List of Gretchen Corbett performances

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Corbett in 1975

Gretchen Corbett is an American actress of film, stage, and television. She began her career as a stage actress, starring in productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival before being cast in Broadway productions of After the Rain (1967) and Forty Carats (1968). She made her feature film debut in the comedy Out of It (1969), and subsequently had supporting roles in the horror films Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) and The Savage Bees (1976), as well as the drama The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 (1978). She also appeared on stage in New York-based productions of Henry IV (1970), The Survival of St. Joan (1970–1971), and The Justice Box (1971).

Between 1974 and 1978, Corbett portrayed attorney Beth Davenport on the primetime series The Rockford Files, opposite James Garner. She subsequently starred as a doctor in the supernatural horror film Jaws of Satan (1981), followed by a role in the television drama film Million Dollar Infield (1982). Corbett worked consistently in guest-starring roles on television throughout the 1980s, as well as appearing in regional theater productions. Since the 2000s, she has appeared in numerous stage productions with Portland Center Stage, in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, as well as directing plays. Between 2013 and 2015, she had a recurring guest role on the comedy series Portlandia, and appeared in the Hulu series Shrill in 2019.

Film[edit]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1969 Out of It Barbara [1]
1971 Let's Scare Jessica to Death The Girl [1]
1973 The House and the Brain Kate Marsh Television film [2]
1974 The Cay Grace Enright Television film [3]
1976 Farewell to Manzanar Lois Television film [2]
1976 The Savage Bees Jeannie Deveraux Television film [2]
1978 The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II Linda Mae Meyers [1]
1978 Secrets of Three Hungry Wives Karen McClure Television film [2]
1979 Mandrake Jennifer Lindsay Television film [2]
1979 She's Dressed to Kill Jennifer Gooch Television film [2]
1980 High Ice Liz Television film [2]
1980 PSI Factor Lt. Sheila Foster [2]
1981 Jaws of Satan Dr. Maggie Sheridan [2]
1981 Time Warp Ellen Devore Television film [4]
1982 Million Dollar Infield Carole Frische Television film [2]
1984 Things Are Looking Up Joanne Braithwaite Television film [5]
1985 North Beach and Rawhide Rita Aaron Television film [2]
1991 Final Verdict Aunt Blanche Television film [2]
1993 Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter? Mrs. Hill Television film [2]
1995 Without Evidence Mary
1996 If the Frame Fits... Beth (Davenport) Van Zandt Television film [2]
1996 The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play Beth (Davenport) Van Zandt Television film
1998 A Change of Heart Gail Stern Also known as: "A Father for Brittany" [2]
1999 The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads Beth Davenport Television film [2]
2011 Motor Away Paisley Short film
2011 Bucksville Kathleen French
2012 Evelyn Evelyn Short film
2021 Pig Mac
2021 Lorelei Kitty

Television[edit]

