Miss Bunny

Barbara Stuart had a great career appearing in dozens of films, TV dramas and sitcoms. Stuart will most likely be best remembered for her role of the 1960's sitcom Gomer Pyle USMC. She was Miss Bunny Sargent Vince Carter's long time girl friend Bunny or as Gomer always called her Miss Bunny. 
Stuart started her career in New York where she studied with Stella Adler and working as a model. She got her first TV job in 1955 and continued working on Westerns and courtroom dramas as well as sitcom roles. She was fairly busy character actress when the role of Bunny came up. She played the role for the entire run of the series. After the cancellation on Gomer Pyle USMC Stuart worked on other comedies and dramas playing she was on almost every dram and sitcom in the 1970's. Stuart also played McLean Stevenson's wife on his short live sitcom. Stuart worked until the 2000's until her death in 2011. She was married for a time to comic actor Dick Gautier.