Billie Burke
Born: 1884-08-07 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Died: 1970-05-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an American actress. She is primarily known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live. Description above from the Wikipedia article Billie Burke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2004
- Ziegfeld on Film as Herself (archive footage)
2000
- The Dark Side of the Rainbow as Glinda (archive footage)
1994
- That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
1990
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic as Self (archive footage)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1960
- Sergeant Rutledge as Mrs. Cordelia Fosgate
- Pepe as Billie Burke
1959
- The Young Philadelphians as Mrs. J. Arthur Allen
1958
1957
- The Star Wagon as Mrs. Rutledge
1955
1953
- Small Town Girl as Mrs. Livingston
1952
- Doc Corkle as Melinda
1951
- Father's Little Dividend as Doris Dunstan
1950
- Three Husbands as Mrs. Jenny Bard Whittaker
- Father of the Bride as Doris Dunstan
- The Golden Twenties as Self (archive footage)
- The Boy From Indiana as Zelda Bagley
1949
- Lights Out
- The Barkleys of Broadway as Mrs. Livingston Belney
- And Baby Makes Three as Mrs. Marvin Fletcher
1948
- Billie Gets Her Man as Billie Baxter
1946
- The Bachelor's Daughters as Molly Burns
- Breakfast in Hollywood as Mrs. Frances Cartwright
1945
- The Cheaters as Clara Pidgeon
- Swing Out, Sister as Jessica Mariman
1943
- Gildersleeve on Broadway as Mrs. Laura Chandler
- You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith as Aunt Harriet Crandall
- Hi Diddle Diddle as Mrs. Prescott
- So's Your Uncle as Aunt Minerva
1942
- In This Our Life as Lavinia Timberlake
- They All Kissed the Bride as Mrs. Drew
- Girl Trouble as Celeste Rowland
- What's Cookin'? as Agatha Courtney
1941
- The Man Who Came to Dinner as Daisy Stanley
- One Night In Lisbon as Catherine Enfilden
- The Wild Man of Borneo as Bernice Marshall, Boardinghouse Keeper
- Topper Returns as Mrs. Clara Topper
1940
- Dulcy as Eleanor Forbes
- Irene as Mrs. Herman Vincent
- Hullabaloo as Penny Merriweather
- The Captain Is a Lady as Blossy Stort
- The Ghost Comes Home as Cora Adams
- And One Was Beautiful as Julia Lattimer
1939
- The Wizard of Oz as Glinda
- Remember? as Mrs. Bronson
- Zenobia as Mrs. Tibbett
- Eternally Yours as Aunt Abby
- Bridal Suite as Mrs. Lillian McGill
1938
- Topper Takes a Trip as Mrs. Clara Topper
- Everybody Sing as Diana Bellaire
- Merrily We Live as Mrs. Emily Kilbourne
- The Young in Heart as Marmy Carleton
1937
- Topper as Mrs. Topper
- Parnell as Clara Wood
- The Bride Wore Red as Contessa di Meina
- Navy Blue and Gold as Mrs. Alyce Gates
1936
- Piccadilly Jim as Eugenia Willis, Nesta's Sister
- Craig's Wife as Mrs. Frazier
- My American Wife as Mrs. Robert Cantillon
1935
- Becky Sharp as Lady Bareacres
- Society Doctor as Mrs. Crane
- Doubting Thomas as Paula Brown
- After Office Hours as Mrs. Norwood
- Splendor as Clarissa
- A Feather in Her Hat as Julia Trent Anders
- She Couldn't Take It as Mrs. Daniel Van Dyke
1934
- We're Rich Again as Linda Page
- Forsaking All Others as Aunt Paula
- Where Sinners Meet as Eustasia
- Finishing School as Mrs. Radcliffe
1933
- Dinner at Eight as Millicent Jordan
- Christopher Strong as Lady Elaine Strong
- Only Yesterday as Julia Warren
1932
- A Bill of Divorcement as Meg Fairfield
1929
- Glorifying the American Girl as Self (uncredited)
1921
- The Education of Elizabeth as Elizabeth Banks
1920
- The Frisky Mrs. Johnson as Belle Johnson
- Away Goes Prudence as Prudence Thorne
1919
- Sadie Love as Sadie Love
- The Misleading Widow as Betty Taradine
- Wanted: A Husband as Amanda Darcy Cole
- Good Gracious, Annabelle as Annabelle Leigh
1918
- Let's Get a Divorce as Mme. Cyprienne Marcey
- Eve's Daughter as Irene Simpson-Bates
- In Pursuit of Polly as Polly Marsden
- The Make-Believe Wife as Phyllis Ashbrook
1917
- Arms and the Girl as Ruth Sherwood
- The Mysterious Miss Terry as Mavis Terry
- The Land of Promise as Nora Marsh
1916
- Peggy as Peggy Cameron
- Gloria's Romance as Gloria Stafford (as Miss Billie Burke)