Actors - Debralee Scott

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Debralee Scott (April 2, 1953 – April 5, 2005) was an American actress best known for her role on the soap opera spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman as the title character (played by Louise Lasser)'s trampy younger and prettier sister, "Cathy Shumway". Scott was raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where she was born, and Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, where she was a cheerleader.

Movie roles

Scott's first role was filmed shortly after her 18th birthday; she portrayed a corpse in 1971's Dirty Harry
. At age 22, she found fame on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. She appeared on the first season of the sitcom Welcome Back Kotter as Rosalie "Hotzi" Totzi, and in the Donna Pescow sitcom Angie. Among her other credits were the 1973 feature film American Graffiti
and the 1974 film Earthquake. Scott's scenes in the latter, which were set on an airplane, were never shown in the cinema run, only appearing during an extended-length network TV premiere showing. She also appeared on the daytime TV show Match Game between 1976 and 1982.

Chronology

Television

Angie (1979)
Forever Fernwood (1977)
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976)
Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-1977)
Sons and Daughters
Match Game (1976-1982)

MOVIES

Police Academy 3: Back in Training
(1986)
Police Academy
(1984)
Pandemonium (1982)
Incoming Freshmen (1979)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
Our Time (1974)
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
American Graffiti
(1973)

Death

Scott continued to act, appearing in two "Police Academy" movies, including the first, but she later retired from acting and became an agent. In 2001, her fiancée, Port Authority police officer John Dennis Levi, perished during the 9/11 attacks. In March 2005 Scott moved to Amelia Island, Florida from Brooklyn, New York, in order to be near her ailing elder sister, Jeri Scott, a production designer.

Soon after her arrival, she collapsed, and lingered in a coma for several days. She woke up, and when asked where she was, replied, "obviously in the hospital". Scott was released two days later (on April 2, her birthday) and her spirits remained high for several more days. She went to take a nap, and never woke up on April 5, 2005. The autopsy was inconclusive.

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