Patricia Loud Dies: ‘An American Family’ Matriarch & First Reality TV Mom Was 94 - Deadline
Patricia Loud, the matriarch of the Loud family in the TV documentary An American Family died on Sunday from natural causes.She and her family entered the spotlight as one of the subjects of what is considered the first American reality television series.Filmed from May 30 through December 31, 1971, An American Family follows the daily life of the Loud family, an upper-middle-class family based in Santa Barbara.
What was initially a look into the Loud life became a series that chronicled the divorce of William and Pat Loud.
He died in 2001 and William Loud died in 2018 at 97.