Alice Hirson, a veteran character actress whose TV credits included more than a half dozen daytime and primetime soaps, and who played mom to Ellen on the 1990s ABC sitcom, died Feb. 14 of natural ...

Alice Hirson, best known for playing Mavis Anderson on “Dallas” and as the mom of comedian Ellen DeGeneres on the ABC sitcom “Ellen,” has died. She was 95. Hirson’s death was confirmed by her son, ...

Alice Hirson, who played a confidante of Barbara Bel Geddes' Miss Ellie Ewing on Dallas and the mother of Ellen DeGeneres' character on the comic's groundbreaking ABC sitcom, has died. She was 95.

Editor’s Note: The four-part series “TV on the Edge: Moments That Shaped Our Culture” runs Sunday nights through October 13. For months before the 1997 premiere of “The Puppy Episode,” the ...

When Friends debuted on NBC in 1994, ABC decided to change the name of its returning Ellen DeGeneres-led sitcom These Friends of Mine to simply Ellen. When Roseanne Barr went on a racist Twitter ...

Alice Hirson, who played a confidante of Barbara Bel Geddes’ Miss Ellie Ewing on Dallas and the mother of Ellen DeGeneres’ character on the comic’s groundbreaking ABC sitcom, has died. She was 95.