Beverly Garland
Acting
- Born:
- 1926-10-17
- Died:
- 2008-12-05
- Place of birth:
- Santa Cruz, California, United States
Biography
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
Known For
Filmography
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
If
The Guardian
Drive-In Movie Memories
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Frank Sinatra Memorial
Teen Angel
The Angry Beavers
Frank Sinatra: The Swinging Years
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
7th Heaven
Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces
Hellfire
Spider-Man
Friends
Ellen
Diagnosis: Murder
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
The Wish That Changed Christmas
To The Moon, Alice
P.S. I Luv U
Finding the Way Home
Death Falls
The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid
Crazy like a Fox
Finder of Lost Loves
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
This Girl for Hire
Remington Steele
Matt Houston
Hotel
Gamble on Love
Magnum, P.I.
Enos
It's My Turn
Roller Boogie
Trapper John, M.D.
Hart to Hart
Abraham's Sacrifice
Sixth and Main
How the West Was Won
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
The Tony Randall Show
Charlie's Angels
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Switch
The Deadly Volley
Airport 1975
The Day the Earth Moved
Planet of the Apes
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Healers
Unwed Father
The Six Million Dollar Man
Voyage of the Yes
The Weekend Nun
Kung Fu
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
Temperatures Rising
The Rookies
And Then They Forgot God
Cannon
The Pet Set
Cutter's Trail
Medical Center
Then Came Bronson
The Mad Room
The Mod Squad
Lancer
Pretty Poison
Mannix
The Mothers-in-Law
Judd, for the Defense
Ironside
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
The Loner
The Wild Wild West
Laredo
The Bing Crosby Show
Calhoun
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Fugitive
Twice-Told Tales
Miss USA
The Dakotas
Stark Fear
Going My Way
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Sam Benedict
Bus Stop
Dr. Kildare
87th Precinct
Cain's Hundred
The Asphalt Jungle
Stagecoach West
My Three Sons
Thriller
Danger Man
Coronado 9
Hawaiian Eye
The Twilight Zone
Riverboat
The Alligator People
Rawhide
Gundown at Sandoval
Yancy Derringer
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Saga of Hemp Brown
The Edge of Innocence
Decoy
Trackdown
The Joker is Wild
Perry Mason
Chicago Confidential
Badlands of Montana
Not of This Earth
The O. Henry Playhouse
Naked Paradise
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Wire Service
It Conquered the World
Gunslinger
Telephone Time
Swamp Women
The Steel Jungle
The Go-Getter
Sudden Danger
The Desperate Hours
Frontier
Navy Log
Gunsmoke
New Orleans Uncensored
New York Confidential
The Millionaire
The Wonderful World of Disney
Climax!
Studio 57
Medic
Two Guns and a Badge
Killer Leopard
The Desperado
The Miami Story
The Lone Wolf
The Rocket Man
Bitter Creek
The Fabulous Oliver Chantry
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
City Detective
The Neanderthal Man
Problem Girls
The Ford Television Theatre
Four Star Playhouse
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Lux Video Theatre
A Life of Her Own
Mama Rosa
D.O.A.
The Lone Ranger