Judy Carne lifeless: Laugh-In actress & ex wife of Burt Reynolds passes away

The Northampton-born actress died on 3 September, reported The Telegraph.

Judy Carne, the British actress who crossed the pond to make her name in American television during the 1960s and ’70s, died last Thursday following a bout of pneumonia. On the show, Carne would declare “It’s sock-it-to-me time” and then be doused with water or some other bit of slapstick.

Her different TV credit embrace a daily position in sitcom “Truthful Trade”, “The Baileys of Balboa“, a starring position in sitcom “Love on a Rooftop” and appearances in “The Man From U.N.C.L.E“.

In 1963, she met and Wednesday then-upcoming actor Burt Reynolds; their tumultuous marriage ended three years later.

She also penned an autobiography in 1985 titled “Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside: The Bittersweet Saga of the Sock-It-To-Me Girl” mentioning her long run of personal difficulties that sidelined her acting career including a struggle with drug addiction.

After starting her career in England, Carne made her Stateside TV debut on the 1962 CBS sitcom Fair Exchange, playing an exchange student. “Mature and responsible are words I don’t understand”.

She married again in 1970 to Robert Bergmann, but they split six months later.

In the book, Carne confessed to enjoying multiple affairs and came clean about her battles with drug addiction, which led to an arrest for heroin possession in the late 1970s.

She moved back to the United Kingdom some time later and lived in the village of Pitsford, Northamptonshire, with her two dogs.