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Beverly Garland

17th October 1926 Santa Cruz, California, United States Acting

Beverly Garland (1926–2008) was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence with her role on My Three Sons. In the 1980s, she co-starred as Kate Jackson's widowed mother on Scarecrow and Mrs. King. She also had a recurring role as on 7th Heaven. Had the Fates smiled upon her, the versatile Beverly Garland would have been one of the biggest female stars in films. She started out well, with a plum part in the noir classic DOA (1949), in which she was billed as Beverly Campbell. Alas, Garland was never one to keep her opinions to herself, and her pointed comments about some of her DOA colleagues turned her into a Hollywood pariah before her career had even begun. She eventually worked her way back up the ladder with supporting roles in theatrical features and guest-star assignments on television. Garland rapidly earned a reputation as a "good luck charm" for TV-pilot producers, who could usually count on a sale if Garland was featured in their product. She guested on the first episode of Medic as an expectant leukemia victim, and was co-starred in the pilots of no fewer than three Rod Cameron TV vehicles: City Detective, State Trooper and Coronado 9, all of which sold. In the mid-1950s, Garland was briefly the inamorata of quickie producer/director Roger Corman, who prominently cast her in such cheapies as It Conquered the World (1955) and Not of This Earth (1956). She starred in the 1957 syndicated TV series Policewoman Decoy, which permitted her to adopt a variety of convincing guises in the line of duty. From the 1960s on, Garland was everyone's favorite TV wife or mother: she played Bing Crosby's wife in The Bing Crosby Show (1964), Fred MacMurray's wife on the last three seasons (1969-72) of My Three Sons, Stephanie Zimbalist's mother in Remington Steele (1982-86) and Kate Jackson's mother on Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983-87). Active into the 1990s, Beverly Garland supplemented her acting income with her job as spokesperson for a major Midwestern travel agency. She died in 2008 at age

63 Movies 107 TV Shows 180 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

If poster
If 26th April 2003 as Katherine
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D.O.A. 23rd December 1949 as Miss Foster
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Spider-Man 19th November 1994 as Miranda Wilson (voice)
Friends poster
Friends 22nd September 1994 as Aunt Iris
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Ellen 29th March 1994 as Eva
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Hotel 21st August 1982 as Alice Korman
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Enos 12th November 1980
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Switch 9th September 1975 as Nancy Thomas
Kung Fu poster
Kung Fu 14th October 1972 as Mrs. Theresa Hobart
Mannix poster
Mannix 16th September 1967 as Edna Reston
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Thriller 13th September 1960 as Ruth Kenton
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Rawhide 9th January 1959 as Della Locke
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Decoy 14th October 1957 as Casey Jones
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Frontier 25th September 1955 as Sarah Garvey
Gunsmoke poster
Gunsmoke 10th September 1955 as Claire Hollis
Climax! poster
Climax! 7th October 1954 as Shirley Connors
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Medic 13th September 1954 as Estelle Collins