Beverly Garland Bio
Oct. 17, 1926 to Dec. 5, 2008
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Beverly Garland has combined the raising of four children with
starring in 41 feature films and nearly 700 television programs
to establish a list of entertainment industry credits perhaps
unmatched for its combination of diversity and volume.
She has played opposite many of Hollywood’s most popular
leading men-from Charles Boyer and David Niven to Clint Eastwood
and Frank Sinatra.
Ms. Garland’s film debut was in a supporting role in
the 1950 classic film noir, “D.O.A,” starring Edmond
O’Brien. Her television career began in the same year
with appearances in a variety of dramas which led to starring
roles in the most celebrated live dramas of fifties, “Playhouse
90” and “Lux Video Theater.”
She was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1954 for her role,
co-starring with Lee Marvin, as a leukemia-stricken mother
in “Medic.”
In 1957, she made television history, becoming both the first
actress to star in the title role of a dramatic series and
becoming television’s first policewoman when she played
NYPD officer Casey Jones in “Decoy.”
She has been a regular in eight TV series, including co-starring
as Bing Crosby’s wife in his series, Fred MacMurray’s
wife in the long-running “My Three Sons,” and Kate
Jackson’s Mother in “Scarecrow and Mrs. King.”
Her feature films range from dramatic hits such as “The
Joker is Wild,” with Frank Sinatra and “Desperate
Hours,: with Humphrey Bogart, to sci-fi favorites “It
Conquered the World,” with Peter Graves, and “The
Alligator People” with Lon Chaney Jr. to classic westerns “Gunslinger” with
John Ireland and “Where the Red Fern Grow,” with
James Witmore.
In 1983, Beverly was awarded her star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame. In 2001 she was inducted into the Pacific Pioneer
Broadcasters Hall of Fame. To mark her 50 years in show business,
the City of Los Angeles proclaimed January 19, 2001 “Beverly
Garland Day in Los Angeles.”
In 1999 her husband of 39 years died, and since then she has
combined her acting career with an increased devotion to the
hotel he built and named after her, the 255-room resort style
Beverly Garland Holiday Inn and Conference Center in North
Hollywood, California.
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