ROSEMARY DECAMP BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Rosemary De Camp was born on November 14th, 1910 in Prescott, Arizona. Her career began in radio and on stage. Her acting career began as an understudy on Broadway. series with the same name. On radio, De Camp developed the vocal timbre that enabled her to portray a variety and age-range of characters. De Camp was on several radio soap operas and anthologies before settling into the role of Judy Price on the Dr. Christian series in 1937. She did attend college at Mills College, San Francisco, California. With all this radio experience she now decided to try her hand at the film industry and therefore, moved to Hollywood.
Her film debit was on, "Cheers For Miss. Bishop" (1941). Majority of her film work was done under Warner Brothers with films such as, "Eyes in the Night" (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), "Jungle Book" (1942) and "Rhapsody in Blue" (1945).
De Camp was also very involved as a television actress. She was a regular on, "The Bob Cummings Show" (1961), "The Life of Riley" (1949), the NBC sitcom, "Ensign O'Toole" (1962) and "That Girl" (1966). She also played Bob Cummings' levelheaded sister Margaret in "Love That Bob" (1955-59).
Alongside her film and television career, many viewers were aware of her from her commercials for a laundry products called 20 Mule Team Borax. She was the permanent spokesperson for this product.
De Camp did retire from the industry for several years but then made a come back in 1981 for a cameo part in a horror spoof called, "Saturday the 14th".
De Camp passed away at the age of 90 on February 20th, 2001 in Torrance, California from complications of Pneumonia.
She married one time to John Ashton Shidler in 1941 and they remained together until he passed away in 1998. Together the couple had 4 daughters, Margaret, Martha, Valerie and Nita.
Filmography
1989 Murder She Wrote
1986-1987 St. Elsewhere
1985 Hotel
1983 Quincy M.E.
1983 Fantasy Island
1983 A Chip of Glass Ruby
1982 Simon & Simon
1981 Saturday the 14th
1981 B.J. and the Bear
1981 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1980 Lobo
1979-1980 Days of Our Lives
1979 Family
1979 Tom Edison: The Boy Who Lit Up the World
1978 The Time Machine
1978 The Love Boat
1977 We've Got Each Other
1976 Phillip and Barbara
1973-1975 Police Story
1975 Medical Story
1975 Petrocelli
1975 The Rockford Files
1975 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1970-1973 The Partridge Family
1971-1973 Mannix
1969-1973 Love, American Style
1972 Call Holme
1971 Longstreet
1971 Night Gallery
1966-1970 That Girl
1969 Here Come the Brides
1964-1968 Petticoat Junction
1965 Death Valley Days
1965 Burke's Law
1965 Dr. Kildare
1964 The Baileys of Balboa
1964 Breaking Point
1963 The Beverly Hillbillies
1962 Ensign O'Toole
1962 Hazel
1961-1962 Rawhide
1962 Follow the Sun
1962 87th Precinct
1961 The Red Skelton Hour
1960 13 Ghosts
1959 G.E. True Theater
1955-1959 The Bob Cummings Show
1958 Studio One in Hollywood
1956 Climax!
1955 TV Reader's Digest
1955 Strategic Air Command
1955 Many Rivers to Cross
1955 Man on a Bus
1954 Hallmark Hall of Fame
1953-1954 The Ford Television Theatre
1954 Omnibus
1953 Main Street to Broadway
1953 So This Is Love
1953 By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1952 The Treasure of Lost Canyon
1952 Scandal Sheet
1951 On Moonlight Bay
1951 Night Into Morning
1950 The Big Hangover
1949-1950 The Life of Riley
1949 The Story of Seabiscuit
1949 Look for the Silver Lining
1949 Night Unto Night
1949 The Life of Riley
1947 Nora Prentiss
1946 Two Guys from Milwaukee
1946 From This Day Forward
1945 Too Young to Know
1945 Danger Signal
1945 Week-End at the Waldorf
1945 Pride of the Marines
1945 Rhapsody in Blue
1945 Blood on the Sun
1944 Practically Yours
1944 Bowery to Broadway
1944 The Merry Monahans
1943 This Is the Army
1943 City Without Men
1942 Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942 Eyes in the Night
1942 Smith of Minnesota
1942 Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 Jungle Book
1941 Hold Back the Dawn
1941 Cheers for Miss Bishop
