Barbara Bosson, the popular television actress, very well known in the 80s thanks to the series sad hill road song (the price of the duty for Argentina), died at the age of 83. His son, Jesse Bochco, confirmed the sad news via Instagram. Bosson passed away on Saturday February 18 in Los Angeles.

Bosson was a familiar face of the small screen thanks to the above Hill Street Blueswhere he played Fay Furillothe ex-wife of Captain Frank Furillo (Daniel J. Travanti), between 1981 and 1986, appearing in a total of 103 episodes from the series.

fiction and reality

In real life, Boson She was married for 27 years to the creator of the series and one of the key figures in the history of television drama in the United States, Steven Bochco.with whom he had two children and from whom he divorced in 1997.

Furthermore Hill Street BluesBosson has appeared in numerous television series since he began his career in the late 1960s, including Emergency, Ironside, LA Law, Hotel, Murder She Wrote, NYPD Blue, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine AND Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Debut with Steve McQueen

In the cinema, she made her debut playing a nurse bullit and (iconic film of Steve McQueen) was part of films such as star fighter: The adventure begins OR The kidnapping of Allison Tate. But his longest-running role, besides Fay Furillo, was that of Miriam Grasso in Murder Oneanother Bochco creation, which ran for two seasons.

bullit would eventually win an Oscar for best editing (Frank P. Keller), was nominated for best sound and is held in the archives of the United States Library of Congress, is remembered for the car chase in downtown San Francisco, central scene that is one of the earliest and most influential of its kind. It is the top 12 of the 100 best action movies of all time GQ.9

The story of the film tells that in the city of San Francisco, an ambitious California politician, Walter Chalmers, (Robert Vaughn) leads a Senate hearing seeking to denounce the American mafia. He has a witness, Johnny Ross (Felice Orlandi), a former member of the Chicago mob, who he hopes to use to both advance his political career and fight the mob.

Eternal Emmy contender for her role in Hill Street BluesBarbara Bosone he was nominated up to five consecutive times (between 1981 and 1985) for the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress, although she never won it.

His sixth nomination, in the same category, came in 1996 for Murder One, but he didn’t win the award on that occasion either. The actress retired from acting soon after in 1997.