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
- Confessions of a Vice Baron as Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Danger! Women at Work as Madame Sappho
1941
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Gertie
- Escort Girl as Ruth Ashley
- Roar of the Press as Mrs. Thelma Tate
- Invisible Ghost as Mrs. Kessler
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)
- Cowboys from Texas as Belle Starkey
- News Is Made at Night as Kitty Truman
1938
- A Slight Case of Murder as Loretta
- Blondes at Work as Blanche Revelle
- Torchy Blane in Panama as Kitty, Gomez's Moll
- The Beloved Brat as Eleanor Sparks
- Two Gun Justice as Kate
- Under the Big Top as Marie
- Port of Missing Girls as Chicago
- Religious Racketeers as Ada Bernard
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
- Bulldog Edition as Billie Blake
- Two Minutes to Play as 'Fluff' Harding
- The Drag Net as Mollie Cole
- Killer at Large as Kate
- Laughing Irish Eyes as Molly
- The Millionaire Kid as Gloria Neville
- 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
- The Lady Refuses as June
- Hollywood Halfbacks
- The Gay Diplomat as Baroness Corri
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- Virtuous Husband as Inez Wakefield
- Three Who Loved as Helga Larson Hanson
1930
- Inside the Lines as Jane Gershon
- The Spoilers as Cherry Malotte
- The Czar of Broadway as Connie Colton
- Midnight Mystery as Sally Wayne
- The Case of Sergeant Grischa as Babka
- Those Who Dance as Kitty
- Isle of Escape as Stella
- She Got What She Wanted
- The Boudoir Diplomat as Helene
1929
- Weary River as Alice Gray
- The Show of Shows as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
- Skin Deep as Sadie Rogers
- The Great Gabbo as Mary
- The Time, the Place and the Girl as Doris Ward
- Street Girl as Frederika Joyzelle
- On With the Show! as Nita
- Woman to Woman as Deloryce / Lola
- Blaze o' Glory as Helen Williams
1928
- The Docks of New York as Mae
- The Desert Bride as Diane Duval
- Court Martial as Belle Starr
- Scarlet Seas as Rose
- The Big City as Helen
- The Barker as Carrie
- Life's Mockery as Kit Miller/Isabelle Fullerton
- The Masked Angel as Betty
1927
- Love Me and the World Is Mine as Mitzel
- Say It with Diamonds as Betty Howard
- Cheating Cheaters as Nan Carey
- Temptations of a Shop Girl as Ruth Harrington
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
- Eve's Secret as Eve
- Beggar on Horseback as Princess in Pantomime
- The Pony Express as Molly Jones
- New Lives for Old as Olympe
- Locked Doors as Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter
- Paths to Paradise as Molly
- Counsel for the Defense as Katherine West
1924
- The White Shadow as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
- The Garden of Weeds as Dorothy Delbridge
- The Enemy Sex as Dodo Baxter
- Ramshackle House as Pen Broome
- The Female as Dalla
- Miami as Joan Bruce
- The Stranger as Peggy Bowlin
- The Fast Set as Margaret Sones
1923
- Hollywood as Betty Compson
- 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
- The White Flower as Konia Markham
1922
- A Trip to Paramountown as Self
- The Bonded Woman as Angela Gaskell
- The Green Temptation as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
- To Have and to Hold as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
- Over the Border as Jen Galbraith
- Kick In as Molly Brandon
- Law and the Woman as Margaret Rolfe
- Always the Woman as Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris
1921
- For Those We Love as Bernice Arnold
- The Little Minister as Lady Babbie
- At the End of the World as Cherry O'Day
- Ladies Must Live as Christine Bleeker
- Prisoners of Love as Blanche Davis
1919
- The Miracle Man as Rose
- The Devil's Trail as Rose
- The Light of Victory as Jane Ravenslee
- The Terror of the Range as Thelma Grant
1918
- Border Raiders as Rose Hardy
- The Sheriff as School Teacher
1917
1916
- The Making Over of Mother as Mrs. Newlywed
- Inoculating Hubby
- That Doggone Baby as Wifie Parker