Beverly Garland Filmography

The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid

Actors: Donna Mills

Synopsis: The made-for-television movie The World's Oldest Living Bridesmaid is about a prosperous lawyer who can't find a husband. Eventually, she falls in love with her younger male secretary. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Finding the Way Home

Actors: Hector Elizondo, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Made for television, Finding the Way Home was based on Mittelman's Hardware, a novel by George Raphael Small. George C. Scott stars as irascible 60-year-old businessman Max Mittelman, whose life and career are in tatters. Involved in a traffic accident, Mittelman suffers a concussion, loses his Read More

Gamble on Love

Synopsis: When a woman (Beverly Garland) returns to her Las Vegas home to run the casino she inherited from her father, she enters into a relationship with one of the casino managers. Can business and romance mix? ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Season 04

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Kate Jackson, Mel Stewart, Beverly Garland, Martha Smith

Synopsis: In any other circumstances, the biggest news occurring in the fourth and final season of Scarecrow and Mrs. King would be the promotion from recurring to regular player of Raleigh Bond in the role of T.P. Aquinas, the chief source of top-secret information for peripatetic espionage agent Lee Read More

Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Season 03

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Kate Jackson, Mel Stewart, Beverly Garland, Martha Smith

Synopsis: Suburban divorcee and part-time espionage agent Amanda King (Kate Jackson) is no longer merely a talented amateur as the tongue-in-cheek adventure series Scarecrow and Mrs. King enters its third season. Instead, Amanda has finished her training and is now a full-fledged operative for the Read More

Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Season 02

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Kate Jackson, Mel Stewart, Beverly Garland, Martha Smith

Synopsis: Season Two of Scarecrow and Mrs. King finds professional spy Lee "Scarecrow" Stetson (Bruce Boxleitner) and his talented-amateur partner Amanda King (Kate Jackson) travelling all over the world on dangerous espionage missions at the behest of "The Agency", with several episodes filmed on location Read More

Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Season 01

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Kate Jackson, Mel Stewart, Beverly Garland, Martha Smith

Synopsis: The humdrum life of suburban divorcee and mother Amanda King (Kate Jackson) is radically and permanently altered when secret agent Lee "Scarecrow" Stetson (Bruce Boxleitner), fleeing from Russian spies, runs into Amanda at a train station, hands her a mysterious package, and disappears into the Read More

This Girl for Hire

Synopsis: In this detective drama set in Hollywood, a private investigator uses logic to solve the murder of a famous mystery writer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Remington Steele: Sting of Steele

Magnum, P.I.: Three Minus Two

Synopsis: In the final episode of Magnum P.I's second season, fashion designer Jan Kona (Jill St. John) solicits the help of Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) when one of her two partners is murdered. She suspects that the surviving partner is the guilty party, and that she's next on the list. Meanwhile, a Read More

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell

Synopsis: John Fowles' original novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was distinguished by a literary technique that involved telling a story of Victorian sexual and social oppression within the bounds of a 1970s viewpoint. How does one convey this time-frame dichotomy on film? The decision made by director Karel Reisz Read More

It's My Turn

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin, Beverly Garland, Steven Hill

Synopsis: Claudia Weill's second feature is a romantic look at the humorous and tragic sides of love, starring Jill Clayburgh as Kate Gunzinger, a mathematics professor who lives with perpetually sunny architect Homer (Charles Grodin) in Chicago. But during a trip to New York City, Kate becomes romantically Read More

Roller Boogie

Actors: Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland, Roger Perry

Synopsis: This lively film was made to cash in on the roller skating craze that swept Southern California in the late '70s. The story centers upon a poor-little-rich-girl runaway who heads for the Venice boardwalk to join the other hipsters on wheels. She and her new friends then team up to keep an Read More

Greatest Heroes of the Bible [TV Series]

Synopsis: Originally titled Stories from the Bible, Greatest Heroes of the Bible was designed as a seven-part TV miniseries; evidently the specter of low ratings forced the network execs to telescope the presentation into four installments. The series began with the story of David (Roger Kern) and Read More

Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Abraham's Sacrifice

Synopsis: This video is part of a series on some of the most remarkable figures in the stories of the Bible. This episode tells the Old Testament story of Abraham. Abraham was a faithful servant of God. He was blessed late in life with a son, Isaac. God decided to test Abraham's faith by directing the man Read More

Sixth and Main

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Roddy McDowall, Beverly Garland, Leo Penn, Joe Maross

Synopsis: Sixth and Main is the Los Angeles street corner where on any given day you might find itinerant local "character" John Doe (Leslie Nielsen). Elegant authoress Monica (Beverly Garland) discovers that the supposedly derelict Doe has in his possession several manuscripts, all brilliantly written. Read More

Deadly Volley

Synopsis: Strange things happen during the tour of a professional tennis team. For starters, the nasty team owner Beverly Garland is nearly murdered. The police have their work cut out for them, since every one of the athletes had plenty of motive. But there may be still another suspect: the ghost of a dead Read More

The Healers

Actors: Beverly Garland

Synopsis: The Healers is a soap opera-style affair starring John Forsythe as head researcher at a California medical center. Underfunded and understaffed, Forsythe tries his best to hold his humanitarian enterprise together. At home, Forsythe is plagued by a mercurial wife (Beverly Garland) and rebellious Read More

The Day the Earth Moved

Actors: Cleavon Little

Synopsis: Jackie Cooper and Cleavon Little star as aerial photographers who spot a few threatening cracks in the San Andreas fault. Will anyone listen? No. Do they suffer in the subsequent quake? Yes, but not as expensively as the all-star cast in Earthquake. Still, The Day the Earth Moved doesn't aspire to Read More

Where the Red Fern Grows

Actors: James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Jack Ging, Lonny Chapman, Stewart Petersen

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Wilson Rawls, this film follows the events that befall a young Oklahoma farm boy as he, with the help of his two beloved hounds, struggles to help his family get by in the hard times of the 1930s. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Airport 1975

Actors: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Susan Clark

Synopsis: In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of Congress to produce Airport '75. Charlton Heston heads the all-star cast as Alan Murdock, the former test pilot who must keep a disabled 747 from crashing in flames. The crisis Read More

Unwed Father

Actors: Joseph Bottoms

Synopsis: Joseph Bottoms plays a 17-year-old high school boy who gets his girl friend Kay Lenz pregnant. The girl wants to put the baby up for adoption, but Bottoms decides to take on the parental responsibilities himself. He battles in court to gain custody of the child, even after being apprised of the Read More

Ironside: The Over-the-Hill Blues

Synopsis: For the third time in six years, Ironside (Raymond Burr) matches wits with gentleman thief Peter Justin--a role played in previous episodes by Sorrell Booke and Dan O'Herlihy, and here essayed by Leslie Nielsen. Determined to get even with Ironside for sending him to prison, Julian concocts an Read More

Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

Synopsis: In her final acting appearance, Susan Hayward is ironically cast as a research doctor who can no longer face up to the notion of dealing with death on a daily basis. Recently widowed, Dr. Maggie Cole is on the verge of giving up her job and going into seclusion. She is shaken back to reality by Read More

The Voyage of the Yes

Synopsis: Desi Arnaz Jr. and Michael Evans play the teenaged protagonists of The Voyage of the Yes. The boys take on the challenge of a 2,600-mile sailboat trip from California to Hawaii. While tackling the boundaries created by Mother Nature, Desi and Michael learn to combat their own inbred prejudices. As Read More

The Weekend Nun

Synopsis: Weekend Nun was an unsold TV pilot film based on the life and career of Louisiana nun Sister Fabian (real name: Joyce Duco). Joanna Pettet stars as Sister Mary Damien (aka: Marjorie Walker), who on weekdays holds down a job as a probation officer (she even packs a gun). The schism between the Read More

