‘It’s A Living’ Star Barrie Youngfellow Dies At 75

Actress Barrie Youngfellow, who appeared for six seasons on 1980s TV comedy It’s a Living, died on March 28th at the age of 75. No cause or place of death was disclosed.

Born Barrie Rivchun in Cleveland, Ohio on October 22, 1946, she began her career in 1973 with a guest role in sitcom The New Temperatures Rising. More TV appearances followed, including The Streets of San Francisco, Police Woman, Jigsaw John, Fernwood Tonight, Barney Miller, The Jeffersons and Three’s Company. Youngfellow’s first regularly scheduled TV series was the short-lived comedy A.E.S. Hudson in 1978. Two years later, in 1980, she was cast as waitress Jan Hoffmeyer on sitcom It’s A Living. After two abbreviated seasons on ABC, it moved into first-run syndication for four additional seasons.

In 1990, It’s a Living producers Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas cast Youngfellow in the pilot episode of Blossom as the mother of Mayim Bialik’s title character. She did not, however, continue with the project when NBC picked it up as a regular series.

In 1998, she made her last TV appearance, in an episode of Law & Order.

Youngfellow is survived by her sisters Heidi and Kim Rivchun.