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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 14, 1910
Died
February 20, 2001
Place of Birth
Prescott, Arizona, USA
Also Known As
- Rosemary Shirley DeCamp
Rosemary DeCamp
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.5
Agnes
Murder, She Wrote
1984
5.6
Amy Jeffries
St. Elsewhere
1982
6.8
Mary Tyson
Hotel
1982
6.7
Simon & Simon
1981
5.0
Aunt Lucille
Saturday the 14th
1981
0.0
The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
1980
7.0
Buck's Mother
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
5.0
Maureen Dean's Mother
Blind Ambition
1979
5.5
B. J. and the Bear
1979
4.7
Agnes
The Time Machine
1978
Credits
Murder, She Wrote
as Agnes
1984
7.5
St. Elsewhere
as Amy Jeffries
1982
5.6
Hotel
as Mary Tyson
1982
6.8
Simon & Simon
1981
6.7
Saturday the 14th
as Aunt Lucille
1981
5.0
The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
1980
0.0
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as Buck's Mother
1979
7.0
Blind Ambition
as Maureen Dean's Mother
1979
5.0
B. J. and the Bear
1979
5.5
The Time Machine
as Agnes
1978
4.7
We've Got Each Other
1977
5.0
The Love Boat
as Cynthia Loudon
1977
6.3
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
The Rockford Files
as Mary Ramsey
1974
7.6
Petrocelli
as Mrs. Drew
1974
7.2
Police Story
1973
6.9
Night Gallery
as Ellen Chase
1970
7.8
The Partridge Family
as Grandma Amanda Renfrew
1970
6.8
Love, American Style
as Mrs. Kearn
1969
6.1
Love, American Style
as Old Martha Pomerantz
1969
6.1
Mannix
1967
6.7
Mannix
as Mrs. Henry
1967
6.7
That Girl
1966
6.1
The Baileys of Balboa
1964
7.7
Petticoat Junction
as Emily Mapes
1963
5.7
Petticoat Junction
as Aunt Helen
1963
5.7
Burke's Law
as Mrs. Franklin
1963
6.0
Breaking Point
1963
7.2
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Priscilla Rolfe Alden Smith-Standish
1962
6.9
Ensign O'Toole
as Leona
1962
6.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Hazel
as Sybil
1961
6.8
Dr. Kildare
as Angela Faring
1961
5.5
87th Precinct
as Mrs. Phelps
1961
7.5
13 Ghosts
as Hilda Zorba
1960
5.7
Tom, Dick and Harriet
as Mother
1960
0.0
Rawhide
as Margaret Fletcher
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Mrs. Armstrong
1959
7.2
77 Sunset Strip
as Nurse (uncredited)
1958
6.7
Man on a Bus
as Miriam
1955
4.0
Strategic Air Command
as Mrs. Thorne
1955
6.0
Many Rivers to Cross
as Lucy Hamilton
1955
6.2
The Bob Cummings Show
as Margaret MacDonald
1955
6.1
Climax!
as Eleanor Farrington
1954
3.3
Main Street to Broadway
as Mrs. Harry Craig
1953
6.5
So This Is Love
as Aunt Laura Stokley
1953
3.8
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
as Alice Winfield
1953
5.9
General Electric Theater
as Maxine
1953
6.4
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
7.3
The Ford Television Theatre
as Mildred Ledbetter
1952
7.3
This Is Your Life
as Self
1952
6.4
The Treasure of Lost Canyon
as Samuella
1952
5.6
Scandal Sheet
as Charlotte Grant
1952
6.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Anna Baetz
1951
8.6
The Red Skelton Show
as Abigail Van Clive
1951
7.4
On Moonlight Bay
as Alice Winfield
1951
6.3
Night Into Morning
as Mrs. Annie Ainley
1951
5.6
The Big Hangover
as Claire Bellcap
1950
6.1
The Story of Seabiscuit
as Mrs. Charles S. Howard
1949
5.8
The Life of Riley
as Peg Riley
1949
7.5
Look for the Silver Lining
as Mom Miller
1949
5.7
Night Unto Night
as Thalia Shawn
1949
5.1
The Life of Riley
as Peg Riley
1949
7.0
Studio One
as Cora Thompson
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Laura Weber
1948
5.0
Nora Prentiss
as Lucy Talbot
1947
6.1
Two Guys from Milwaukee
as Nan
1946
4.4
From This Day Forward
as Martha Beesley
1946
5.2
Too Young to Know
as Mrs. Enright
1945
0.0
Danger Signal
as Dr. Jane Silla
1945
5.8
Week-End at the Waldorf
as Anna
1945
6.0
Pride of the Marines
as Virginia Pfeiffer
1945
6.5
Rhapsody in Blue
as Rose Gershwin
1945
6.4
Blood on the Sun
as Edith Miller
1945
5.8
Practically Yours
as Ellen Macy
1944
0.0
Bowery to Broadway
as Bessie Kirby
1944
0.0
The Merry Monahans
as Lillian DeRoyce
1944
5.0
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
1943
5.3
This Is the Army
as Ethel Jones
1943
5.6
City Without Men
as Mrs. Slade
1943
5.0
Commandos Strike at Dawn
as Hilma Arnesen
1942
5.4
Eyes in the Night
as Vera Hoffman
1942
5.9
Smith of Minnesota
as Mrs. Smith (uncredited)
1942
0.0
Yankee Doodle Dandy
as Nellie Cohan
1942
7.0
Jungle Book
as Messua
1942
6.3
Hold Back the Dawn
as Berta Kurz
1941
6.7
Cheers for Miss Bishop
as Minna Fields
1941
5.4
🎬
The Wayward Pups
as Lady of the house (voice) (uncredited)
1937
5.0