian’s Song , she played Linda Sayers, the wife of Chicago Bears great Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams). That landmark ABC telefilm, also starring James Caan , was seen by 55 million people — half of those in the U.S. who owned a TV at the time — when it aired on Nov. 30, 1971. Ahead of her time, Pace recurred as the complex, resilient Vickie Fletcher on 15 episodes of the fifth and final season (1968-69) of the ABC primetime soap Peyton Place , then co-starred as attorney Pat Walters opposite Lee J. Cobb and Zalman King on the 1970-71 ABC drama The Young Lawyers (she received an NAACP Image Award for her work). In the box office success Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), she was memorable as the foul-mothed Iris Brown, the girlfriend of Calvin Lockhart’s reverend character. “I loved the extreme heat that I had to go through — from being overdone and glamorous to getting beat up and being thrown in jail,” she told Tom Lisanti in an interview for his 2001 book, Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema . Judy Lenteen Pace was born on June 15, 1942...
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