Tina Cole is married to her stepson, Fillmore Crank Jr.
Born in Santa Cruz, California, but moved with her family to Glendale (near Los Angeles) when she was four. She was an only child.
Her father, James Fessenden, a native of New Orleans, was a member of a prestigious family line that included great-grandfather William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln. Jim became a salesman.
In the early 1970s, with husband Fillmore Crank, she opened the Beverly Garland's Howard Johnson's Resort Lodge, a 154-room hotel near Universal Studios.
In the film The Mad Room (1969), Beverly's character in the film was pregnant and so was she at the time of filming (with her son, Jim).
Interviewed in "Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, Moguls and Makeup" by Tom Weaver (McFarland 1988).
Married her first husband, a twenty-year-old fisherman named Robert Campbell, on an impulse when she was 18. They eloped to Las Vegas, but divorced about four months later.
Mother Amelia 'Milly' Scherer was of German descent and was a cosmetician; her father James was a crooner who thrived on one-night stands until the demands of marriage and family moved him into sales work. He later was killed in an auto accident in 1961 in Riverside, California.
Mother of actress Carrington Garland.
Performed in little theatre productions in Glendale, California as a teen and for a time studied voice with Anita Arliss, sister of the Oscar-winning actor George Arliss.
Son, James and daughter, Carrington Garland, with Crank. Stepchildren, Cathleen and Fillmore, Jr.
Starting with "Remington Steele" (1982), she played mothers of three television women with hazardous lives; from the aforementioned show, Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist), Amanda King (Kate Jackson) of "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" (1983) & Lois Lane (Teri Hatcher) of "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (1993).
The Beverly Garland hotels are named after her. Her late husband, Fillmore Crank, was a land developer.
Went to high school in Phoenix, Arizona and appeared in plays at the Phoenix Little Theatre. She also appeared on local radio.
When Beverly was four, the family moved south to Glendale, California and in 1931 she made her acting debut playing Cupid in a kindergarten play.