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My Take
Ann B. Davis proves that supporting roles can outlast leading ones. To most viewers she is forever Alice, the warm housekeeper of The Brady Bunch, yet I'm more struck by the back-to-back Emmys she won earlier for The Bob Cummings Show. Stealing scenes as a character actress, year after year, takes a craft that headliners rarely master. A University of Michigan graduate from Schenectady, she built decades of affection on dependability rather than glamour, eventually earning a Hollywood Walk of Fame star. Davis remains, for me, a perfect argument that the so-called second banana can be the heart of a show.
Overview
Ann Bradford Davis (May 3, 1926 – June 1, 2014) was an American actress. She achieved prominence for her role in the NBC situation comedy The Bob Cummings Show (1955–1959), for which she twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, but she was best known for playing the part of Alice Nelson, the housekeeper in ABC's The Brady Bunch (1969–1974).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ann B. Davis
- Name (Japanese)
- アン・デイビス
- Reading
- あん・でいびす
- Born
- May 3, 1926 – June 1, 2014
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Tiger
- Origin
- Schenectady, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Michigan
Awards & achievements
- 1958 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
- 1959 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.