My Three Sons: Season 12

My Three Sons: Season 11

Stump the Stars

The Mad Room

Actors: Shelley Winters, Stella Stevens, Skip Ward, Carol Cole, Severn Darden

Synopsis: In this horror tale, Ellen Hardy (Stella Stevens) shares a home with widow Gladys Armstrong (Shelley Winters). Ellen is engaged to marry Gladys' stepson, Sam Aller (Skip Ward). Ellen receives word that her brother and sister are soon to be released from a mental institution and need a place to Read More

Cutter's Trail

Synopsis: John Gavin stars as Santa Fe marshal Ben Cutter, whose homecoming is blighted when he finds his town has been taken over by a Mexican bandit gang. Accompanied by two of the less frightened townsfolk--a small boy (Manuel Padila Jr.) and the boy's mother (Marisa Pavan)--Cutter sets out to rid the Read More

My Three Sons: Season 10

Pretty Poison

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, Beverly Garland, John Randolph, Dick O'Neill

Synopsis: Easygoing but psychotic Dennis (Anthony Perkins) is released from jail, where he has served a sentence for his complicity in a suspicious death. Wandering through a small, working-class New England town, Dennis befriends apparently normal high school A-student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). He fills her Read More

The Bing Crosby Show [TV Series]

Actors: Bing Crosby, Beverly Garland

Synopsis: This short-lived 1964 series ran on ABC, and marked crooner Bing Crosby's second foray into network television after a 1954 variety show. Unlike its predecessor, this one was a conventional sitcom; it starred Crosby as Bing Collins, a onetime singer who had years ago left show business to live a Read More

The Fugitive: Smoke Screen

Synopsis: Using the alias "Joseph Walker", fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) hires on as a fruitpicker in a farming community. His coworkers, many of whom are illegal immigrants, are highly suspicious of "Walker", ironically believing that he is a police officer. Ultimately, Kimble wins the other Read More

Twice Told Tales

Actors: Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Mari Blanchard, Brett Halsey, Richard Denning

Synopsis: This three part horror story is taken from the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Vincent Price stars in all three tales starting with Dr. Heidegger's Experiment". Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) attempts to restore the youth of four elderly friends. In a ghastly and ghoulish scene, a bride in her Read More

Stark Fear

Synopsis: A marriage falls apart after a dutiful wife becomes the breadwinner after her husband loses his job. This angers him and after reveling in her humiliation, he leaves her. Fortunately, the wife lands on her feet, but not before she obtains closure with her brutish husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Danger Man: Bury the Dead

Synopsis: Special agent John Drake heads out to stop enemy spies in this episode of a popular BBC espionage series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Mythical Monkeys

Synopsis: Secretary Gladys Dole (played by future Oscar winner Lucille Fletcher) encounters one perilous obstacle after another while running an errand for her employer, best-selling author Mauvis Meade (Beverly Garland). Things get really bad for Gladys when she stumbles upon a dead body in a mountain Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Four of Us Are Dying

Actors: Harry Townes, Ross Martin, Phillip Pine, Don Gordon, Beverly Garland

Synopsis: Once seen in childhood, the January 1, 1960 Twilight Zone episode "The Four of Us Are Dying" can never be forgotten. Set in a surrealistic New York City (replete with flashing neon signs and forced-perspective streets), the story concerns one Arch Hammer (Harry Townes), a two-bit hood gifted with Read More

The Alligator People

Actors: Beverly Garland, George Macready, Richard Crane, Lon Chaney, Jr., Frieda Inescort

Synopsis: A confused horror yarn set in the Deep South, Alligator People stars Richard Crane as a husband who becomes accidently separated from his new wife (Beverly Garland) during a train ride. She tracks him down to the swamplands surrounding his family mansion. Her reunion with her husband is tarnished Read More

