Florence Bates
Born in San Antonio, Texas, USA — Apr 13 1888• Died Jan 31 1954
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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…
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I Love Lucy
Mrs. Pettebone
Four Star Playhouse
Ottilie
Rebecca
Edythe Van Hopper
Dick Tracy
Mrs. Frothingham
Love Crazy
Mrs. Cooper
Kitty Foyle
Customer
Heaven Can Wait
Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
My Dear Secretary
Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
On the Town
Madame Dilyovska
Cluny Brown
Dowager at Ames's Party
The Devil and Miss Jones
Store Shopper
Saratoga Trunk
Sophie Bellop
River Lady
Ma Dunnegan
Slightly Dangerous
Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
Portrait of Jennie
Mrs. Jekes
The Judge Steps Out
Chita
Mr. Lucky
Mrs. Van Every
The Second Woman
Amelia Foster
Claudia and David
Nancy Riddle
The Son of Monte Cristo
Countess Mathilde Von Braun
Tonight and Every Night
May Tolliver
Kismet
Karsha
The Mask of Dimitrios
Madame Elise Chavez
Love and Learn
Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
The Man I Love
Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Irmagarde Griswold
Whistle Stop
Molly Veech
Main Street to Broadway
Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
Les Miserables
Madame Bonnet
I Remember Mama
Florence Dana Moorhead
The Inside Story
Geraldine Atherton
San Antonio
Henrietta
His Butler's Sister
Lady Sloughberry
County Fair
Nora 'Ma' Ryan
A Letter to Three Wives
Mrs. Manleigh
Winter Meeting
Mrs. Castle
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Rose
Lullaby of Broadway
Mrs. Anna Hubbell
The Moon and Sixpence
Tiare Johnson
Out of This World
Harriet Pringle
The Brasher Doubloon
Mrs. Murdock
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Mme. Lucia Cassel
The Tall Target
Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
Hudson's Bay
Duchess (scenes deleted)
The Girl from Jones Beach
Miss Emma Shoemaker
Mister Big
Mrs. Mary Davis
The San Francisco Story
Sadie
We Were Dancing
Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
Calling All Husbands
Emmie Trippe
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Emily
Tahiti Nights
Queen Liliha
Paris Model
Nora Sullivan
Father Takes the Air
Minerva Bobbin
Havana Rose
Mrs. Fillmore
Strange Alibi
Katie
Belle of Old Mexico
Nellie Chatfield
Road Show
Mrs. Newton
Belle of the Yukon
Viola Chase
They Got Me Covered
Gypsy Woman
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Mrs. Baldwin
The Chocolate Soldier
Madame Helene
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Mandy
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Mrs. Saunders