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person_profile-Rosemary DeCamp

Rosemary DeCamp Died at age: 90

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Rosemary DeCamp

Date of Birth:

Nov 14, 1910

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Feb 20, 2001

Biography of

Rosemary DeCamp

    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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Rosemary DeCamp

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Filmography of

Rosemary DeCamp

Found 38 Movies in total

Saturday the 14th

Aunt Lucille ( Actor )

... 1981

The Time Machine

Agnes ( Actor )

... 1978

13 Ghosts

Hilda Zorba ( Actor )

... 1960

Strategic Air Command

Mrs. Thorne ( Actor )

... 1955

Many Rivers to Cross

Lucy Hamilton ( Actor )

... 1955

Main Street to Broadway

Mrs. Harry Craig ( Actor )

... 1953

So This Is Love

Aunt Laura Stokley ( Actor )

... 1953

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Alice Winfield ( Actor )

... 1953

... 1952

Scandal Sheet

Charlotte Grant ( Actor )

... 1952

On Moonlight Bay

Alice Winfield ( Actor )

... 1951

Night Into Morning

Mrs. Annie Ainley ( Actor )

... 1951

The Big Hangover

Claire Bellcap ( Actor )

... 1950

The Story of Seabiscuit

Mrs. Charles S. Howard ( Actor )

... 1949

Look for the Silver Lining

Mom Miller ( Actor )

... 1949

Night Unto Night

Thalia Shawn ( Actor )

... 1949

The Life of Riley

Peg Riley ( Actor )

... 1949

Nora Prentiss

Lucy Talbot ( Actor )

... 1947

... 1946

From This Day Forward

Martha Beesley ( Actor )

... 1946

Too Young to Know

Mrs. Enright ( Actor )

... 1945

Danger Signal

Dr. Jane Silla ( Actor )

... 1945

... 1945

Pride of the Marines

Virginia Pfeiffer ( Actor )

... 1945

Rhapsody in Blue

Rose Gershwin ( Actor )

... 1945

Blood on the Sun

Edith Miller ( Actor )

... 1945

Practically Yours

Ellen Macy ( Actor )

... 1944

Bowery to Broadway

Bessie Kirby ( Actor )

... 1944

The Merry Monahans

Lillian DeRoyce ( Actor )

... 1944

This Is the Army

Ethel Jones ( Actor )

... 1943

City Without Men

Mrs. Slade ( Actor )

... 1943

Commandos Strike at Dawn

Hilma Arnesen ( Actor )

... 1942

Eyes in the Night

Vera Hoffman ( Actor )

... 1942

Smith of Minnesota

Mrs. Smith (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Nellie Cohan ( Actor )

... 1942

Jungle Book

Messua ( Actor )

... 1942

Hold Back the Dawn

Berta Kurz ( Actor )

... 1941

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Minna Fields ( Actor )

... 1941