Beverly Garland
Birthday: 1926-10-17
Deathday: 2008-12-05
Birthplace: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned
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
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2003-12-20 | Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure | Aunt Jessica |
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2003-04-26 | If | Katherine |
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2001-08-31 | Drive-In Movie Memories | |
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1995-01-23 | Hellfire | Carlotta |
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1991-12-20 | The Wish That Changed Christmas | Miss Shepherd (voice) |
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1991-10-02 | To the Moon, Alice | Personnel Manager |
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1991-08-26 | Finding the Way Home | Arlene Mittelman |
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1991-01-01 | Death Falls | Mae Baxter |
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1990-09-20 | The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid | Brenda's Mother |
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1983-01-11 | This Girl for Hire | Evan Picard |
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1982-01-01 | Gamble on Love | Kitty |
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1980-10-24 | It's My Turn | Emma |
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1979-12-19 | Roller Boogie | Lillian Barkley |
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1979-05-22 | Abraham's Sacrifice | Sarah |
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1977-09-01 | Sixth and Main | Monica Cord |
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1975-01-27 | The Deadly Volley | Team Owner |
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1974-10-18 | Airport 1975 | Mrs. Scott Freeman |
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1974-09-18 | The Day the Earth Moved | Helen Backsler |
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1974-06-21 | Where the Red Fern Grows | Mother |
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1974-05-22 | The Healers | Laura Kier |
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1974-02-27 | Unwed Father | Estelle |
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1973-01-16 | Voyage of the Yes | Agatha Markwell |
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1972-12-20 | The Weekend Nun | Bobby Sue Prewitt |
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1972-09-27 | Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole | Myrna Anderson |
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1971-12-31 | And Then They Forgot God | Vilma Thompson |
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1970-02-10 | Cutter's Trail | Maggie |
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1969-05-01 | The Mad Room | Mrs. Racine |
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1968-07-18 | Pretty Poison | Mrs. Stepanek |
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1964-07-08 | Calhoun | Nan Sloane |
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1963-09-01 | Twice-Told Tales | Alice Pyncheon |
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1962-12-01 | Stark Fear | Ellen Winslow |
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1959-07-16 | The Alligator People | Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin |
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1959-01-01 | Gundown at Sandoval | Mrs. Amanda Barko |
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1958-09-05 | The Saga of Hemp Brown | Mona Langley |
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1957-10-31 | The Edge of Innocence | Gay Sherman |
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1957-09-26 | The Joker is Wild | Cassie Mack |
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1957-08-30 | Chicago Confidential | Laura Barton |
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1957-05-01 | Badlands of Montana | Susan Hammer |
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1957-02-10 | Not of This Earth | Nadine Story |
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1957-01-01 | Naked Paradise | Max MacKenzie |
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1956-12-01 | Curucu, Beast of the Amazon | Dr. Andrea Romar |
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1956-07-14 | It Conquered the World | Claire Anderson |
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1956-06-01 | Gunslinger | Marshal Rose Hood |
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1956-04-01 | Swamp Women | Vera |
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1956-03-10 | The Steel Jungle | Frances 'Francie' Novak |
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1956-01-01 | The Go-Getter | Peggy |
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1955-12-14 | Sudden Danger | Phyllis Baxter |
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1955-10-05 | The Desperate Hours | Miss Swift |
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1955-03-01 | New Orleans Uncensored | Marie Reilly |
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1955-02-15 | New York Confidential | |
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1954-09-11 | Two Guns and a Badge | Gail Sterling |
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1954-08-22 | Killer Leopard | Linda Winters |
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1954-06-20 | The Desperado | Laurie Bannerman |
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1954-05-03 | The Miami Story | Holly Abbott |
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1954-04-01 | The Rocket Man | Ludine |
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1954-02-21 | Bitter Creek | Gail Bonner |
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1953-12-13 | The Fabulous Oliver Chantry | Parker |
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1953-06-19 | The Neanderthal Man | Nola Mason, bar waitress |
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1953-04-07 | Problem Girls | Nancy Eaton |
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1950-09-01 | A Life of Her Own | Party Guest (uncredited) |
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1949-12-23 | D.O.A. | Miss Foster |