{"id":2271732,"date":"2026-02-07T20:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2271732"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:23:31","slug":"camilla-carr-actress-in-keep-my-grave-open-and-designing-women-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/camilla-carr-actress-in-keep-my-grave-open-and-designing-women-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Camilla Carr, Actress in \u2018Keep My Grave Open\u2019 and \u2018Designing Women,\u2019 Dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0139629\/\">Camilla Carr<\/a>, the Texas-born actress who appeared for director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0115259\/\">S.F. Brownrigg<\/a> in the low-budget 1970s horror films <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069994\/\">Don\u2019t Look in the Basement<\/a>, Poor White Trash Part II and Keep My Grave Open, has died. She was 83.<\/p>\n<p>Carr died Wednesday in El Paso, Texas, of complications from Alzheimer\u2019s and a dislocated hip, her son, writer, poet and painter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10909073\/\">Caley O\u2019Dwyer<\/a>, told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1151586\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carr also stood out on CBS\u2019 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0090418\/\">Designing Women<\/a> when she portrayed a Sugarbaker client who thinks gay men who contract AIDS are getting what they deserve in the October 1987 episode \u201cThey\u2019re Killing All the Right People,\u201d written by series creator <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0089124\/\">Linda Bloodworth Thomason<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carr played an unhinged patient who kills a nurse in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069994\/\">Don\u2019t Look in the Basement<\/a> (1973) and a devious hillbilly daughter in Poor White Trash Part II (1974) \u2014 a drive-in hit also known as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057480\/\">Scum of the Earth<\/a> \u2014 before she starred in Keep My&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camilla Carr, the Texas-born actress who appeared for director S.F. Brownrigg in the low-budget 1970s horror films Don\u2019t Look in the Basement, Poor White Trash Part II and Keep My Grave Open, has died. She was 83. Carr died Wednesday in El Paso, Texas, of complications from Alzheimer\u2019s and a dislocated hip, her son, writer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2271733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2271732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Camilla-Carr-Actress-in-\u2018Keep-My-Grave-Open-and-\u2018Designing.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271734,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271732\/revisions\/2271734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}