Series[edit]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1967 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing Meg Stewart 1 episode
1968 N.Y.P.D. Darlene Welby Episode: "Case of the Shady Lady" [6]
1973 Kojak Jeri Episode: "Conspiracy of Fear" [7]
1974 Ironside Gail Portman Episode: "The Taste of Ashes" [7]
1974 Banacek Vicki Merrick Episode: "Now You See Me, Now You Don't" [7]
1974 Columbo Jessica Conroy Episode: "An Exercise in Fatality" [7]
1974 Gunsmoke Arlene Episode: "Town in Chains" [3]
1974 Sierra Theodora Burke Episode: "The Trek"
1974–1976 Marcus Welby, M.D. Hedy Moran/Leah Blakely/Jan Allister 4 episodes [7]
1975 Hawaii Five-0 Glynis Episode: "Study in Rage" [7]
1975 McMillan & Wife Megan McMillan Episode: "Love, Honor, and Swindle" [7]
1975 Ellery Queen Jenny O'Brien Episode: "The Adventure of Colonel Nivin's Memoirs"
1975 Barbary Coast Lily Colt Episode: "Arson and Old Lace"
1975 Matt Helm Nancy Taylor Episode: "Murder on the Run"
1975–1976 Emergency! Mara Lynn Smith/Sue Hickman 2 episodes
1976 Switch Beryl Episode: "Come Die with Me"
1976 Wonder Woman Erica Belgard Episode: "Wonder Woman vs Gargantua" [7]
1976 Kingston Confidential Helen Drew Episode: "Welcome to Paradise"
1974–1978 The Rockford Files Beth Davenport 33 episodes [7]
1977–1978 Family Ellen Rickover 3 episodes [7]
1978 Barnaby Jones Jenny Hastings Episode: "Blind Jeopardy"
1978 W.E.B. Episode: "The Great Clowns"
1978 Lucan Bonnie Episode: "Thunder God Gold"
1981 The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo Kathleen Dixon, Esq. Episode: "Bang, Bang... You're Dead!"
1981 One Day at a Time Sophie Episode: "Plain Favorite" [8]
1982 Trapper John, M.D. Vivian Langtry Episode: "Victims" [7]
1983 Cheers Gretchen Darrow Episode: "Diane's Perfect Date" [7]
1983 Tales of the Unexpected Martha Parker Episode: "Turn of the Tide" [7]
1983 The Mississippi Episode: "Peace With Honor"
1981–1983 Magnum, P.I. Holly Hudson/Holly Fox/Christine Richards 2 episodes [7]
1985 Otherworld June Sterling 8 episodes [7]
1985 Simon & Simon Lisa Cambio Episode: "Burden of the Beast" [7]
1986 Murder, She Wrote Lt. A Caruso Episode: "Deadline for Murder"
1987 21 Jump Street Jan Prentiss Episode: "Higher Education"
1989 A Peaceable Kingdom Dr. Amelia Altman Episode: "Jaguar"
1990 Hunter Mary Reynolds Episode: "Brotherly Love" [7]
1991 The Trials of Rosie O'Neill Madeleine Episode: "The Reunion"
1995 Dead by Sunset Barbara Welch 1 episode
1995 Medicine Ball Mrs. Scheider Episode: "Hot Lips and Major Burns" [7]
2013–2015 Portlandia Mary Eunice Oliver 2 episodes
2019 Shrill Jenelle Episode: "Date" [9]

Televised plays[edit]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1975 Knuckle Jenny PBS's Hollywood Television Theater [3]
1976 The Fatal Weakness Penny Espenshade PBS's Hollywood Television Theater [10]

Stage[edit]

