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
2025
- The Wizard of Oz at Sphere as Glinda (archive footage)
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: 50 Years of Magic as Self (archive footage)
1976
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1960
- Pepe as Billie Burke
- Sergeant Rutledge as Mrs. Cordelia Fosgate
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
- Father of the Bride as Doris Dunstan
- The Boy From Indiana as Zelda Bagley
- Three Husbands as Mrs. Jenny Bard Whittaker
- The Golden Twenties as Self (archive footage)
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
- Breakfast in Hollywood as Mrs. Frances Cartwright
- The Bachelor's Daughters as Molly Burns
1945
- The Cheaters as Clara Pidgeon
- Swing Out, Sister as Jessica Mariman
1943
- So's Your Uncle as Aunt Minerva
- Hi Diddle Diddle as Mrs. Prescott
- Gildersleeve on Broadway as Mrs. Laura Chandler
- You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith as Aunt Harriet Crandall
1942
- Girl Trouble as Celeste Rowland
- In This Our Life as Lavinia Timberlake
- They All Kissed the Bride as Mrs. Drew
- What's Cookin'? as Agatha Courtney
1941
- The Man Who Came to Dinner as Daisy Stanley
- Topper Returns as Mrs. Clara Topper
- The Wild Man of Borneo as Bernice Marshall, Boardinghouse Keeper
- One Night In Lisbon as Catherine Enfilden
1940
- Irene as Mrs. Herman Vincent
- Dulcy as Eleanor Forbes
- The Captain is a Lady as Blossy Stort
- Hullabaloo as Penny Merriweather
- The Ghost Comes Home as Cora Adams
- And One Was Beautiful as Julia Lattimer
1939
- The Wizard of Oz as Glinda
- Zenobia as Mrs. Tibbett
- Remember? as Mrs. Bronson
- Eternally Yours as Aunt Abby
- Bridal Suite as Mrs. Lillian McGill
1938
- The Young in Heart as Marmy Carleton
- Merrily We Live as Mrs. Emily Kilbourne
- Topper Takes a Trip as Mrs. Clara Topper
- Everybody Sing as Diana Bellaire
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
- Craig's Wife as Mrs. Frazier
- Piccadilly Jim as Eugenia Willis, Nesta's Sister
- My American Wife as Mrs. Robert Cantillon
1935
- Splendor as Clarissa
- Society Doctor as Mrs. Crane
- Becky Sharp as Lady Bareacres
- A Feather in Her Hat as Julia Trent Anders
- She Couldn't Take It as Mrs. Daniel Van Dyke
- Doubting Thomas as Paula Brown
- After Office Hours as Mrs. Norwood
1934
- Finishing School as Mrs. Radcliffe
- Forsaking All Others as Aunt Paula
- We're Rich Again as Linda Page
- Where Sinners Meet as Eustasia
1933
- Dinner at Eight as Millicent Jordan
- Only Yesterday as Julia Warren
- Christopher Strong as Lady Elaine Strong
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
- Away Goes Prudence as Prudence Thorne
- The Frisky Mrs. Johnson as Belle Johnson
1919
- Sadie Love as Sadie Love
- Wanted: A Husband as Amanda Darcy Cole
- The Misleading Widow as Betty Taradine
- Good Gracious, Annabelle as Annabelle Leigh
1918
- In Pursuit of Polly as Polly Marsden
- Let's Get a Divorce as Mme. Cyprienne Marcey
- The Make-Believe Wife as Phyllis Ashbrook
- Eve's Daughter as Irene Simpson-Bates
1917
- Arms and the Girl as Ruth Sherwood
- The Land of Promise as Nora Marsh
- The Mysterious Miss Terry as Mavis Terry
1916
- Peggy as Peggy Cameron
- Gloria's Romance as Gloria Stafford (as Miss Billie Burke)