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Beverly Lucy Garland (; October 17, 1926 – December 5, 2008) was an American actress. Her work in feature films primarily consisted of small parts in a few major productions or leads in low-budget action and science-fiction movies; however, she had prominent recurring roles on several popular television series.
In 1957–1958, she starred in the TV crime-drama Decoy, which ran for 39 episodes, but she may be best remembered as Barbara Harper Douglas, the woman who married widower Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) in the latter years of the sitcom My Three Sons. She played in that role from 1969 until the series concluded in 1972. In the 1980s, she co-starred as Dotty West, the mother of Kate Jackson's character, in the CBS television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. She had a recurring role as Ginger Jackson on 7th Heaven..
Garland played Nina in the drama Mama Rosa in 1950. In the 1950s, many of her roles were of secure, tough women who could handle themselves in violent situations. One such role was as a secrets-keeping secretary in D.O.A.. In 1956, she played a female marshal in the Western Gunslinger with Chris Alcaide as her deputy; a prison escapee in Swamp Diamonds; and a scientist's wife who battles an alien in It Conquered the World. All three films were directed by Roger Corman, and all were parodied in the 1990s by Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Garland guest-starred in 1956 as Nelli Austin, a rodeo sharpshooter, in the episode "Rodeo Rough House" of Rod Cameron's syndicated drama series State Trooper. Claude Akins appeared in this episode as the murderous rodeo clown. Garland and Akins appeared together again in the 1960 episode "Prison Trail" of the TV series and again in the 1963 episode "The Chooser of the Slain" of The Dakotas. Garland and Akins also appeared in The Zane Grey Theatre episodes "Courage is a Gun" and "Jericho".
In 1955, Garland was cast in the episode "Man Down, Woman Screaming" of Rod Cameron's first syndicated series, City Detective. On September 5, 1955, she co-starred in an episode of Science Fiction Theatre called "The Negative Man". Around the same time, she appeared in the first Brian Keith series, Crusader. In 1959, Garland was cast as the wife of a bounty hunter in Season 2, Episode 2 of Rawhide "Incident of the Roman Candles". The same year, she had a two guest appearances in the CBS post-Civil War adventure series Yancy Derringer, appearing as the character Coco the pirate, one of Yancy's many female friends. She appeared twice in 1960 as Doris Denny Bona in the episodes "Remember the Alamo" and "The Widow of Kill Cove" of Cameron's third syndicated series, Coronado 9. In 1960, Garland was cast as Dr. Nora James in the episode "Three Graves" of Riverboat.
Garland also appeared in 1960 in episode 28, "Saddles and Spurs", of the first season of the Western show Laramie. In 1962–1963, Garland was a regular on the CBS version of Pantomime Quiz.
In 1963, she starred as “Leah”, a bar girl in the Long Branch who loses her fiancée then is revived in life in the Gunsmoke episode “The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner” (S8E36).
She appeared in a season-one episode, "Smoke Screen", of The Fugitive. In the 1964–1965 television season, she co-starred as Ellie Collins on The Bing Crosby Show. (2025). 9780786464777, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 9780786464777 She appeared in the 1968 feature film Pretty Poison, but is best known for playing suburban mothers on My Three Sons and Scarecrow and Mrs. King.
In 1974, Garland went under the ape makeup for an episode of the Planet of the Apes television series. The episode was called "The Interrogation" and she played a rather cunning chimpanzee who tries, through brainwashing, to get answers from the captured Pete Burke.
In the 1980s, she co-starred as Dotty West, the mother of Kate Jackson's character for the entire four-season run of the CBS television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. She also featured in two episodes of Remington Steele as the mother of Laura Holt (played by series star Stephanie Zimbalist) in the early 1980s and in six episodes of as the mother of Lois Lane in the mid-1990s. Her decades of television guest appearances included episodes of Twilight Zone, Kung Fu, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
On 7th Heaven, she appeared in nine episodes as Ginger Jackson, the stepmother of Annie Camden, opposite Graham Jarvis. In addition to working with Peter Graves on 7th Heaven, Garland also starred opposite Graves's brother, James Arness, in four episodes of Gunsmoke. On radio, she was an original player of the California Actors Radio Theatre, which often recorded its programs on the grounds of Garland's hotel in the Beverly Garland Little Theater, which was decorated with large movie posters from many of her feature films.
In 1999, her husband of 39 years, businessman Filmore Crank, died. They had two children together, and two from Crank's previous marriage.
Subsequently, Garland combined her acting career with an increased devotion to the North Hollywood hotel that Crank built and named for her. Originally built as a Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge in the 1970s, Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn, highwayhost.org; accessed July 31, 2015. it became a 255-room Spanish Mission–style resort called Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn, and was renamed The Garland in 2014.