Year Title Role Location Notes Ref.
1966 Othello Desdemona Oregon Shakespeare Festival [11]
1967 Romeo and Juliet Juliet Capulet Repertory Theatre, New Orleans [12]
1967 Arms and the Man Raina Petkoff Sheridan Square Playhouse [13]
1967 After the Rain Sonya Banks John Golden Theatre Broadway [14]
1968 The Bench Jessie Gramercy Arts Theatre [15]
1968 Iphigenia in Aulis Iphigenia Circle in the Square Theatre Broadway [16]
1968 Forty Carats Trina Stanley Morosco Theatre Broadway [17]
1970 Henry IV, Part 1 & Part 2 Joan la Pucelle Delacorte Theater [18]
1970–1971 The Survival of St. Joan Jeanne d'Arc Anderson Theatre, New York City [14]
1971 The Justice Box Francoise Theatre de Lys [19]
1972 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Ruth Berkshire Theatre Festival [20]
1972 Moonchildren Shelly / Ruth / Cathy (understudy) Royal Theatre Broadway [14]
1973 Summer and Smoke Alma Winemiller Drew University, Madison, New Jersey [21]
1973 As You Like It Rosalind Drew University, Madison, New Jersey [22]
1973 The Master Builder Hilda Wangel Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut [23]
1977–1978 At the End of Long Island Mark Taper Forum [24]
1982 The Carome Brothers' Italian Food Products Corp.'s
Annual Pasta Pageant 		Roxanne Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut [25]
1987 The Traveler The Girlfriend Mark Taper Forum [26]
1988 The Heidi Chronicles Fran / Lisa / April Seattle Repertory Theatre [27]
1988 The Fox Jill Van Nuys Theatre [28]
1993 Dancing at Lughnasa Maggie Oregon Shakespeare Festival [29]
2009 A Skull in Connemara Maryjohnny Rafferty Third Rail Repertory, Portland, Oregon [30]
2010 The Gray Sisters Dina Third Rail Repertory, Portland, Oregon [31]
2011 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Nurse Ratched Portland Center Stage [32]
2012 Anna Karenina Mother Shcherbatskaya Portland Center Stage [33]
2014 Bo-Nita — Portland Center Stage Director [34]
2016 Not Medea — B Street Theatre, Sacramento, California Director [35]
2019 The Breath of Life Madeleine Palmer Portland Center Stage [36]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Gretchen Corbett Filmography". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Gretchen Corbett Filmography". AllMovie. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c Martin, Bob (June 1, 1975). "Gretchen Corbett keeps busy, busy, busy in Hollywood". Independent Press-Telegram. Long Beach, California. p. 79 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Time Warp". Park Circus. Archived from the original on March 12, 2020.
  5. ^ Terrace 1985, p. 412.
  6. ^ "NYPD, 9:30p.m." Los Angeles Times. November 19, 1968. p. 77 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Gretchen Corbett Credits". TV Guide. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  8. ^ Terrace 1985, p. 306.
  9. ^ Turnquist, Kristi (April 16, 2019). "What Hulu's 'Shrill' says about Portland: We have savvy strippers, podcasting man-babies and sex-minded singles". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019.
  10. ^ Roberts 2003, p. 294.
  11. ^ English, Jeryme (July 26, 1966). "Around Town..." Statesman Journal. Salem, Oregon. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Fain, Nathan (February 15, 1967). "Intermission". The Times. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "First Role". New York Daily News. August 29, 1967. p. 77 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ a b c "Gretchen Corbett". Broadway World. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019.
  15. ^ Campbell, Mary (March 6, 1968). "Off-Broadway Play 'Wastes' Good Actor". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. p. 55 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "'Lives' Delayed, Nype Joins Cast". New York Daily News. May 7, 1968. p. 49 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Forty Carats". Broadway World. Archived from the original on October 27, 2018.
  18. ^ "David Hooks and Gretchen Corbett in a scene from The War of the Roses: The Chronicles of King Henry VI, Part 2". New York Public Library. 1970. Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  19. ^ "The Justice Box". Broadway World. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019.
  20. ^ Flynn, Anne-Gerard (July 19, 1972). "'The Effect of Gamma Rays...'". The Berkshire Eagle. Pittsfield, Massachusetts. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ Lambert, Virginia (July 6, 1973). "A tearfully good show". The Record. Hackensack, New Jersey – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ Berthold, Walt (July 19, 1973). "Shakespeare As We Like It". Madison-Florham Park Eagle. Madison, New Jersey. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ Johnson, Malcolm L. (October 17, 1973). "Marshall Superb In Ibsen Play". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. p. 35 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ Willis, John, ed. (1979). "At the End of Long Island". Theatre World. 34. New York: Applause. OCLC 498429446.
  25. ^ Johnson, Malcolm L. (April 23, 1982). "'Pasta' Has Smell of Sweet Success". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. p. 67 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Sullivan, Dan (March 6, 1987). "Stage Review: 'The Traveler' Almost Makes It". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 12, 2019.
  27. ^ Wasserstein, Wendy (1990). The Heidi Chronicles. New Haven, Connecticut: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-822-20510-4.
  28. ^ Arkatov, Janice (December 18, 1988). "Gretchen Corbett Returns to Challenging Role as Jill in Van Nuys Theater's Production of 'The Fox'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019.
  29. ^ Cowan, Ron (November 2, 1993). "The Corbett Files". Statesman Journal. Salem, Oregon. p. 27 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ^ Hughley, Marty (February 9, 2009). "'A Skull in Connemara' not quite smashing, but strong". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  31. ^ "MISTAKES WERE MADE by Craig Wright opens Saturday at Artists Rep". Portland Theatre Scene. September 26, 2013. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  32. ^ Johnson, Barry (January 14, 2011). "Little big nurse". Portland Monthly. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019.
  33. ^ Hughley, Marty (April 12, 2012). "Portland Center Stage review: 'Anna Karenina' arrives late but dazzling". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  34. ^ Hodde, R.J. (January 24, 2014). "Spotlight: "Bo-Nita" Director Gretchen Corbett". Portland Center Stage. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017.
  35. ^ Crowder, Marcus (May 16, 2016). "Sacramento's B Street stages new play 'Not Medea'". The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on July 14, 2016.
  36. ^ Williams, Lee (May 20, 2019). "'The Breath of Life' can be summed up with one word: Sigh". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019. Retrieved July 18, 2019.

Sources[edit]

  • Roberts, Jerry (2003). The Great American Playwrights on the Screen: A Critical Guide to Film, Video, and DVD. New York City, New York: Applause Books. ISBN 978-1-557-83512-3.
  • Terrace, Vincent (1985). Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials. Vol. 2. New York City, New York: New York Zoetrope. ISBN 978-0-918-43261-2.

External links[edit]

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