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)

1965

Green Acres as Kate Bradley

1963

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

1962

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

1961

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

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
A Midsummer Daydream as Woman
Sandy Claws as Granny
The Hole Idea as Gertrude
Feather Dusted as Miss Prissy (voice)

1954

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

1953

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

1952

Orange Blossoms for Violet as Violet (voice) (uncredited)
Ain't She Tweet as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Feed the Kitty as Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)
Gift Wrapped as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
The First Time as Mrs. Potter
Terrier-Stricken as Frisky's Mistress (voice)
Little Red Rodent Hood as Granny Mouse (voice)
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)
Room and Bird as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
A Bear for Punishment as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Chow Hound as Pet Owner
Lovelorn Leghorn as Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens (voice)
Putty Tat Trouble as Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)
Hare We Go as Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited)
Fresh Laid Plans

1950

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Blanche Morton
The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude Gearshift
Canary Row as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel as The Fair Melissa (voice)
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)

1949

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

1948

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

1947

Doggone Cats as Dog's owner (voice)
Scent-imental Over You as Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)
Tweetie Pie as Woman (voice) (uncredited)
A Hare Grows in Manhattan as Lola Beverly (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)
Quentin Quail as Baby Toots (voice)
Hollywood Canine Canteen as Female dog voices

1945

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

1944

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

1943

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

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)