Birthday:
Apr 04, 1906
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
Bea Benaderet
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.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame | Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice) | 1991 |
| Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home | Turtle / Kangaroo (voice) | 1948 |
| Fresh Laid Plans | 1951 | |
| Of Rice and Hen | Miss Prissy (voice) | 1953 |
| A Bear for Punishment | Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited) | 1951 |
| Baseball Bugs | The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited) | 1946 |
| On the Town | Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited) | 1949 |
| Gift Wrapped | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1952 |
| Two's a Crowd | (voice) | 1950 |
| Bewitched Bunny | Witch Hazel / Gretel / Pretty Rabbit (voice) (uncredited) | 1954 |
| Chow Hound | Pet Owner | 1951 |
| Feed the Kitty | Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited) | 1952 |
| For Scent-imental Reasons | Cat | 1949 |
| Kiss Me Cat | Vi | 1953 |
| A Hare Grows in Manhattan | Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited) | 1947 |
| A Gruesome Twosome | Girl Cat | 1945 |
| Hare Force | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1944 |
| Kit for Cat | Beatrice (voice) (uncredited) | 1948 |
| Little Red Riding Rabbit | Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited) | 1944 |
| Pigs in a Polka | Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited) | 1943 |
| Putty Tat Trouble | Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited) | 1951 |
| The Hep Cat | Bird | 1942 |
| Tweety's S.O.S. | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1951 |
| Censored | Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited) | 1944 |
| It's Murder She Says... | Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice) | 1945 |
| The Scarlet Pumpernickel | The Fair Melissa (voice) | 1950 |
| Tweetie Pie | Woman (voice) (uncredited) | 1947 |
| Bear Feat | Ma Bear | 1949 |
| Lovelorn Leghorn | Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens | 1951 |
| Tweet Dreams | Various (voice) | 1959 |
| Book Revue | Bobby-Soxer / Lady on 'Freckles' Cover / Various Screams (voice) | 1946 |
| Goofy Groceries | Cow / Can Can Dancers / Gorilla's Mother (voice) (uncredited) | 1941 |
| Orange Blossoms for Violet | Violet (voice) (uncredited) | 1952 |
| Goo Goo Goliath | Ethel (voice) (uncredited) | 1954 |
| A Mouse Divided | Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited) | 1953 |
| Canary Row | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1950 |
| Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears | Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited) | 1944 |
| Kiddin' the Kitten | Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited) | 1952 |
| Ain't She Tweet | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1952 |
| Room and Bird | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1951 |
| All a Bir-r-r-d | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1950 |
| Snow Business | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1953 |
| Puss n' Booty | Woman (voice) | 1943 |
| An Egg Scramble | Miss Prissy / Hens / Housewife (voice) | 1950 |
| Sandy Claws | Granny | 1955 |
| Punch Trunk | Marsha, Delores | 1953 |
| The Bear's Tale | Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited) | 1940 |
| Little Red Rodent Hood | Granny Mouse (voice) | 1952 |
| Tom Tom Tomcat | Granny (voice) | 1953 |
| Plunderers of Painted Flats | Ella Heather | 1959 |
| Terrier-Stricken | Frisky's Mistress (voice) | 1952 |
| The First Time | Mrs. Potter | 1952 |
| Wild Wife | Marsha, Daughter, Old Women with pennies, Beautician | 1954 |
| The Hole Idea | Gertrude | 1955 |
| The Weakly Reporter | Lady Buying Steak, Saleslady, Narrator, Cabbie, Lady with Bottle | 1944 |
| Hollywood Canine Canteen | Female dog voices | 1946 |
| A Hick, a Slick and a Chick | Daisy Lou (voice) | 1948 |
| Doggone Cats | Dog's owner (voice) | 1947 |
| Quentin Quail | Baby Toots (voice) | 1946 |
| I Taw a Putty Tat | Woman (voice) (uncredited) | 1948 |
| The Shooting of Dan McGoo | Lou (voice) (uncredited) | 1945 |
| Black Widow | Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited) | 1954 |
| Hare Trimmed | Granny | 1953 |
| Hare We Go | Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited) | 1951 |
| The Cats Bah | Penelope's Mistress (voice) (uncredited) | 1954 |
| A Corny Concerto | Screams (voice) (uncredited) | 1943 |
| The Bee-Deviled Bruin | Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited) | 1949 |
| Confederate Honey | Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited) | 1940 |
| Cross Country Detours | Deer / Little Girl / Phone Operator (voice) (uncredited) | 1940 |
| Scent-imental Over You | Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited) | 1947 |
| A Street Cat Named Sylvester | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1953 |
| Doggone Tired | Operator (voice) (uncredited) | 1949 |
| Notorious | File Clerk (uncredited) | 1946 |
| Hiss and Make Up | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1943 |
| Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips | Additional Characterizations | 1944 |
| Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire | Granny (voice)(archive footage) | 2010 |
| Brother Brat | Baby Butch's Mom | 1944 |
| The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie | Granny (voice) | 1981 |
| Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | Witch Hazel (voice) | 1982 |
| Swooner Crooner | Chickens (voice) (uncredited) | 1944 |
| The History of Hooterville | Self (archive footage) | 2005 |
| Tender Is the Night | Mrs. McKisco | 1962 |
| The Windblown Hare | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1949 |
| The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration | Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage) | 1986 |
| Yankee Doodle Bugs | Various (voice) (uncredited) | 1954 |
| Fowl Weather | Granny (voice) (uncredited) | 1953 |
| Feather Dusted | Miss Prissy (voice) | 1955 |
| A Midsummer Daydream | Woman | 1955 |
| Series | Cast | Year |
| 77 Sunset Strip | Mary Field | 1958 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | Cousin Pearl Bodine | 1962 |
| The Flintstones | Betty Rubble (voice) | 1960 |
| I Love Lucy | Miss Lewis | 1951 |
| Petticoat Junction | Kate Bradley | 1963 |
| General Electric Theater | Marie | 1953 |
| Henry's Cat | 1983 | |
| Pete and Gladys | 1960 | |
| Matinee Theater | 1955 | |
| The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | Self | 1956 |
| The New Breed | Miss Horne | 1961 |
| Vacation Playhouse | Sybil Murdock | 1963 |
| The George Burns Show | Blanche Morton | 1958 |
| