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From in Houston, Texas she started her career as a singing with the Doodletown Pipers, later she turned to acting full-time. Graves’ first big television appearance was on ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'' in 1969 and 1970. Graves appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and on several Bob Hope television specials in 1970 and 1971; she had a feature role in ''The Funny Side,'' a television series in 1971 and 1972. She was in several movies in the mid-1970s, including ''That Man Bolt,'' ''Black Eye,'' and ''Old Dracula.'' Perhaps Graves’ biggest small screen part was starring as a lively undercover cop in the television police drama Get Christie Love in 1974-75. On ''Get Christie Love,'' she played the first Black woman hired by a big-city police department. Her final show business appearance was in a Bob Hope special in 1982. Graves then left acting to concentrate on her involvement with the Jehovah's Witnesses. Teresa Graves died in a fire at her Hyde Park (Los Angeles) home on October 11, 2002; Reference: Jet Magazine Johnson Publishing 820 South Michigan Avenue Chicago IL 60605
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