Joy Harmon

Joy Harmon

Acting
1940-05-01
Flushing, New York, USA

Biography

Joy Patricia Harmon (May 1, 1940 — April 14, 2026) was an American baker and former actress. She was best known for the film Cool Hand Luke. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joy Harmon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For & Full Filmography26 Titles

#1Batman

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes as Julia Davis

7.3 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyComedyAction & Adventure

Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.

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#2Bewitched

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.9 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyComedyFamily

Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.

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#3The Beverly Hillbillies

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as Kitty Northcross

6.9 / 10
ComedyFamily

Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.

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#4Burke's Law

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Belle Sue Walsh

6.3 / 10
Drama

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

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#5Burke's Law

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Barbara Sue

6.3 / 10
Drama

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

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#6Run for Your Life

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Nancy

7.1 / 10
Drama

Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.

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#7The Odd Couple

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Waitress

7.8 / 10
Comedy

Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share a Manhattan apartment, and their different lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts.

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#8Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.1 / 10
ComedyFamily

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth season of The Andy Griffith Show on May 18, 1964. The show ran for five seasons and a total of 150 episodes. In 2006, CBS Home Entertainment began releasing the series on DVD. The final season was released in November 2008. The series was created by Aaron Ruben, who also produced the show with Sheldon Leonard and Ronald Jacobs. Filmed and set in California, it stars Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, a naive but good-natured gas-station attendant from the town of Mayberry, North Carolina, who enlists in the United States Marine Corps. Frank Sutton plays Gomer's high-octane, short-fused Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter, and Ronnie Schell plays Gomer's friend Gilbert "Duke" Slater. Allan Melvin played in the recurring role of Gunnery Sergeant Carter's rival, Sergeant Charley Hacker. The series never discussed nor addressed the then-current Vietnam War, instead focusing on the relationship between Gomer and Sergeant Carter. The show retained high ratings throughout its run.

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#9That Girl

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
Comedy

That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.

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#10The Monkees

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes as Cashier

6.5 / 10
ComedyFamily

Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TV and movie central casting, with full knowledge that their existence is part of a weekly television series.

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#11The Monkees

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes as Zelda

6.5 / 10
ComedyFamily

Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TV and movie central casting, with full knowledge that their existence is part of a weekly television series.

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#12Cool Hand Luke

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as The Girl

7.7 / 10
DramaCrime

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

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#13Mister Roberts

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.3 / 10
Comedy

Mister Roberts is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 17, 1965 to April 8, 1966. Based on the best selling novel, 1948 play, and the 1955 film of the same name, the series stars Roger Smith in the title role and Richard X. Slattery as the ship's captain.

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#14Occasional Wife

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#15The Loved One

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Miss Benson

6.2 / 10
Comedy

Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.

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#16The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Drama

Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate son he's never seen. Pressed by his unhappy wife to get a higher-paying job, Rath goes to work as a public relations man for television network president Ralph Hopkins. Drawn into poisonous office politics, Tom finds he must choose his career or his family.

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#17A Guide for the Married Man

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Party Girl in Bar (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
ComedyRomance

A man gives his friend a series of lessons on how to cheat on one's wife without being caught.

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#18Roustabout

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as College Girl (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
MusicRomance

After losing his job at a coffee shop, Charlie Rogers finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.

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#19Under the Yum Yum Tree

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Ardice (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyRomance

A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.

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#20Young Dillinger

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Nelson's Girl

7.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter.

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#21Angel in My Pocket

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Miss Holland

6.2 / 10
ComedyFamily

The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.

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#22Mad Dog Coll

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as Caroline

5.4 / 10
CrimeDrama

Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.

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#23Village of the Giants

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Merrie

3.7 / 10
Sci-Fi

"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.

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#24Norwood

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Waitress (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyWar

A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.

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#25One Way Wahine

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Kit Williams

9.0 / 10
MusicComedy

In Hawaii, a man convinces a couple of runaway teenagers to help him rip off a pair of bank robbers.

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#26From Cheesecake to Cheesecake: The Joy Harmon Story

Movie - 2013, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
Documentary

From her being discovered by Groucho Marx in NY to becoming one of the of most iconic bombshells of the 60s - including her memorable role in the Academy Award winning film 'Cool Hand Luke'- this film looks at the extraordinary life Joy Harmon, who went from being a film cheesecake to actually making them as the premiere dessert maker for the major studio's craft services. We'll interview her co-stars, follow her in her bakery and onto the sets of many major television shows and hear from her family and friends about this amazing woman.

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