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Della Reese, a performer and pastor best known for her starring role on the CBS spiritual drama Touched by an Angel, has died at 86. "Her signature television role came late in life," NPR's Eric ...
LOS ANGELES – Della Reese, the actress and gospel ... “The Royal Family” and hosted her own talk show, “Della.” “Touched by an Angel” was a gamble for CBS from the start.
I know heaven has a brand new angel this day. Della Reese will be forever in ... work," she said later of the hit CBS drama. Reese credited the show's success to its inspirational plot lines.
Della Reese who enjoyed dual careers ... grew to become one of television's highest-rated dramas. The show followed an apprentice angel (Roma Downey) and her supervisor (Reese) who were sent ...
Reese was mainly known as a singer, although she had costarred on "Chico and the Man," ''Charlie and Company" and "The Royal Family" and hosted her own talk show, "Della." "Touched by an Angel ...
Della Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced hit-making chanteuse who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the ... Carson's "The Tonight Show" after an aneurysm ...
She hosted her own show, “Della,” in 1969-’70. But it was “Touched by an Angel” that garnered her the most attention. From 1994 to 2002, Downey and Reese explored religion, playing an ...
Della Reese will be forever in our hearts ... angel” Tess on the CBS series Touched By an Angel beginning in 1994. Though the show was initially met with mixed reviews, it went on to become ...
LOS ANGELES – Della Reese, the actress and gospel ... “The Royal Family” and hosted her own talk show, “Della.” “Touched by an Angel” was a gamble for CBS from the start.
LOS ANGELES — Della Reese, who segued from pop and jazz ... star of the inspirational CBS show “Touched by an Angel.” Though the show was axed during its debut 1994-95 season, a letter ...