Actress Susan Saint James has died at age 80 after a battle with cancer.
Saint James was best known for the television series McMillan & Wife and Kate & Allie.
She had been recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
The actress as born Susan Jane Miller in Los Angeles in 1946 and began modelling as a teenager.
She moved to Los Angeles in her early 20s, where she signed a television contract with Universal Studios.
Her breakthrough came in The Name of the Game (1968–1971), playing research assistant Peggy Maxwell alongside Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry and Robert Stack.
She won a Primetime Emmy Award for the role in 1969 and also appeared in the Robert Wagner spy series It Takes a Thief.
Saint James became a household name playing Sally McMillan opposite Rock Hudson in the popular detective series McMillan & Wife from 1971 to 1976.
Her film appearances included Outlaw Blues (1977), Love at First Bite (1979) and How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980).
She also appeared in MASH* before returning to major television success alongside Jane Curtin in the sitcom Kate & Allie (1984–1989).
Playing free-spirited divorcee Kate McArdle, she earned further Emmy nominations in a series about two single mothers sharing a New York home.
She largely retired from acting after the series ended, although she later made guest appearances in The Drew Carey Show, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Suits.
In 2004 her 14-year-old son Teddy died in a private plane crash in Colorado.