Rosemary DeCamp
Known for Acting · 83 credits
- Born
- 1910-11-14
- Died
- 2001-02-20
- Place of birth
- Prescott, Arizona, USA
- Also known as
- Rosemary Shirley DeCamp
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.
Known For
TV Shows (40)
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Agnes
The Love Boat
1977
as Cynthia Loudon
Mannix
1967
as Mrs. Henry
The Red Skelton Show
1951
as Abigail Van Clive
Love, American Style
1969
as Mrs. Kearn / Old Martha Pomerantz
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
as Priscilla Rolfe Alden Smith-Standish
Quincy, M.E.
1976
The Rockford Files
1974
as Mary Ramsey
Climax!
1954
as Eleanor Farrington
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Angela Faring
Simon & Simon
1981
Petticoat Junction
1963
as Emily Mapes / Aunt Helen
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Amy Jeffries
Rawhide
1959
as Margaret Fletcher / Mrs. Armstrong
Hotel
1982
as Mary Tyson
Studio One
1948
as Cora Thompson / Laura Weber
Burke's Law
1963
as Mrs. Franklin
Hazel
1961
as Sybil
Night Gallery
1970
as Ellen Chase
77 Sunset Strip
1958
as Nurse (uncredited)
The Partridge Family
1970
as Grandma Amanda Renfrew
That Girl
1966
This Is Your Life
1952
as Self
Police Story
1973
as Beaulah
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
as Buck's Mother
The Bob Cummings Show
1955
as Margaret MacDonald
Petrocelli
1974
as Mrs. Drew
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Mildred Ledbetter
87th Precinct
1961
as Mrs. Phelps
B. J. and the Bear
1979
Medical Story
1975
Ensign O'Toole
1962
as Leona
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Anna Baetz
Breaking Point
1963
The Life of Riley
1949
as Peg Riley
The Baileys of Balboa
1964
Blind Ambition
1979
as Maureen Dean's Mother
General Electric Theater
1953
as Maxine
We've Got Each Other
1977
Movies (43)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
as Nellie Cohan
Strategic Air Command
1955
as Mrs. Thorne
This Is the Army
1943
as Ethel Jones
The Story of Seabiscuit
1949
as Mrs. Charles S. Howard
Jungle Book
1942
as Messua
Night Unto Night
1949
as Thalia Shawn
Blood on the Sun
1945
as Edith Miller
Night Into Morning
1951
as Mrs. Annie Ainley
Eyes in the Night
1942
as Vera Hoffman
Nora Prentiss
1947
as Lucy Talbot
Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942
as Hilma Arnesen
The Time Machine
1978
as Agnes
Many Rivers to Cross
1955
as Lucy Hamilton
On Moonlight Bay
1951
as Alice Winfield
13 Ghosts
1960
as Hilda Zorba
Scandal Sheet
1952
as Charlotte Grant
Hold Back the Dawn
1941
as Berta Kurz
From This Day Forward
1946
as Martha Beesley
Saturday the 14th
1981
as Aunt Lucille
Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946
as Nan
Main Street to Broadway
1953
as Mrs. Harry Craig
Bowery to Broadway
1944
as Bessie Kirby
Too Young to Know
1945
as Mrs. Enright
Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941
as Minna Fields
Rhapsody in Blue
1945
as Rose Gershwin
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945
as Anna
So This Is Love
1953
as Aunt Laura Stokley
Look for the Silver Lining
1949
as Mom Miller
Pride of the Marines
1945
as Virginia Pfeiffer
Man on a Bus
1955
as Miriam
The Big Hangover
1950
as Claire Bellcap
Tom, Dick and Harriet
1960
as Mother
The Treasure of Lost Canyon
1952
as Samuella
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1953
as Alice Winfield
The Memoirs of a Fairy Godmother
1980
Smith of Minnesota
1942
as Mrs. Smith (uncredited)
The Merry Monahans
1944
as Lillian DeRoyce
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943
as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Danger Signal
1945
as Dr. Jane Silla
Practically Yours
1944
as Ellen Macy
The Life of Riley
1949
as Peg Riley
The Wayward Pups
1937
as Lady of the house (voice) (uncredited)
City Without Men
1943
as Mrs. Slade
About Rosemary DeCamp
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 play… With 83 credits spanning from 1937 to 1984, Rosemary DeCamp has appeared in 43 films and 40 TV shows.
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- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) — as Nellie Cohan
- Strategic Air Command (1955) — as Mrs. Thorne
- This Is the Army (1943) — as Ethel Jones
- The Story of Seabiscuit (1949) — as Mrs. Charles S. Howard
- Jungle Book (1942) — as Messua
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