Joan Pringle is an American actress best known for playing vice principal "Sybil Buchanan" in the TV series The White Shadow

The White Shadow

The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27, 1978, to March 16, 1981.-Overview:...

. During the third and final season her character was promoted to principal. She also appeared in many TV shows ranging from The Waltons

The Waltons

The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show centered on a family growing up in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II. The series pilot was a television...

to Kojak

Kojak

Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier...

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She was married to fellow actor Theodore Wilson

Theodore Wilson

Theodore "Teddy" Wilson was an American character actor best known for his recurring role as Sweet Daddy Williams on the CBS sitcom Good Times.-Career:...

 from January 1980 until his death in July 1991. She and Wilson co-starred in The White Shadow

The White Shadow

The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27, 1978, to March 16, 1981.-Overview:...

episode "A Christmas Present" and became engaged when the two were recurring characters on the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 series That's My Mama

That's My Mama

That's My Mama is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the ABC network from September 1974 until December 1975. There are 39 episodes of this series.-Synopsis:...

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Pringle starred as Ruth Marshall in the daytime drama Generations from 1989-1991 for NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

. Recent guest roles from film and television include Tyler Perry's Daddy's Girls and on Girlfriends

Girlfriends

Girlfriends is an American comedy-drama sitcom that premiered on September 11, 2000, on UPN and aired on UPN's successor network, The CW, before being cancelled in 2008...

as Carol Hart.

She also guest appeared in an episode of season 1 of Friends

Friends

Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

as Dr. Oberman in "The One with the Sonogram at the End

The One with the Sonogram at the End

"The One with the Sonogram at the End" is the second episode of the NBC television series Friends. It is the second episode of the show's first season and was broadcast on September 29, 1994.-Plot:...

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Joan has since remarried to multi-media producer Vernon L. Bolling.

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