Farrah Fawcett star Lee Majors, were frequent tennis partners with producer Aaron Spelling. Spelling and his business partner eventually chose Fawcett to play Jill Munroe in their upcoming made-for-TV movie, "Charlie's Angels", a movie of the week which aired on March 21, 1976, on ABC. The movie starred Fawcett (then billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors), Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith as private investigators for Townsend Associates, a detective agency run by a reclusive multimillionaire whom the women had never met. Voiced by John Forsythe, the Charles Townsend character presented cases and dispensed advice via a speakerphone to his core team of three female
Edward Fawcett fortunes. Already ill from alcoholism, he died of tuberculosis at age 44 in Teignmouth, Devon. His widow died in London on 14 October 1902. Edward Fawcett Captain Edward Boyd Fawcett (11 October 1839 – 26 September 1884) was a British army officer and English cricketer active from 1859 to 1863. He was the father of explorer Percy Fawcett. Edward was born in India in Poona, British India to Henry Fawcett and Mary Sophia Fawcett. He was educated at Brighton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Fawcett played for the Sussex County Cricket Club. He appeared in 21 first-class matches as a