Gretchen CorbettFilmography

Born:
August 13, 1947 in Camp Sherman, OR
Occupation:
Actor
Biography:
Carnegie Tech alumnus Gretchen Corbett made her professional acting bow with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Corbett's first New York stage appearance was in a 1967 revival of Shaw's Arms and the Man. While specializing in the classics on-stage, her film assignments were on a less artistically...Read More
  • The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads

    Synopsis: James Garner is reunited with several of his fellow cast members from the Rockford Files series in this made-for-TV sequel. It all begins when schoolteacher Ernie Landale (Hal Holbrook), the husband of private eye Jim Rockford's ex-prostitute friend Rita Kapkovic (Rita Moreno), is accused of child Read More

    1999
  • Final Verdict

    Actors: Treat Williams, Glenn Ford, Olivia Burnette, Gretchen Corbett, Ashley Crow

    Synopsis: A crucial chapter in the life of famed defense attorney Earl Rogers is re-created in the made-for-TV Final Verdict. Treat Williams stars as Rogers, who matriculates from small-claims court to the judicial Big Time in 1919. Defending a client whom he knows to be guilty, Rogers foments a crisis in Read More

    1991
  • Hunter: Brotherly Love

    Synopsis: After accidentally killing his supplier, teenage drug addict Gil Reynolds (Tim Griffin) absconds with $250,000 belonging to the dead man's boss. Later on, Gil is found murdered, and his brother John (Mark Pellegrino) swears vengeance. This makes the job facing Hunter (Fred Dryer) all the more Read More

    1990
  • Murder, She Wrote: Deadline for Murder

    Synopsis: Eugene Roche is cast as veteran reporter Billy Simms, yet another longtime friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). While recovering from a heart attack, Billy expresses the wish that something very, very bad would happen to the slimy publisher who took over Billy's former newspaper and Read More

    1986
  • North Beach and Rawhide

    Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama, an ex-con meets constant opposition from avaricious land owners who want the land on which he has set up a ranch-style juvenile correctional facility. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1985
  • Magnum, P.I.: The Look

    Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) discovers that former Radio Saigon deejay Holly Fox, whose sexy, sultry voice helped him weather many a lonely night during the war, is now working on Honolulu radio station KTDE under her real name of Holly Hudson (Gretchen Corbett). Although Holly could never hope to live up Read More

    1983
  • Cheers: Diane's Perfect Date

    Synopsis: Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane (Shelley Long) agree to find the perfect date for one another. Misunderstanding this set-up, Sam is surprised when Diane offers not herself (as he thought she would), but instead her good friend Gretchen (Gretchen Corbett). Forced to dredge up a date for Diane at the Read More

    1983
  • Million Dollar Infield

    Synopsis: Rob Reiner coproduced, cowrote and costarred in this TV-movie about suburban "angst" in the 1980s. Reiner is one of four wealthy Long Islanders who play for an amateur softball team. All four men (Reiner, Bruno Kirby, Robert Costanzo and Christopher Guest) suffer from profound personal and Read More

    1982
  • Jaws of Satan

    Actors: Fritz Weaver, Gretchen Corbett, Jon Korkes, Norman Lloyd, Diana Douglas

    Synopsis: The slight amount of credibility required for a successful horror movie is lost in the opening scenes of this derivative story of a cobra who is really Satan in disguise, taking revenge against a Catholic priest for some crimes committed by the priest's ancestors. When the cobra invades a train Read More

    1981
  • Magnum, P.I.: The Curse of the King Kameameha Club

    Synopsis: During a major surf-ski competition, a Kahuna named Makua (Sol Bright) places a curse on Rick's club. At first, neither Rick (Larry Manetti) nor anyone else takes the curse seriously, but soon bad things begin happening--including at least one death. In his efforts to investigate this phenomenon Read More

    1981
  • 1980
  • High Ice

    Synopsis: High Ice is a made-for-television adventure thriller about an Army helicopter rescue team who has to race against time and the elements to save three mountain climbers who are stranded on a small, icy mountain ledge in Washington. Along the way, a lieutenant colonel and a forest ranger engage in a Read More

