Life Appreciation: Georgia Engel’s ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ character the friend we’d all like to have April 16, 2019 Bill Keveney, USA TODAY Comments Off on Appreciation: Georgia Engel’s ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ character the friend we’d all like to have Georgia Engel, who died Friday at 70, is familiar from many roles, but best known as sweet Georgette from 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' in the 1970s.