Joan Tompkins, legally known as Joan Swenson was an American actress of television, film, radio, and stage, who co-founded with her husband, Karl Swenson, an acting company in Beverly Hills, California.
Known For
Credits
Cast Credits
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Guest starring as Mrs. Parsons
- Episode 3x08: Fred (Nov 29, 1976) [Co-Star]
Guest starring as Adele Larrabee
- Episode 5x20: Barn Burner (Feb 19, 1979) [Co-Star]
The Manhunter (1974)
Guest starring as Madame Beal
- Episode 1x03: The Baby-Faced Killers (Sep 25, 1974)
Barnaby Jones (1973)
Guest starring as Mrs. Porter
- Episode 3x11: Death on Deposit (Dec 3, 1974) [Co-Star]
Guest starring as Miss Wilson
- Episode 2x12: Fatal Flight (Dec 9, 1973) [Co-Star]
Guest starring as Judge Edith Royce
- Episode 5x07: Voice in the Night (Dec 2, 1976) [Co-Star]
The Bob Newhart Show (1972)
Guest starring as Aunt May
- Episode 1x17: The Man with the Golden Wrist (Jan 20, 1973)
Guest starring as Mrs. Cowens
- Episode 3x12: We Love You... Good-Bye (Nov 30, 1974)
Emergency! (1972)
Guest starring as Maggie Trigg
- Episode S06 Special: Most Deadly Passage (Apr 4, 1978) [Co-Star]
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1971)
Guest starring as Judge
- Episode 3x20: I've Promised You a Father (begun on Marcus Welby, 5 Mar 74) (Mar 9, 1974)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)
Guest starring as Mrs. Thorn
- Episode 3x03: Who's in Charge Here? (Sep 30, 1972)
Mission: Impossible (1966)
Guest starring as Miss Putnam
- Episode 2x09: The Seal (Nov 5, 1967) [Co-Star]
Occasional Wife (1966)
Starring as Mrs. Brahms
(30 episodes)
- Episode 1x30: So Little Time (May 9, 1967)
- Episode 1x29: Oil Be Seeing You (Apr 25, 1967)
- Episode 1x28: An Affair to Forget (Apr 18, 1967)
- Episode 1x27: My Occasional Brother's Keeper (Apr 11, 1967)
- Episode 1x26: The Secret Powdered Milk Affair (Apr 4, 1967)
- Episode 1x25: The Soft Spot (Mar 28, 1967)
- Episode 1x24: Instant Fatherhood (Mar 21, 1967)
- Episode 1x23: Engagement, Christopher Style (Feb 28, 1967)
- Episode 1x22: The Business Trip (Feb 21, 1967)
- Episode 1x21: The New Secretary (Feb 14, 1967)
- Episode 1x20: Kangaroo Kandidates (Feb 7, 1967)
- Episode 1x19: One Plus One Equals Too Many (Jan 31, 1967)
- Episode 1x18: A Couple of Home-Cooked Meals (Jan 24, 1967)
- Episode 1x17: Fair Play for Gypsies (Jan 17, 1967)
- Episode 1x16: Alias Peter Patterson (Jan 3, 1967)
- Episode 1x15: Peter by Moonlight (Dec 27, 1966)
- Episode 1x14: Miss Greta Regrets (Dec 20, 1966)
- Episode 1x13: GP Loves UU (Dec 13, 1966)
- Episode 1x12: That's How They Got Capone (Dec 6, 1966)
- Episode 1x11: No Talent Scouts (Nov 29, 1966)
- Episode 1x10: Marriage Counselor (Nov 22, 1966)
- Episode 1x09: A Friend of the Family (Nov 15, 1966)
- Episode 1x08: Danger! Woman at Work (Nov 1, 1966)
- Episode 1x07: No Cookie for Dessert (Oct 25, 1966)
- Episode 1x06: The Promotion (Oct 18, 1966)
- Episode 1x05: I Do, We Don't (Oct 11, 1966)