    1980
  • Psi Factor

    Synopsis: The title The PSI Factor refers to inexplicable events occuring to normal people. In this instance, our bastion of normality is a civilian researcher at NASA. Accustomed to a well-ordered existence, our hero doesn't quite know what to make of strange radio signals emanating from far-off planet Read More

    1980
  • She's Dressed to Kill

    Synopsis: As a once-famous fashion designer prepares to make her big comeback, a mysterious killer begins stalking the beautiful models who gather for the gala celebration in his made-for-television thriller starring Eleanor Parker, Clive Revill, and Jessica Walter. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1979
  • Mandrake

    Actors: Anthony Herrera

    Synopsis: This feature-length pilot for an unsold TV series was based on Mandrake the Magician, the long-running comic strip created by Lee Falk and Phil Davis in 1934. Raised in the Himalayas, the orphaned Mandrake (played as a child by David Hollander, and as an adult by Anthony Herrera) is taught the Read More

    1979
  • The Rockford Files: The Attractive Nuisance

    Synopsis: Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) decides to open up a roadside restaurant with a chance acquaintance named Vinnie Whithead (Ken Lynch). From the outset of this enterprise, Rocky can't help but notice that an elderly man is watching every move he and Vinnie make. . .and no sooner has the restaurant opened Read More

    1978
  • The Other Side of the Mountain 2

    Actors: Marilyn Hassett, Timothy Bottoms, Nan Martin, Belinda Montgomery, Gretchen Corbett

    Synopsis: This tear-jerking sequel chronicles the further struggles and triumphs of former Olympic-hopeful downhill skier Jill Kinmont who was paralyzed in 1956 after a mishap during a race. This story picks up after she recovers from the death of the daredevil pilot who helped her come to grips with her Read More

    1978
  • Secrets of Three Hungry Wives

    Actors: John Reilly

    Synopsis: No, the "three hungry wives" in this made-for-TV movie aren't in search of a square meal. It's sex they're after, though much is talked about and little is shown. The eponymous wives are played by Jessica Walter, Gretchen Corbett and Heather MacRae; their respective husbands are Richard Roat Read More

    1978
  • The Rockford Files: Dirty Money, Black Light

    Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) wants to know why his dad Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.), currently vacationing in Hawaii, has been receiving huge sums of money in the mail. The Feds would also like the answer to that question--and there are several other interested parties lurking in the shadows. As usual, Angel Read More

    1977
  • The Rockford Files: Requiem for a Funny Box

    Synopsis: This episode is something of an amalgam of the Martin-and-Lewis legend and the much-later TV series The Sopranos). Jim (James Garner) is hired to protect over-the-hill comedian Kenny Bell (Chuck McCann) from his mean-spirited former partner Lee Russo (Robert Quarry), only to find himself Read More

    1977
  • The Rockford Files: Crack Back

    Synopsis: While defending pro football player Davy Woodhull (Howard McGillin) on a robbery-murder charge, Beth (Gretchen Corbett) is harrassed by an unknown psycho. Jim (James Garner) must not only protect Beth, but also locate Doreen Carpenter (Sondra Blake), the only person who is able to clear Woodhull. Read More

    1977
  • The Rockford Files: The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers, Part 1

    Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Rocky's somewhat eccentric friend T.T. Flowers (Strother Martin) has been forced off his "Freedom" property, declared mentally incomptetent, and placed in a sanitarium called Horizon's Crest. It's all the handiwork of crooked land developer Jack Muellard Read More

    1977
  • The Rockford Files: The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers, Part 2

    Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) infiltrates a sanitarium called Horizon's Crest to rescue T.T. Flowers (Strother Martin), who is being victimized by evil land developer Jack Muellard (Scott Brady). But though Muellard is temporarily stopped in his tracks, T.T. still isn't Read More

    1977
  • The Rockford Files: The Queen of Peru

    Synopsis: While in the middle of delicate negotations to ransom the fabled Borland Diamond from a gang of thieves, Jim ({$ is pestered by the Wronko family, an annoying pack of tourists from Peru, Indiana who have parked their RV next to Jim's trailer. The Wronkos end up in the thick of things when one of Read More

    1977
  • The Rockford Files: Season 04

    Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Gretchen Corbett, Stuart Margolin

