Rosemary DeCamp
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 14, 1910
- Died
- February 20, 2001 (aged 90)
- Birthplace
- Prescott, Arizona, USA
Biography
Rosemary DeCamp was an American radio, film, and television actress. DeCamp first came to fame in November 1937, when she took the role of Judy Price, the secretary/nurse of Dr. Christian in the long-running radio series of the same name. She also played in The Career of Alice Blair, a transcribed syndicated soap opera that ran in 1939–1940. She made her film debut in Cheers for Miss Bishop and appeared in many Warner Bros. films, including Eyes in the Night, Yankee Doodle Dandy playing Nellie Cohan opposite James Cagney, This Is The Army playing the wife of George Murphy and the mother of Ronald Reagan, Rhapsody in Blue, and Nora Prentiss. She played the mother of the character played by Sabu Dastagir in Jungle Book. In 1951 and 1953, respectively, she starred in the nostalgic musical films On Moonlight Bay and its sequel, By The Light Of The Silvery Moon, as Alice Winfield, Doris Day's mother, opposite Leon Ames. DeCamp played Peg Riley in the first television version of The Life of Riley opposite Jackie Gleason in the 1949–1950 season, then reprised the role on radio with original star William Bendix for an episode of Lux Radio Theater in 1950. From 1955–1959, she was a regular on the popular NBC television comedy The Bob Cummings Show, playing Margaret MacDonald, widowed sister of Cummings's character, the lothario photographer and former World War II pilot Bob Collins. Dwayne Hickman (future star of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) portrayed her son, Chuck. She appeared in the 1961 Rawhide episode, "Incident Near Gloomy River". In 1962, she played a dishonest Southern belle in the NBC sitcom Ensign O'Toole with Dean Jones. She appeared in the role of Gertrude Komack on ABC's medical drama Breaking Point in the episode entitled "A Little Anger is a Good Thing". DeCamp had a recurring role as Helen Marie, the mother of Marlo Thomas's character on the ABC sitcom That Girl from 1966–1970. She appeared in several 1968 episodes of the CBS sitcom Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradley's sister, Helen, filling in as a temporary replacement for the ailing Bea Benaderet as the mother figure to Bradley's three daughters. DeCamp made several appearances as the mother of Shirley Partridge in The Partridge Family from 1970–1973. She also played The Fairy Godmother in the 1980s TV show, The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother. DeCamp played Buck Rogers' mother in flashback scenes of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "The Guardians". On July 7, 1946, her Beverly Hills home was damaged when struck by a wing after the experimental XF-11 piloted by Howard Hughes (re-created in the 2004 movie, The Aviator) crashed nearby. Although a piece of the wing and a part of the neighbor's roof landed in DeCamp's bedroom (where she and her husband were sleeping) they sustained no injuries.
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Filmography
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Agnes · 1 ep
St. Elsewhere
TV · as Amy Jeffries · 2 eps
Hotel
TV · as Mary Tyson · 1 ep
Saturday the 14th
Movie · as Aunt Lucille
Simon & Simon
TV · 1 ep
The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
Movie
B. J. and the Bear
TV · 2 eps
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
TV · as Buck's Mother · 1 ep
Blind Ambition
TV · as Maureen Dean's Mother · 4 eps
The Time Machine
Movie · as Agnes
The Love Boat
TV · as Cynthia Loudon · 1 ep
We've Got Each Other
TV · 1 ep
Quincy, M.E.
TV · 1 ep
Medical Story
TV · 1 ep
The Rockford Files
TV · as Mary Ramsey · 1 ep
Petrocelli
TV · as Mrs. Drew · 1 ep
Police Story
TV · as Beaulah · 1 ep
Night Gallery
TV · as Ellen Chase · 1 ep
The Partridge Family
TV · as Grandma Amanda Renfrew · 4 eps
Love, American Style
TV · as Mrs. Kearn, Old Martha Pomerantz · 1 ep
Mannix
TV · as Mrs. Henry
That Girl
TV · 12 eps
The Baileys of Balboa
TV · 1 ep
Burke's Law
TV · as Mrs. Franklin · 1 ep
Petticoat Junction
TV · as Emily Mapes, Aunt Helen · 1 ep
Breaking Point
TV · 1 ep
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV · as Priscilla Smith-Standish · 2 eps
Ensign O'Toole
TV · as Leona · 1 ep
Dr. Kildare
TV · as Angela Faring · 1 ep
Hazel
TV · as Sybil · 1 ep
87th Precinct
TV · as Mrs. Phelps · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
13 Ghosts
Movie · as Hilda Zorba
Tom, Dick and Harriet
Movie · as Mother
Rawhide
TV · as Margaret Fletcher, Mrs. Armstrong · 1 ep
77 Sunset Strip
TV · as Nurse (uncredited) · 1 ep
Strategic Air Command
Movie · as Mrs. Thorne
Many Rivers to Cross
Movie · as Lucy Hamilton
Man on a Bus
Movie · as Miriam
The Bob Cummings Show
TV · as Margaret MacDonald · 173 eps
Climax!
TV · as Eleanor Farrington · 1 ep
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Movie · as Alice Winfield
So This Is Love
Movie · as Aunt Laura Stokley
Main Street to Broadway
Movie · as Mrs. Harry Craig
General Electric Theater
TV · as Maxine · 1 ep
Scandal Sheet
Movie · as Charlotte Grant
The Treasure of Lost Canyon
Movie · as Samuella
This Is Your Life
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Ford Television Theatre
TV · as Mildred Ledbetter · 2 eps
On Moonlight Bay
Movie · as Alice Winfield
Night Into Morning
Movie · as Mrs. Annie Ainley
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Anna Baetz · 1 ep
The Red Skelton Show
TV · as Abigail Van Clive · 1 ep
The Big Hangover
Movie · as Claire Bellcap
The Story of Seabiscuit
Movie · as Mrs. Charles S. Howard
Look for the Silver Lining
Movie · as Mom Miller
Night Unto Night
Movie · as Thalia Shawn
The Life of Riley
Movie · as Peg Riley
The Life of Riley
TV · as Peg Riley · 26 eps
Studio One
TV · as Cora Thompson, Laura Weber · 1 ep
Nora Prentiss
Movie · as Lucy Talbot
From This Day Forward
Movie · as Martha Beesley
Two Guys from Milwaukee
Movie · as Nan
Danger Signal
Movie · as Dr. Jane Silla
Rhapsody in Blue
Movie · as Rose Gershwin
Pride of the Marines
Movie · as Virginia Pfeiffer
Week-End at the Waldorf
Movie · as Anna
Too Young to Know
Movie · as Mrs. Enright
Blood on the Sun
Movie · as Edith Miller
The Merry Monahans
Movie · as Lillian DeRoyce
Practically Yours
Movie · as Ellen Macy
Bowery to Broadway
Movie · as Bessie Kirby
This Is the Army
Movie · as Ethel Jones
City Without Men
Movie · as Mrs. Slade
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Movie · as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Movie · as Nellie Cohan
Eyes in the Night
Movie · as Vera Hoffman
Jungle Book
Movie · as Messua
Commandos Strike at Dawn
Movie · as Hilma Arnesen
Smith of Minnesota
Movie · as Mrs. Smith (uncredited)
Hold Back the Dawn
Movie · as Berta Kurz
Cheers for Miss Bishop
Movie · as Minna Fields
The Wayward Pups
Movie · as Lady of the house (voice) (uncredited)