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