    Synopsis: Ex-con turned private eye Jim Rockford (James Garner) continues serving the cause of justice by reopening closed cases in his own cynical, deceptively disheveled fashion in season four of The Rockford Files. The proceedings begin with "Beamer's Last Case," in which Jim must deal with someone who Read More

    1977
  • The Rockford Files: Forced Retirement

    Synopsis: Beth (Gretchen Corbett) asks Jim (James Garner) a favor on behalf of her current client (and her onetime college rival) Susan Kenniston (Margaret Impert). Jim is to check up on Richard Lessing (a pre-Dallas Larry Hagman) the principal investor in a suspicious-looking undersea research project in Read More

    1977
  • Emergency!: The Nuisance

    Synopsis: Injured in a hit-and-run accident, John (Randolph Mantooth) ends up in a Rampart hospital bed, where he proceeds to drive the staff crazy. Meanwhile, Roy is saddled with John's replacement Craig Bice (John R. Richardson in his first series appearance), an unsufferable perfectionist whose strict Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: The Fourth Man

    Synopsis: In the opening episode of The Rockford Files' third season, private eye Jim Rockford (James Garner) can't get the police to believe that his stewardess friend Lori Jenivan (Sharon Gless) is being pursued by a killer. But the fact is that Lori has been vulnerable to attack ever since she made an Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: A Bad Deal in the Valley

    Synopsis: Jim's former girlfriend Karen Stiles (Susan Strasberg) sweet-talks the detective into delivering a briefcase full of escrow papers to a real estate office. Only when it is too late does Jim (James Garner) discover that he has been conned into transporting $100,000 worth of counterfeit money. And Read More

    1976
  • The Savage Bees

    Actors: Ben Johnson

    Synopsis: Having already overrun most of South America, a swarm of vicious African killer bees prepares to descend upon the United States. Almost as if rehearsed, the tiny menaces converge on New Orleans during Mardi Gras. With revellers dropping left and right, thanks to the fatal stings of the bees, it is Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: Drought at Indianhead River

    Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) is dumbstruck when he discovers that his former cellmate Angel (Stuart Margolin)--or "Angelo", as he now calls himself--is rolling in wealth and living in a luxurious penthouse. All this happened once Angel became majority owner of something called the Indianhead River Land Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: Coulter City Wildcat

    Synopsis: Why is someone using violence to force Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) to sign away his lease to Parcel 334, a supposedly worthless piece of property in Coulter County? And what does this have to do with the case of a missing oil driller? That's what Jim (James Garner) wants to find out before he ends up Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit

    Synopsis: Celebrity psychic Roman Clementi (Robert Webber) gets Jim Rockford (James Garner) in plenty of hot water when he tells his followers that the detective has "inside information" concerning two missing persons, Alison Currie and Rick Richards. With public opinion against him and the police breathing Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: Feeding Frenzy

    Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) tries to help his friend Charly Blaylock (Eddie Firestone) turn over a new leaf by returning the $650,000 that Charly had stolen years earlier from the Seawell Oil company. But when Charly's daughter (and Jim's ex-fiancee) Sandra (Susan Howard) is kidnapped, he must use the Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: Where's Houston?

    Synopsis: At the request of Rocky's old friend Peter Preli (Dabbs Greer), Jim (James Garner) agrees to deliver the ransom for Peter's kidnapped granddaughter Houston (Lane Bradbury). Soon afterward, Houston turns up safe and sound--and Peter is found murdered. Suspected of committing the crime, Jim tries to Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: The Trouble With Warren

    Synopsis: Much against his will (and his better judgement), Jim (James Garner) gets involved in the trials and tribulations of Warren Weeks (Ron Rifkin), the wimpish cousin of attorney Beth Davenport (Gretchen Corbett). Warren was recently fired from his job by a man who later turned up murdered. The Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: Rattlers' Class of '63

    Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) is pressed into service as best man when the redoubtable Angel (Stuart Margolin) gets married to Regin Boyajian (Elayne Heilveil). It is not love but fear that has motivated Angel to walk down the aisle: he figures that by wedding Regina, he will avoid being killed by her Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: Season 03

    Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Gretchen Corbett, Stuart Margolin

    Synopsis: James Garner won an Emmy for his continuing performance as disheveled, cynically humorous ex-convict turned private detective Jim Rockford during season three of The Rockford Files. This honor may very well have been due to Garner's work in the season's best and most pungent episode, "So Help Me Read More

    1976
  • Farewell to Manzanar

    Synopsis: Farewell to Manzanar recounts a dark chapter in American history from the point of view of those most closely affected by it. This made-for-TV movie concentrates on the Wakatsukis, a Japanese-American family living in Santa Monica, California in the early 1940s. After the attack on Pearl Harbor Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: So Help Me God

    Synopsis: This episode is a sobering lesson in civil liberties--or rather, the lack of those liberties when an innocent citizen is brought before a Federal Grand Jury. Much to his dismay, Jim Rockford (James Garner) is repeatedly subpoenaed and harrassed by zealous Federal prosecutor Gary Bevins (William Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: In Hazard

    Synopsis: While Beth (Gretchen Corbett) is stuck in jail on a contempt-of-court charge, Jim agrees to do some leg work on behalf of Beth's client Arnold Bailey (Joseph Campanella), who has been accused of income-tax evasion. Unfortunately for both Jim and Beth, Bailey is connected with the Mob. . .and has Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: Joey Blue Eyes

    Synopsis: Though there's no love lost between Jim Rockford (James Garner) and fellow ex-convict "Joey Blue Eyes" DiMinna (Michael Ansara), Beth (Gretchen Corbett) persuades Jim to come to Joey's aid when the man is victimized by a crooked corporation. DiMinna owns a small restaurant which the corporation Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: A Portrait of Elizabeth

    Synopsis: Doing his best to control his jealousy, Jim (James Garner) agrees to do a job for Beth's last boyfriend Dave Delaroux (John Saxon). Jim's assignment is to check up on a suspicious financial transaction, tied in with the disappearance of some potentially incrimimnating checks. As the story Read More

    1976
  • Emergency!: The Stewardesses

    Synopsis: In the opening episode of Emergency!'s fifth season, paramedic John Gage (Randolph Mantooth) falls in love with stewardess Sue Hickman (Gretchen Corbett), whom he meets during a flight in which another passenger has a heart attack. Alas, the couple is thereafter kept apart by Sue's out-of-town Read More

    1975
  • The Rockford Files: Charlie Harris at Large

    Synopsis: Jim Rockford's onetime cellmate "Charming" Charlie Harris (Tony Musante), comes to Jim to help him beat a murder rap. Though he freely admits to being a serial philanderer, Charlie flatly denies the accusation that he killed his wife, and wants Jim to find Linda Bannister (Diana Muldaur), the girl Read More

    1975
  • The Rockford Files: The No-Cut Contract

    Synopsis: At the height of his fame as "The Meathead" on All in the Family, Rob Reiner accepted a guest-star assignment on this episode of The Rockford Files. Reiner is cast as Larry "King" Sturtevant, a second-string quarterback for the Southern Illinois Warriors football team. Jim Rockford (James Garner) Read More

    1975
  • The Rockford Files: Season 02

    Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Gretchen Corbett, Stuart Margolin

    Synopsis: James Garner is back as rumpled, wryly humorous ex-con turned private eye Jim Rockford in season two of The Rockford Files. In addition to established supporting players Noah Beery Jr. (as Jim's dad Rocky), Gretchen Corbett (as Jim's lawyer girlfriend Beth Davenport), Stuart Margolin (as Read More

    1975
  • The Rockford Files: The Aaron Ironwood School of Success

    Synopsis: In the first episode of The Rockford Files' second season, private eye Jim Rockford (James Garner) is unexpectedly reunited with his boyhood pal Aaron Ironwood (James Hampton). Outwardly a dimwitted rube, Aaron has nonetheless become a multimillionaire by promoting his own "School of Success" Read More

    1975
  • The Rockford Files: Pastoria Prime Pick

    Synopsis: Once again, Jim Rockford (James Garner) finds himself neck-deep in trouble when he develops car trouble in a small town. The town in question is Pastoria, where thanks to a series of "misunderstandings" Jim is accused of several crimes, including grand theft auto, narcotics smuggling, statutory Read More

    1975
  • The Rockford Files: The Deep Blue Sleep

    Synopsis: Fashion model Margaux Adams (Doria Cook) places a frantic phone call to lawyer Beth Davenport (Gretchen Corbett)--and shortly thereafter turns up dead. At Beth's personal request, Jim (James Garner) agrees to investigate Margaux' murder, beginning with a visit to fashion designer Bob Coleman Read More

