Betty Compson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1897-03-17 (77 years old)

Deathday

1974-04-18

Place of Birth

Beaver, Utah, USA

Betty Compson

Biography

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.

Acting

1941

1927

Cheating Cheaters

as Nan Carey

1923

Hollywood

as Betty Compson

1922

Over the Border

as Jen Galbraith

1923

The Woman with Four Faces

as Elizabeth West

1926

The Wise Guy

as Hula Kate

1921

For Those We Love

as Bernice Arnold

1921

Prisoners of Love

as Blanche Davis

1924

The Garden of Weeds

as Dorothy Delbridge

1940

Strange Cargo

as Suzanne (uncredited)

1947

Second Chance

as Mrs. Davenport

1928

The Barker

as Carrie

1929

Street Girl

as Frederika Joyzelle

1925

Locked Doors

as Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter

1924

The White Shadow

as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent

1931

1929

1933

Destination Unknown

as Ruby Smith

1929

Woman to Woman

as Deloryce / Lola

1938

Blondes at Work

as Blanche Revelle

1948

Here Comes Trouble

as Martha Blake

1935

False Pretenses

as Clarissa Stanhope

1925

1938

Torchy Blane in Panama

as Kitty, Gomez's Moll

1939

Cowboys from Texas

as Belle Starkey

1933

Notorious But Nice

as Millie Sprague

1941

Escort Girl

as Ruth Ashley

1936

Bulldog Edition

as Billie Blake

1936

The Millionaire Kid

as Gloria Neville

1936

August Week End

as Ethel Ames

1936

The Drag-Net

as Mollie Cole

1937

Circus Girl

as Carlotta

1931

The Gay Diplomat

as Baroness Corri

1938

1939

Hotel Imperial

as Soubrette (uncredited)

1929

Weary River

as Alice Gray

1931

Three Who Loved

as Helga Larson Hanson

1926

The Belle of Broadway

as Marie Duval / The Young Adele

1938

Religious Racketeers

as Ada Bernard

1938

1924

The Fast Set

as Margaret Sones

1917

1930

Inside the Lines

as Jane Gershon

1919

1930

The Czar of Broadway

as Connie Colton

1927

Say It with Diamonds

as Betty Howard

1941

Invisible Ghost

as Mrs. Kessler

1923

Woman to Woman

as Louise Boucher / Deloryse

1925

Beggar on Horseback

as Princess in Pantomime

1943

Danger! Women at Work

as Madame Sappho

1916

1936

Two Minutes to Play

as 'Fluff' Harding

1930

Midnight Mystery

as Sally Wayne

1928

1940

Mad Youth

as Lucy Morgan

1922

The Green Temptation

as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as Herself (archive footage)

1939

News Is Made at Night

as Kitty Truman

1947

Hard Boiled Mahoney

as Selena Webster

1926

1938

1925

The Pony Express

as Molly Jones

1930

1928

The Big City

as Helen

1938

The Beloved Brat

as Eleanor Sparks

1921

The Little Minister

as Lady Babbie

1937

Federal Bullets

as Sue, Gang Moll

1940

Laughing at Danger

as Mrs. Van Horn

1929

Skin Deep

as Sadie Rogers

1930

The Spoilers

as Cherry Malotte

1916

That Doggone Baby

as Wifie Parker

1929

The Show of Shows

as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)

1940

Cafe Hostess

as Cafe Hostess

1941

Roar of the Press

as Mrs. Thelma Tate

1921

Ladies Must Live

as Christine Bleeker

1930

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

1924

The Enemy Sex

as Dodo Baxter

1924

The Stranger

as Peggy Bowlin

1932

The Silver Lining

as Kate Flynn

1928

The Desert Bride

as Diane Duval

1924

Ramshackle House

as Pen Broome

1921

1931

The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

1922

To Have and to Hold

as Lady Jocelyn Leigh

1922

Kick In

as Molly Brandon

1923

The Rustle of Silk

as Lala De Breeze

1923

The White Flower

as Konia Markham

1928

Court Martial

as Belle Starr

1925

1925

1918

Border Raiders

as Rose Hardy

1922

The Bonded Woman

as Angela Gaskell

1946

Her Adventurous Night

as Miss Spencer

1924

The Female

as Dalla

1919

The Light of Victory

as Jane Ravenslee

1929

Blaze o' Glory

as Helen Williams

1936

1943

Confessions of a Vice Baron

as Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)

1923

The Royal Oak

as Lady Mildred Cholmondeley

1937

1918

The Sheriff

as School Teacher

1922

Law and the Woman

as Margaret Rolfe

1931

Virtuous Husband

as Inez Wakefield

Production

1921

1921

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