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Rosemary DeCamp

Actress / Television Actress / Film Actress | * 11/14/1910 († 90, 02/20/2001) | Prescott, Arizona (United States of America (USA))
Rosemary Shirley DeCamp (November 14, 1910 – February 20, 2001) was an American radio, film, and television actress. ()

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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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Movies with Rosemary DeCamp as Actress(40)

as Aunt Lucille1981 Saturday the 14th
as Agnes1978 The Time Machine
as Hilda Zorba1960 13 Ghosts
as Mrs. Thorne1955 Strategic Air Command
as Miriam1955 Man On A Bus
as Lucy Hamilton1955 Many Rivers to Cross
as Aunt Laura Stokley1953 So This Is Love
as Alice Winfield1953 By the Light of the Silvery Moon
as Mrs. Harry Craig1953 Main Street to Broadway
as Charlotte Grant1952 Scandal Sheet
as Alice Winfield1951 On Moonlight Bay
as Mrs. Annie Ainley1951 Night Into Morning
as Claire Bellcap1950 The Big Hangover
as Peg Riley1949 The Life of Riley
as Mrs. Charles S. Howard1949 The Story of Seabiscuit
as Mom Miller1949 Look for the Silver Lining
as Thalia Shawn1949 Night Unto Night
as Lucy Talbot1947 Nora Prentiss
as Martha Beesley1946 From This Day Forward
as Dr. Jane Silla1945 Danger Signal
as Edith Miller1945 Blood on the Sun
as Virginia Pfeiffer1945 Pride of the Marines
as Mrs. Enright1945 Too Young to Know
as Rose Gershwin1945 Rhapsody in Blue
as Ellen Macy1944 Practically Yours
as Bessie Kirby1944 Bowery to Broadway
as Lillian DeRoyce1944 The Merry Monahans
as Mrs. Slade1943 City Without Men
as Ethel Jones1943 This Is the Army
as Herself (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)1943 The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Hilma Arnesen1942 Commandos Strike at Dawn
as Mrs. Smith (uncredited)1942 Smith of Minnesota
as Vera Hoffman1942 Eyes in the Night
as Nellie Cohan1942 Yankee Doodle Dandy
as Messua1942 Jungle Book
as Berta Kurz1941 Hold Back the Dawn
as Minna Fields1941 Cheers for Miss Bishop

TV Shows/Series with Rosemary DeCamp as Actress(34)

1982 Hotel
as Maureen Dean's Mother1979 Blind Ambition
as Buck's Mother1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as Cynthia Loudon1977 The Love Boat
as Mary Ramsey1974 The Rockford Files
as Mrs. Kearn1969 Love, American Style
1967 Mannix
as Mrs. Franklin1963 Burke's Law
as Angela Faring1961 Dr. Kildare
as Margaret Fletcher1959 Rawhide
as Mrs. Armstrong1959 Rawhide
as Margaret MacDonald1955 The Bob Cummings Show
as Eleanor Farrington1954 Climax!
as Maxine1953 GE Theater
as Mildred Ledbetter1952 The Ford Television Theatre
as herself1952 This Is Your Life
as Anna Baetz1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Peg Riley1949 The Life of Riley
as Cora Thompson1948 Studio One
as Laura Weber1948 Studio One

Full Name: Rosemary DeCamp
Born: Monday, 11/14 1910 (November) in Prescott, Arizona (United States of America (USA))
Died: Tuesday, 02/20 2001 (February) in Newport Beach (aged: 90)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Employer: Warner Bros.
Rosemary DeCamp frequently works together with these people:
Harry Townes (30x, Actor)
Edward Andrews (22x, Actor)
Everett Sloane (20x, Actor)
Leslie Nielsen (19x, Actor)
J. Pat O'Malley (19x, Actor)
John Forsythe (18x, Actor)
James Gregory (18x, Actor)
James Daly (18x, Actor)
Nina Foch (18x, Actress)
Kim Hunter (16x, Actress)
Richard Kiley (16x, Actor)
Jack L. Warner (7x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:310997, Added: 08/13/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024