Barrie Youngfellow Passes On

Barrie Youngfelllow, who played Jan on the sitcom It's a Living, died on March 28 2022 at the age of 75.

Barrie Youngfellow was born Barrie Sarah Rivchun on October 22 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio. She played in local productions of Peter Pan. She made her television debut in a bit part on Temperatures Rising in 1973. She was a regular on the short-lived show A.E.S. Hudson Street before she began appearing on It's a Living  in 1980. The show aired for two seasons on ABC. It was then revived in original syndication in 1985 and ran for another four seasons. In the Seventies she also guest starred on the shows The Streets of San Francisco, Police Woman, Jigsaw John, Fernwood 2 Night, Carter Country, Emergency!, Barney Miller, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, WKRP in Cincinnati, The Jeffersons, Three's Company, Paris,and Good Time Harry. She played Joan Crawford in the TV movie The Scarlett O'Hara War. She made her film debut in the movie Nightmare in Blood in 1977. She also appeared in the film 3 Women (1977).

In the Eighties Barrie Youngfellow continued to appear on It's a Living. She guest starred on the shows Filthy Rich; It Takes Two; Trapper John, M.D.; ABC Weekend Specials; and Murder, She Wrote. She appeared as the title character's mother in the pilot of Blossom, but she did not continue on the show. Her last appearance was on an episode of Law & Order in 1998.