Betty Compson
Born: 1897-03-17 in Beaver, Utah, USA
Died: 1974-04-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Betty Compson (March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer. Most famous in silent films and early talkies, she is best known in her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Filmography
2011
- Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Herself (archive footage)
1991
- Halloween Monster Bash as Mrs. Kessler (archive footage)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1948
- Here Comes Trouble as Martha Blake
1947
- Second Chance as Mrs. Davenport
- Hard Boiled Mahoney as Selena Webster
1946
- Her Adventurous Night as Miss Spencer
1943
- Danger! Women at Work as Madame Sappho
- Confessions of a Vice Baron as Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Gertie
- Invisible Ghost as Mrs. Kessler
- Roar of the Press as Mrs. Thelma Tate
- Escort Girl as Ruth Ashley
1940
- Strange Cargo as Suzanne (uncredited)
- Cafe Hostess as Cafe Hostess
- Laughing at Danger as Mrs. Van Horn
- Mad Youth as Lucy Morgan
1939
- Hotel Imperial as Soubrette (uncredited)
- News Is Made at Night as Kitty Truman
- Cowboys from Texas as Belle Starkey
1938
- A Slight Case of Murder as Loretta
- Religious Racketeers as Ada Bernard
- The Beloved Brat as Eleanor Sparks
- Blondes at Work as Blanche Revelle
- Under the Big Top as Marie
- Torchy Blane in Panama as Kitty, Gomez's Moll
- Port of Missing Girls as Chicago
- Two Gun Justice as Kate
1937
- Circus Girl as Carlotta
- Federal Bullets as Sue, Gang Moll
- God's Country and the Man as Roxey Moore
1936
- Hollywood Boulevard as Betty
- The Millionaire Kid as Gloria Neville
- Laughing Irish Eyes as Molly
- The Drag Net as Mollie Cole
- Killer at Large as Kate
- Bulldog Edition as Billie Blake
- Two Minutes to Play as 'Fluff' Harding
- August Week End as Ethel Ames
1935
- False Pretenses as Clarissa Stanhope
1934
- No Sleep on the Deep as Mrs. Eldridge
1933
- Destination Unknown as Ruby Smith
- Notorious But Nice as Millie Sprague
- West of Singapore as Lou
1932
- The Silver Lining as Kate Flynn
- Guilty or Not Guilty as Maizie
1931
- Virtuous Husband as Inez Wakefield
- Three Who Loved as Helga Larson Hanson
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- Hollywood Halfbacks
- The Lady Refuses as June
- The Gay Diplomat as Baroness Corri
1930
- Midnight Mystery as Sally Wayne
- Those Who Dance as Kitty
- Inside the Lines as Jane Gershon
- Isle of Escape as Stella
- The Boudoir Diplomat as Helene
- The Spoilers as Cherry Malotte
- The Case of Sergeant Grischa as Babka
- The Czar of Broadway as Connie Colton
- She Got What She Wanted
1929
- Skin Deep as Sadie Rogers
- The Show of Shows as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
- Weary River as Alice Gray
- The Great Gabbo as Mary
- On With the Show! as Nita
- Street Girl as Frederika Joyzelle
- The Time, the Place and the Girl as Doris Ward
- Woman to Woman as Deloryce / Lola
- Blaze o' Glory as Helen Williams
1928
- Scarlet Seas as Rose
- The Docks of New York as Mae
- The Barker as Carrie
- Life's Mockery as Kit Miller/Isabelle Fullerton
- The Masked Angel as Betty
- The Desert Bride as Diane Duval
- Court Martial as Belle Starr
- The Big City as Helen
1927
- Cheating Cheaters as Nan Carey
- Temptations of a Shop Girl as Ruth Harrington
- Love Me and the World Is Mine as Mitzel
- Say It with Diamonds as Betty Howard
1926
- The Belle of Broadway as Marie Duval / The Young Adele
- The Wise Guy as Hula Kate
- The Palace of Pleasure as Lola Montez
1925
- Beggar on Horseback as Princess in Pantomime
- Paths to Paradise as Molly
- The Pony Express as Molly Jones
- Eve's Secret as Eve
- New Lives for Old as Olympe
- Locked Doors as Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter
- Counsel for the Defense as Katherine West
1924
- The Enemy Sex as Dodo Baxter
- The Garden of Weeds as Dorothy Delbridge
- The White Shadow as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
- The Stranger as Peggy Bowlin
- Miami as Joan Bruce
- The Fast Set as Margaret Sones
- Ramshackle House as Pen Broome
- The Female as Dalla
1923
- Hollywood as Betty Compson
- The Royal Oak as Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
- Woman to Woman as Louise Boucher / Deloryse
- The Woman with Four Faces as Elizabeth West
- The White Flower as Konia Markham
- The Rustle of Silk as Lala De Breeze
1922
- Always the Woman as Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris
- Kick In as Molly Brandon
- A Trip to Paramountown as Self
- The Green Temptation as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
- Over the Border as Jen Galbraith
- The Bonded Woman as Angela Gaskell
- Law and the Woman as Margaret Rolfe
- To Have and to Hold as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
1921
- Ladies Must Live as Christine Bleeker
- For Those We Love as Bernice Arnold
- Prisoners of Love as Blanche Davis
- The Little Minister as Lady Babbie
- At the End of the World as Cherry O'Day
1919
- The Terror of the Range as Thelma Grant
- The Light of Victory as Jane Ravenslee
- The Miracle Man as Rose
- The Devil's Trail as Rose
1918
- Border Raiders as Rose Hardy
- The Sheriff as School Teacher
1917
1916
- Inoculating Hubby
- That Doggone Baby as Wifie Parker
- The Making Over of Mother as Mrs. Newlywed