Betty Compson

Known for: Acting

Born: 1897-03-17 – 1974-04-18 (aged 77)

From: Beaver, Utah, USA

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.

Filmography (131)

MOVIE★ 9.0
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
as Herself (archive footage)
MOVIE
Halloween Monster Bash
1991
as Mrs. Kessler (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.3
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.2
Here Comes Trouble
1948
as Martha Blake
MOVIE★ 6.5
Second Chance
1947
as Mrs. Davenport
MOVIE★ 6.8
Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947
as Selena Webster
MOVIE★ 6.7
Her Adventurous Night
1946
as Miss Spencer
MOVIE★ 6.5
Danger! Women at Work
1943
as Madame Sappho
MOVIE★ 4.7
Confessions of a Vice Baron
1943
as Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 3.3
Escort Girl
1941
as Ruth Ashley
MOVIE★ 5.3
Invisible Ghost
1941
as Mrs. Kessler
MOVIE★ 6.3
Roar of the Press
1941
as Mrs. Thelma Tate
MOVIE★ 6.0
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
as Gertie
MOVIE★ 9.0
Laughing at Danger
1940
as Mrs. Van Horn
MOVIE★ 4.9
Mad Youth
1940
as Lucy Morgan
MOVIE★ 7.0
Strange Cargo
1940
as Suzanne (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.4
Cafe Hostess
1940
as Cafe Hostess
MOVIE★ 6.0
Cowboys from Texas
1939
as Belle Starkey
MOVIE★ 4.8
News Is Made at Night
1939
as Kitty Truman
MOVIE★ 7.0
Hotel Imperial
1939
as Soubrette (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.7
Under the Big Top
1938
as Marie
MOVIE★ 7.5
Religious Racketeers
1938
as Ada Bernard
MOVIE★ 5.8
Torchy Blane in Panama
1938
as Kitty, Gomez's Moll
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Beloved Brat
1938
as Eleanor Sparks
MOVIE★ 7.5
Two Gun Justice
1938
as Kate
MOVIE★ 6.4
A Slight Case of Murder
1938
as Loretta
MOVIE★ 7.0
Port of Missing Girls
1938
as Chicago
MOVIE★ 6.3
Blondes at Work
1938
as Blanche Revelle
MOVIE★ 8.0
Federal Bullets
1937
as Sue, Gang Moll
MOVIE★ 7.5
God's Country and the Man
1937
as Roxey Moore
MOVIE★ 6.5
Circus Girl
1937
as Carlotta
MOVIE★ 5.7
Two Minutes to Play
1936
as 'Fluff' Harding
MOVIE★ 8.0
Killer at Large
1936
as Kate
MOVIE★ 4.3
Bulldog Edition
1936
as Billie Blake
MOVIE★ 4.5
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
as Betty
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Drag Net
1936
as Mollie Cole
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Millionaire Kid
1936
as Gloria Neville
MOVIE★ 10.0
Laughing Irish Eyes
1936
as Molly
MOVIE★ 6.0
August Week End
1936
as Ethel Ames
MOVIE★ 7.3
False Pretenses
1935
as Clarissa Stanhope
MOVIE★ 10.0
No Sleep on the Deep
1934
as Mrs. Eldridge
MOVIE★ 6.7
Notorious But Nice
1933
as Millie Sprague
MOVIE★ 7.0
Destination Unknown
1933
as Ruby Smith
MOVIE★ 10.0
West of Singapore
1933
as Lou
MOVIE★ 7.0
Guilty or Not Guilty
1932
as Maizie
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Silver Lining
1932
as Kate Flynn
MOVIE★ 9.0
Hollywood Halfbacks
1931
MOVIE★ 4.8
The Gay Diplomat
1931
as Baroness Corri
MOVIE★ 8.5
The House That Shadows Built
1931
as (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 6.0
Three Who Loved
1931
as Helga Larson Hanson
MOVIE★ 8.0
Virtuous Husband
1931
as Inez Wakefield
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Lady Refuses
1931
as June
MOVIE★ 3.0
The Boudoir Diplomat
1930
as Helene
MOVIE★ 10.0
She Got What She Wanted
1930
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Spoilers
1930
as Cherry Malotte
MOVIE★ 5.5
Inside the Lines
1930
as Jane Gershon
MOVIE★ 5.9
Midnight Mystery
1930
as Sally Wayne
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Czar of Broadway
1930
as Connie Colton
MOVIE★ 6.2
Those Who Dance
1930
as Kitty
MOVIE★ 6.5
Isle of Escape
1930
as Stella
MOVIE★ 7.3
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
1930
as Babka
MOVIE★ 7.0
Blaze o' Glory
1929
as Helen Williams
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Show of Shows
1929
as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 4.9
Woman to Woman
1929
as Deloryce / Lola
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Great Gabbo
1929
as Mary
MOVIE★ 3.3
Skin Deep
1929
as Sadie Rogers
MOVIE★ 6.1
Street Girl
1929
as Frederika Joyzelle
MOVIE★ 6.2
On With the Show!
1929
