Actress, comic also did voice-overs
Kathryn Ish, 71, an actress and voice-over talent who along with her late husband, actor Richard Stahl, was part of the San Francisco improv comedy group the Committee in the 1960s, died Dec. 31 at her Santa Barbara home after an almost three-year battle with cancer, said her daughter, Allegra Stahl.
Ish, whose career ranged from off-Broadway theater to the TV sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” was born in San Jose. She and Stahl met in New York in 1959 as off-Broadway theater actors, and they married that year. They went on to perform in a variety of nightclub and cabaret acts.
Ish’s TV and movie credits include “WKRP in Cincinnati,” “The Love Boat” and the 1995 comedy-drama “The American President.” Her voice-over work has been heard in more than 75 films and TV shows, her daughter said.
Ish and her husband settled in Santa Barbara in 1975.
Richard Stahl, whose screen credits include Mel Brooks’ 1977 spoof “High Anxiety” and TV’s “The Odd Couple,” died in 2006.
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