She was the honorary mayor of North Hollywood, and she served on the boards of the California Tourism Corporation as well as the Greater Los Angeles Visitors' and Convention Bureau.
Several hundred people attended a memorial service and reception on December 13 at her namesake hotel property. Her body was cremated.
Death
On December 5, 2008, Garland died from natural causes at her home of over 40 years in the Hollywood Hills after a lengthy illness.McLellan, Dennis. "Beverly Garland, versatile actress in film and TV, dies at 82", Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2008.
Selected filmography
1949 D.O.A. Miss Foster Credited as Beverly Campbell 1950 The Lone Ranger Laura Lawson TV, 1 episode: "The Beeler Gang" 1951 Strictly Dishonorable Armorclad Mentoring Isabelle in opera Caesar Uncredited 1953 The Neanderthal Man Nola Mason, waitress Problem Girls Nancy Eaton 1954 The Miami Story Holly Abbott The Desperado Laurie Bannerman Killer Leopard Linda Winters Medic Estelle Collins TV, 1 episode: "White Is the Color"
Nominated for Best Actress in a Single Performance Emmy Award1954–1956 Four Star Playhouse Various roles TV, 4 episodes 1955 Swamp Women Vera Navy Log Sally TV, 1 episode: "Family Special" Science Fiction Theater Sally Torens TV, 1 episode: "The Negative Man" New Orleans Uncensored Mary Reilly Sudden Danger Phyllis Baxter 1955–1959 The Millionaire Louise Benson/Clara TV, 2 episodes 1956 Gunslinger Marshal Rose Hood It Conquered the World Claire Anderson The Go-Getter Peggy Curucu, Beast of the Amazon Dr. Andrea Romar The Ford Television Theatre Maria Perrin TV, 1 episode: "Measure of Faith" 1956–1957 Wire Service Ellen Gale TV, 2 episodes 1957 Not of This Earth Nurse Nadine Storey Playhouse 90 Gay Sherman TV, 1 episode: "The Edge of Innocence" The Joker Is Wild Cassie Mack Naked Paradise Max MacKenzie 1957–1959 Decoy Casey Jones TV, 39 episodes 1958 The Saga of Hemp Brown Mona Langley 1959 Trackdown Dora Crow TV, 1 episode: "Hard Lines" Yancy Derringer Coco LaSalle TV, 2 episodes The Alligator People Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin Hawaiian Eye Rena Harrison TV, 1 episode: "Shipment From Kihei" The Man from Blackhawk Sarah Marshall TV, 1 episode: "Logan's Policy", series premiere 1959–1963 Rawhide Jennie Colby
Marcie
Della LockeTV, 3 episodes 1959–1967 The Wonderful World of Disney Mrs. Barko TV, 6 episodes 1960 Tales of Wells Fargo Pearl Hart TV, 1 episode: "Pearl Hart" Sally Lind TV, 1 episode: "Prison Trail" Hong Kong Irene Vance TV, 1 episode: "Freebooter" Thriller Ruth Kenton TV, 1 episode: "Knock Three-One-Two" Stagecoach West Sherry Hilton TV, 1 episode: "The Storm" Perry Mason Mauvis Meade TV, 1 episode: "The Mythical Monkeys" Coronado 9 Various roles TV, 2 episodes The Twilight Zone Maggie TV, 1 episode: "The Four of Us Are Dying" 1961 Checkmate Jean TV, 1 episode: "Between Two Guns" The Asphalt Jungle Caroline TV, 1 episode: "The Nine-Twenty Hero" Danger Man Jo Harris TV, 1 episode: "Bury the Dead" 1961–1962 Dr. Kildare Various roles TV, 2 episodes 1962 Bus Stop Janie TV, 1 episode: "Summer Lightning" Cain's Hundred Jeanette TV, 1 episode: "The Left Side of Canada" Going My Way Marsha TV, 1 episode: "A Saint for Momma" The Nurses Ginny Nemets TV, 1 episode: "The Walls Came Tumbling Down" Stark Fear Ellen Winslow 1963 The Dakotas Katherine Channing TV, 1 episode: "The Chooser of the Slain" Sam Benedict Jan Fielding TV, 1 episode: "Image of a Toad" Twice-Told Tales Alice Pyncheon "House of the Seven Gables" (one of three stories in the film) The Fugitive Nurse Doris Stillwell TV, 1 episode: "Smoke Screen" The Farmer's Daughter Ellen TV, 1 episode: "The Stand-In" 1963–1970 Gunsmoke Various roles TV, 4 episodes 1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre JoAnne Kling TV, 1 episode: "Charlie, He Couldn't Kill a Fly" 1965 A Man Called