Bea Benaderet

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1906-04-04 (62 years old)

Deathday

1968-10-13

Place of Birth

New York, New York, USA

Bea Benaderet

Biography

Beatrice "Bea" Benaderet was an American actress born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. She appeared in a wide variety of television work, which included a starring role in the 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and Green Acres as Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate Bradley, supporting roles as Blanche Morton in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and as the voice of Betty Rubble during the first four seasons of The Flintstones, and in The Beverly Hillbillies as Pearl Bodine. She did a great deal of voice work in Warner Bros. animated cartoons of the 1940s/50s.

Acting

1991

The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame

as Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice)

1948

Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home

as Turtle / Kangaroo (voice)

1953

Of Rice and Hen

as Miss Prissy (voice)

1951

A Bear for Punishment

as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)

1946

Baseball Bugs

as The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited)

1949

On the Town

as Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)

1952

Gift Wrapped

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1950

Two's a Crowd

as (voice)

1954

Bewitched Bunny

as Witch Hazel / Gretel / Pretty Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)

1951

Chow Hound

as Pet Owner

1952

Feed the Kitty

as Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)

1953

1947

A Hare Grows in Manhattan

as Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited)

1943

Pigs in a Polka

as Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited)

1951

Putty Tat Trouble

as Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)

1944

Little Red Riding Rabbit

as Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)

1945

1944

Hare Force

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1948

Kit for Cat

as Beatrice (voice) (uncredited)

1942

1951

Tweety's S.O.S.

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1944

Censored

as Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited)

1945

It's Murder She Says...

as Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice)

1950

The Scarlet Pumpernickel

as The Fair Melissa (voice)

1947

Tweetie Pie

as Woman (voice) (uncredited)

1949

Bear Feat

as Ma Bear

1951

Lovelorn Leghorn

as Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens (voice)

1946

Book Revue

as Bobby-Soxer / Lady on 'Freckles' Cover / Various Screams (voice)

1959

Tweet Dreams

as Various (voice)

1941

Goofy Groceries

as Cow / Can Can Dancers / Gorilla's Mother (voice) (uncredited)

1952

Orange Blossoms for Violet

as Violet (voice) (uncredited)

1954

Goo Goo Goliath

as Ethel (voice) (uncredited)

1953

A Mouse Divided

as Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

1950

Canary Row

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1944

Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears

as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)

1952

Kiddin' the Kitten

as Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)

1952

Ain't She Tweet

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1951

Room and Bird

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1950

All a Bir-r-r-d

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1953

Snow Business

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1943

Puss n' Booty

as Woman (voice)

1950

An Egg Scramble

as Miss Prissy / Hens / Housewife (voice)

1955

Sandy Claws

as Granny

1953

Punch Trunk

as Marsha, Delores

1940

The Bear's Tale

as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)

1953

Tom Tom Tomcat

as Granny (voice)

1952

Little Red Rodent Hood

as Granny Mouse (voice)

1959

1952

Terrier-Stricken

as Frisky's Mistress (voice)

1952

The First Time

as Mrs. Potter

1954

Wild Wife

as Marsha, Daughter, Old Women with pennies, Beautician

1955

The Hole Idea

as Gertrude

1944

The Weakly Reporter

as Lady Buying Steak, Saleslady, Narrator, Cabbie, Lady with Bottle

1946

Hollywood Canine Canteen

as Female dog voices

1948

A Hick, a Slick and a Chick

as Daisy Lou (voice)

1947

Doggone Cats

as Dog's owner (voice)

1946

Quentin Quail

as Baby Toots (voice)

1948

I Taw a Putty Tat

as Woman (voice) (uncredited)

1945

The Shooting of Dan McGoo

as Lou (voice) (uncredited)

1954

Black Widow

as Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)

1953

Hare Trimmed

as Granny (voice)

1951

Hare We Go

as Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited)

1954

The Cats Bah

as Penelope's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)

1943

A Corny Concerto

as Screams (voice) (uncredited)

1949

The Bee-Deviled Bruin

as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)

1940

Confederate Honey

as Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited)

1940

Cross Country Detours

as Deer / Little Girl / Phone Operator (voice) (uncredited)

1947

Scent-imental Over You

as Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)

1953

A Street Cat Named Sylvester

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1949

Doggone Tired

as Operator (voice) (uncredited)

1946

Notorious

as File Clerk (uncredited)

1943

Hiss and Make Up

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1944

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips

as Additional Characterizations

2010

1944

Brother Brat

as Baby Butch's Mom

1944

Swooner Crooner

as Chickens (voice) (uncredited)

2005

The History of Hooterville

as Self (archive footage)

1962

Tender Is the Night

as Mrs. McKisco

1949

The Windblown Hare

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1986

The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration

as Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage)

1954

Yankee Doodle Bugs

as Various (voice) (uncredited)

1953

Fowl Weather

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1955

Feather Dusted

as Miss Prissy (voice)

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