General Hospital and Candid Camera star Joan Benedict Steiger dead at 96

Joan Benedict Steiger from Candis Camera and General Hospital has died.

The 96-year-old actress died on June 24 at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California due to complications from a stroke, according to Deadline . Joan was best known for playing as a lost traveler on a candid camera, asking others for directions on Candid Camera and playing Edith Fairchild on General Hospital. She even starred in a one-woman stage show as Leona Helmsley, which took place in a jail cell.

Joan has even appeared films like Saturday Night in Apple Valley, Perfect Victims, Opus of an Angel and more. She also appeared on other television shows like The Smith Family, Days of Our Lives, The Flying Dutchman, Dollhouse and more.

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She was first married actor John Myhers, who played Bert Bratt in the 1967 film adaptation of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, from 1962 to 1992, the year he died. Joan also married to Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger from On the Waterfront, In the Heat of the Night from 2000 to 2002, the year of his death. She then had a relationship with actor Jeremy Slate from Hell’s Angels ’69, One Life to Live until he died in 2006 from esophageal cancer at 80.

She told Women Fitness in 2016: "Both of my husbands, and my lifetime partner, Jeremy, were wonderful men who respected me as an actress. They all died from different forms of cancer, so my memories are sometimes bittersweet, but with no regrets."

Joan was born on July 12, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York and started performing at seven-years-old at the Brooklyn Academy of Music where she took up tap dancing. The actress was raised in a home near Prospect Park. She then decided to to study at the Rome Opera Ballet School, in Paris. She came back to New York and studied with Robert Lewis and Stella Adler at The Actors Studio.

Before her death, Joan wrote a memoir Brooklyn Baby: A Hollywood Star's Amazing Journey Through Love, Loss & Laughter, which published in 2016.