

Cast & creator
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Friends, Perry Mason
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
Also known as: Beverly Lucy Garland
66
film credits
114
television credits
180
1949–2003 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Across film & television
Showing 180 of 180 credits

Self
1962
Aunt Iris
1994
Mauvis Meade
1957
Stella Carter
1993
Florence Russell
1980
Nurse Doris Stillwell
1963

Edna Reston
1967

Pat Justice
1976
Jean
1954
Shirley Connors
1954
Daisy
1954

Ellen Lane
1993
Julie
1952
Lucille
1952
Maxine
1952
Holly
1952
Julia Dressard
1961
Susan Hastings
1961
The Secretary
1974
Maggie
1959
Barbara
1960
Buyer
2001
Alice Korman
1982

Celia Rydell
1965
Cookie LaRue
1976
Miranda Wilson (voice)
1994
Marcie
1959
Della Locke
1959
Abigail Holt
1982
Sally Lind
1958
Eva
1994
Laura Lawson (
1949

Dr. Ellen Kimberly
1956
Margaret Walston
1956
Ruth Clarke
1956
Amy Schroeder
1956
Ginger Jackson
1996
Dotty West
1983


Leah
1955
Lee Stark
1955
Leona
1955
Claire Hollis
1955
Ruth Kenton
1960

Sarah Chapman
1982
Maria Perrin
1952
JoAnne Kling
1963
Nancy Thomas
1975



Jo Harris
1960
Clara Nelson
1955
Louise Benson
1955
High Priestess
1997
Self - Judge
1963

Liz Wellington
1984
Dora Crow
1957




Claudia
1972
Mary Lou Matthews
1950Marie 'Slim' Browning
1950Valerie
1950Julia Ross
1950Joyce Williams
1950
Dr. Nora James
1959
Coco LaSalle
1958

Hanna
1977

Audrey Fleming
1967
Lucy Rowens
1984
Dolores
1965
Janette
1961Claire Walkowsky
1953
Beth Morse
1969


Susanna O'Brien
1954
Mrs. Amanda Barko
1954
Grandma
1997
Casey Jones
1957
Nancy Trout
1954

Wanda
1974
Sherry Hilton
1960


Elaine Rath
1956
Ellen Gale
1956
Sarah Garvey
1955
Self
1971




Ellie Collins
1964
Estelle Collins
1954

Mrs. Scott Freeman
1974
Miss Swift
1955
Mrs. Stepanek
1968
Aunt Jessica
2003
Nadine Story
1957
Miss Foster
1949
Cassie Mack
1957
Clara
1957
Claire Anderson
1956
Mrs. Racine
1969
Emma
1980
Vilma Thompson
1971
Mother
1974
Mona Langley
1958
Evan Picard
1983
Myrna Anderson
1972
Nancy Eaton
1953
Party Guest (uncredited)
1950
Joyce Webster, aka Jane Marvin
1959
Ellen Winslow
1962
Alice Pyncheon
1963
Mrs. Theresa Hobart
1972Nina
1950
Lillian Barkley
1979
Self
1996
Personnel Manager
1991
Helen Backsler
1974
Brenda's Mother
1990
Arlene Mittelman
1991
Gail Sterling
1954
Carlotta
1995
Maggie
1970
Agatha Markwell
1973
Dr. Andrea Romar
1956
Self
2001

Marie Reilly
1955

Gay Sherman
1957
Frances 'Francie' Novak
1956
Bobby Sue Prewitt
1972
Holly Abbott
1954
Self
1995
Miss Shepherd (voice)
1991
Estelle
1974
Laurie Bannerman
1954
Laura Kier
1974
Marshal Rose Hood
1956
Mae Baxter
1991
Team Owner
1975
Ludine
1954Parker
1953
Gail Bonner
1954
Laura Barton
1957
Mrs. Amanda Barko
1959
Max MacKenzie
1957
Self
2000
Vera
1956
Nan Sloane
1964
Linda Winters
1954
Nola Mason, bar waitress
1953
Phyllis Baxter
1955
Peggy
1956Self
1997
Sarah
1979
Kitty
1982
Susan Hammer
1957
Katherine
2003
Monica Cord
1977