    1975
  • The Rockford Files: The Farnsworth Stratagem

    Synopsis: Despite his past experience with the Bunco Squad, police detective Dennis Becker (Joe Santos) somehow gets talked into a crooked land investment which wipes out nearly all his savings. To help out his pal Dennis--and incidentally to keep the bank from foreclosing on his mortage (it makes sense in Read More

    1975
  • Ironside: A Taste of Ashes

    Synopsis: While still grieving over the murder of her son, Joanna Portman (Kim Hunter) is visited by a young girl (Gretchen Corbett) claiming to her daughter Gail--who for several years has been presumed dead. Though Joanna is delighted by the girl's arrival, Ironside suspects that Gail's sudden Read More

    1974
  • The Rockford Files: Season 01

    Actors: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Joe Santos, Gretchen Corbett, Stuart Margolin

    Synopsis: Introduced as a 90-minute TV movie in March of 1974, The Rockford Files began its weekly, hour-long series run in September of that year. The opening episode, "The Kirkoff Case," finds ex-con turned private eye Jim Rockford (James Garner) trying to prove that his earnest but obnoxious young client Read More

    1974
  • Banacek: Now You See Me, Now You Don't

    Synopsis: In this episode from the mystery series, Banacek investigates the disappearance of a shady banker who was performing a disappearing act on stage. The had good reason to vanish; the police were about to arrest him for embezzling 1.75 million dollars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1974
  • The Rockford Files: Profit and Loss, Part 1 - Profit

    Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Alec Morris (John Carter), a terrified computer programmer for Fiscal Dynamics Incorporated, comes to Jim Rockford (James Garner) for help, only to be promptly kindapped. Following up this puzzling incident on behalf of Morris' wife Helen (Priscilla Read More

    1974
  • The Rockford Files: Profit and Loss, Part 2 - Loss

    Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim continues probing into the kidnapping and murder of computer programmer Alec Morris, despite pressure brought to bear by Morris' bosses at Fiscal Dynamics. Based on evidence provided by other employees, it appears that the company's higherups ordered the Read More

    1974
  • The Rockford Files: The Dark and Bloody Ground

    Synopsis: This episode marks the first appearance of Gretchen Corbett as attorney Beth Davenport, erstwhile girlfriend of private eye Jim Rockford (James Garner). Characteristically, Beth has called upon Jim for a teeny-tiny favor: namely, to prove the innocence of her impoverished client Ann Calhoun Read More

    1974
  • The Rockford Files: The Countess

    Synopsis: Jim Rockford (James Garner) is hired by former countess Deborah Ryder (Susan Strasberg), who is being blackmailed about her less-than-savory past by Carl Brego (Dick Gautier). After filming Deborah meeting Brego at the drop-off point, Jim confronts the blackmailer and "leans" on him a little to Read More

    1974
  • The House and the Brain

    Synopsis: A lovely young woman becomes imprisoned in a warlock's 18th century castle in this horror film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1973
  • Kojak: Conspiracy of Fear

    Synopsis: While investigating "dirty work" at an urban redevelopment project, an undercover cop is murdered. Kojak (Telly Savalas) wants to put the project on hold until his investigation of the killing is completed. Unfortunately, he meets with stiff resistance from several high-profile personalities--at Read More

    1973
  • Let's Scare Jessica to Death

    Actors: Zohra Lampert

    Synopsis: This eerie low-budget chiller has recently released mental patient Jessica (Zohra Lampert) moving to a Connecticut farm with her husband and some friends. But a strange girl named Emily is at the farm, too, and it soon becomes obvious that she is somehow related to a young woman who drowned on her Read More

    1971
  • Out of It

    Actors: Barry J. Gordon, Jon Voight, Lada Edmund Jr., Gretchen Corbett, Peter Grad

    Synopsis: High school students struggle for social status and acceptance from the opposite sex in Out Of It. Paul (Barry Gordon) is the shy boy who asks the blonde cheerleader Christine (Lada Edmund Jr.) for a date. The two see Romeo and Juliet, but Christine tells Paul she is feeling ill. After he brings Read More

    1969

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