Betty McGuire, the 'Growing Pains' grandmother who starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, dies aged 100 at a California retirement home
She died of natural causes on October 8 at the Motion Picture & Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, and family friend Keith Gerchak confirmed her death. McGuire played Kate Malone, mother to Joanna Kerns' Maggie, across seven seasons of the ABC sitcom. Before TV fame she starred on Broadway alongside Ethel Merman, Bea Arthur and Tony Randall. She has no survivors.
She played Sister Mary Quacker in Cheech & Chong's 'Up in Smoke'.
Her TV credits ranged from 'Columbo' and 'Charlie's Angels' to 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'.
At her retirement home she hosted her own talk show, 'GabFest', interviewing fellow residents.
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