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
- Hard Boiled Mahoney as Selena Webster
- Second Chance as Mrs. Davenport
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
- Roar of the Press as Mrs. Thelma Tate
- Invisible Ghost as Mrs. Kessler
- Escort Girl as Ruth Ashley
1940
- Strange Cargo as Suzanne (uncredited)
- Cafe Hostess as Cafe Hostess
- Mad Youth as Lucy Morgan
- Laughing at Danger as Mrs. Van Horn
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
- Torchy Blane in Panama as Kitty, Gomez's Moll
- The Beloved Brat as Eleanor Sparks
- Port of Missing Girls as Chicago
- Under the Big Top as Marie
- Religious Racketeers as Ada Bernard
- Blondes at Work as Blanche Revelle
- Two Gun Justice as Kate
1937
- God's Country and the Man as Roxey Moore
- Circus Girl as Carlotta
- Federal Bullets as Sue, Gang Moll
1936
- Two Minutes to Play as 'Fluff' Harding
- Hollywood Boulevard as Betty
- Bulldog Edition as Billie Blake
- The Drag Net as Mollie Cole
- The Millionaire Kid as Gloria Neville
- August Week End as Ethel Ames
- Killer at Large as Kate
- Laughing Irish Eyes as Molly
1935
- False Pretenses as Clarissa Stanhope
1934
- No Sleep on the Deep as Mrs. Eldridge
1933
- Notorious But Nice as Millie Sprague
- Destination Unknown as Ruby Smith
- West of Singapore as Lou
1932
- Guilty or Not Guilty as Maizie
- The Silver Lining as Kate Flynn
1931
- Virtuous Husband as Inez Wakefield
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- Three Who Loved as Helga Larson Hanson
- Hollywood Halfbacks
- The Lady Refuses as June
- The Gay Diplomat as Baroness Corri
1930
- Midnight Mystery as Sally Wayne
- The Case of Sergeant Grischa as Babka
- The Czar of Broadway as Connie Colton
- She Got What She Wanted
- Inside the Lines as Jane Gershon
- Those Who Dance as Kitty
- Isle of Escape as Stella
- The Spoilers as Cherry Malotte
- The Boudoir Diplomat as Helene
1929
- The Show of Shows as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
- Skin Deep as Sadie Rogers
- On With the Show! as Nita
- The Time, the Place and the Girl as Doris Ward
- The Great Gabbo as Mary
- Weary River as Alice Gray
- Street Girl as Frederika Joyzelle
- 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 Desert Bride as Diane Duval
- Life's Mockery as Kit Miller/Isabelle Fullerton
- The Barker as Carrie
- The Masked Angel as Betty
- Court Martial as Belle Starr
- The Big City as Helen
1927
- Love Me and the World Is Mine as Mitzel
- Cheating Cheaters as Nan Carey
- Temptations of a Shop Girl as Ruth Harrington
- Say It with Diamonds as Betty Howard
1926
- The Palace of Pleasure as Lola Montez
- The Belle of Broadway as Marie Duval / The Young Adele
- The Wise Guy as Hula Kate
1925
- Counsel for the Defense as Katherine West
- New Lives for Old as Olympe
- Beggar on Horseback as Princess in Pantomime
- Eve's Secret as Eve
- Paths to Paradise as Molly
- The Pony Express as Molly Jones
- Locked Doors as Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter
1924
- The Garden of Weeds as Dorothy Delbridge
- The Enemy Sex as Dodo Baxter
- Ramshackle House as Pen Broome
- The White Shadow as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
- The Stranger as Peggy Bowlin
- The Female as Dalla
- The Fast Set as Margaret Sones
- Miami as Joan Bruce
1923
- Hollywood as Betty Compson
- The Woman with Four Faces as Elizabeth West
- The Rustle of Silk as Lala De Breeze
- Woman to Woman as Louise Boucher / Deloryse
- The Royal Oak as Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
- The White Flower as Konia Markham
1922
- Law and the Woman as Margaret Rolfe
- A Trip to Paramountown as Self
- To Have and to Hold as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
- The Bonded Woman as Angela Gaskell
- The Green Temptation as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
- Always the Woman as Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris
- Over the Border as Jen Galbraith
- Kick In as Molly Brandon
1921
- For Those We Love as Bernice Arnold
- At the End of the World as Cherry O'Day
- Ladies Must Live as Christine Bleeker
- The Little Minister as Lady Babbie
- Prisoners of Love as Blanche Davis
1919
- The Terror of the Range as Thelma Grant
- The Devil's Trail as Rose
- The Light of Victory as Jane Ravenslee
- The Miracle Man as Rose
1918
- The Sheriff as School Teacher
- Border Raiders as Rose Hardy
1917
1916
- The Making Over of Mother as Mrs. Newlywed
- Inoculating Hubby
- That Doggone Baby as Wifie Parker