Betty Compson

from Beaver, Utah, USA

Artwork for The Miracle ManImage of 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.

Timeline

2011Aged 114

  • Poster for Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    Herself (archive footage)

1991Aged 94

  • Poster for Halloween Monster Bash

    Mrs. Kessler (archive footage)

1975Aged 78

  • Poster for Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    Self (archive footage)

1948Aged 51

  • Poster for Here Comes Trouble

    Martha Blake

1947Aged 50

  • Poster for Hard Boiled Mahoney

    Selena Webster

  • Poster for Second Chance

    Mrs. Davenport

1946Aged 49

  • Poster for Her Adventurous Night

    Miss Spencer

1943Aged 46

  • Poster for Confessions of a Vice Baron

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

  • Poster for Danger! Women at Work

    Madame Sappho

1941Aged 44

  • Poster for Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    Gertie

  • Poster for Roar of the Press

    Mrs. Thelma Tate

  • Poster for Invisible Ghost

    Mrs. Kessler

  • Poster for Escort Girl

    Ruth Ashley

1940Aged 43

  • Poster for Cafe Hostess

    Cafe Hostess

  • Poster for Strange Cargo

    Suzanne (uncredited)

  • Poster for Mad Youth

    Lucy Morgan

  • Poster for Laughing at Danger

    Mrs. Van Horn

1939Aged 42

  • Poster for Hotel Imperial

    Soubrette (uncredited)

  • Poster for News Is Made at Night

    Kitty Truman

  • Poster for Cowboys from Texas

    Belle Starkey

1938Aged 41

  • Poster for Blondes at Work

    Blanche Revelle

  • Poster for Port of Missing Girls

    Chicago

  • Poster for A Slight Case of Murder

    Loretta

  • Poster for Two Gun Justice

    Kate

  • Poster for The Beloved Brat

    Eleanor Sparks

  • Poster for Torchy Blane in Panama

    Kitty, Gomez's Moll

  • Poster for Religious Racketeers

    Ada Bernard

  • Poster for Under the Big Top

    Marie

1937Aged 40

  • Poster for Circus Girl

    Carlotta

  • Poster for God's Country and the Man

    Roxey Moore

  • Poster for Federal Bullets

    Sue, Gang Moll

1936Aged 39

  • Poster for August Week End

    Ethel Ames

  • Poster for Laughing Irish Eyes

    Molly

  • Poster for The Millionaire Kid

    Gloria Neville

  • Poster for The Drag Net

    Mollie Cole

  • Poster for Hollywood Boulevard

    Betty

  • Poster for Bulldog Edition

    Billie Blake

  • Poster for Killer at Large

    Kate

  • Poster for Two Minutes to Play

    'Fluff' Harding

1935Aged 38

  • Poster for False Pretenses

    Clarissa Stanhope

1934Aged 37

  • Poster for No Sleep on the Deep

    Mrs. Eldridge

1933Aged 36

  • Poster for West of Singapore

    Lou

  • Poster for Destination Unknown

    Ruby Smith

  • Poster for Notorious But Nice

    Millie Sprague

1932Aged 35

  • Poster for The Silver Lining

    Kate Flynn

  • Poster for Guilty or Not Guilty

    Maizie

1931Aged 34

  • Poster for The Lady Refuses

    June

  • Poster for Virtuous Husband

    Inez Wakefield

  • Poster for Three Who Loved

    Helga Larson Hanson

  • Poster for The House That Shadows Built

    (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Gay Diplomat

    Baroness Corri

  • Hollywood Halfbacks

    (Unknown)

1930Aged 33

1929Aged 32

  • Poster for Weary River

    Alice Gray

  • Poster for The Time, the Place and the Girl

    Doris Ward

  • Poster for On With the Show!

    Nita

  • Poster for Street Girl

    Frederika Joyzelle

  • Poster for Skin Deep

    Sadie Rogers

  • Poster for The Great Gabbo

    Mary

  • Poster for Woman to Woman

    Deloryce / Lola

  • Poster for The Show of Shows

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

  • Poster for Blaze o' Glory

    Helen Williams

1928Aged 31

  • Poster for Scarlet Seas

    Rose

  • Poster for The Big City

    Helen

  • Poster for The Desert Bride

    Diane Duval

  • Poster for The Masked Angel

    Betty

  • Life's Mockery

    Kit Miller/Isabelle Fullerton

  • Poster for Court Martial

    Belle Starr

  • Poster for The Docks of New York

    Mae

  • Poster for The Barker

    Carrie

1927Aged 30

1926Aged 29

  • Poster for The Palace of Pleasure

    Lola Montez

  • Poster for The Wise Guy

    Hula Kate

  • Poster for The Belle of Broadway

    Marie Duval / The Young Adele

1925Aged 28

  • Poster for Locked Doors

    Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter

  • Poster for New Lives for Old

    Olympe

  • Poster for Eve's Secret

    Eve

  • Poster for Beggar on Horseback

    Princess in Pantomime

  • Poster for Paths to Paradise

    Molly

  • Poster for The Pony Express

    Molly Jones

  • Poster for Counsel for the Defense

    Katherine West

1924Aged 27

  • Poster for The Stranger

    Peggy Bowlin

  • Poster for Miami

    Joan Bruce

  • Poster for The White Shadow

    Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent

  • Poster for The Enemy Sex

    Dodo Baxter

  • Poster for Ramshackle House

    Pen Broome

  • Poster for The Female

    Dalla

  • Poster for The Fast Set

    Margaret Sones

  • Poster for The Garden of Weeds

    Dorothy Delbridge

1923Aged 26

  • Poster for Woman to Woman

    Louise Boucher / Deloryse

  • Poster for The White Flower

    Konia Markham

  • Poster for The Rustle of Silk

    Lala De Breeze

  • Poster for The Woman with Four Faces

    Elizabeth West

  • Poster for Hollywood

    Betty Compson

  • The Royal Oak

    Lady Mildred Cholmondeley

1922Aged 25

  • Poster for Law and the Woman

    Margaret Rolfe

  • Poster for The Green Temptation

    Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker

  • Poster for Over the Border

    Jen Galbraith

  • Poster for Always the Woman

    Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris

  • Poster for A Trip to Paramountown

    Self

  • Poster for The Bonded Woman

    Angela Gaskell

  • Poster for To Have and to Hold

    Lady Jocelyn Leigh

  • Poster for Kick In

    Molly Brandon

1921Aged 24

  • Poster for Prisoners of Love

    Blanche Davis

  • Poster for At the End of the World

    Cherry O'Day

  • Poster for For Those We Love

    Bernice Arnold

  • Poster for Ladies Must Live

    Christine Bleeker

  • Poster for The Little Minister

    Lady Babbie

1919Aged 22

  • Poster for The Terror of the Range

    Thelma Grant

  • Poster for The Light of Victory

    Jane Ravenslee

  • Poster for The Devil's Trail

    Rose

  • Poster for The Miracle Man

    Rose

1918Aged 21

  • Poster for Border Raiders

    Rose Hardy

  • Poster for The Sheriff

    School Teacher

1917Aged 20

1916Aged 19

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