Background
Beverly Joanne Linville was born in Bakersfield, California on January 15, 1928.
Beverly Joanne Linville was born in Bakersfield, California on January 15, 1928.
Linville and actress Irene Gilbert co-founded the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles in 1985. Acting career
Linville"s motion picture credits include The Goddess (1958), Scorpio (1973), Gable and Lombard (1976), A Star Is Born (1976) and The Seduction (1982). In 1959, Linville appeared on the long running Columbia Broadcasting System daytime drama The Guiding Light as Amy Sinclair, a run away drug addict whose daughter was nearly taken from her as part of an illegal adoption scam ring.
Linville starred in two television presentations of One Step Beyond— as "Aunt Mina" in the episode "The Dead Participant of the House" (1959), and as "Karen Wadsworth" in the episode "A Moment of Hate" (1960).
In 1961, she starred in the Twilight Zone episode "The Passersby". In 1968, she played the Romulan Commander in the Star Trek episode "The Enterprise Incident".
Other television appearances include Decoy, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Have Gun Will Travel, COronado 9, Checkmate, Adventures in Paradise, The Twilight Zone, Empire, Gunsmoke (three episodes), Doctor Kildare, Ben Casey, Route 66, The Eleventh Hour, I Spy, Bonanza, The Fugitive, The Federal Bureau of Investigation (two episodes), The Invaders (two episodes), Felony Squad, Hawaii Five-O (three episodes: season 1, ep 19 and 20 - "Once Upon a Time", part I and World War II Season 2, ep 49 = "Kiss the Queen Goodbye"), Kojak, Columbo: Candidate for Crime, The Streets of San Francisco (two episodes), Nakia, Switch, Charlie"s Angels, Mistress Columbo, Dynasty and Los Angeles Law.
Linville also appeared in the made-for-television movies House on Greenapple Road (1970), Secrets (1977), The Critical List (1978), The Users (1978) and The Right of the People (1986).
Linville played Janine Turner"s character"s mother in the television series Behind the Screen. Joanne Linville and George Grizzard starred in "I Kiss Your Shadow", the final episode of the television series Business Stop.
The episode was based on the short story by Robert Bloch. In his book Danse Macabre, Stephen King nominated this episode as "..the single most frightening story ever done on television" King wrote that Business Stop was "..a straight drama show.
The final episode, however, deviated wildly into the supernatural, and for medical ."I Kiss Your Shadow" has never been beaten on television—and rarely any where else—for eerie, mounting horror."
Personal life
Linville was married to actor/director Mark Rydell from 1962 until their divorce in 1973.
They have two children, actor Christopher Rydell (born November 16, 1963) and actress Amy Rydell. Linville played gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in the television movie James Dean. Mark Rydell directed the film and also played Jack L. Warner.
Amy Rydell played Christine White, Dean"s girlfriend in New New York