Beverly Washburn

Beverly Washburn (born November 25, 1943) is an American actress.

Beverly Washburn
Beverly Washburn
Born (1943-11-25) November 25, 1943
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active1950–present
Spouse(s)Michael Radell[1]

She was cast as a young girl in the Leave It to Beaver episode "Blind Date Committee" in October 1959, on NBC's The Loretta Young Show, and as an older teenager in Loretta Young's 1962–1963 CBS family drama, The New Loretta Young Show. In between, Washburn played Lili Kilgore in the 1956 film The Lone Ranger, and Lisbeth Searcy in the 1957 Walt Disney film Old Yeller.[2] Washburn appeared once on NBC's Star Trek in the role of Lieutenant Arlene Galway in the 1967 episode "The Deadly Years".[3]

Biography

Born in Hollywood on November 25, 1943,[4] Washburn was had an uncredited role as 6-year-old Walda Kowalski in the 1950 film The Killer That Stalked New York. She also appeared in the films Hans Christian Andersen (1952) and Shane (1953).[5]

She appeared on many of the anthology series then common on American television networks, including The Ford Television Theatre, Lux Video Theatre, Jane Wyman's Fireside Theatre, Chevron Hall of Stars, H. J. Heinz Company's Studio 57, Four Star Playhouse, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, The 20th Century Fox Hour, Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, Shirley Temple's Storybook, and General Electric Theater.[3]

In 1951, Washburn appeared in the theatrical film Superman and the Mole Men, which was thereafter edited into two half-hour segments that became the first two episodes of the television series The Adventures of Superman. In 1951 she appeared as an orphaned French girl in Frank Capra's film, Here Comes the Groom. In 1955, Washburn appeared as a daughter of the family in the CBS sitcom Professional Father.

Later, young Washburn appeared on Leave It to Beaver, a sitcom in which Barbara Billingsley played the mother, June Cleaver. Other series in which Washburn acted included Dragnet, The Lone Ranger, Fury, The Millionaire, The Law and Mr. Jones, and Target: The Corruptors!, She also portrayed Lolly Harrod in the 1961 episode "Parasite Mansion" of Boris Karloff's NBC suspense series, Thriller Washburn appeared on radio with Jack Benny before she guest starred on CBS's The Jack Benny Program on television.[3]

She appeared in several episodes of Gidget in 1965-1966 under various names. This included playing Gidget's friend Shirley, the daughter of Paul Lynde in the episode, "Take a Lesson."

She appeared for a 26-week season as older daughter Vickie Massey in The New Loretta Young Show.

She also appeared in episodes of the Warner Bros. ABC detective series, 77 Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye. She appeared twice on the CBS western series, The Texan, as Henrietta Tovers in "No Tears for the Dead" (1958) and as Greta Banden in "Badman" (1960).[3] She appeared in the debut episode of NBC's Wagon Train, reappearing in episodes "The Willy Moran Story" (1957), "The Tobias Jones Story" (1958), and as Milly Sharp in "The Cassie Vance Story" (1963). Washburn's other roles included two appearances each on Arrest and Trial, Mr. Novak, and Gidget and a guest-starring role on The Patty Duke Show.

Washburn appeared in the film Spider Baby (1968).[5]

In the 1970s, she appeared in three episodes of The Streets of San Francisco crime drama: "Most Feared in the Jungle" (1973), "Letters from the Grave" (1975), and as Michelle Rhodes in "Let's Pretend We're Strangers" (1977). One of her later television appearances was in the 1984 episode "Remembrance of Things Past" of CBS's Scarecrow and Mrs. King. A later role was that of the character Brenda in the 2007 film Hard Four.[3] In 2015, she appeared as Reyna Belasco Rosenthal in R. Christian Anderson's feature film When the World Came to San Francisco.

Washburn is an aunt of actress Darlene Tompkins, who is only three years her junior.[2] Her brother, George Washburn, who died in 1994, was an actor, stuntman, and race car driver, and they both appeared in Pit Stop.[3]

References
  1. Fink, Jerry (October 21, 2009). "She cried when Old Yeller died - Las Vegas Sun Newspaper". lasvegassun.com.
  2. Lisanti, Tom (2003). Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties. McFarland. p. 180. ISBN 9780786493425. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  3. "Beverly Washburn". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved April 1, 2009.
  4. "TV Portraits Beverly Washburn". The Bedford Daily-Times Mail. Indiana, Bedford. January 8, 1955. p. 11. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Thomas, Nick (July 13, 2018). "Beverly Washburn recalls favorite co-stars". The Daily Spectrum. Utah, Saint George. p. A 4. Retrieved April 27, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

Further reading

Books
  • Reel Tears: The Beverly Washburn Story, by Beverly Washburn with Donald Vaughan. 2009, BearManor Media, Albany.

Interviews
  • Classic Images Magazine, July, 1996 no.253 "Happy Memories Of A Childhood" Actor," interview by writers/interviewers, Paul Parla and Charles P. Mitchell.
  • Scary Monsters Magazine, March, 1998, no. 26 "Beverly Washburn Spider Baby Sister", "Merrye Tales- A Spider Baby Roundtable (Multiple Interviews 1997)" interviews by writers/interviewers, Paul Parla and Charles P. Mitchell.
  • Filmfax Magazine, October, 1998 no.63-64 "Voices From The House On Spider-Round Table Interviews (1997)" interviews by writers/interviewers, Paul Parla and Charles P. Mitchell.
  • Filmfax Magazine, October, 2000 no.75 "Spider Baby Sister And TV Veteran" interview by writers/interviewers, Paul Parla and Charles P. Mitchell.
  • Scarlet The Film Magazine, April, 2010 no.7 "No Tears For Beverly" interview by writers/interviewers, Lawrence Fultz Jr. and Colete Morlock.
  • "Lt. Galway Speaks: Beverly Washburn Talks Star Trek" article (cover story) and interview by Don Vaughn, Filmfax magazine, May–July 2016, number 144 (cover). Filmfax, Inc., Evanston, Illinois USA. Three pages (47-49) with 18 photographs.
  • Goldrup, Tom and Jim (2002). Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Film and Television. McFarland & Co. pp. 194–302. ISBN 1476613702.
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