Soap opera matriarch dies
Reid played Alice Horton on 'Days of Our Lives'
February 4, 2010, 2:39 p.m.
STAFF REPORT
"Days of Our Lives" matriarch Frances Reid, who played Alice Horton on the long-running soap, died Wednesday at the age of 95.
Reid appeared last on NBC's hit show in December of 2007. She also had roles on "As the World Turns" and "The Edge of Night."
Reid played the silver-haired, mild-mannered matriarch of the show's Horton clan since 1965 – a role she initially turned down.
Reid was raised in Berkeley, Calif., and later moved to New York to pursue her acting career on the stage, landing roles in "Cyrano de Bergerac," "Hamlet" and "Twelfth Night."
Her character on "Days" was believed to have been killed off by the show's Salem Stalker in 2004, but it turned out to be a hoax and she returned later the same year.
Reid won the Daytime Emmy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004 and was married to late actor Philip Bourneuf for 43 years. She had no children.