Date of Birth
13 December 1945,
Long Beach, California, USA
Kathleen Marie Garver
Height
5' 3" (1.60 m)
Mini Biography
Kathy Garver was born in Long Beach, California on 13 December 1945. The daughter of Hayes George Garver and Rosemary Garver and the youngest of 4 children (2 brothers & 1 older sister). She attended Pacific Arts High School in 1962 and graduated in 1966. The same year, she attended UCLA and graduated in 1970. Her debut in film was I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) at age 10, but her break-through performance came as one of the young slaves in The Ten Commandments (1956).
Her big moment on television was as the teenage niece of Uncle Bill Davis named Cissy Davis on "Family Affair" (1966). After the show ended in 1971, She went to Israel to do the Stage rendition of the same CBS-TV show in Tel Aviv in 1971. In 1972, she went to London, England, to do Stage Shows and this led to an appearance on "The David Frost show" (1969) and "Coronation Street" (1960) for 2 days only. She met David Travis in 1976 where Wimbledon played that year on NBC Sports where he worked on the coverage, and they were married on January 17, 1981, and had a son, Reid in 1991, named after actor Tim Reid. Through her 50-year career in show business, She survived and conquered triumph through tragedy, just like the TV character she portrayed, Cissy Davis, big sister of twin children: Buffy & Jody Davis ("Family Affair" (1966)).
s. Ms Garver has also won two Audie
Awards,
one for her narration of The Worlds Shortest
Stories, the other in 2004 for her direction of
Amy Tan in The Opposite of
Fate read by the author.
Kathy has
recorded books for
Brilliance Audio,
Dove,
Listen and
Live and can be downloaded at the Timberwolfpress.com site. Her
voice has been heard in
Apollo 13 (which was
awarded the
Academy Award for sound),
Ransom, Back Draft and Jingle all
the Way, all directed by
Ron Howard.
Kathy has electrified the talk
show circuit entertaining audiences with
tales of her life
Long career in
Show business.
She's chatted with Bill O'Reilly.
Geraldo, Sally
Jesse,
Mary Hart,
Maury Povich and many more. Some of the
lively discussion centers on
the modern woman juggling marriage, career, and family all handled with laughter and aplomb.
Kathy now has her own
Family Affair.
She met her husband of 26 years, business executive
David Travis, on a tennis
court in
Palm Springs - truly a
love match. Their son
Reid Garver Travis, now 16, continues the
tradition of
show business by appearing in
national commercials, TV,
movies and by doing
voice overs
For all her accomplishments and
future plans, it
seems Kathy's sails will be billowing in some very favorable waters for quite some
time.
Spouse
| David Travis |
(3 May 1981 - present) 1 child |
Trivia
Father is of French-Irish descent and mother is of Swiss-Austrian descent.
Youngest sister of Beverly Garver. Sister of Hayes Gilbert Garver, Jr. & Lance Garver.
She was the Hollywood Deb Star of 1967.
Daughter of Hayes Gilbert Garver, Sr. & Rosemary Garver.
President of the Family Affair foundation which provides reading companions to the elderly and at risk youth.
Awarded the Golden Halo award for excellence in the entertainment field.
The Audie Award (for excellence in Audio recording) was given to Kathy as a narrator (World's Greatest Short Stories) and director (Amy Tan in The Opposite of Fate). She has recorded more than 30 audio books.
Where Are They Now
(January 2006) She goes on tour for the release of Paramount Television DVD presentation of "Fedderson & Hartmann's Family Affair" Season 1 due in April 2006.
