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