{"id":2292,"date":"2024-10-27T16:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2024-10-27T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T16:27:23","slug":"2292-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=2292","title":{"rendered":"SAD NEWS: Pat Colbert, Oil Baron\u2019s Club Host Dora Mae on \u2018Dallas,\u2019 Dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pat Colbert, who portrayed the stylish Oil Baron\u2019s Club host and manager Dora Mae on the final eight seasons of the CBS primetime soap\u00a0Dallas<\/em>, has died. She was 77.<\/p>\n

Colbert died June 23 at her home in Compton, her sister Tami Colbert told\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. She had suffered three strokes over the past decade.<\/p>\n

Colbert also played the wife of Bill Cosby\u2019s character in the lamentable 1987 spy spoof\u00a0Leonard Part 6<\/em>\u00a0(1987) and showed up on episodes of\u00a0Benson<\/em>,\u00a0The Fall Guy<\/em>,\u00a0Sisters<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0True Colors<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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In 1980-81, Colbert was one of the working girls in the roadhouse run by\u00a0Stella Stevens\u2018 Lute-Mae Sanders on the NBC primetime soap\u00a0Flamingo Road<\/em>, which like\u00a0Dallas<\/em>\u00a0came from Lorimar Productions.<\/p>\n

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She appeared in the two-hour pilot and recurred throughout the first season, but her character was eliminated in season two when the network \u2014 pressured by Rev. Donald Wildmon, who as head of Coalition for Better Television called\u00a0Flamingo Road<\/em>\u00a0\u201cthe rottenest show on TV\u201d \u2014 turned the brothel into a respectable supper club.<\/p>\n

Lorimar, however, would put Colbert back to work, and she would appear on 67 episodes of\u00a0Dallas<\/em>\u00a0from 1983-91 \u2014 starting with an uncredited role in season six \u2014 as the host of the Oil Baron\u2019s Club, an upscale restaurant located in a high-rise that was a favorite hangout of the Ewing family and their associates. (The place was inspired by the real-life, members-only Dallas Petroleum Club.)<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the only recurring African American character on the series, Dora Mae never had a storyline, because\u00a0Dallas<\/em>\u00a0never tried to pretend to be anything more than the saga of the Ewing family, but she played the role with elegance and intelligence,\u201d Shaun Chang of the movie and TV blog\u00a0Hill Place\u00a0told\u00a0THR<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe leading characters, and the show itself, treated her with respect and without any sense of condescension.\u00a0Dallas<\/em>\u00a0had many recurring supporting characters who helped create a sense of community for a show set in a major city, and Dora Mae was part of the fabric of the series.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sandra Patricia Colbert was born in Los Angeles on Jan. 16, 1947. Her father, LeRoy, was in construction \u2014 he built the home that the family would live in \u2014 and her mother, Eula, was a homemaker who also worked in foster care.<\/p>\n

Colbert attended Centennial High School in Compton and then junior college and worked as a model for department-store print campaigns and as a fashion consultant before she became an actress.<\/p>\n

Her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 also included a turn as a nurse in Blake Edwards\u2019\u00a0S.O.B.<\/em>\u00a0(1981) and work on\u00a0Capitol<\/em>, the\u00a0Dallas<\/em>\u00a0spinoff\u00a0Knots Landing<\/em>,\u00a0Thom & Dusty Go to Mexico: The Lost Treasure<\/em>\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0If Not for His Grace<\/em>\u00a0(2015).<\/p>\n

In addition to her sister, survivors include her other siblings, Aaron and Johnetta, and her son, Michael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pat Colbert, who portrayed the stylish Oil Baron\u2019s Club host and manager Dora Mae on the final eight seasons of the CBS primetime soap\u00a0Dallas, has died. She was 77. Colbert died June 23 at her home in Compton, her sister Tami Colbert told\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter. She had suffered three strokes over the past decade. 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