Laura Sadler

On June 26 police announced that the death was being treated as accidental and no further action would be taken. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - for Motion Pictures, at 1612 Vine St, and for Television, at 1634 Vine St. Her boyfriend Calil, aged 30, who played her character's drug-dealing boyfriend Sean Hunt in Holby City, was arrested for questioning, before being released on bail. She retired from acting, and died at her home in Ketchum, Idaho from heart failure. She died at Charing Cross Hospital on June 19, after a decision by her family the previous day to have her life support system turned off. Her role as the neighbour of elderly sisters, played by Lillian Gish and Bette Davis, with romantic interest provided by Vincent Price, brought Sothern an Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination. She suffered severe head injuries, and never regained consciousness. Her final film role was in The Whales of August in 1987.

The building was the home of her boyfriend, fellow Holby City actor George Calil. She resumed working sporadically on television until the mid 1980s, including a television remake of her earlier success A Letter To Three Wives. In the early hours of June 15, 2003, she fell 40 feet (12 metres) from the rear window of a block of flats in Holland Park, an area of west London, apparently having previously taken alcohol and cocaine. In 1965 she was heard as the voice of the car in the series My Mother The Car. She joined the cast of Holby City, a spin-off series from the long-running BBC medical drama series Casualty, in the show's third series. Both programs were very successful and earned Sothern four Emmy Award nominations, but a bout of hepatitis had left her with a bloated and overweight appearance, and she preferred not to be seen. Before joining the cast of Holby City, her best-known role had been as the character Judi Jeffreys in the children's television series Grange Hill from 1997 to 1999. She was the lead in the series Private Secretary from 1953 until 1957, and The Ann Sothern Show from 1958 until 1959.

She was born in Ascot in the county of Berkshire, and took up television acting as a young girl. By the fifties she was rarely seen in films and was appearing regularly in television. Laura Sadler (December 25, 1980 - June 19, 2003) was a British actress best known for her role as nurse Sandy Harper in the BBC ONE hospital drama series Holby City. She appeared in A Letter to Three Wives in (1949) and the film earned her excellent reviews, but did not stimulate her career. After years of trying, Sothern had her first real success, and a string of "Maisie" film sequels and radio plays took her through to the late forties. In a role originally intended for Jean Harlow, Sothern was cast as "Maisie", a bold, brassy but somewhat scatter-brained showgirl who was also an amateur detective.

After a string of films that failed to attract an audience, Sothern left RKO and was signed to MGM, making her first film for them in 1939. Born Harriette Arlene Lake in Valley City, North Dakota, Sothern began her film career as an extra in silent films in 1927. In 1934 she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures but after two years the studio released her from this contract, and she was signed by RKO Pictures in 1936. Ann Sothern (January 22, 1909 - March 15, 2001) was a American film actress.