Florence Bates
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1888-04-13 (66 years old)
Deathday
1954-01-31
Place of Birth
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Also known As
Florence Rabe
Florence Bates
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Florence Bates (born Florence Rabe, April 15, 1888 – January 31, 1954) was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles. Her path to becoming an actress had many turns. She had a degree in Mathematics, taught school until married, then became the first Texas female lawyer. Then she became a bilingual radio commentator. After her husband lost her fortune, she and her husband opened a bakery in Los Angeles. In the mid-1930s, Bates auditioned for and won the role of Miss Bates in a Pasadena Playhouse adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. When she dec...
Acting
1940
as Edythe Van Hopper
1947
as Mrs. Murdock
1941
as Mrs. Cooper
1950
as Nellie Chatfield
1953
as Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
1951
as Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
1944
as Queen Liliha
1947
as Mrs. Griswold
1944
as Madame Elise Chavez
1951
as Mrs. Anna Hubbell
1948
as Florence Dana Moorhead
1948
as Mrs. Castle
1945
as May Tolliver
1944
as Karsha
1941
as Store Shopper
1950
as Amelia Foster
1946
as Rose
1944
as Viola Chase
1949
as Mrs. Manleigh
1943
as Mrs. Van Every
1945
as Henrietta
1940
as Countess Mathilde Von Braun
1941
as Katie
1946
as Dowager at Ames's Party
1942
as Tiare Johnson
1946
as Molly Veech
1941
as Madame Helene
1948
as Ma Dunnegan
1952
as Madame Bonnet
1942
as Emily
1941
as Mrs. Newton
1948
as Geraldine Atherton
1943
as Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
1942
as Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
1943
as Mrs. Mary Davis
1942
as Mrs. Baldwin
1953
as Nora Sullivan
1946
as Nancy Riddle
1948
as Mandy
1945
as Harriet Pringle
1947
as Chita
1940
as Emmie Trippe
1948
as Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
1943
as Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
1949
as Miss Emma Shoemaker
1952
as Sadie
1942
as Mrs. Saunders
1943
as Gypsy Woman
1940
as Customer
1945
as Sophie Bellop
1946
as Mme. Lucia Cassel
1949
as Madame Dilyovska
1947
as Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
1943
as Lady Sloughberry
1950
as Nora 'Ma' Ryan
1948
as Mrs. Jekes
1951
as Minerva Bobbin
1951
as Mrs. Fillmore
1946
as Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
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