Beverly Garland

Known for ActingBorn 1926-10-17Died 2008-12-05Santa 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 ageRead more

Movies & web series

Bus Stop

The Go-Getter

Two Guns and a Badge

Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces

The Healers

Wire Service

Friends

Spider-Man

Finding the Way Home

The Twilight Zone

The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

Drive-In Movie Memories

Frank Sinatra: The Swinging Years

The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid

Sixth and Main

Cutter's Trail

The Joker is Wild

Gundown at Sandoval

The Lone Wolf

If

The Wonderful World of Disney

87th Precinct

Kung Fu

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

Judd, for the Defense

Perry Mason

The Ford Television Theatre

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

Temperatures Rising

The Wild Wild West

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Wish That Changed Christmas

Magnum, P.I.

Frontier

Crazy like a Fox

Diagnosis: Murder

Studio 57

City Detective

The Six Million Dollar Man

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

The Guardian

Enos

Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door

The Angry Beavers

The Fugitive

Remington Steele

To The Moon, Alice

Danger Man