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Rosemary DeCamp

Acting
Known For

90 Years Old

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.

Born

Prescott, Arizona, USA on 14th November 1910

Died

20th February 2001

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The Love Boat
Cynthia Loudon
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Love, American Style
Old Martha Pomerantz
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Love, American Style
Mrs. Kearn
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Dr. Kildare
Angela Faring
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The Red Skelton Show
Abigail Van Clive
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Studio One
Laura Weber
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Studio One
Cora Thompson
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Mannix
Mrs. Henry
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Mannix
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Night Gallery
Ellen Chase
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Murder, She Wrote
Agnes
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The Mike Douglas Show
Self
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The Rockford Files
Mary Ramsey
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buck's Mother
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Rawhide
Mrs. Armstrong
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Rawhide
Margaret Fletcher
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The Bob Cummings Show
Margaret MacDonald
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This Is Your Life
Self
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Hotel
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The Ford Television Theatre
Mildred Ledbetter
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The Ford Television Theatre
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Hazel
Sybil
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Simon & Simon
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The Life of Riley
Peg Riley
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87th Precinct
Mrs. Phelps
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Ensign O'Toole
Leona
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Climax!
Eleanor Farrington
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Petrocelli
Mrs. Drew
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Quincy, M.E.
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B. J. and the Bear
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The Beverly Hillbillies
Priscilla Rolfe Alden Smith-Standish
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
Anna Baetz
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77 Sunset Strip
Nurse (uncredited)
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The Baileys of Balboa
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Police Story
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The Partridge Family
Grandma Amanda Renfrew
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Breaking Point
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St. Elsewhere
Amy Jeffries
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Petticoat Junction
Aunt Helen
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Petticoat Junction
Emily Mapes
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Burke's Law
Mrs. Franklin
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We've Got Each Other
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That Girl
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General Electric Theater
Maxine
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Blind Ambition
Maureen Dean's Mother
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13 Ghosts
Hilda Zorba
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Jungle Book
Messua
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Nellie Cohan
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City Without Men
Mrs. Slade
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Strategic Air Command
Mrs. Thorne
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The Time Machine
Agnes
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This Is the Army
Ethel Jones
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Scandal Sheet
Charlotte Grant
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
Hilma Arnesen
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Danger Signal
Dr. Jane Silla
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Rhapsody in Blue
Rose Gershwin
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Eyes in the Night
Vera Hoffman
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Main Street to Broadway
Mrs. Harry Craig
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On Moonlight Bay
Alice Winfield
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Nora Prentiss
Lucy Talbot
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Many Rivers to Cross
Lucy Hamilton
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Hold Back the Dawn
Berta Kurz
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Saturday the 14th
Aunt Lucille
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Blood on the Sun
Edith Miller
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Cheers for Miss Bishop
Minna Fields
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Week-End at the Waldorf
Anna
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From This Day Forward
Martha Beesley
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Alice Winfield
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Two Guys from Milwaukee
Nan
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So This Is Love
Aunt Laura Stokley
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Look for the Silver Lining
Mom Miller
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The Treasure of Lost Canyon
Samuella
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The Story of Seabiscuit
Mrs. Charles S. Howard
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The Big Hangover
Claire Bellcap
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Pride of the Marines
Virginia Pfeiffer
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The Merry Monahans
Lillian DeRoyce
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
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Night Unto Night
Thalia Shawn
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Bowery to Broadway
Bessie Kirby
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Night Into Morning
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Man on a Bus
Miriam
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Tom, Dick and Harriet
Mother
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Too Young to Know
Mrs. Enright
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Practically Yours
Ellen Macy
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The Life of Riley
Peg Riley
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The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
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The Wayward Pups
Lady of the house (voice) (uncredited)
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Smith of Minnesota
Mrs. Smith (uncredited)