Barbara Pepper
Highest Rated: 100% Inferno (1953)
Lowest Rated: 57% Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Birthday: May 31, 1915
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Barbara Pepper was an actress with a prolific career in film and television that spanned the early 1930s to the late 1960s, primarily in supporting roles. Early in her career, she joined the stock female dance company the Goldwyn Girls, where she first met and worked with legendary comedian Lucille Ball. The two became lifelong friends. The first phase of Pepper's career included more than 20 years in well over 100 film roles, many of them secondary or uncredited, however. One early exception was the mystery-romance "The Rogues Tavern" in 1936, where she had a main part as Marjorie Burns. That same year, she had another significant part in the romantic comedy, "Mummy's Boys," but as with most if not all of her film roles, it lacked complexity, and failed to put her in Hollywood's limelight. The second phase of Pepper's career essentially began in 1952, when she teamed up with Lucille Ball on the comedy classic "I Love Lucy," appearing on eight episodes over four seasons. In 1954, Pepper began appearing on one of the other legendary comedies of the era, "The Jack Benny Program," a seven-episode run that lasted until 1962. In 1965, at 50, Pepper landed her most active TV part, as Doris Ziffel on the family comedy "Green Acres," about the New York City couple who adjust to a new life on the farm. Pepper appeared on 29 episodes, from 1965 to '68. She died from a coronary thrombosis at the age of 54.
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Barbara Pepper
Filmography
Movies
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71% |
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Kiss Me, Stupid | Big Bertha (Character) | - | 1964 |
92% |
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A Child Is Waiting | Miss Brown (Character) | - | 1963 |
57% |
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Who's Minding the Store? | Customer at Bargain Sale (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1963 |
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It's Only Money | Fisherwoman (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet |
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The D.I. | Woman Customer (Character) | - | 1957 |
100% |
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Inferno | Waitress (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Millerson Case | Belle Englehart (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terror Trail | Karen Kemp (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prison Ship | Winnie DeVoe (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girls in Chains | Ruth (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Thrilling Night | Lettie (Character) | - | 1942 |
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Manpower | Polly (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Sons O'Guns | Francie (Character) | - | 1941 |
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Castle on the Hudson | Goldie (Character) | - | 1940 |
71% |
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The Return of Frank James | Nellie Blane (Character) | - | 1940 |
100% |
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Of Mice and Men | Girl (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1939 |
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They Made Me a Criminal | Budgie Massey (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood Stadium Mystery | Althea Ames (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wide Open Faces | Belle (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lady in the Morgue | Kay Renshaw (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Too Many Wives | Angela Brown (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Westland Case | Agatha Hogan (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Outcasts of Poker Flat | Blonde Saloon Lady (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forty Naughty Girls | Alice (Character) | - | 1937 |
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The Rogue's Tavern | Marjorie Burns (Character) | - | 1936 |
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Winterset | Girl (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Taming the Wild | Hazel White (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mummy's Boys | Mary Browning (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What Becomes of the Children? | Elsie Ford (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wanted: Jane Turner | Marge Sanders (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sagebrush Troubador | Joan Martin (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Waterfront Lady | Gloria Vance (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forced Landing | Nancy "Dusty" Rhodes (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Home Work | Unknown (Character) | - | 1935 |
79% |
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Our Daily Bread | Sally (Character) | - | 1934 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Green Acres | Doris Ziffel (Character) | 1965-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doris Day Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Mother the Car | Greek Nightclub Dresser (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petticoat Junction | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Matty (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Mrs. Diamond (Guest Star) | 1957 1961 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have Gun -- Will Travel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thin Man | Big Martha (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Wells Fargo | Boxcar Annie (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | 97% | I Love Lucy | Woman in Butcher Shop (Guest Star) | 1952-1955 |