Veteran actress Suzanne Pleshette died over the weekend of respitary failure at her Los Angeles home.  She had been battling lung cancer and had gone through chemotherapy two years ago.  She was 70-years-old.

She is most famous for playing Bob Newhart’s wife on the sitcom The Bob Newhart Show.

Pleshette was nominated for four Emmy Awards over 30 years and also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds.

She was 70 years old and died of respiratory failure at her Los Angeles home, her lawyer Robert Finkelstein told the Associated Press news agency.

Pleshette was nominated for two Emmy nominations for best TV actress from her work on The Bob Newhart Show.

She would have turned 71 on January 31st.