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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1906-04-04 (119 years old)

Place of Birth

New York, New York, USA

Bea Benaderet

Biography:

Beatrice "Bea" Benaderet was an American actress born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. She appeared in a wide variety of television work, which included a starring role in the 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and Green Acres as Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate Bradley, supporting roles as Blanche Morton in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and as the voice of Betty Rubble during the first four seasons of The Flintstones, and in The Beverly Hillbillies as Pearl Bodine. She did a great deal of voice work in Warner Bros. animated cartoons of the 1940s/50s.

Known For

Acting

2010

2005

The History of Hooterville as Self (archive footage)

1991

The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame as Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice)

1986

The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration as Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage)

1982

1981

1965

Green Acres as Kate Bradley

1963

Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradley
Vacation Playhouse as Sybil Murdock

1962

Tender Is the Night as Mrs. McKisco
The Beverly Hillbillies as Cousin Pearl Bodine
The Jetsons as Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice)

1961

The New Breed as Miss Horne
Top Cat as Mrs. Ball (voice)
Top Cat as Julie / Mom (voice)
Top Cat as Fancy's Girlfriend (voice)
Top Cat as Fifi The Maid (voice)
Top Cat as Girl Cat / Receptionist (voice)
Top Cat as Receptionist (voice)

1960

The Flintstones as Betty Rubble (voice)

1959

Tweet Dreams as Various (voice)
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Telephone Operator (voice)

1958

77 Sunset Strip as Mary Field
The George Burns Show as Blanche Morton

1957

The Restless Gun as Madame Brimstone

1956

1955

Sandy Claws as Granny
The Hole Idea as Gertrude
Feather Dusted as Miss Prissy (voice)
The Bob Cummings Show as Blanche Morton
The Bob Cummings Show as Dixie Yates

1954

Bewitched Bunny as Witch Hazel / Gretel / Pretty Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
Goo Goo Goliath as Ethel (voice) (uncredited)
Wild Wife as Marsha, Daughter, Old Women with pennies, Beautician
Black Widow as Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)
The Cats Bah as Penelope's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
Yankee Doodle Bugs as Various (voice) (uncredited)

1953

Of Rice and Hen as Miss Prissy (voice)
A Mouse Divided as Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Snow Business as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Punch Trunk as Marsha, Delores
Tom Tom Tomcat as Granny (voice)
Hare Trimmed as Granny (voice)
A Street Cat Named Sylvester as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Fowl Weather as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1952

Gift Wrapped as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Feed the Kitty as Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)
Orange Blossoms for Violet as Violet (voice) (uncredited)
Kiddin' the Kitten as Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
Ain't She Tweet as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Little Red Rodent Hood as Granny Mouse (voice)
Terrier-Stricken as Frisky's Mistress (voice)
The First Time as Mrs. Potter

1951

A Bear for Punishment as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Chow Hound as Pet Owner
Putty Tat Trouble as Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)
Tweety's S.O.S. as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Lovelorn Leghorn as Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens (voice)
Room and Bird as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Hare We Go as Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited)
I Love Lucy as Miss Lewis

1950

Two's a Crowd as (voice)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel as The Fair Melissa (voice)
Canary Row as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
All a Bir-r-r-d as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
An Egg Scramble as Miss Prissy / Hens / Housewife (voice)
The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude Gearshift
The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude, switchboard operator
The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude Gearshift - switchboard operator
The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude, switchboard operator (voice)
The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude - Switchboard Operator (voice)

1949

On the Town as Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)
Bear Feat as Ma Bear
The Bee-Deviled Bruin as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Doggone Tired as Operator (voice) (uncredited)
The Windblown Hare as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1948

Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home as Turtle / Kangaroo (voice)
Kit for Cat as Beatrice (voice) (uncredited)
A Hick, a Slick and a Chick as Daisy Lou (voice)
I Taw a Putty Tat as Woman (voice) (uncredited)

1947

A Hare Grows in Manhattan as Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited)
Tweetie Pie as Woman (voice) (uncredited)
Doggone Cats as Dog's owner (voice)
Scent-imental Over You as Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)

1946

Baseball Bugs as The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited)
Book Revue as Bobby-Soxer / Lady on 'Freckles' Cover / Various Screams (voice)
Hollywood Canine Canteen as Female dog voices
Quentin Quail as Baby Toots (voice)
Notorious as File Clerk (uncredited)

1945

A Gruesome Twosome as Girl Cat
It's Murder She Says... as Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice)
The Shooting of Dan McGoo as Lou (voice) (uncredited)

1944

Little Red Riding Rabbit as Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)
Hare Force as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Censored as Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited)
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
The Weakly Reporter as Lady Buying Steak, Saleslady, Narrator, Cabbie, Lady with Bottle
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips as Additional Characterizations
Brother Brat as Baby Butch's Mom
Swooner Crooner as Chickens (voice) (uncredited)

1943

Pigs in a Polka as Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited)
Puss n' Booty as Woman (voice)
A Corny Concerto as Screams (voice) (uncredited)
Hiss and Make Up as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1942

The Hep Cat as Bird

1941

Goofy Groceries as Cow / Can Can Dancers / Gorilla's Mother (voice) (uncredited)

1940

The Bear's Tale as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Confederate Honey as Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited)
Cross Country Detours as Deer / Little Girl / Phone Operator (voice) (uncredited)