Bette Davis
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA — Apr 05 1908• Died Oct 06 1989
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Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Bro…
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Perry Mason
Constant Doyle
The Virginian
Celia Miller
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
Wagon Train
Ella Lindstrom
Dinah!
Self
What's My Line?
Self
The Oscars
Self
Gunsmoke
Etta Stone
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
The Ford Television Theatre
Dolley Madison
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Miss Fox
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Marie Hoke
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Sarah Whitney
Telephone Time
Suspicion
Mrs. Wilfred Ellis
It Takes a Thief
Bessie Grindel
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
The Hollywood Palace
Self
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self
Reflets de Cannes
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, Aimee's mother
Death on the Nile
Marie Van Schuyler
All About Eve
Margo Channing
All About My Mother
Crew
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Baby Jane Hudson
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Irene Van Buren
Pocketful of Miracles
Apple Annie
General Electric Theater
Miss Burrows
Jezebel
Julie Marsden
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
Widow Fortune
Dead Ringer
Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips
Mr. Skeffington
Fanny Trellis
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "Deception") (archive footage)
Marked Woman
Mary Dwight Strauber
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Self
The Scapegoat
Countess
Dark Victory
Judith Traherne
Now, Voyager
Charlotte Vale
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
The Little Foxes
Regina Hubbard Giddens
Special Agent
Julie Gardner
Return from Witch Mountain
Letha Wedge
The Letter
Leslie Crosbie
Burnt Offerings
Aunt Elizabeth
Mickey's 50
Self
John Paul Jones
Empress Catherine the Great
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self (archive footage)
Laugh-In
Guest Performer
Deception
Christine Radcliffe
Dangerous
Joyce Heath
Directed by William Wyler
Self
The Petrified Forest
Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
June Bride
Linda Gilman
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
In This Our Life
Stanley Timberlake Kingsmill
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Charlotte Hollis
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
The Old Maid
Charlotte Lovell
The Watcher in the Woods
Mrs. Aylwood
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
So Big!
Miss Dallas O'Mara
Juarez
Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Joan Winfield
Kid Galahad
Louise 'Fluff' Phillips
White Mama
Estelle Malone
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actress (archive footage)
The Nanny
Nanny
Fashions of 1934
Lynn Mason
Waterloo Bridge
Janet Cronin
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
Jimmy the Gent
Joan Martin
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Fay Wilson
The Great Lie
Maggie Patterson Van Allen
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
Skyward
Billie Dupree
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Self (archive footage)
All This, and Heaven Too
Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
Way Back Home
Mary Lucy Duffy
The Bad Sister
Laura Madison
Beyond the Forest
Rosa Moline
That Certain Woman
Mary Donnell
Housewife
Patricia Berkeley
Mike Wallace Is Here
(archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
Phone Call from a Stranger
Marie Hoke
Wicked Stepmother
Miranda Pierpoint
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Queen Elizabeth
Old Acquaintance
Kit Marlowe
Breakdowns of 1938
Self (archive footage)
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
(archive footage)
Of Human Bondage
Mildred Rogers
A Stolen Life
Kate Bosworth / Patricia Bosworth
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
Breakdowns of 1944
Self
The Virgin Queen
Queen Elizabeth I
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Self (archive footage)
The Working Man
Jenny Hartland alias Jane Grey
Family Reunion
Elizabeth Winfield
The Disappearance of Aimee
Minnie Kennedy
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino
Esther McDonald Cimino
Ex-Lady
Helen Bauer
Right of Way
Miniature Dwyer
As Summers Die
Hannah Loftin
The Catered Affair
Mrs. Agnes Hurley
Murder with Mirrors
Carrie Louise Serrocold
The Empty Canvas
Dino's Mother
Three on a Match
Ruth Westcott
Winter Meeting
Susan Grieve
Hell's House
Peggy Gardner
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Maggie Cutler
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (archive footage)
Madonna: Madame X
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Sisters
Louise Elliott Medlin
Hollywood Canteen
Self
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Judge Meredith
Bunny O'Hare
Bunny O'Hare
Breakdowns of 1949
Self
It's Love I'm After
Joyce Arden
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Queen Elizabeth (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
archive footage
Front Page Woman
Ellen Garfield
Show-Business at War
Self
Payment on Demand
Joyce Ramsey (nee Jackson)
The Rich Are Always with Us
Malbro
Bordertown
Mrs. Marie Roark
Where Love Has Gone
Mrs. Gerald Hayden
Another Man's Poison
Janet Frobisher
Bureau of Missing Persons
Norma Roberts
The Whales of August
Libby Strong
Watch on the Rhine
Sara Müller
Breakdowns of 1937
Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Self (archive footage)
Family Reunion
Elizabeth Winfield
Scream, Pretty Peggy
Mrs. Elliott
The Star
Margaret Elliot
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self (archive footage)
The Scopone Game
'A vecchia
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Anniversary
Mrs. Taggart
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Self (archive footage)
Shining Victory
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Self (archive footage)
The Dark Horse
Kay Russell
Connecting Rooms
Wanda Fleming
The Big Shakedown
Norma Nelson
Madame Sin
Madame Sin
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
Lucy Mason
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Self (archive footage)
The Corn Is Green
Miss Lilly Christabel Moffat
Satan Met a Lady
Valerie Purvis
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Breakdowns of 1939
Self
Storm Center
Alicia Hull
Bride of Trailer Camp
(archive footage)
Stars on Horseback
Seed
Margaret Carter
Breakdowns of 1936
Self
The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka
Self (archive footage)
Bette and Joan
Self (archive footage)
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Parachute Jumper
Patricia 'Alabama' Brent
The Decorator
Liz
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Self (archive footage)
The Man Who Played God
Grace Blair
The Girl from 10th Avenue
Miriam A. Brady
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
Self
Hello Mother, Goodbye!
Mother
Fog Over Frisco
Arlene Bradford
The Menace
Peggy Lowell
A Dream Comes True
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
Self (archive footage)
Hairway to the Stars
Self [Archive Footage]
Morceaux de Cannes
The Cabin in the Cotton
Madge Norwood
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
Self (archive footage)
The Golden Arrow
Daisy Appleby
Footsteps on the Ceiling
Margo Channing (archive footage)
A Day at Santa Anita
Bette Davis (uncredited)
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
Self (archive footage)
Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"
Jezebel: Legend of the South
Self (archive footage)
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Self (archive footage)
The 42nd Street Special
Self (uncredited)
Backstory: 'All About Eve'
Self (archive footage)
All About Bette
Self
Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis
Self (archive footage)
Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis
Self (archive footage)
How Real is 'The Star'?
Self (archive footage)
Hello Mother, Goodbye!
If I Forget You
Bette Davis
Just Around the Corner
Ginger
A Present with a Future
Mother
Miss Moffat
Miss Moffat
Bette Davis
Self
Bette Davis at the Cinémathèque Française
Self
Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
Marie Van Schuyler
Marilyn at the Movies