What is Phyllis Diller?
[[Image:Phyllis diller 2-25-2007.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Phyllis Diller in 2007]] '''Phyllis Ada Driver''' (July 17, 1917 &ndash; August 20, 2012) was an [[Americans|American]] voice, [[movie]] and stage [[Actor|actress]] and [[comedian]] who makes self deprecating jokes about her age and her terrible cooking. She has performed in many movies and [[television]] programs. ==Early life== Diller was born on July 17, 1917 in [[Lima, Ohio]]. She was of [[Germany|German]] and [[Irish people|Irish]] descent. She was educated at Bluffton College, she was the classmate of [[Hugh Downs]]. ==Career== Diller's career would begin in 1952 and would later appear in almost 100 of movies and television programs, her movie include; ''The Fat Spy'', ''The Boneyard'', ''Happily Ever After'', ''Silence of the Hams'', and in ''[[A Bug's Life]]''. Her television programs appearances also include; ''Alice Through the Looking Glass'', ''The Pruitts of Southampton'' aka ''The Phyllis Diller Show'', ''The Muppet Show'', ''Hey Arnold!'', ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' and as [[Peter Griffin]]'s mother in ''[[Family Guy]]''. ==Personal life== Diller married [[Sherwood Anderson]] Diller from 1939 to 1965. Second and thirdly, she married Warde Donovan from 1965 to 1966, and again they married until they divorced again in 1974. She had a partner Robert P. Hastings from 1985 until his death in 1996.<ref>[http://www.tributes.com/show/Robert-Hastings-72540174 Robert P. Hastings - Obituary - Los Angeles, CA - Tributes.com]</ref> She had six children with her first husband. ===Death=== Diller died of natural causes in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]] on August 20, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|last=D'Zurilla|first=Christy|title=Phyllis Diller dead at 95: Celebrities react|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-phyllis-diller-dead-20120820,0,2936460.story|publisher=The Los Angeles Times|accessdate=20 August 2012}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons|Phyllis Diller}} *{{IMDb name|226887}} *{{IBDB name|85406}} *{{Fi