Born Kathleen Marie Garver on the 13th December 1945, in Long Beach, California USA, Kathy is an award- winning film, television, and voice actress, perhaps best remembered to the world as Catherine ‘Cissy’ Patterson in the TV family comedy “Family Affair” (1966-1971), and as Joan in the comedy mystery film “Mom, Murder & Me” (2014), while she is also known as the voice of Pepper in “Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos” (1986), among many other differing appearances.
Have you ever wondered how rich Kathy Garver is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Garver’s net worth is as high as $5 million, an amount earned through her successful career as an actress, which has been active since the early ‘50s, making Kathy a former child star.
Kathy Garver Net Worth $5 Million
Kathy is the daughter of Rosemary and Hayes Gilbert Garver, and the family raised her as a Roman Catholic and put her through a Catholic Primary School. When in her teens, Kathy moved to San Bernardino, where she went to Pacific High School, from which she matriculated in 1964, and then enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles, from which she graduated in 1968 majoring in drama and speech, also having been involved in the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women.
Kathy’s career had actually started when she was only seven years old, appearing in several TV series, but her best known role from this era was in “The Ten Commandments” in 1956 as a young slave, and a year before in the drama film “I ‘ll Cry Tomorrow”.
Then in 1957 she appeared in the biopic about Barney Ross, a World War II hero and professional boxer, entitled “Monkey on My Back”, starring Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster and Paul Richards.
Gradually Kathy was receiving more attention, and in 1958 she was cast as Sally in the TV comedy series “This Is Alice”, with Alice being portrayed by Patty Ann Gerrity. She then became more focused on her education, but returned to the acting scene in a big way in the role of Cissy Patterson-Davis in the TV family comedy “Family Affair“ for five seasons from 1966, next to Brian Keith, with whom she developed a friendship that lasted until his death.
Kathy wasn’t very active as an actress in the ‘70s, and then in the ‘80s started her career as a voice actress. Her first credits included voicing Hawkgirl/Rima in the animated TV series “Super Heroes” (1980), while the following year she voiced Allice Mitchell in “Dennis the Menace in Mayday for Mother”. She then supplied the voice to numerous characters in such animated series as “Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends” (1981-1983), and “The New Yogi Bear Show” (1988), among others, all of which increased her wealth. She continued with voice roles in the ‘90s, with very few screen appearances; she voiced Madame Deveraux in the video game “Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers” (1993) and then several characters in “Spider-Man” (1997).
In the late ‘90s Kathy returned to screen, and in 2000 featured in the family drama “The Trial of Old Drum”, a true story of a friendship between a dog and a young boy, but didn’t have much success during the early 2000s, until being cast as Joan in the film “Mom, Murder & Me” (2014), starring Sarah Klaren and Gene Scandur, and in 2016 featured in the comedy “Unleashed”, further increasing her wealth.
For the time being, Kathy is working on several films that are yet to be released, including the comedy “The Executive”, in which she will have a lead role, then the thriller “Thrice”, and the drama “Helen’s Last Love”.
Thanks to her successful career, Kathy has received several prestigious awards, including a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California Walk of Stars in 1995, while in 2010 she received Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award for her work on “Family Affair”, given by the Young Artist Foundation. Others include two Audie Awards, which she received for her narration of the book “The World’s Shortest Stories”, and the other one for her direction of Army Tan’s reading of his own book “The Opposite of Fate”.
Regarding her personal life, Kathy has been married to David Travis since 1981, with whom she has a son. The family lives in Hillsborough, California.
Having been a long-time friend of actor Brian Keith, Kathy was present at his funeral in 1997.
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