Mercedes McCambridge’s Death – Cause and Date

The movie actress Mercedes McCambridge died at the age of 87. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Established actress who provided the demon’s voice in The Exorcist and starred in the western drama Johnny Guitar.

She married William Fifield in 1939, and the couple had a son named John before divorcing in 1946.

McCambridge died alone on March 2, 2004, in La Jolla in San Diego, California, of natural causes, two weeks before her 88th birthday.

Quotes

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I’d never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

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Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

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I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.

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At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

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I am responsible for no one but myself.