Star Trek and Falcon Crest actor Jill Jacobson dies aged 70

Jill Jacobson, whose career in TV spanned four decades, has d!ed at the age of 70. 

Jacobson appeared in TV shows including Star Trek, Falcon Crest and The New Gidget. 

She d!ed on December 8 at Cedars-Sinai’s Culver West Health Centre following a long illness. 

“We are incredibly sad to say goodbye to our beautiful, soulful, hysterically funny, elegantly raunchy client, Jill Jacobson,” said Ben Padula, her manager, in a statement. 

“Jill was a total spitfire of an actress with comedic timing straight out of a Marx Brothers’ flick and Hollywood glamor right from its golden age. 

“Jill took us on so many adventures and she was an absolute blast. Thank you, Jill. We’ll see you in our dreams.” 

“Jill’s comic timing was brilliant,” Caryn Richman, Jacobson’s The New Gidget co-star remembered. “And her enthusiasm and love of life made our time together on set joyful.” 

The actress appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1989 and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1996. 
 

She played private detective Erin Jones in 22 episodes of CBS show Falcon Crest in the 80s, while also starring as Larue Wilson on ABC sitcom The New Gidget. 

Her other TV credits included Hung, Newhart, Castle, Who’s the Boss?, Quantum Leap, Crazy Like a Fox, Arliss and Murphy Brown, and she also made a brief appearance in Ron Howard’s 1984 film, Splash. 

Jacobson’s first role came in horror film Nurse Sherri in which she played a nurse possessed by an evil spirit. 

Her other early work includes guest appearances in series like Harper Valley PTA, The Devlin Connection and Crazy Like A Fox. 

Jacobson was also a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society.