Obituary: Betty White or the golden girl with a golden heart
Betty White is American television's golden girl with a heart of gold. She is best known for her comedic skills from the early days of television to the 21st century while engaging in her animal activism.
"I have to keep working so I can do my charity work!" He joked in front of The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. White was born in Illinois in 1922 also became one of America's earliest film stars.
As an only child, she moved with her family to Los Angeles at the height of the Great Depression and began working as an actress and model in the late 1930s. However, her thriving career had to be interrupted during World War II when she worked for the American Women's Volunteer Service.
After the war, White continued his show business ambitions with mixed success before starting his radio show and later television on the Hollywood talk show Al Jarvis.
He died on Friday, a few weeks before his 100th birthday.
Betty White in 1955 - one of the first stars of American television
A rising talent, she took over directing television shows in the early 1950s and was nominated for her first Emmy Award for Best Television Actress in 1951.
Next up was the TV sitcom Life with Elizabeth - a show she started herself with George Tibbles. "He wrote, and I produced," he explained. "I was one of the first female producers in Hollywood."
White maintained a profile with numerous chat appearances and met her third husband (and "love of my life") Alan Ludon on the 1961 show The Password.
To date, the most prominent actress role was Sue Ann Nivens on the Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 1970s. Her sharp-eyed male character works with sitcom stars in fictional television newsrooms in Minneapolis.
The work won White two more Emmys and prepared her for her most famous roles, such as the naive but attractive Rose Nilund in The Golden Girls, which took her to the 1980s and 1990s.
Nilund is a Norwegian-American who moves to Miami after the death of her husband and then becomes in a relationship with three other women, played by Beatrice Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty.