Betty Compson
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Betty Compson (March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer. Most famous in silent films and early talkies, she is best known in her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Known for
Credits
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
as Gertie
Strange Cargo (1940)
as Suzanne (uncredited)
A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
as Loretta
Scarlet Seas (1928)
as Rose
False Pretenses (1935)
as Clarissa Stanhope
Skin Deep (1929)
as Sadie Rogers
The Docks of New York (1928)
as Mae
Midnight Mystery (1930)
as Sally Wayne
Here Comes Trouble (1948)
as Martha Blake
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
as Herself (archive footage)
The Terror of the Range (1919)
as Thelma Grant
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Invisible Ghost (1941)
as Mrs. Kessler
Religious Racketeers (1938)
as Ada Bernard
Virtuous Husband (1931)
as Inez Wakefield
Bulldog Edition (1936)
as Billie Blake
Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)
as Kitty, Gomez's Moll
The Millionaire Kid (1936)
as Gloria Neville
The Woman with Four Faces (1923)
as Elizabeth West
On With the Show! (1929)
as Nita
Isle of Escape (1930)
as Stella
Cheating Cheaters (1927)
as Nan Carey
The Show of Shows (1929)
as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
as (archive footage)
Law and the Woman (1922)
as Margaret Rolfe
Port of Missing Girls (1938)
as Chicago
Out for the Coin (1917)
Actor
Hollywood (1923)
as Betty Compson
West of Singapore (1933)
as Lou
New Lives for Old (1925)
as Olympe
No Sleep on the Deep (1934)
as Mrs. Eldridge
Circus Girl (1937)
as Carlotta
Eve's Secret (1925)
as Eve
Danger! Women at Work (1943)
as Madame Sappho
For Those We Love (1921)
as Bernice Arnold
God's Country and the Man (1937)
as Roxey Moore
The Drag Net (1936)
as Mollie Cole
Hotel Imperial (1939)
as Soubrette (uncredited)
Life's Mockery (1928)
as Kit Miller/Isabelle Fullerton
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
as Betty
News Is Made at Night (1939)
as Kitty Truman
A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
as Self
Those Who Dance (1930)
as Kitty
Guilty or Not Guilty (1932)
as Maizie
Mad Youth (1940)
as Lucy Morgan
Cowboys from Texas (1939)
as Belle Starkey
At the End of the World (1921)
as Cherry O'Day
The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
as Doris Ward
The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
as Babka
The Belle of Broadway (1926)
as Marie Duval / The Young Adele
The Beloved Brat (1938)
as Eleanor Sparks
The Spoilers (1930)
as Cherry Malotte
Counsel for the Defense (1925)
as Katherine West
The Barker (1928)
as Carrie
Court Martial (1928)
as Belle Starr
Two Minutes to Play (1936)
as 'Fluff' Harding
Laughing at Danger (1940)
as Mrs. Van Horn
Beggar on Horseback (1925)
as Princess in Pantomime
The White Flower (1923)
as Konia Markham
The Enemy Sex (1924)
as Dodo Baxter
Say It with Diamonds (1927)
as Betty Howard
Always the Woman (1922)
as Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris
Confessions of a Vice Baron (1943)
as Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Masked Angel (1928)
as Betty
The Light of Victory (1919)
as Jane Ravenslee
Inside the Lines (1930)
as Jane Gershon
The Garden of Weeds (1924)
as Dorothy Delbridge
Hubby's Night Out (1917)
as Wifey
The Royal Oak (1923)
as Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
Hollywood Halfbacks (1931)
Actor
Love Me and the World Is Mine (1927)
as Mitzel
Weary River (1929)
as Alice Gray
The Wise Guy (1926)
as Hula Kate
The Boudoir Diplomat (1930)
as Helene
The Green Temptation (1922)
as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
Roar of the Press (1941)
as Mrs. Thelma Tate
The Rustle of Silk (1923)
as Lala De Breeze
The Female (1924)
as Dalla
The Fast Set (1924)
as Margaret Sones
Federal Bullets (1937)
as Sue, Gang Moll
Blondes at Work (1938)
as Blanche Revelle
To Have and to Hold (1922)
as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
Temptations of a Shop Girl (1927)
as Ruth Harrington
Street Girl (1929)
as Frederika Joyzelle
Killer at Large (1936)
as Kate
Second Chance (1947)
as Mrs. Davenport
The Gay Diplomat (1931)
as Baroness Corri
The Devil's Trail (1919)
as Rose
The Little Minister (1921)
as Lady Babbie
The Desert Bride (1928)
as Diane Duval
Under the Big Top (1938)
as Marie
Woman to Woman (1923)
as Louise Boucher / Deloryse
Blaze o' Glory (1929)
as Helen Williams
As Luck Would Have It (1917)
Actor
The Sheriff (1918)
as School Teacher
She Got What She Wanted (1930)
Actor
The Palace of Pleasure (1926)
as Lola Montez
Destination Unknown (1933)
as Ruby Smith
The Miracle Man (1919)
as Rose
Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)
as Selena Webster
The Stranger (1924)
as Peggy Bowlin
The Pony Express (1925)
as Molly Jones
August Week End (1936)
as Ethel Ames
The Big City (1928)
as Helen
Kick In (1922)
as Molly Brandon
Cafe Hostess (1940)
as Cafe Hostess
Halloween Monster Bash (1991)
as Mrs. Kessler (archive footage)
Laughing Irish Eyes (1936)
as Molly
Ladies Must Live (1921)
as Christine Bleeker
The Making Over of Mother (1916)
as Mrs. Newlywed
The Lady Refuses (1931)
as June
Crazy by Proxy (1917)
Actor
That Doggone Baby (1916)
as Wifie Parker
Over the Border (1922)
as Jen Galbraith
Woman to Woman (1929)
as Deloryce / Lola
The Great Gabbo (1929)
as Mary
The Czar of Broadway (1930)
as Connie Colton
Miami (1924)
as Joan Bruce
The White Shadow (1924)
as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
Notorious But Nice (1933)
as Millie Sprague
Paths to Paradise (1925)
as Molly
Two Gun Justice (1938)
as Kate
Prisoners of Love (1921)
as Blanche Davis
Ramshackle House (1924)
as Pen Broome
Her Adventurous Night (1946)
as Miss Spencer
Escort Girl (1941)
as Ruth Ashley
The Bonded Woman (1922)
as Angela Gaskell
Border Raiders (1918)
as Rose Hardy
The Silver Lining (1932)
as Kate Flynn
Three Who Loved (1931)
as Helga Larson Hanson
Inoculating Hubby (1916)
Actor
Locked Doors (1925)
as Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter