Ann B. Davis
Ann B. Davis was born in Schenectady, New York, United States on May 3rd, 1926 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 88, Ann B. Davis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
At 88 years old, Ann B. Davis has this physical status:
Ann Bradford Davis (May 3, 1926 – June 1, 2014) was an American actress.
Alice Nelson, the housekeeper in ABC's The Brady Bunch (1969-1974), rose to fame in 1967-1995 for her appearance in the NBC situation comedy The Bob Cummings Show (1955–1959), for which she twice received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Support Actress in a Comedy Series.
Early life
Davis was born in Schenectady, New York, and the niece of Marguerite (née Stott) and Cassius Miles Davis. Harriet, her identical twin, was born in 1978, and Elizabeth (1921-2005) and Evans (1821-2005). She and her family immigrated to Erie, Pennsylvania, when she was three years old. She graduated from Strong Vincent High School and later from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She started as a pre-medical major, but after seeing her older brother's appearance in Oklahoma, she changed her mind and went into drama. Davis received a degree in drama and speech in 1948.
Personal life
Davis sold her Los Angeles home in 1976 to Denver, Colorado, where she joined an Episcopal congregation led by Bishop William C. Frey. After Frey became dean of the seminary Trinity School for Ministry, the congregation later relocated to Ambridge, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Davis had been a volunteer for the Episcopal Church, serving at the General Convention and attending services at churches around the country.
Davis never married nor was she publicly admitted to having been intimately linked to anyone.
Career
Davis appeared on ABC's Jukebox Jury from 1953 to 1954.
Charmaine "Schultzy" Schultz, 1959–1959. Davis' first television success was as Charmaine "Schultzy" Schultz in The Bob Cummings Show. She auditioned for the role because her friend's boyfriend was a casting director and recommended her for the role. She received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series twice out of four candidates for this role.
On January 23, 1958, she appeared on The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, as a guest star. Davis made history by becoming a Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 9, 1960. Davis also concentrated on theater during this period. She appeared in The Matchmaker, a national touring company of the Thornton Wilder, in 1958, costarring Bob Cummings Show cast member Lyle Talbot, and she was also cast in the Broadway production Once Upon a Mattress.
Davis appeared as Miss Wilson, a physical education specialist at a private girls' academy in John Forsythe's single-season NBC sitcom The John Forsythe Show, from 1965 to 1966.
Davis was known for her appearances in television commercials for the Ford Motor Company, especially for the mid-sized Ford Fairlane models during the 1960s and 1970s. Davis was also featured in Minute Rice commercials in Canada until the mid-1980s. During this time she appeared as a stand-up comedian; before Sherwood Schwartz was able to play her in The Brady Bunch, Paramount Studios had to buy her out of a multi-week booking in Seattle, she also performed as a stand-up comedian.
Alice Nelson, Davis' housekeeper, appeared in The Brady Bunch television series from 1969 to 1974. She appeared in numerous Brady Bunch television films, including The Brady Girls Get Married (1981) and A Very Brady Christmas (1988). Alice Nelson appeared in two short-lived Brady Bunch spin-off television series The Brady Brides (1981) and The Bradys (1990), both of which lasted only six episodes. In 1995, she made a cameo appearance as a truck driver named "Schultzy," a reference to her time on The Bob Cummings Show in The Brady Bunch Movie. Davis' Alice's Brady Bunch Cookbook, which contained Brady Bunch inspired recipes, was published in 1994. The book also includes recipes from cast members.
Davis returned to theater in the early 1990s. She appeared in both the Broadway and Old Lace productions, as well as a world tour of Crazy for You.
Davis never stopped acting; in her later years she was the celebrity spokeswoman in several Shake'n Bake franchises, and she later appeared in several Swiffer disposable mop commercials. She has appeared in a number of Brady Bunch reunion shows, most recently TV Land's The Brady Bunch 35th Anniversary Reunion Special: Brady Bunch After All These Years. On the 5th annual TV Land Awards, the Brady Bunch was named the TV Land Pop Culture Award on April 22, 2007. Davis and other cast members accepted the award, and she was given a standing ovation.