- Episode 1x04: He Who Burns Bridges (Oct 4, 1966)
- Episode 1x03: The Rivalry (Sep 27, 1966)
- Episode 1x02: Occasional Trouble (Sep 20, 1966)
- Episode 1x01: Pilot (Sep 13, 1966)
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964)
Guest starring as Mrs. Harper
- Episode 1x10: A Date for the Colonel's Daughter (Nov 27, 1964)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
Guest starring as Mrs. Gropkin
- Episode 3x15: The Jingle Bells Affair (Dec 23, 1966) [Co-Star]
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963)
Guest starring as Martha Pollux
- Episode 1x17: The Day of the Wizard (Jan 12, 1964)
Sam Benedict (1962)
Starring as Trudy Wagner
(28 episodes)
- Episode 1x28: Season for Vengeance (Mar 30, 1963)
- Episode 1x27: Of Rusted Cannons and Fallen Sparrows (Mar 23, 1963)
- Episode 1x26: Read No Evil (Mar 16, 1963)
- Episode 1x25: Accomplice (Mar 9, 1963)
- Episode 1x24: Seventeen Gypsies and a Sinner Named Charlie (Mar 2, 1963)
- Episode 1x23: Image of a Toad (Feb 23, 1963)
- Episode 1x22: Some Fires Die Slowly (Feb 16, 1963)
- Episode 1x21: Sugar and Spice and Everything.... (Feb 6, 1963)
- Episode 1x20: Run Softly, Oh Softly (Jan 26, 1963)
- Episode 1x19: Green Room, Grey Morning (Jan 19, 1963)
- Episode 1x18: The Boiling Point (Jan 12, 1963)
- Episode 1x17: Not Even the Gulls Shall Weep (Jan 5, 1963)
- Episode 1x16: The Target Over the Hill (Dec 29, 1962)
- Episode 1x15: Where There's a Will (Dec 22, 1962)
- Episode 1x14: So Various, So Beautiful (Dec 15, 1962)
- Episode 1x13: Too Many Strangers (Dec 8, 1962)
- Episode 1x12: Everyone's Playing Polo (Dec 14, 1962)
- Episode 1x11: The View from an Ivory Tower (Nov 24, 1962)
- Episode 1x10: The Bird of Warning (Nov 17, 1962)
- Episode 1x09: Life is a Lie, Love is a Cheat (Nov 10, 1962)
- Episode 1x08: Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells (Nov 3, 1962)
- Episode 1x07: Maddon's Folly (Oct 27, 1962)
- Episode 1x06: Twenty Aching Years (Oct 20, 1962)
- Episode 1x05: Tears for a Nobody Doll (Oct 13, 1962)
- Episode 1x04: Nothing Equals Nothing (Oct 6, 1962)
- Episode 1x03: Nor Practice Makes Perfect (Sep 29, 1962)
- Episode 1x02: A Split Week in San Quentin (Sep 22, 1962)
- Episode 1x01: Hannigan (Sep 15, 1962)
Peter Loves Mary (1960)
Guest starring as Claire Rogers
(2 episodes)
- Episode 1x09: The Best Women (Dec 7, 1960)
- Episode 1x03: Wilma (Oct 26, 1960)
My Three Sons (1960)
Guest starring as Lorraine Miller
(4 episodes)
- Episode 9x01: The Great Pregnancy (Sep 28, 1968)
- Episode 8x05: Wedding Bells (Oct 7, 1967)
- Episode 8x04: Countdown to Marriage (Sep 30, 1967)
- Episode 8x03: Inspection of the Groom (Sep 23, 1967)
The Brothers Brannagan (1960)
Guest starring as Martha
- Episode 1x07: The Twisted Root (Oct 31, 1960)
The Donna Reed Show (1958)
Guest starring as Patty
- Episode 1x35: Tomorrow Comes Too Soon (May 20, 1959)
Perry Mason (1957)
Guest starring as Florence Holman
- Episode 5x20: The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal (Feb 10, 1962)