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)
1986
- The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration as Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage)
1983
- The Bugs Bunny Show as Nanny
1982
- Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales as Witch Hazel (voice)
1981
- The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie as Granny (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)
- Plunderers of Painted Flats as Ella Heather
- Tweet Dreams as Various (voice)
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
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Woman
- The Bob Cummings Show as Blanche Morton
- Sandy Claws as Granny
- The Hole Idea as Gertrude
- Feather Dusted as Miss Prissy (voice)
- A Midsummer Daydream as Woman
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
- Kiss Me Cat as Vi (voice)
- Snow Business as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
- Hare Trimmed as Granny (voice)
- A Mouse Divided as Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
- Of Rice and Hen as Miss Prissy (voice)
- Punch Trunk as Marsha, Delores
- A Street Cat Named Sylvester as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
- Fowl Weather as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
- Tom Tom Tomcat as Granny (voice)
1952
- Feed the Kitty as Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)
- Gift Wrapped as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
- Kiddin' the Kitten as Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
- Little Red Rodent Hood as Granny Mouse (voice)
- The First Time as Mrs. Potter
- Orange Blossoms for Violet as Violet (voice) (uncredited)
- Ain't She Tweet as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
- Terrier-Stricken as Frisky's Mistress (voice)
1951
- I Love Lucy as Miss Lewis
- Room and Bird as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
- Chow Hound as Pet Owner
- Tweety's S.O.S. as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
- A Bear for Punishment as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Putty Tat Trouble as Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)
- 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, switchboard operator
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Blanche Morton
- 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)
- For Scent-imental Reasons as Cat
- The Bee-Deviled Bruin as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- The Windblown Hare as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
- Doggone Tired as Operator (voice) (uncredited)
- Bear Feat as Ma Bear
1948
- A Hick, a Slick and a Chick as Daisy Lou (voice)
- Kit for Cat as Beatrice (voice) (uncredited)
- I Taw a Putty Tat as Woman (voice) (uncredited)
- Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home as Turtle / Kangaroo (voice)
1947
- Tweetie Pie as Woman (voice) (uncredited)
- Doggone Cats as Dog's owner (voice)
- A Hare Grows in Manhattan as Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited)
- Scent-imental Over You as Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)
1946
- Notorious as File Clerk (uncredited)
- Looney Tunes Golden Collection as The Statue of Liberty (voice) (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)
- A Gruesome Twosome as Girl Cat
- It's Murder She Says... as Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice)
1944
- Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Little Red Riding Rabbit as Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)
- Censored as Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited)
- Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips as Additional Characterizations
- Swooner Crooner as Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
- The Weakly Reporter as Lady Buying Steak, Saleslady, Narrator, Cabbie, Lady with Bottle
- Brother Brat as Baby Butch's Mom
- Hare Force as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1943
- Pigs in a Polka as Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited)
- A Corny Concerto as Screams (voice) (uncredited)
- Hiss and Make Up as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
- Puss n' Booty as Woman (voice)
1942
- The Hep Cat as Bird
1941
- Goofy Groceries as Cow / Can Can Dancers / Gorilla's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
1940
- Confederate Honey as Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited)
- The Bear's Tale as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
- Cross Country Detours as Deer / Little Girl / Phone Operator (voice) (uncredited)