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Beverly Garland

Beverly Garland

Actor · 1926 – 2008 · Santa Cruz, California, United States

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

Movies24

  • Movie5.8

    Airport 1975

    1974 · 305 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Pretty Poison

    1968 · 96 votes

  • Movie4.0
  • Movie7.0

    The Desperate Hours

    1955 · 188 votes

  • Movie8.1

    The Joker is Wild

    1957 · 155 votes

  • Movie5.8

    It's My Turn

    1980 · 33 votes

  • Movie7.0

    To The Moon, Alice

    1991 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Not of This Earth

    1957 · 72 votes

  • Movie6.9

    D.O.A.

    1949 · 206 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Roller Boogie

    1979 · 46 votes

  • Movie4.9

    It Conquered the World

    1956 · 55 votes

  • Movie7.4
  • Movie6.2

    Twice-Told Tales

    1963 · 85 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Mad Room

    1969 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.4

    The Saga of Hemp Brown

    1958 · 9 votes

  • Movie5.3

    A Life of Her Own

    1950 · 20 votes

  • Movie7.2
  • Movie5.0

    This Girl for Hire

    1983 · 7 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Where the Red Fern Grows

    1974 · 58 votes

  • Movie5.6

    The Alligator People

    1959 · 66 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Chicago Confidential

    1957 · 19 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Death Falls

    1991 · 2 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie4.5

    Problem Girls

    1953 · 4 votes

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  • TV8.4

    Friends

    1994 · 9.4K votes

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.1

    Diagnosis: Murder

    1993 · 128 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV7.3

    Magnum, P.I.

    1980 · 460 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.3
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    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV6.9
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    Cannon

    1971 · 41 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV6.8

    Hotel

    1982 · 26 votes

  • TV6.7

    Charlie's Angels

    1976 · 241 votes

  • TV6.6

    My Three Sons

    1960 · 41 votes

  • TV7.1

    Remington Steele

    1982 · 147 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV6.3

    Matt Houston

    1982 · 28 votes

  • TV8.3

    Spider-Man

    1994 · 1.2K votes

  • TV6.6

    Trapper John, M.D.

    1979 · 23 votes

  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes