Actor who made her name in comedy films as an acid-tongued, gravel-voiced tyrantEileen Brennan, who has died aged 80, had been a stage actor since the late 1950s, but it was as a largely comic presence in US cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s that she was most widely admired. As the pitiless Captain Doreen Lewis, putting a dippy new recruit " Goldie Hawn " through her paces in the hit military comedy Private Benjami…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AM on July 31, 2013