Beverly Archer is an American actress and writer who is perhaps best known for her television roles as Iola Boylen on Mama's Family[1] and as Gunnery Sgt.

[3] 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.

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.