Ellen Weston, the actress, writer and producer who appeared on Broadway, Get Smart, S.W.A.T. and soap operas and penned songs for a pair of Lesley Gore comeback albums, has died. She was 87.
Weston died May 28 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, her friend, producer and manager Susan Zachary, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The New York native portrayed Robin Fletcher on CBS’ The Guiding Light in 1963-64, Carol Pearson and Karen Gregory on NBC’s Another World in 1964-65 and Suzanne Thurston on CBS’ The Young and the Restless in 1978-80.
She wrote for the CBS soap Capitol in 1986, then was hired by Guiding Light executive producer John Conboy in 2003 to serve as co-head writer on that daytime drama. “I like to think of every day as a mini-movie,” she said in an interview with Soap Opera Digest.
Weston shared a WGA Award for her work and remained on the job for about two years before she was replaced by David Kreizman.
