Billie Burke

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1884-08-05 (86 years old)

Deathday

1970-05-15

Place of Birth

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Billie Burke

Biography

Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an American actress. She is primarily known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live. Description above from the Wikipedia article Billie Burke,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1939

1950

Father of the Bride

as Doris Dunstan

1951

Father's Little Dividend

as Doris Dunstan

1937

Topper

as Mrs. Topper

1941

1917

1917

The Land of Promise

as Nora Marsh

1918

The Make-Believe Wife

as Phyllis Ashbrook

1918

Eve's Daughter

as Irene Simpson-Bates

1918

In Pursuit of Polly

as Polly Marsden

1919

Sadie Love

as Sadie Love

1919

Good Gracious, Annabelle

as Annabelle Leigh

1921

The Education of Elizabeth

as Elizabeth Banks

1920

Away Goes Prudence

as Prudence Thorne

1949

The Barkleys of Broadway

as Mme Livingston Belney

1960

Sergeant Rutledge

as Mrs. Cordelia Fosgate

1959

The Young Philadelphians

as Mrs. J. Arthur Allen

1938

Everybody Sing

as Diana Bellaire

1942

In This Our Life

as Lavinia Timberlake

1933

Christopher Strong

as Lady Elaine Strong

1938

The Young in Heart

as Marmy Carleton

1935

Becky Sharp

as Lady Bareacres

1941

Topper Returns

as Mrs. Clara Topper

1933

Dinner at Eight

as Millicent Jordan

1935

After Office Hours

as Mrs. Norwood

1932

A Bill of Divorcement

as Meg Fairfield

1960

Pepe

as Billie Burke

1943

Gildersleeve on Broadway

as Mrs. Laura Chandler

1938

Topper Takes a Trip

as Mrs. Clara Topper

1943

Hi Diddle Diddle

as Mrs. Prescott

1939

Eternally Yours

as Aunt Abby

1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1936

Craig's Wife

as Mrs. Frazier

1934

1940

1940

Irene

as Mrs. Herman Vincent

1939

Zenobia

as Mrs. Tibbett

1938

Merrily We Live

as Mrs. Emily Kilbourne

1953

Small Town Girl

as Mrs. Livingston

1937

The Bride Wore Red

as Contessa di Meina

1933

Only Yesterday

as Julia Warren

1935

Society Doctor

as Mrs. Crane

1937

Navy Blue and Gold

as Mrs. Alyce Gates

1936

Piccadilly Jim

as Eugenia Willis, Nesta's Sister

1941

The Wild Man of Borneo

as Bernice Marshall, Boardinghouse Keeper

1940

Dulcy

as Eleanor Forbes

1940

And One Was Beautiful

as Julia Lattimer

1945

The Cheaters

as Clara Pidgeon

1949

And Baby Makes Three

as Mrs. Marvin Fletcher

1936

My American Wife

as Mrs. Robert Cantillon

1934

Finishing School

as Mrs. Radcliffe

1935

Doubting Thomas

as Paula Brown

1940

Hullabaloo

as Penny Merriweather

1939

Remember?

as Mrs. Bronson

1934

We're Rich Again

as Mrs. Linda Page

1945

Swing Out, Sister

as Jessica Mariman

1946

1935

A Feather in Her Hat

as Julia Trent Anders

1937

Parnell

as Clara Wood

1935

She Couldn't Take It

as Mrs. Daniel Van Dyke

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

as Millicent Jordan (archive footage) (uncredited)

1939

Bridal Suite

as Mrs. Lillian McGill

1935

Splendor

as Clarissa

1950

The Golden Twenties

as Self (archive footage)

1942

Girl Trouble

as Celeste Rowland

1934

2004

Ziegfeld on Film

as Herself (archive footage)

1946

Breakfast in Hollywood

as Mrs. Frances Cartwright

1942

What's Cookin'?

as Agatha Courtney

1941

One Night In Lisbon

as Catherine Enfilden

1940

The Captain Is a Lady

as Blossy Stort

2000

The Dark Side of the Rainbow

as Glinda (archive footage)

1994

That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

1950

The Boy From Indiana

as Zelda Bagley

1920

The Frisky Mrs. Johnson

as Belle Johnson

1943

So's Your Uncle

as Aunt Minerva

1943

You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith

as Aunt Harriet Crandall

1917

Arms and the Girl

as Ruth Sherwood

1918

Let's Get a Divorce

as Mme. Cyprienne Marcey

1950

Three Husbands

as Mrs. Jenny Bard Whittaker

1916

Peggy

as Peggy Cameron

1916

Gloria's Romance

as Gloria Stafford (as Miss Billie Burke)

1929

Glorifying the American Girl

as Self (uncredited)

1919

The Misleading Widow

as Betty Taradine

1948

Billie Gets Her Man

as Billie Baxter

1995

The Dark Side of Oz

as Glinda the Good Witch of the North (archive footage)

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