Tom Troupe: Last News

Actress Carole Cook has passed away at the age of 98. Cook's actor husband Tom Troupe announced on Wednesday that the Sixteen Candles star had died of heart failure in Beverly Hills, California, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She died three days before her 99th birthday.

Carole Cook has died. The 'Sixteen Candles' actress - who portrayed Grandma Helen in the cult 1980s classic - passed away on Wednesday (11. 01.

Carole Cook, a protege of Lucille Ball who would become a familiar face through appearances on Ball’s TV shows, movies like The Incredible Mr. Limpet and Sixteen Candles and stage musicals 42nd Street and Romantic Comedy, died today of heart failure in Beverly Hills, California, just three days before her 99th birthday.

Carole Cook - who starred in Sixteen Candles and The Lucy Show - has died just three days before her 99th birthday.The legendary actress passed away in Beverly Hills at 98 due to heart failure on Wednesday her husband Tom Troupe announced according to The Hollywood Reporter. She was one of the best friends and protégés of Hollywood icon Lucille Ball which led her to multiple  appearances on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. Sad: Carole Cook (pictured in 2019) - who starred in Sixteen Candles and The Lucy Show - has died just three days before her 99th birthdayCook worked on 18 episodes of The Lucy Show from 1963 to 1968 as she played Lucy Carmichael's friend Thelma Green.She went on to star alongside Ball on five episodes of Here's Lucy from 1969 to 1974.Another one of her major roles was as Helen, the touchy-feely grandmother of Molly Ringwald's character Samantha 'Sam' Baker, in classic 1984 film Sixteen Candles.