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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 28, 1921
Died
February 3, 1991
Place of Birth
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Nancy Jane Kulp
Nancy Kulp
0.8 Popularity
Biography
Nancy Jane Kulp (August 28, 1921 – February 3, 1991) was an American character actress best known as Miss Jane Hathaway on the popular CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies. Kulp in 1955 joined the cast of The Bob Cummings Show (Love That Bob) with Bob Cummings, portraying pith-helmeted neighborhood bird watcher Pamela Livingstone. In 1956, she appeared in the episode "Johnny Bravo" of the ABC/Warner Brothers series Cheyenne, with Clint Walker. Kulp played the role of Anastasia in three episodes of the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life in 1955 and 1956. In 1958, she appeared in Orson Welles' little-known pilot episode "The Fountain of Youth" in the television series Colgate Theatre. In 1960, she appeared as Emma St. John in the episode "Kill with Kindness" of the ABC/WB detective series Bourbon Street Beat, starring Andrew Duggan. Kulp appeared on I Love Lucy in the 1956 episode "Lucy Meets the Queen", performing as an English maid, who shows Lucy and Ethel how to curtsy properly before Queen Elizabeth. Kulp also appeared in episodes of The Real McCoys, Perry Mason ("The Case of the Prodigal Parent", 1958), The Jack Benny Program ("Don's 27th Anniversary with Jack"), 87th Precinct ("Killer's Choice"), Pete and Gladys, The Twilight Zone (as Mrs. Gann in "The Fugitive"), and The Outlaws ("The Dark Sunrise of Griff Kincaid"). She played a housekeeper in a pilot for The William Bendix Show, which aired as the 1960–1961 season finale of CBS's Mister Ed under the title "Pine Lake Lodge". On the series My Three Sons in 1962, she portrayed a high school math and science teacher in two episodes under different character names, Miss Harris and Miss Fisher. Shortly after her performances on My Three Sons in 1962, Kulp landed her breakout role as Jane Hathaway, the love-starved, bird-watching, perennial spinster, on the CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies. In 1967, she received an Emmy Award nomination for her role, and she remained with the show until its cancellation in 1971. In 1978, she appeared on The Love Boat in the episode "Mike and Ike / The Witness / The Kissing Bandit" and she played Aunt Gertrude in the episode "Tony and Julie / Separate Beds / America's Sweetheart". On April 7, 1989, she played a nun in the Quantum Leap season 1 episode "The Right Hand of God". Kulp also appeared on The Brian Keith Show and Sanford and Son. Kulp was once described as television's most homely girl or, as one reviewer put it, possessing the "face of a shriveled balloon, the figure of a string of spaghetti, and the voice of a bullfrog in mating season." Others described her as tall and prim and praised her comedic skills. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Known For
0.0
Aurora
Private Affairs
1989
8.0
Sister Sarah
Quantum Leap
1989
6.4
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
7.0
Computer (voice)
Computers Are People, Too!
1982
6.7
Shirley Graham
Simon & Simon
1981
4.8
Jane Hathaway
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
1981
6.3
Sylvia McTigue
The Love Boat
1977
6.3
Gert
The Love Boat
1977
6.3
Aunt Gert
The Love Boat
1977
6.8
Nancy Kulb
CHiPs
1977
Credits
Private Affairs
as Aurora
1989
0.0
Quantum Leap
as Sister Sarah
1989
8.0
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
6.4
Computers Are People, Too!
as Computer (voice)
1982
7.0
Simon & Simon
as Shirley Graham
1981
6.7
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
as Jane Hathaway
1981
4.8
The Love Boat
as Sylvia McTigue
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Gert
1977
6.3
The Love Boat
as Aunt Gert
1977
6.3
CHiPs
as Nancy Kulb
1977
6.8
CHiPs
as Nancy Kulp (uncredited)
1977
6.8
🎬
Shakespeare Loves Rembrandt
1974
0.0
Sanford and Son
1972
7.4
The Pet Set
as Self
1971
5.5
The Aristocats
as Frou-Frou (voice)
1970
7.3
The Night of the Grizzly
as Wilhelmina Peterson
1966
5.8
Strange Bedfellows
as Aggressive Woman
1965
5.9
The Patsy
as Helen, Theatergoer
1964
6.2
Who's Minding the Store?
as Emily Rothgraber
1963
6.9
Petticoat Junction
as Jane Hathaway
1963
5.7
The Lucy Show
as Jane Corey
1962
7.0
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Jane Hathaway
1962
6.9
Moon Pilot
as Nutritionist Officer
1962
5.4
Moon Pilot
as Space Flight Nutritionist (uncredited)
1962
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Two Little Bears
as Emily Wilkins
1961
6.0
87th Precinct
as Miss Fitzhenry
1961
7.5
The Parent Trap
as Miss Grunecker
1961
7.0
Mister Ed
as Martha
1961
6.7
Outlaws
1960
6.2
Pete and Gladys
1960
6.0
Hawaiian Eye
as Edie Barnes
1959
5.2
The Twilight Zone
as Agnes Gann
1959
8.5
Five Gates to Hell
as Susette
1959
4.8
The Dennis O'Keefe Show
1959
5.0
🎬
NBC Sunday Showcase
as Girl at Well
1959
4.3
A Marriage of Strangers
as Leona
1959
0.0
77 Sunset Strip
as Hilda McDougall
1958
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
as Eloise
1958
6.7
The Fountain of Youth
as Stella Morgan
1958
6.1
The High Cost of Loving
as Miss Matthews, Cave's Secretary (uncredited)
1958
5.7
The Three Faces of Eve
as Mrs. Black
1957
7.2
Kiss Them for Me
as Hospital Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
1957
5.5
The Real McCoys
1957
5.6
Maverick
as Waitress (uncredited)
1957
6.9
Perry Mason
as Sarah Winslow
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Katherine Collins
1957
7.7
God Is My Partner
as Maxine Spelvana
1957
5.0
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
as Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
1957
5.8
🎬
The Gale Storm Show
as Helga Petersen
1956
5.5
Anything Goes
as Autograph Seeker
1956
6.0
Forever, Darling
as Amy, the maid
1956
7.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Miss Gillis
1955
5.4
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Nurse
1955
7.8
Count Three and Pray
as Matty Miller
1955
4.5
Cheyenne
as Waitress
1955
6.0
Cheyenne
as Waitress (uncredited)
1955
6.0
🎬
Navy Log
1955
4.5
You're Never Too Young
as Marty's Mother
1955
6.6
The Bob Cummings Show
as Pamela Livingstone
1955
6.1
December Bride
1954
5.5
A Star Is Born
as Esther's Neighbor (uncredited)
1954
7.1
Sabrina
as Jenny
1954
7.5
Letter to Loretta
as Helen
1953
6.5
Shane
as Mrs. Howells
1953
7.4
General Electric Theater
as Miss Lamb
1953
6.4
The Life Of Riley
as Charlotte Lindsay
1953
6.0
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
as Nancy
1952
5.9
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
as Chairwoman
1952
5.9
Steel Town
as Dolores
1952
6.0
The Model and the Marriage Broker
as Hazel Gingras
1951
6.0
I Love Lucy
as Maid
1951
7.9
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
The Jack Benny Program
as Jeanette
1950
7.8