Gretchen Corbett
Gretchen Corbett has been a successful film and theater actress, but is best known for her role as James Garner's lawyer and occasional love interest on "The Rockford Files." After attending Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech, where she studied drama, Corbett had a stage career in New York, taking part in productions of "Forty Carats" and "Henry VI," among others. Her early TV roles came courtesy of the adaptation "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"--a series based on the film--and the crime drama "N.Y.P.D.." Film roles came in the obscure dramatic comedy "Out of It," which featured a young Jon Voight, and the grade-B horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death." In 1973 she signed a studio contract, which by then had become something of an anachronism, and appeared in Universal's stable of shows, which included the mysteries "Kojak," "Banacek," and "Columbo." Beginning in 1974, she began her regular role as Beth Davenport, Jim Rockford's exasperated but good-hearted legal representation on "The Rockford Files," leaving after the fourth season. After her departure, she acted in several low-profile TV movies like the sci-fi film "Time Warp" in 1981. She briefly starred in the family sci-fi show "Otherworld" in 1985 and returned to her Beth Davenport role in three TV reunion films.
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Gretchen Corbett
Filmography
Movies
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Pig | Mac (Character) | $3.1M | 2021 |
89% |
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Lorelei | Kurt's Aunt Kitty (Character) | - | 2020 |
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Bucksville | Kathleen French (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads | Beth Davenport (Character) | - | 1999 |
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Change of Heart | Gail Stern (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play | Beth Van Zandt (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits | Beth (Davenport) Van Zandt (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Time Warp | Ellen Devore (Character) | - | 1981 |
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Jaws of Satan | Dr. Maggie Sheridan (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | PSI Factor | Lt. Sheila Foster (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High Ice | Liz (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She's Dressed to Kill | Laura Gooch (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Someone's Killing the World's Greatest Models | Laura Gooch (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Secrets of Three Hungry Wives | Karen McClure (Character) | - | 1978 |
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The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 | Linda Mae Meyers (Character) | - | 1978 |
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The Savage Bees | Jeannie Devereaux (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Farewell to Manzanar | Lois (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The House and the Brain | Unknown (Character) | - | 1973 |
36% |
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Let's Scare Jessica to Death | Girl (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Out of It | Barbara (Character) | - | 1969 |
TV
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94% | 81% | Portlandia | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | Mary Reynolds (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 21 Jump Street | Jan Prentiss (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Lt. A. Caruso (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simon & Simon | Lisa Cambio (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Otherworld | June Sterling (Character) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | Christine Richards (Guest Star) | 1981 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Martha Parker (Character) | 1983 |
87% | 95% | Cheers | Gretchen (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Day at a Time | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files | Beth Davenport (Character) | 1974-1978 |
100% | 82% | Wonder Woman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Leah Blakely (Guest Star) | 1974 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barbary Coast | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McMillan and Wife | Megan McMillan (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Arlene (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Columbo | Jessica Conroy (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Banacek | Vicki Merrick (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Jeri (Guest Star) | 1973 |