Helena Enize Humann, Movie, TV Actress

DALLAS - Helena Enize Humann, an actress who drew praise for her role as the bossy "Peach" in the 1989 TV miniseries "Lonesome Dove," died Tuesday after a long illness. She was 52.

Ms. Humann recently played Mother Superior in the comedy movie "Problem Child."

She got her start in films playing the town tart, Jimmy Sue, in "The Last Picture Show" in 1971.

She also appeared in numerous commercials and more than a dozen TV and film productions, including "Tender Mercies" and the award-winning PBS show, "Who Built This Place?"

In the original CBS "Lonesome Dove," Ms. Humann portrayed a feisty widow who was the sister-in-law of Sheriff July Johnson. Peach badgered the Arkansas lawman into going after her husband's killer.

Onstage, she worked with some of the biggest names in show business, including Vincent Price, Mercedes McCambridge, Herschel Bernardi and Van Johnson.