LOS ANGELES: Heather Menzies-Urich (pic), a star of “The Sound of Music,” which continues to win hearts worldwide after more than half a century, died at age 68, an industry source said Monday (Dec 25). ”We... mourn the passing of Heather Menzies-Urich,” the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organisation, which holds the rights to the musical, said on its website. We will miss her.”Menzies-Urich, then a teenager, had the role of Louisa von Trapp, one of the children of Captain von Trapp played by Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, who starred with English actress Julie Andrews. Her husband Robert Urich died from cancer in 2002. He was a US television star who shot to fame in the 1970s through his series “Vegas” and “Spenser: For Hire.”After his death, Menzies-Urich founded The Robert Urich Foundation to support cancer research and patient care.

Source: The Star December 26, 2017 01:07 UTC