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In 1982, Ms. Williams became pregnant and wanted her working hours curtailed. When her demands weren’t met, she walked off the set and filed suit against its production company. She appeared infrequently during the final season.

Cynthia Williams was born one of two sisters in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles on Aug. 22, 1947. Her mother was a waitress, and her father was an electronics technician who uprooted the family to before returning to Southern California.

She was drawn to acting as an escape from an unhappy and violent childhood and into a world of happy suburban sitcom families.

“I was a kid with an alcoholic father whose parents would get in telegram database violent fights,” she told the Waterloo Region Record. “And I’d be watching ‘My Little Margie’ or ‘Your Show of Shows,’ and they would take me away. It was ‘forget your troubles — come on, get happy.’”

Ms. Williams majored in theater arts at Los Angeles City College and began winning TV roles in the late 1960s. Producer Ross Hunter became one of her key early supporters, saying she had an understated quality that made audiences identify with her.

She appeared in the film “Travels With My Aunt” (1972), directed by George Cukor. But her part in “American Graffiti,” a cinematic forerunner to a nostalgia boom for the 1950s and early 1960s that would follow, would help lead to her defining TV role.

“Happy Days,” starring her “American Graffiti” co-star Ron Howard, would premiere the following year. The characters of Laverne and Shirley made their first TV appearance as dates of Henry Winkler’s Fonzie before they got their own show.