
Rosemary DeCamp
Born November 14, 1910 in Prescott, Arizona, USA · Died February 20, 2001 (aged 90)
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.
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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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Sleuth2007
LearningBlur2007
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny2006
Ring of the Nibelungs2004
Agnes and His Brothers2004
LearningFlashback2000
Mission: Impossible1996
White Squall1996
Street Fighter1994
LearningSolar Crisis1992
LearningDriving Me Crazy1991
New Jack City1991
Do the Right Thing1989
Loverboy1989
Over the Top1987
LearningSaturday the 14th1981
LearningThe Time Machine1978
LearningViolette Nozière1978
The Italian Job1969
Learning13 Ghosts1960
LearningMan on a Bus1955
Strategic Air Command1955
LearningMain Street to Broadway1953
LearningSo This Is Love1953
LearningBy the Light of the Silvery Moon1953
LearningThe Treasure of Lost Canyon1952
LearningScandal Sheet1952
On Moonlight Bay1951
LearningThe Big Hangover1950
LearningThe Unloved Woman1949
LearningNight Unto Night1949
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LearningTwo Guys from Milwaukee1946
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LearningEyes in the Night1942
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