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
- Invisible Ghost as Mrs. Kessler
- Roar of the Press as Mrs. Thelma Tate
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
- Religious Racketeers as Ada Bernard
- A Slight Case of Murder as Loretta
- Port of Missing Girls as Chicago
- Torchy Blane in Panama as Kitty, Gomez's Moll
- The Beloved Brat as Eleanor Sparks
- Blondes at Work as Blanche Revelle
- Under the Big Top as Marie
- Two Gun Justice as Kate
1937
- Circus Girl as Carlotta
- God's Country and the Man as Roxey Moore
- Federal Bullets as Sue, Gang Moll
1936
- Bulldog Edition as Billie Blake
- The Drag Net as Mollie Cole
- Hollywood Boulevard as Betty
- The Millionaire Kid as Gloria Neville
- Killer at Large as Kate
- Two Minutes to Play as 'Fluff' Harding
- Laughing Irish Eyes as Molly
- August Week End as Ethel Ames
1935
- False Pretenses as Clarissa Stanhope
1934
- No Sleep on the Deep as Mrs. Eldridge
1933
- West of Singapore as Lou
- Notorious But Nice as Millie Sprague
- Destination Unknown as Ruby Smith
1932
- Guilty or Not Guilty as Maizie
- The Silver Lining as Kate Flynn
1931
- Virtuous Husband as Inez Wakefield
- Hollywood Halfbacks
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- The Gay Diplomat as Baroness Corri
- The Lady Refuses as June
- Three Who Loved as Helga Larson Hanson
1930
- Midnight Mystery as Sally Wayne
- Those Who Dance as Kitty
- Isle of Escape as Stella
- The Spoilers as Cherry Malotte
- She Got What She Wanted
- Inside the Lines as Jane Gershon
- The Case of Sergeant Grischa as Babka
- The Boudoir Diplomat as Helene
- The Czar of Broadway as Connie Colton
1929
- The Show of Shows as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
- Skin Deep as Sadie Rogers
- Weary River as Alice Gray
- On With the Show! as Nita
- The Great Gabbo as Mary
- Blaze o' Glory as Helen Williams
- The Time, the Place and the Girl as Doris Ward
- Street Girl as Frederika Joyzelle
- Woman to Woman as Deloryce / Lola
1928
- Scarlet Seas as Rose
- The Docks of New York as Mae
- The Masked Angel as Betty
- Life's Mockery as Kit Miller/Isabelle Fullerton
- Court Martial as Belle Starr
- The Barker as Carrie
- The Desert Bride as Diane Duval
- The Big City as Helen
1927
- Cheating Cheaters as Nan Carey
- Love Me and the World Is Mine as Mitzel
- Temptations of a Shop Girl as Ruth Harrington
- Say It with Diamonds as Betty Howard
1926
- The Palace of Pleasure as Lola Montez
- The Wise Guy as Hula Kate
- The Belle of Broadway as Marie Duval / The Young Adele
1925
- Paths to Paradise as Molly
- Eve's Secret as Eve
- New Lives for Old as Olympe
- Beggar on Horseback as Princess in Pantomime
- Counsel for the Defense as Katherine West
- The Pony Express as Molly Jones
- Locked Doors as Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter
1924
- The White Shadow as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
- The Enemy Sex as Dodo Baxter
- The Garden of Weeds as Dorothy Delbridge
- The Fast Set as Margaret Sones
- Miami as Joan Bruce
- The Stranger as Peggy Bowlin
- The Female as Dalla
- Ramshackle House as Pen Broome
1923
- Hollywood as Betty Compson
- Woman to Woman as Louise Boucher / Deloryse
- The Royal Oak as Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
- The Rustle of Silk as Lala De Breeze
- The Woman with Four Faces as Elizabeth West
- The White Flower as Konia Markham
1922
- A Trip to Paramountown as Self
- Always the Woman as Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris
- The Green Temptation as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
- To Have and to Hold as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
- Law and the Woman as Margaret Rolfe
- The Bonded Woman as Angela Gaskell
- Kick In as Molly Brandon
- Over the Border as Jen Galbraith
1921
- For Those We Love as Bernice Arnold
- Prisoners of Love as Blanche Davis
- At the End of the World as Cherry O'Day
- The Little Minister as Lady Babbie
- Ladies Must Live as Christine Bleeker
1919
- The Terror of the Range as Thelma Grant
- The Miracle Man as Rose
- The Devil's Trail as Rose
- The Light of Victory as Jane Ravenslee
1918
- The Sheriff as School Teacher
- Border Raiders as Rose Hardy
1917
1916
- Inoculating Hubby
- That Doggone Baby as Wifie Parker
- The Making Over of Mother as Mrs. Newlywed