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Highest Rated: 97% Pig (2021)

Lowest Rated: 36% Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

Birthday: Aug 13, 1947

Birthplace: Camp Sherman, Oregon, USA

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.

Highest rated movies

97% 84% Pig Watchlist 90% 67% Lorelei Watchlist 36% 50% Let's Scare Jessica to Death Watchlist PSI Factor Watchlist The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads Watchlist She's Dressed to Kill Watchlist 29% The Savage Bees Watchlist Secrets of Three Hungry Wives Watchlist Farewell to Manzanar Watchlist 60% Bucksville Watchlist

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Filmography

Movies

Credit
97% 84% Pig Mac (Character) $3.1M 2021
90% 67% Lorelei Kurt's Aunt Kitty (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet 60% Bucksville Kathleen French (Character) - 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads Beth Davenport (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 18% Change of Heart Gail Stern (Character) - 1998
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 The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play Beth Van Zandt (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Time Warp Ellen Devore (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 9% 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
No Score Yet 77% The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 Linda Mae Meyers (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 29% 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% 50% Let's Scare Jessica to Death Girl (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Out of It Barbara (Character) - 1969

TV

Credit
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 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
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