Biography
Carnegie Tech alumnus Gretchen Corbett made her professional acting bow with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Corbett's first New York stage appearance was in a 1967 revival of Shaw's Arms and the Man. While specializing in the classics on-stage, her film assignments were on a less artistically lofty plane. Her first film was 1969's
Out of It, followed by such credits as
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) and the made-for-TV
Mandrake (1979). Gretchen Corbett's TV-series obligations have included a lengthy run as attorney Beth Davenport on
The Rockford Files (1974-1980) and reluctant parallel-universe denizen June Sterling on
Otherworld (1985). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide