LOS ANGELES, May 18 (UPI) -- British actress Anna Lee, known to "General Hospital" soap opera fans as matriarch Lila Quartermaine, has died of pneumonia. She was 91.
Lee died Friday at her home near Beverly Hills, Calif., the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Lee played the kind, motherly character on "General Hospital" for 25 years, mostly while seated in a wheelchair after a car accident two decades ago.
Before she joined the long-running soap, Lee was a busy film actress from the 1940s through the 1960s. She was in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" in 1947 with Rex Harrison and played the part of a nun in 1965's "The Sound of Music."
The actress, who left "General Hospital" last year, was set to receive a Daytime Emmy Awards lifetime achievement honor Friday.
Survivors include two daughters from her first marriage, two sons from her second marriage, including soap opera actor Jeffrey Byron, a sister, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
