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)
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
- Invisible Ghost as Mrs. Kessler
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Gertie
- Roar of the Press as Mrs. Thelma Tate
- Escort Girl as Ruth Ashley
1940
- Mad Youth as Lucy Morgan
- Cafe Hostess as Cafe Hostess
- Laughing at Danger as Mrs. Van Horn
- Strange Cargo as Suzanne (uncredited)
1939
- Hotel Imperial as Soubrette (uncredited)
- Cowboys from Texas as Belle Starkey
- News Is Made at Night as Kitty Truman
1938
- Religious Racketeers as Ada Bernard
- Torchy Blane in Panama as Kitty, Gomez's Moll
- Blondes at Work as Blanche Revelle
- A Slight Case of Murder as Loretta
- Two Gun Justice as Kate
- Port of Missing Girls as Chicago
- The Beloved Brat as Eleanor Sparks
- Under the Big Top as Marie
1937
- Circus Girl as Carlotta
- God's Country and the Man as Roxey Moore
- Federal Bullets as Sue, Gang Moll
1936
- Hollywood Boulevard as Betty
- Bulldog Edition as Billie Blake
- Killer at Large as Kate
- Two Minutes to Play as 'Fluff' Harding
- August Week End as Ethel Ames
- Laughing Irish Eyes as Molly
- The Drag-Net as Mollie Cole
- The Millionaire Kid as Gloria Neville
1935
- False Pretenses as Clarissa Stanhope
1934
- No Sleep on the Deep as Mrs. Eldridge
1933
- Destination Unknown as Ruby Smith
- West of Singapore as Lou
- Notorious But Nice as Millie Sprague
1932
- Guilty or Not Guilty as Maizie
- The Silver Lining as Kate Flynn
1931
- Hollywood Halfbacks
- Virtuous Husband as Inez Wakefield
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- Three Who Loved as Helga Larson Hanson
- The Gay Diplomat as Baroness Corri
- The Lady Refuses as June
1930
- The Spoilers as Cherry Malotte
- Midnight Mystery as Sally Wayne
- Inside the Lines as Jane Gershon
- Isle of Escape as Stella
- The Case of Sergeant Grischa as Babka
- The Boudoir Diplomat as Helene
- Those Who Dance as Kitty
- The Czar of Broadway as Connie Colton
- She Got What She Wanted
1929
- Skin Deep as Sadie Rogers
- Weary River as Alice Gray
- Street Girl as Frederika Joyzelle
- The Show of Shows as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
- Woman to Woman as Deloryce / Lola
- The Great Gabbo as Mary
- On With the Show! as Nita
- Blaze o' Glory as Helen Williams
- The Time, the Place and the Girl as Doris Ward
1928
- Court Martial as Belle Starr
- The Barker as Carrie
- Scarlet Seas as Rose
- The Docks of New York as Mae
- The Masked Angel as Betty
- The Desert Bride as Diane Duval
- The Big City as Helen
1927
- Love Me and the World Is Mine as Mitzel
- Cheating Cheaters as Nan Carey
- 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
- Locked Doors as Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter
- The Pony Express as Molly Jones
- New Lives for Old as Olympe
- Counsel for the Defense as Katherine West
- Paths to Paradise as Molly
- Eve's Secret as Eve
- Beggar on Horseback as Princess in Pantomime
1924
- Miami as Joan Bruce
- The Stranger as Peggy Bowlin
- The Female as Dalla
- The Fast Set as Margaret Sones
- The White Shadow as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
- The Enemy Sex as Dodo Baxter
- The Garden of Weeds as Dorothy Delbridge
- Ramshackle House as Pen Broome
1923
- Hollywood as Betty Compson
- The White Flower as Konia Markham
- The Rustle of Silk as Lala De Breeze
- Woman to Woman as Louise Boucher / Deloryse
- The Royal Oak as Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
- The Woman with Four Faces as Elizabeth West
1922
- The Bonded Woman as Angela Gaskell
- Over the Border as Jen Galbraith
- Kick In as Molly Brandon
- The Green Temptation as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
- A Trip to Paramountown as Self
- Always the Woman as Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris
- To Have and to Hold as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
- Law and the Woman as Margaret Rolfe
1921
- The Little Minister as Lady Babbie
- At the End of the World as Cherry O'Day
- For Those We Love as Bernice Arnold
- Prisoners of Love as Blanche Davis
- Ladies Must Live as Christine Bleeker
1919
- The Miracle Man as Rose
- The Light of Victory as Jane Ravenslee
- The Devil's Trail as Rose
1918
- Border Raiders as Rose Hardy
- The Sheriff as School Teacher
1917
1916
- The Making Over of Mother as Mrs. Newlywed
- That Doggone Baby as Wifie Parker
- Inoculating Hubby