Gretchen Corbett

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Gretchen Hoyt Corbett (born August 13, 1947) is an American actress and stage producer.

She is best known for her appearances on television, particularly as attorney Beth Davenport on the NBC series The Rockford Files, but she has also performed as a director on Broadway and in regional theater. She studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University before making her stage debut in a production of Othello at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a native of Portland, Oregon, and the great-granddaughter of Henry W. Corbett.

She appeared in lead roles on Broadway in After the Rain (1967) and Forty Carats (1968), opposite Julie Harris.

Joan la Pucelle of Shakespeare's Henry IV performed off-Broadway in Aulis (1968) and as Joan la Pucelle in Shakespeare's Henry IV, where she appeared at Delacorte Theater in 1970.

Between 1970 and 1971, she appeared in The Survival of St. Joan as Jeanne d'Arc. She made her feature film debut in Out of It (1969), followed by a supporting role in the cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971).

Corbett's debut in 1972, she appeared in numerous television films and series for the studio, as well as working in a summer stock theater on the East Coast.

Beth Davenport, the idealistic lawyer on the NBC series The Rockford Files, appeared opposite James Garner from 1974 to 1978. She appeared in Jaws of Satan (1981), and Hal Cooper's dramatic Million Dollar Infield (1982).

Corbett appeared on several television shows, including Cheers (1983) and Magnum, P.I., for the majority of the 1980s.

(1981–1983) and appeared in the short-lived Otherworld (1985).

She appeared in the films Unsure Evidence (1995) and A Change of Heart (1998).

Corbett has been the artistic director of the Portland-based Haven Project, a theater project benefiting underprivileged children, and has appeared in numerous stage productions, as well as the city's Third Rail Repertory.

She appeared on television in 2013 as a recurring character on the IFC's Portlandia, and in 2019 she appeared as a guest-starring in the Hulu series Shrill.

1945–1965: Early life

Gretchen Hoyt Corbett was born in 1945 on August 13, 1945. Henry Ladd Corbett, Jr., and Katherine Minahen (née Coney) Corbett's year of birth is given as 1947 and 1945 in Portland, Oregon. She is a great-granddaughter of Oregon pioneer, businessman, and Senator Henry Winslow Corbett, as well as the granddaughter of Henry Ladd Corbett, a Portland civic leader, businessman, and politician. Corbett, Oregon, is named after her great-great-grandfather. She is of English descent, with ancestors hailing from Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, owing to her paternal roots. Corbett has two brothers and one sister.

Corbett's father, who was bored of the city, moved the family to rural Camp Sherman, Oregon, where she spent her youth. In a 1985 interview, she recalled riding her horse to school every day, four miles each way. "I hated it back then, but in retrospect, it was a wonderful life and a great way to grow up." The family later returned to Portland, Oregon, where her mother worked as an administrator at the University of Portland. Corbett was inspired to become an actor after attending the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at age seven.

Corbett spent time at the Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon, as an adolescent apprentice with the Carnival Theatre camp at the University of Oregon. She attended drama at Carnegie Tech (before its merger with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, 1967), but she dropped out after her first year of studies to begin working as a full-time actress.

Personal life

Corbett had a friendship with Robin Gammell. Winslow Corbett was just one of their children.

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Career

In 1966, Corbett made her stage debut as Desdemona in a production of Othello at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In 1967, she appeared in plays with the New Orleans Repertory Theater. In the Broadway production of After the Rain with Alec McCowen, she was cast as Sonya Banks this year. In 1968, she appeared in The Bench at the Gramercy Arts Theatre, as well as in the title role in Iphigenia in Aulis at the Circle, opposite Irene Papas. She co-starred with Julie Harris in the Broadway revival of Forty Carats, which was staged at the Morosco Theatre.

In 1968, Corbett's first television appearance on ABC's short-lived police detective show, "The Case of the Shady Lady," Corbett portrayed a dancer who attempts to make her husband's suicide into a murder for the insurance funds. Corbett appeared in Out of It (1969), co-starring Jon Voight. She appeared in the cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971). In addition, Corbett appeared in The Survival of St. Joan, a New York production from 1970 to 1971. At The Phoenix Theatre, she appeared as The Government Inspector with David Dukes and John Glover.

Corbett, one of the hottest contract players, has moved to Los Angeles under a 10-month deal with Universal Studios. She appeared in the pilot episode of Kojak (1973), her first act under contract. She appeared in stage productions of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke and Shakespeare's As You Like It (portraying Rosalind), which were both held at Drew University in New Jersey in the same year. Corbett appeared in many television series in 1974, including Columbo, Gunsmoke, and Banacek under her Universal contract.

Corbett appeared in The Rockford Files in 1974, where she played Beth Davenport, the overworked prosecutor and sometime lover of series lead Jim Rockford, a private investigator played by James Garner. She appears in 33 episodes (including one that was uncredited). Corbett's next year, she survived a house fire at her Santa Fe, New Mexico, that destroyed almost all of her possessions and left her with minor injuries. Corbett appeared in a televised version of Knuckle (1975), part of PBS' Hollywood Television Theater, as well as guest-starring on the film Hawaii Five-O and McMillan & Wife. She appeared on the television show Emergency on September 13, 1975. Sue Hickman, a flight stewardess, who began a relationship with Gage as a result of an in flight emergency brought the two together. She appeared in Marcus Welby, M.D., as the stepmother of a teenage boy who had been molested by his tutor.

Corbett appeared as Penny in George Kelly's The Fatal Weakness, opposite Eva Marie Saint and Dennis Dugan, in another PBS televised play.

Corbett left The Rockford Files at the end of the fourth season after a dispute between the show's creators and Universal, who owned Corbett's deal as a contract actor.

Corbett appeared in the horror film Jaws of Satan (1981), portraying a doctor accused of a preacher's fight with a snake that is Satan incarnate. Roxane appeared in a production of The Carome Brothers' Annual Pasta Pageant at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1982. She appeared in the science fiction film Otherworld in 1985. Corbett appeared in Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles in 1988 at the Seattle Repertory Theatre.

Corbett resurrects her role in the Rockford Files television films of the 1990s, including Friends and Foul Play, If the Frame Fits... (both 1996) and If It Bleeds... It leads (1999).

Corbett appeared on the IFC show Portlandia between 2013 and 2014. She produced the play Bo-Nita at Portland Center Stage in 2014. She appeared in the Hulu film Shrill in 2019, opposite Luka Jones and Aidy Bryant. Corbett began filming Pig, starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Arkin, and Alex Wolff in late 2019. She appeared in Lorelei, starring Pablo Schreiber and Jena Malone, which was released in 2021.

Corbett served as Artistic Director of the Haven Project, a theatre project for children in Portland, Oregon, a recreation of New York's 52nd St. Project.

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