Gunfight at Sandoval

Synopsis: In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who killed his friend. He heads for Sandoval, a notorious outlaw lair. Horses gallop, guns blaze, and mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rawhide: Incident of the Roman Candles

Elfego Baca: Mustang Man, Mustang Maid

Synopsis: In the eighth episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, gunslinger-turned-lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) has secured the legal rights of the Mustangers, a religious sect that has set up a homestead in the middle of cattle country. But though the Mustangers own their property fair and Read More

Walt Disney Presents: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Killers From Kansas

Synopsis: In the third episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, Slaughter (Tom Tryon) and another Texas ranger are sent to a bank to pick up the ranger's payroll. Unfortunately, the bank is held up by the vicious Barko gang, who kill Slaughter's comrade and leave him beaten Read More

Elfego Baca: Move Along, Mustangers

Synopsis: In the seventh episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries, Elfego Baca, gunslinger-turned-lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) comes to the defense of the Mustangers, a nomad-like religious sect. Determined to establish a permanent homestead on a land recently opened up by the government, the Mustanger Read More

Gundown at Sandoval

Synopsis: In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who killed his friend. He heads for Sandoval, a notorious outlaw lair. Horses gallop, guns blaze, and mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Walt Disney Presents: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Showdown at Sandoval

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries The Tales of Texas John Slaughter, Slaughter (Tom Tryon) has captured outlaw leader Mrs. Barko (Beverly Garland) who, though she faces the gallows, refuses to explain why she was trying to join forces with another notorious bandit, Dan Read More

The Saga of Hemp Brown

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Beverly Garland, John Larch, Russell Johnson, Fortunio Bonanova

Synopsis: Saga of Hemp Brown gets under way when the title character (Rory Calhoun) is court-martialed and booted from the Cavalry. Brown is accused of permitting his men to walk into a deadly ambush; he knows he's innocent, and he spends the rest of the picture tracking down the real culprit. Joining a Read More

Decoy: High Swing

Actors: Beverly Garland

Lux Video Theatre: Holiday Affair

The Joker Is Wild

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Beverly Garland

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra stars as legendary nightclub comic Joe E. Lewis in this dramatic screen biography. In the 1920s, Lewis was a popular singer in Chicago who could fill any nightclub he chose to play. This doesn't go unnoticed by the mobsters who control many of the city's venues; when they ask Lewis Read More

Decoy [TV Series]

Actors: Beverly Garland

Not of This Earth

Actors: Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones, William Roerick, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: One of Roger Corman's finest science-fiction endeavors of the 1950s, Not of This Earth is an excellent film by any standards. Paul Birch stars as Johnson, a taciturn gentleman in a dark business suit who hires nurse Nadine (Beverly Garland) to care for him. Curious that Johnson needs constant Read More

Chicago Confidential

Actors: Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dick Foran, Beverly Tyler, Elisha Cook, Jr., Paul Langton, Douglas Kennedy, Jack Lambert, Phyllis Coates

Synopsis: Chicago Confidential may not have been the best of the late-1950s "expose" films, but it certainly boasted one of the most impressive casts. Based on the factual best-seller by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, the film stars Brian Keith as a State Attorney who vows to bring corrupt Chicago union Read More

Naked Paradise

Actors: Richard Denning, Beverly Garland, Lisa Montell, Leslie E. Bradley, Dick Miller

Synopsis: The lurid title of this Roger Corman production refers to the Hawaiian Islands, where the film was shot in its entirety. Richard Denning stars as Duke, skipper of a Hawaii-based schooner. Duke's vessel is chartered by Zac (Leslie Bradley), who claims to be a toy manufacturer. In truth, Zac is the Read More

Badlands of Montana

Actors: Rex Reason, Margia Dean, Beverly Garland, Keith Larsen, Emile G. Meyer

Synopsis: A mayoral candidate is booted out of town after he is gulled into a gunfight and kills his rival. This western chronicles his adventures as an outlaw. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Decoy: To Trap a Thief

Actors: Beverly Garland

The Gunslinger

Actors: John Ireland, Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, Martin Kingsley, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: Produced by Roger Corman, Gunslinger stars Corman's then-sweetheart Beverly Garland as tough lady-marshal Rose Hood. Dance-hall girl Erica Page (Allison Hayes), Rose's bitterest enemy, hires gunslinger Cane Miro (John Ireland) to bump off the marshal. When he falls in love with Rose, Cane is faced Read More

The Steel Jungle

Actors: Perry Lopez, Beverly Garland, Walter Abel, Ted de Corsia, Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis: The Steel Jungle is the prison where most of this film takes place. Perry Lopez heads the cast as two-bit bookie Ed Novak, who goes to jail rather than squeal on his Syndicate higher-ups. Novak's silence exacts a toll on his wife Frances (Beverly Garland), who is expecting a child. The longer he Read More

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

Actors: John Bromfield, Beverly Garland, Tom Payne, Harvey Chalk, Sergio de Oliveira

Synopsis: In this jungle adventure, two explorers travel deep within the mysterious, dangerous Amazon in search of medicinal herbs, used for head-shrinking by the natives, that could used in the treatment of cancer patients. During their arduous trek, the two slowly fall in love. Meanwhile a plantation Read More

It Conquered the World

Actors: Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef, Sally Fraser, Charles B. Griffith, Jonathan Haze

Synopsis: Though Roger Corman was still new to sci-fi in 1956, he made up for lost time with the above-average quickie It Conquered the World. Peter Graves heads the cast as Paul Nelson, who suspects that his best friend, eccentric genius Tom Anderson (Lee Van Cleef), is up to no good. Sure enough, Tom has Read More

The Desperate Hours

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin

Synopsis: Based on the novel and play by Joseph Hayes, which in turn was inspired by an actual event, The Desperate Hours is the prototypical "family-trapped-by-criminals" drama. Escaped convicts Humphrey Bogart, Robert Middleton and Dewey Martin, seeking an appropriate hideout until they can make contact Read More

New Orleans Uncensored

Actors: Arthur Franz, Beverly Garland, Helene Stanton, Michael Ansara, Stacy Harris

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of Warner Bros.' New York Confidential came Columbia's New Orleans Uncensored. Lensed in semi-documentary fashion by future horror maven William Castle, the film stars Arthur Franz as New Orleans dockworker Dan Corbett. Attempting to remain honest, Corbett runs afoul of crime Read More

Sudden Danger

Actors: Tom Drake, Beverly Garland, Dayton Lummis, Helene Stanton

Synopsis: Having forsaken westerns for detective melodramas in Dial Red O, William "Wild Bill" Ellliot continues in this vein in Sudden Danger. Elliot is cast as detective lieutenant Doyle, who at present is investigating the alleged suicide of a clothing manufacturer. Doyle suspects that the victim was Read More

Swamp Women

Actors: Marie Windsor, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, Jill Jarmyn, Susan Cummings

Synopsis: Swamp Diamonds is the family-trade title for the sweaty Roger Corman crime melodrama Swamp Women. Policewoman Carole Mathews dons her torpedo bra and tight jeans to infiltrate a dangerous all-female criminal gang, currently serving time in a Louisiana Prison. The ladies escape and head to the Read More

Bitter Creek

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Carleton Young, Beverly Garland, Claude Akins, Jim Hayward

Synopsis: Neither a B nor an A picture, Bitter Creek is a solid western programmer, offering an excellent, unglamorized performance by Wild Bill Elliot. Though officially prohibited to do so by the Production Code, the film is motivated by revenge. Elliot arrives in Bitter Creek seeking retribution for the Read More

Two Guns and a Badge

Actors: Wayne Morris, Morris Ankrum, Beverly Garland, Roy Barcroft, William Phipps

Synopsis: In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle town. Playing along, our hero gets down to business -- and by the time his true identity is Read More