Shenandoah Kate TV, 1 episode: "The Onslaught" Laredo Aggie TV, 1 episode: "Lazyfoot, Where Are You?" 1966 Pistols 'n' Petticoats Ross Guttley TV, 1 episode: "The Ross Guttley Story" 1967 Judd, for the Defense Dorothy Shaw TV, 1 episode: "The Deep End" 1967–1969 The Wild Wild West Various roles TV, 2 episodes 1968 The Mothers-in-Law Audrey Fleming TV, 1 episode: "Jealousy Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" Pretty Poison Mrs. Stepanek 1968–1973 Mannix Edna Restin TV, 3 episodes 1969 Here's Lucy Secretary TV, 1 episode: "Lucy Goes to the Air Force Academy: Part 2"
UncreditedThe Mad Room Mrs. Racine 1969–1972 My Three Sons Barbara Harper Douglas TV, 74 episodes 1970 Then Came Bronson Beth Morse TV, 1 episode: "The Mary R" 1972 The Mod Squad Ellie Todd TV, 1 episode: "Eyes of the Beholder" Temperatures Rising Claudia TV, 1 episode: "RX: Love" 1972–1975 Marcus Welby, M.D. Nancy Zimmer TV, 2 episodes 1973 Mrs. Varni TV, 1 episode: "Sometimes Tough Is Good" The Rookies Pat Whitfield TV, 1 episode: "Three Hours to Kill" Cannon Cecilia Thatcher TV, 1 episode: "Deadly Heritage" The New Adventures of Perry Mason Laura Lee TV, 1 episode: "The Case of the Prodigal Prophet" Love, American Style Maria Lombardi TV, 1 episode 1974 Where the Red Fern Grows Mother TV, 1 episode: "Love and the Big Top" Airport 1975 Mrs. Scott Freeman Ironside Andrea Reynolds TV, 1 episode: "The Over-the-Hill Blues" 1974–1975 Medical Center Various roles TV, 2 episodes 1975 The Mary Tyler Moore Show Veronica Ludlow TV, 1 episode: "Lou Douses an Old Flame" 1976–1977 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Cookie LaRue TV, 16 episodes 1977 The Six Million Dollar Man The Secretary TV, 1 episode: "Death Probe: Part 1" The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries Thelma TV, 1 episode: "Mystery of the Fallen Angels" Lanigan's Rabbi Mollie Franks TV, 1 episode: "Say It Ain't So, Chief" The Tony Randall Show Sylvia Needleman TV, 1 episode: "The Sylvia Needleman Experience" Sixth and Main Monica Cord 1979 How the West Was Won Hanna TV, 1 episode: "The Slavers" Charlie's Angels Pat Justice TV, 1 episode: "Cruising Angels" Roller Boogie Lillian Barkley 1980 Trapper John, M.D. Mrs. Kaufman TV, 2 episodes It's My Turn Emma Lewin Gunzinger 1981 Hart to Hart Real Grandma TV, 1 episode: "The Hartbreak Kid" Flamingo Road Louise Stone TV, 1 episode: "Heatwave" Magnum, P.I. Florence Russell TV, 1 episode: "Three Minus Two" Matt Houston Mrs. Chapman TV, 1 episode: "The Good Doctor" 1982–1983 Remington Steele Abigail Holt TV, 2 episodes 1983–1987 Scarecrow and Mrs. King Dorothea "Dotty" West TV, 88 episodes 1985 Hotel Alice Korman TV, 1 episode: "New Beginnings" Finder of Lost Loves Lucy Rowens TV, 1 episode: "Surrogates" 1990 The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid Brenda's Mother 1991 P.S. I Luv U Emma TV, 1 episode: "Where There's a Will, There's a Dani" 1995 Friends Aunt Iris TV, 1 episode: "The One with All the Poker" Ellen Eva TV, 1 episode: "She Ain't Friendly, She's My Mother" 1995–1997 Ellen Lane TV, 6 episodes 1997 Stella Carter TV, 1 episode: "Hard-Boiled Murder" 1997–2004 7th Heaven Ginger TV, 9 episodes 1998 Teen Angel Grandma TV, 2 episodes 1998–1999 The Angry Beavers Various roles TV, 3 episodes 2000–2001 Port Charles Estelle Reese TV, 54 episodes 2002 Weakest Link Herself (contestant) TV Moms Edition (first one voted off) 2003 Aunt Jessica Television film
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Categories: 1926 Births, 2008 Deaths, 20th-century American Actresses, American Film Actresses, American Television Actresses, Actresses From Santa Cruz, California, Actresses From Los Angeles, Businesspeople From California, 20th-century American Businesspeople, 20th-century American Businesswomen, 21st-century American Women
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