
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 12, 1991                   TAG: 9104120161
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

EX-`GILLIGAN' ACTRESS NATALIE SCHAFER DIES

Actress Natalie Schafer, known to generations of "Gilligan's Island" fans as the stranded millionaire's wife, "Lovey," has died. She was 90.

Schafer died Wednesday of cancer at her home, said family spokesman Frank Lieberman.

Schafer played the wife of Thurston Howell III, portrayed by the late Jim Backus. They were among the marooned passengers on the charter boat "Minnow."

The show originally ran on CBS-TV from 1964 to 1967, and remains enormously popular in reruns.

Schafer also starred in the short-lived drama 1969-1970 series "The Survivors" with Lana Turner and Kevin McCarthy.

Survivors include longtime companion Maurice Hill, said Lieberman.

No funeral is planned.

by CNB