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Selma Archerd, who appeared in more than two dozen episodes of Melrose Place, has died at age 98. A resident of Los Angeles’ Westwood neighborhood, Archerd peacefully passed away on December 14, according to a Legacy.com obituary published by the Los Angeles Times. Archerd’s screen career lasted more than a quarter-century, starting with a role as “2nd P.T.A. Lady” in a 1973 episode of The Brady Bunch, her IMDb filmography shows. She also guest-starred on the TV shows Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Marcus Welby, M.D., Hotel, Knots Landing, Cagney & Lacey, The Love Boat, and Roseanne. She played Nurse Amy across 25 episodes of Melrose Place, recurring on the Fox primetime soap between 1995 and 1999. On the big screen, Archerd took small roles in Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Scrooged, and Lethal Weapon 3. She also played a neighbor in 1995’s The Brady Bunch Movie, marking a full-circle moment for her career.

Selma Archerd, a staple at Hollywood events for decades as she accompanied longtime Variety columnist and husband Army Archerd, has died at 98. Multiple reports indicate she died Dec. 14 in Los Angeles.

Archerd mostly played background roles throughout her 27-year career in television and film, but her appearances list was long.

She was seen as a hostage in 1988’s Die Hard, and had a recurring role as Nurse Amy in Fox’s 1990s soap Melrose Place.

Selma Archerd and Army Archerd

Archerd could also be spotted in such movies and TV shows as The Brady Bunch, Serpico, Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon 3, Fun with Dick and Jane, Can’t Stop the Music, Mommie Dearest and Scrooged, among many other credits.

Selma and Army Archerd were regulars on the Hollywood social circuit for decades during their 39-year marriage. He died in 2009 at age 87.

Selma Archerd’s survivors include two sons, James Rosenblum and Richard Rosenblum,...

Selma Archerd, an actress who was well known in Hollywood as the vivacious wife of longtime Variety columnist Army Archerd, has died. She was 98.

Selma Archerd died Dec. 14 in Los Angeles, according to a Legacy.com posting on the Los Angeles Times’ website.

Selma Archerd was seen as a hostage in 1988’s “Die Hard” and had a recurring role as Nurse Amy in Fox’s 1990s soap “Melrose Place.” She logged numerous cameos and bit parts from the 1970s through the 1990s on movies and TV shows ranging from “The Brady Bunch” to “Serpico” to “Lethal Weapon” and “Lethal Weapon 3.” Other notable films in which she appeared include: “Fun with Dick and Jane,” “Americathon,” “Can’t Stop the Music,” “Mommie Dearest” and “Scrooged.” TV appearances also include: “Charmed,” “Roseanne,” “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill,” “The Love Boat,” “Cagney & Lacey,” “Knot’s Landing,” “Hotel” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.”

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Selma Archerd, the widow of longtime Variety columnist Army Archerd who recurred as a nurse on Melrose Place and appeared in the first Die Hard and in two Lethal Weapon movies, died Dec. 14, her family announced. She was 98.

Archerd played Mrs. Claus in Richard Donner’s Scrooged (1988), and she also showed up on the big screen in Arthur Hiller’s W.C. Fields and Me (1975), Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976), Fun With Dick and Jane (1977), Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York (1977), Mommie Dearest (1981) and Indecent Proposal (1993).

She has 51 credits listed on IMDb. The first one was for a 1973 episode of The Brady Bunch, and she would also work on the 1988 reunion telefilm A Very Brady Christmas and in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995).

Archerd, who lived in Westwood, portrayed Nurse Amy on 25 episodes of Fox’s Melrose Place from 1995-99 and was on other series produced by Aaron Spelling,...