Bea Benaderet

Born: 1906-04-04 in New York, New York, USA

Died: 1968-10-13

Known For: Acting

Biography

Beatrice "Bea" Benaderet was an American actress born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. She appeared in a wide variety of television work, which included a starring role in the 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and Green Acres as Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate Bradley, supporting roles as Blanche Morton in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and as the voice of Betty Rubble during the first four seasons of The Flintstones, and in The Beverly Hillbillies as Pearl Bodine. She did a great deal of voice work in Warner Bros. animated cartoons of the 1940s/50s.

Filmography

2010

Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire as Granny (voice)(archive footage)

2005

The History of Hooterville as Self (archive footage)

1991

The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame as Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice)

1981

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie as Granny (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

1965

Green Acres as Kate Bradley

1963

Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradley
The Danny Kaye Show as Self
Vacation Playhouse as Sybil Murdock

1962

The Beverly Hillbillies as Pearl Bodine
The Jetsons as Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice)
Tender Is the Night as Mrs. McKisco

1961

The New Breed as Miss Horne
Top Cat as Mrs. Ball (voice)

1960

The Flintstones as Betty Rubble (voice)
Pete and Gladys
Peter Loves Mary as Wilma

1959

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Telephone Operator (voice)
Tweet Dreams as Various (voice)
Plunderers of Painted Flats as Ella Heather

1958

77 Sunset Strip as Mary Field
The George Burns Show as Blanche Morton

1957

The Restless Gun as Madame Brimstone

1956

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self

1955

Matinee Theater
The Bob Cummings Show as Blanche Morton
Screen Director's Playhouse as Woman
The Hole Idea as Gertrude
A Midsummer Daydream as Woman
Sandy Claws as Granny
Feather Dusted as Miss Prissy (voice)

1954

Black Widow as Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)
The Cats Bah as Penelope's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
Goo Goo Goliath as Ethel (voice) (uncredited)
Bewitched Bunny as Witch Hazel / Gretel / Pretty Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
Wild Wife as Marsha, Daughter, Old Women with pennies, Beautician
Yankee Doodle Bugs as Various (voice) (uncredited)

1953

General Electric Theater as Marie
Hare Trimmed as Granny (voice)
Of Rice and Hen as Miss Prissy (voice)
A Mouse Divided as Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Kiss Me Cat as Vi (voice)
A Street Cat Named Sylvester as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Tom Tom Tomcat as Granny (voice)
Fowl Weather as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Punch Trunk as Marsha, Delores
Snow Business as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1952

Ain't She Tweet as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Terrier-Stricken as Frisky's Mistress (voice)
Orange Blossoms for Violet as Violet (voice) (uncredited)
Little Red Rodent Hood as Granny Mouse (voice)
Gift Wrapped as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
The First Time as Mrs. Potter
Feed the Kitty as Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)
Kiddin' the Kitten as Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)

1951

I Love Lucy as Miss Lewis
Tweety's S.O.S. as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
A Bear for Punishment as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Room and Bird as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Putty Tat Trouble as Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)
Chow Hound as Pet Owner
Lovelorn Leghorn as Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens (voice)
Hare We Go as Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited)
Fresh Laid Plans

1950

The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude Gearshift
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Blanche Morton
All a Bir-r-r-d as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
An Egg Scramble as Miss Prissy / Hens / Housewife (voice)
Two's a Crowd as (voice)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel as The Fair Melissa (voice)
Canary Row as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1949

On the Town as Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)
The Bee-Deviled Bruin as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
For Scent-imental Reasons as Cat
Bear Feat as Ma Bear
The Windblown Hare as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Doggone Tired as Operator (voice) (uncredited)

1948

I Taw a Putty Tat as Woman (voice) (uncredited)
Kit for Cat as Beatrice (voice) (uncredited)
A Hick, a Slick and a Chick as Daisy Lou (voice)
Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home as Turtle / Kangaroo (voice)

1947

Scent-imental Over You as Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)
Doggone Cats as Dog's owner (voice)
A Hare Grows in Manhattan as Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited)
Tweetie Pie as Woman (voice) (uncredited)

1946

Notorious as File Clerk (uncredited)
Baseball Bugs as The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited)
Book Revue as Bobby-Soxer / Lady on 'Freckles' Cover / Various Screams (voice)
Hollywood Canine Canteen as Female dog voices
Quentin Quail as Baby Toots (voice)

1945

The Shooting of Dan McGoo as Lou (voice) (uncredited)
It's Murder She Says... as Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice)
A Gruesome Twosome as Girl Cat

1944

Hare Force as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Little Red Riding Rabbit as Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Brother Brat as Baby Butch's Mom
Swooner Crooner as Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
Censored as Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited)
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips as Additional Characterizations
The Weakly Reporter as Lady Buying Steak, Saleslady, Narrator, Cabbie, Lady with Bottle

1943

Pigs in a Polka as Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited)
A Corny Concerto as Screams (voice) (uncredited)
Puss n' Booty as Woman (voice)
Hiss and Make Up as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1942

The Hep Cat as Bird

1941

Goofy Groceries as Cow / Can Can Dancers / Gorilla's Mother (voice) (uncredited)

1940

Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
The Bear's Tale as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Confederate Honey as Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited)
Cross Country Detours as Deer / Little Girl / Phone Operator (voice) (uncredited)