Susan Saint James, the husky-voiced Emmy-winning actress who starred opposite Rock Hudson in 'McMillan & Wife' and Jane Curtin in CBS's 'Kate & Allie,' died Monday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to a representative who confirmed her death to People magazine, as reported by the Washington Post, Variety and Deadline.

She was 80. Born Susan Jane Miller in Los Angeles on Aug.

14, 1946, she was raised in Rockford, Illinois, began modeling as a teenager, and landed a seven-year contract with Universal Studios at 20.

Her family remembered her as someone 'generous with her time and energy, which she valued more than money, and instinctively drawn to whoever needed lifting up.'

Saint James became a fixture for several generations of TV viewers through NBC's anthology drama 'The Name of the Game,' playing research assistant Peggy Maxwell, the one constant across three rotating leads.

The role won her the Emmy for supporting actress in a drama in 1969, with nominations in the two following years, per Variety.

Six months after that series ended, she returned as Sally McMillan, the plucky wife of Rock Hudson's San Francisco police commissioner in 'McMillan & Wife,' a role that ran five seasons from 1971 to 1976 and earned three more Emmy nominations, according to Deadline and Variety.

The Hollywood Reporter notes she was just 25 when the show bowed while Hudson was nearing 46.

In a turn that surprised fans at the time, Saint James walked away from a hit series at its peak, leaving 'McMillan & Wife' before its final season over a contract dispute, with her character killed off in a plane crash, Deadline and the Washington Post report.

She pivoted to the big screen, running with Peter Fonda in 'Outlaw Blues' (1977), playing Dracula's target opposite George Hamilton in 'Love at First Bite' (1979), and joining Jessica Lange and Jane Curtin in the heist comedy 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living' (1980).

The Hollywood Reporter adds she portrayed George Segal's wife in 'Carbon Copy' (1981), the film in which Denzel Washington made his movie debut.

In 1984 Saint James reunited with Curtin for CBS's 'Kate & Allie,' playing free-spirited Kate McArdle to Curtin's straight-laced Allie Lowell — two divorced childhood friends raising their kids together in a Greenwich Village brownstone.

Created by Sherry Coben, the series ran six seasons through 1989, earned three Emmy nominations for outstanding comedy series and gave Saint James two more nominations, Variety and Deadline report.

Page Six notes she took the role because she 'could relate to the problems of a divorced woman,' having been divorced twice. When the show was canceled, she largely retired, choosing to raise her children, and told People in 2002 she was tired of juggling 'knives and melons.'

While hosting 'Saturday Night Live' in 1981, Saint James met then-executive producer Dick Ebersol, and they married barely six weeks later, Deadline recounts — Ebersol once said he was in love with her by Monday. The couple's defining grief came on Nov.

28, 2004, when a private plane carrying Ebersol and their sons crashed in Colorado, killing 14-year-old Teddy.

Her family called her eulogy for Teddy — delivered as a note to each of her remaining children and husband — her 'defining act,' saying that 'even in the deepest grief of her life, she put everyone else first.'

After the crash she devoted time to helping parents who had lost children, Deadline reports.

Page Six reports that Saint James spent her final public moments celebrating her 80th birthday on Aug.

14 with a party at her Los Angeles home, after attending a Doobie Brothers concert the night before — a band she toured with in the '70s and '80s that surprised her by dedicating 'Black Water' to her, her late son Teddy's favorite song.

Her family told the outlet it 'was one of the best two days of her entire life.' Beyond the screen, she was a longtime Special Olympics advocate and received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2008, per Variety.

She is survived by Ebersol, four children, seven grandchildren, and her service dog Lola.