Actress Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80 Moore gained fame in the 1960s as the frazzled wife Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/2jqpJ5K New York – Mary Tyler Moore, the star of TV’s beloved “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” whose comic realism helped revolutionize the depiction of women on the small screen, died Wednesday, said her publicist, Mara Buxbaum.