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Barbara Babcock

Barbara Babcock

Highest Rated: 90% Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

Lowest Rated: 0% That Was Then... This Is Now (1985)

Birthday: Feb 27, 1937

Birthplace: Fort Riley, Kansas, USA

Willowy, with an airy frame, but capable of projecting toughness as well as tightly-wound characters, Barbara Babcock was a "working actress" for two decades before a recurring guest role on "Hill Street Blues" in the early 1980s turned her into a TV star. On "Hill Street," Babcock was tough Grace Gardner, hounding Sgt. Esterhaus (Michael Conrad) until she had him. "Tough" seems to be a word threaded through Babcock's personal life as well. The daughter of the US Army General, she was raised in Tokyo and spoke Japanese before English. On screen, Babcock seems very much the "lady." Her early career included guest spots on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" (CBS) as a cousin to the rich boy nemesis of the title character. Babcock's deep, cultured voice earned both an appearance on "Star Trek" in the mid-60s as well as several voice-overs for that series.

Highest rated movies

90% Bang the Drum Slowly
89% Salem's Lot
78% Space Cowboys
50% Far and Away
40% Back Roads
38% The Lords of Discipline
33% The Black Marble
0% That Was Then... This Is Now

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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 23% Home Alone 4 Molly (Character) - 2002
78% 53% Space Cowboys Barbara Corvin (Character) $90.4M 2000
No Score Yet 75% A Vow to Cherish Ellen Brighton (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 62% Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Movie Dorothy Jennings (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Childhood Sweetheart? Rose Carlson (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Mother's Instinct Mrs. Mitchell (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert Rhonda Devon (Character) - 1993
50% 62% Far and Away Nora Christie (Character) $58.2M 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen Martha Robertson (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Famliy for Joe Miss Collins (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet 25% Heart of Dixie Coralee Claibourne (Character) $691.7K 1989
No Score Yet 46% Happy Together Ruth Carpenter (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet News at Eleven Joanna Steckler (Character) - 1986
0% 58% That Was Then... This Is Now Mrs. Douglas (Character) $7.0M 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Attack on Fear Jane Dutton (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 60% Quarterback Princess Judy Maida (Character) - 1983
38% 56% The Lords of Discipline Abigail St. Croix (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Memories Never Die Louise Lowry (Character) - 1982
40% 36% Back Roads Rickey's Mom (Character) - 1981
33% 53% The Black Marble Madeline Whitfield (Character) - 1980
89% 65% Salem's Lot June Petrie (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Survival of Dana Lorna Sims (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 29% Chosen Survivors Dr. Lenore Chrisman (Character) - 1974
90% 63% Bang the Drum Slowly Team Owner (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last Child Shelley Drumm (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 70% Heaven With a Gun Mrs. Andrews (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 44% Day of the Evil Gun Angie Warfield (Character) - 1968

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Judging Amy Unknown (Guest Star) 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pasadena Lillian Greeley (Character) 2001
95% 94% Frasier Penelope Janvier (Guest Star) 2001
No Score Yet 95% The Pretender Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chicago Hope Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Quinn Dorothy Jennings (Character) 1993 1995-1998
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Meredith Delaney (Guest Star) 1985-1986 1990 1992-1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wings Unknown (Guest Star) 1991
No Score Yet 93% The Golden Girls Charmaine Hollingsworth (Guest Star) 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Law & Harry McGraw Ellie Maginnis (Character) 1987-1988
97% 82% Hill Street Blues Sister Chastity (Guest Star) 1981-1982 1984 1986-1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Presents Unknown (Character) 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mr. Sunshine Mrs. June Swinford (Character) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mary Janet (Guest Star) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hotel Unknown (Guest Star) 1985
87% 95% Cheers Lana (Guest Star) 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dallas Unknown (Guest Star) 1978-1979 1981-1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Best of the West Unknown (Guest Star) 1982
No Score Yet 62% Taxi Karen (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Flo Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Benson Unknown (Guest Star) 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rockford Files Karen Hall / Kathryn Cooper (Guest Star) 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Starsky and Hutch Unknown (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Streets of San Francisco Judy Tyrell (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix Lucille (Guest Star) 1968-1969 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shaft Unknown (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cannon Ruth Gardner (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sixth Sense Unknown (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet 100% Night Gallery Unknown (Character) 1971
No Score Yet 100% Hogan's Heroes Unknown (Guest Star) 1967 1969-1970
80% 88% Star Trek Mea 3 (Guest Voice),
Trelane's mother (Guest Star) 		1967-1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Family Affair Unknown (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lucy Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet 100% The Green Hornet Unknown (Guest Star) 1966-1967
83% 91% The Munsters Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lieutenant Unknown (Guest Star) 1963