Joan Benedict Steiger, ‘General Hospital’ and ‘Candid Camera’ actress, dies at 96: Reports

Joan Benedict Steiger, identified for her roles in “Candid Digicam” and “,” has died at 96.

The actress died on June 24 on account of issues from a stroke, a household spokesperson instructed and Monday.

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One in all Steiger’s first roles was on the Nineteen Fifties hidden digital camera prank present “Candid Digicam.” She later had a recurring function as Edith Fairchild on “Normal Hospital.”

USA TODAY reached out to reps for Steiger for remark.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Steiger initially had her sights set on a dance profession earlier than she turned to theater and tv.

“I all the time thought once I was little I’d be a dancer,” she instructed in 2016. “I used to be by no means actually constructed for ballet, however I used to be faucet dancing in public at age 7 once I carried out on the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I bear in mind the primary movie I ever noticed was with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and as I used to be leaving the theatre, I needed to run again in, I knew I needed to be part of that world.”

Steiger went on to look in “The Steve Allen Present,” “The Smith Household” and “Days of Our Lives.”

She additionally starred in a number of theater ensembles in regional and off Broadway productions together with “Guarantees, Guarantees,” “The Magnificence Queen of Leenane” and her one-woman, autobiographical present “The Loves of My Life,” based mostly on her relationships with first husband John Myhers, second husband and boyfriend Jeremy Slate.

Benedict married Myhers in 1962 and remained with the actor till his demise in 1992. The actress was additionally the widow to Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger. The pair had been married from 2000 to his demise in 2002.

Steiger was additionally in a relationship with Slate from 2002 till his demise in 2006.

“Each of my (husbands) and my lifetime accomplice Jeremy, had been great males who revered me as an actress. All of them died from completely different types of most cancers, so my recollections are generally bittersweet, however with no regrets,” she instructed Girls Health. “They had been all actors, writers, administrators, good, humorous males.”

Steiger is survived by daughter Claudia Myhers Tschudin and granddaughters Hanna and Ashley.

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