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Jessica Walter appeared in more than 170 productions across six decades, earning a Primetime Emmy for the television film Amy Prentiss and a Golden Globe nomination opposite Clint Eastwood in Play Misty for Me. Later generations knew her best as Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development and the voice of Malory Archer on the animated series Archer, roles that turned her into a template for a particular kind of imperious comic matriarch.