Ann B. Davis

Infobox actor


caption = Ann B. Davis, November 2007
birthname = Ann Bradford Davis
birthdate = birth date and age|1926|5|3
birthplace = Schenectady, New York
emmyawards = Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series
1957 "The Bob Cummings Show"
1959 "The Bob Cummings Show"

Ann Bradford Davis (born May 3 1926) is an Emmy Award-winning American television actress.

Biography

Career

Davis's first success was as Charmaine "Schultzy" Schultz in "The Bob Cummings Show", and she won two Emmy Awards out of four nominations for this role. For a period in the 1960s and 1970s, Davis was known for her appearances in television commercials for the Ford Motor Company, particularly for the mid-sized Ford Fairlane models. Davis played housekeeper Alice Nelson in "The Brady Bunch" television series, and various "Brady Bunch" sequel series and TV movies. She also played Alice's grim identical cousin Emma in one episode. She made a cameo role as a truck driver named "Schultzy" (a tribute to her days on "The Bob Cummings Show") in "The Brady Bunch Movie" in 1995. Davis was featured in commercials for Minute Rice until the mid-1980s.

She never completely retired from acting, and recently appeared in several disposable mop commercials featuring famous TV servants, and has appeared in a number of "Brady" reunion projects, most recently TV Land's "". On April 22, 2007, TV Land awarded "The Brady Bunch" the TV Land Pop Culture Award on the 5th annual TV Land Awards. Davis and other cast members accepted the award, and she received a standing ovation.

Personal life

Davis was born in Schenectady, New York, the daughter of Marguerite (née Stott) and Cassius Miles Davis.cite web | author= | title=Ann B. Davis Biography | url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/42/Ann-B-Davis.html | work=filmreference | date= | accessdate=2008-04-04] . Davis attended Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, in the early 1990sFact|date=March 2008 and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. [ [http://alumni.umich.edu/info/um/famous_alumni.php#Actors UMAlumni.com: About the Association ] ] She lives in a residential neighborhood in Texas.Fact|date=March 2008

Trivia

On the 2004 Jeopardy! (television show) Tournament of Champions, the Final Jeopardy answer was "As a regular character, she was the oldest virgin on the television show The Brady Bunch". All three contestants gave the response "Who was Marcia Brady?" only to learn that they were all wrong (the correct response being "Who was Alice Nelson?").

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