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
Farrah Fawcett (1981), "Extremities" (1986), "The Apostle" (1997), and "Dr. T & the Women" (2000). Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006, and she died three years later at age 62. The 2009 NBC documentary "Farrah's Story" chronicled her battle with the disease. She posthumously earned her fourth Emmy nomination for her work as a producer on the documentary. Fawcett was born in 1947 in Corpus Christi, Texas; she was the youngest of two daughters. Her mother, Pauline Alice Fawcett (née Evans; 1914–2005), was a homemaker, and her father, James William Fawcett (1917–2010), was an oil field contractor. Her elder sister,