Posted AT 6:28 PM EDT on 17/03/04
Mercedes McCambridge, 85
Los Angeles —
Actress Mercedes McCambridge, who won an Oscar for the 1949 film
All the King's Men and later provided the raspy voice of the demon-possessed girl in
The Exorcist, has died. She was 85.
McCambridge died from natural causes on March 2, the Rev. Joe Carroll, a friend and the founder of a San Diego charity for the homeless, said Tuesday. She had lived in the La Jolla area of San Diego since the 1980s.
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