as Nita
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Time, the Place and the Girl
1929
as Doris Ward
MOVIE★ 5.8
Weary River
1929
as Alice Gray
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Barker
1928
as Carrie
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Docks of New York
1928
as Mae
MOVIE★ 6.5
Court Martial
1928
as Belle Starr
MOVIE★ 7.0
Life's Mockery
1928
as Kit Miller/Isabelle Fullerton
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Masked Angel
1928
as Betty
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Desert Bride
1928
as Diane Duval
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Big City
1928
as Helen
MOVIE★ 4.0
Scarlet Seas
1928
as Rose
MOVIE★ 7.0
Cheating Cheaters
1927
as Nan Carey
MOVIE★ 9.0
Temptations of a Shop Girl
1927
as Ruth Harrington
MOVIE★ 10.0
Love Me and the World Is Mine
1927
as Mitzel
MOVIE★ 9.0
Say It with Diamonds
1927
as Betty Howard
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Belle of Broadway
1926
as Marie Duval / The Young Adele
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Wise Guy
1926
as Hula Kate
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Palace of Pleasure
1926
as Lola Montez
MOVIE★ 9.0
Counsel for the Defense
1925
as Katherine West
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Pony Express
1925
as Molly Jones
MOVIE★ 6.1
Paths to Paradise
1925
as Molly
MOVIE★ 6.5
Beggar on Horseback
1925
as Princess in Pantomime
MOVIE★ 9.0
Eve's Secret
1925
as Eve
MOVIE★ 9.0
New Lives for Old
1925
as Olympe
MOVIE★ 3.3
Locked Doors
1925
as Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Garden of Weeds
1924
as Dorothy Delbridge
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Fast Set
1924
as Margaret Sones
MOVIE★ 7.0
Ramshackle House
1924
as Pen Broome
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Female
1924
as Dalla
MOVIE★ 8.5
The Enemy Sex
1924
as Dodo Baxter
MOVIE★ 7.5
The White Shadow
1924
as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
MOVIE★ 8.0
Miami
1924
as Joan Bruce
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Stranger
1924
as Peggy Bowlin
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Royal Oak
1923
as Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
MOVIE★ 9.0
Hollywood
1923
as Betty Compson
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Woman with Four Faces
1923
as Elizabeth West
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Rustle of Silk
1923
as Lala De Breeze
MOVIE★ 10.0
The White Flower
1923
as Konia Markham
MOVIE★ 5.8
Woman to Woman
1923
as Louise Boucher / Deloryse
MOVIE★ 9.0
Kick In
1922
as Molly Brandon
MOVIE★ 8.0
To Have and to Hold
1922
as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
MOVIE★ 4.8
The Bonded Woman
1922
as Angela Gaskell
MOVIE★ 7.8
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
as Self
MOVIE★ 9.0
Always the Woman
1922
as Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris
MOVIE★ 10.0
Over the Border
1922
as Jen Galbraith
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Green Temptation
1922
as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
MOVIE★ 7.0
Law and the Woman
1922
as Margaret Rolfe
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Little Minister
1921
as Lady Babbie
MOVIE★ 9.0
Ladies Must Live
1921
as Christine Bleeker
MOVIE★ 7.0
For Those We Love
1921
as Bernice Arnold
MOVIE★ 8.0
At the End of the World
1921
as Cherry O'Day
MOVIE★ 8.0
Prisoners of Love
1921
as Blanche Davis
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Miracle Man
1919
as Rose
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Devil's Trail
1919
as Rose
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Light of Victory
1919
as Jane Ravenslee
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Terror of the Range
1919
as Thelma Grant
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Sheriff
1918
as School Teacher
MOVIE
Border Raiders
1918
as Rose Hardy
MOVIE★ 10.0
Crazy by Proxy
1917
MOVIE★ 9.0
As Luck Would Have It
1917
MOVIE★ 6.5
Hubby's Night Out
1917
as Wifey
MOVIE★ 9.0
That Doggone Baby
1916
as Wifie Parker
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Making Over of Mother
1916
as Mrs. Newlywed
MOVIE
Inoculating Hubby
1916