Brady Bunch star Ann B Davis kicks the bucket at 88

Ann B Davis in 2003 The Brady Bunch ran from 1969 to 1974

Ann B Davis, the American performing artist best referred to for her part as Alice Nelson, the servant in the TV arrangement The Brady Bunch, has passed on at 88 years old.

A medicinal analyst in Texas said Ms Davis had passed on Sunday morning.

US media reports said she had fallen in her home. An examination is booked for Monday.

The Brady Bunch ran from 1969 to 1974. Ms Davis won two Emmy Awards for a prior part in the sitcom The Bob Cummings Show.

A companion of Ms Davis, Bishop William Frey, told CNN she had fallen and hit her head, and experienced a subdural hematoma which she never recaptured cognizance.

The Brady Bunch was unordinary at the time in concentrating on a non-conventional family however was never questionable.

It diagramed the marriage of a dowager raising three girls with a widower and his three children.

Ms Davis once composed of the show: "Wouldn't we all affection to have fit in with an immaculate family, with siblings and sisters to incline toward and where each issue is illuminated in 23 and a half minutes?"

Her part as Charmaine "Schultzy" Schultz on The Bob Cummings Show ran from 1955 to 1959.

It earned her a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 1960, notwithstanding her two Emmys.