Actor Jennifer Runyon, who made her name in the 1980s in the Scott Baio sitcom “Charles In Charge” and her memorable appearance in 1984’s “Ghostbusters,” has died at age 65.
Runyon’s longtime friend, “Bewitched” actor Erin Murphy, announced the news on Sunday on social media, saying that Runyon had died after “a brief battle with cancer.”
Murphy, who wrote that “some people you just know you’ll be friends with before you even meet,” said Runyon was “a special lady.”
Born in Chicago in 1960, Runyon was the daughter of Jim Runyon, a popular radio disc jockey in the city, according to EW.com. In 1980, she moved to New York for a role in the NBC soap opera “Another World” before deciding to try her luck on the West Coast.
“I have been lucky because of the California look. I was nervous when I first started working as an actress that I would be typecast,” she told TV host Merv Griffin in 1984, adding, “everything I have done has been so different, such a stretch for me. And it can only get better.”
