Los Angeles (AP) – Danielle Spencer, The Sitcom “What happened !!” died around 60.
Spencer, who later became a veterinarian, died on Monday in a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, after a long fight against cancer, said family spokesman Sandra Jones.
As Dee, Spencer was the more intelligent, more serious younger sister, who offered a steady stream of Deadpaner by Big Brother Roger “Raj” Thomas and his friends Dwayne Nelson and Freddie “Rerun” Stubbs.
“Oh, I'll tell mom,” Dees would be the catchphrase.
The show that plays in the district of Watts in Los Angeles and among the first on TV Concentrate on the life of black teenagers, Based on the film “Cooley High” and ran on ABC from 1976 to 1979. It had a long inheritance thanks to its memorable characters, including the geekigen Raj, the keyword Dwayne, the red dancing dance phenomenon and dee with their eyerolls and icy starp.
At the beginning of the production of the first season of the show, the then 12 -year -old Spencer was a big car accident in a big car accident on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, which left her in a coma for three weeks and killed her stepfather Tim Pelt. She would have spinal and neurological problems that would require several operations over the years.
Spencer was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up in New York when she was about 9 years old. “What happens !!” Would be your first credited role.
“Imagine that they were picked from darkness to the stars in a TV show,” she told Jet Magazine in 2014.
Haywood Nelson, who played Dwayne on the show, recognized “Dr. Dee, our brilliant, loving, positive, pragmatic warriors” on Tuesday.
“We have a daughter, a sister, a family member,” what happens “, cast member, veterinarian, animal rights representative and healer and cancer. Our Shero,” said Nelson on Instagram. “Danielle is loved.”
Spencer also appeared in a restart of the show “What happened now !!”, which ran three seasons.
In 2018 she became an emergency operation for a bleeding hematoma that came from this car accident from 1977. In the immediate point of view, a family spokesman said that she could only speak easily and had to use crutches to run. She had suffered symptoms of symptoms at least 2004 when she used a wheelchair and learned to walk again. In 2014 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a double mastectomy.
She became a veterinarian and lawyer for animals. She visited the University of California, Davis and the UCLA and did her doctorate in Veterinary Medicine at Tuskegee University in 1993.
In her later years, Spencer continued to sit down with acting, including an appearance as a vet in the Jack Nicholson film “As Good as IT Get” from 1997.
She is survived by her brother, musician Jeremy Pelt, and her mother Cheryl Pelt.