# Beverly Archer

Beverly Archer is an American actress and writer who is perhaps best known as Iola Boylen on Mama's Family and Gunnery Sgt. Alva Bricker on Major Dad.

## Career

Early roles for Archer included portraying Nancy Walker's daughter in The Nancy Walker Show, the breadwinner of the family in We've Got Each Other, and a congressman's secretary on Washingtoon.
She became known in the late 1980s and early 1990s for her roles as Iola Boylen on Mama's Family (1986–1990) and as Gunnery Sgt. Alva Bricker on Major Dad (1990–1993). In addition to those roles, she also appeared on The Young and the Restless, ALF, and the movie Project: ALF. She played Charlie's dull teacher in Vice Versa, a thieving teacher in The Brady Bunch Movie, and appeared in two episodes of Married... with Children as Miss Hardaway, a sexually repressed librarian and abstinence counselor who is in love with Bud.
She also appeared in a 1994 episode of Full House, where she played the role of an unsympathetic SAT test monitor. She made guest appearances on episodes of Family Ties, The Fall Guy, and Grace Under Fire.
She retired from acting in 2002.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1978 | A Different Approach | Grocery Shopper | Short film |
| 1988 | The Couch Trip | Mrs. Guber | |
| 1988 | Vice Versa | Mrs. Luttrell | |
| 1995 | The Brady Bunch Movie | Mrs. Whitfield | |
| 1996 | Project: ALF | Dr. Carnage | Television film |
| 1998 | Walking to the Waterline | Pam Whitman | |
| 1998 | The Christmas Wish | Miss Enid Cook | Television film |
| 2000 | Going Home | Mrs. Morris | Television film |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1976-1977 | The Nancy Walker Show | Lorraine | 13 episodes |
| 1977-1978 | We've Got Each Other | Judy Hubbard | 13 episodes |
| 1978 | ABC Weekend Special | Ms. Greenfield | Episode: "Little Lulu" (S2.E5) |
| 1982 | The Magical World of Disney | Angelica | Episode: "The Adventures of Pollyanna" (S28.E22) |
| 1983 | It Takes Two | Beatrice | Episode: "The Suit" (S1.E21) |
| 1984 | Mama Malone | Iris | Episode: "Dino's Fan" (S1.E11) |
| 1984 | Family Ties | Sue Barker | Episode: "4 Rms Ocn Vu" (S3.E8) |
| 1984-1985 | Spencer | Miss Spier | 11 episodes |
| 1985 | Washingtoon | Laura Esterjack | 10 episodes |
| 1986 | The Fall Guy | Nurse Dievel | Episode: "Lady in Green" (S5.E19) |
| 1986 | Comedy Factory | Miss. Carp | Episode: "Chameleon" (S2.E5) |
| 1986-1990 | Mama's Family | Iola Boylen | 92 episodes |
| 1988 | ALF | Mrs. Byrd | 3 episodes |
| 1988 | My Sister Sam | | Episode: "Camp Burn-out" (S2.E15) |
| 1990-1993 | Major Dad | GySgt. Alva Bricker | 70 episodes |
| 1991 | What a Dummy | Mrs. Fine | Episode: "My Imaginary Friend" (S1.E18) |
| 1992 | Tiny Toon Adventures | Nurse Kleinerman/Miss Heberly #1 (voice) | Episode: "Grandma's Dead" (S3.E13) |
| 1994 | Full House | Mrs. Twitchel | Episode: "The Test" (S7.E15) |
| 1994-1996 | Married... with Children | Miss Hardaway | Episodes: "Dial 'B' for Virgin" (S9.E7) and "Bud Hits the Books" (S10.E24) |
| 1994 | Love & War | Technician | Episode: "Jack's Breast" (S3.E7) |
| 1994 | Grace Under Fire | Alice Dailey | Episode: "Ka-Boom" (S2.E10) |
| 1994-1997 | Aaahh!!! Real Monsters | The Liberty Monster/Woman/Maid (all voice roles) | 5 episodes |
| 1995 | The George Wendt Show | Eleanor | Episode: "And Here's to You, Mrs. Robertson" (S1.E7) |
| 1995 | The Mommies | Ms. Clark | Episode: "Four Mommies and a Funeral" (S2.E13) |
| 1996-1998 | Jumanji | Ms. Burnbaum (voice) | 4 episodes |
| 1997 | Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man | Lady Calowina Worthington-Ford (voice) | Episode: "Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers" (S4.E14) |
| 1997 | Clueless | Mrs. DeMichael | Episodes: "Suddenly Stupid" (S2.E3) and "A Very P.C. Christmas (Holiday)" (S2.E12) |
| 1999 | The Young and the Restless | Shirley Sherwood | 12 episodes |
| 2002 | Rugrats | Librarian (voice) | Episode: "Quiet, Please/Early Retirement" (S8.E5) |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2001 | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 3rd Edition | Voice talent | Voice role |