Actor
Barbara Pepper
May 31, 1915 · New York City, New York, USA
Barbara Pepper (born Marion B. Pepper; May 31, 1915 – July 18, 1969) was an American stage, television, radio, and film actress. She is best known as the first "Doris Ziffel" on the sitcom Green Acres. Pepper was born in New York City, the daughter of actor David Mitchell "Dave" Pepper, and his wife, Harrietta S. Pepper. At age 16 she started life in show business with Goldwyn Girls, a musical stock company where she met lifelong friend Lucille Ball.
Pepper began making movies. Among her later film parts were small roles in My Fair Lady and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. She also performed radio parts. In 1943, she married actor Craig Reynolds (né Harold Hugh Enfield), and the couple later had two sons. After Reynolds died in 1949 in a California motorcycle accident, Pepper was left to raise their children alone. She never remarried.
Notable work
Often works with
Irving Bacon
3 titles together
A Star Is Born, The Return of Frank James, Bachelor Mother
Henry Fonda
2 titles together
The Lady Eve, The Return of Frank James
Charles Coburn
2 titles together
The Lady Eve, Bachelor Mother
Bess Flowers
2 titles together
The Lady Eve, Who's Minding the Store?
Judy Garland
2 titles together
A Star Is Born, A Child Is Waiting
Charles Bickford
2 titles together
A Star Is Born, Of Mice and Men
Full filmography · 123
Kiss Me, Stupid
as Big Bertha
19647
The Best Man
as Delegate (uncredited)
19647.3
Who's Minding the Store?
as Customer at Bargain Sale (uncredited)
19636.9
A Child Is Waiting
as Miss Brown (uncredited)
19636.8
It's Only Money
as Fisherwoman
19626.2
The Music Man
as Mrs. Hawkes
19627.1
Sex Kittens Go to College
as Circe
1960
The Bramble Bush
as Polly Welk
1960
Auntie Mame
as Mrs. Krantz (uncredited)
19587
The D.I.
as Woman Customer
1957
Dark Meeting
as Clara
1956
A Star Is Born
as Esther's Neighbor (uncredited)
19547.1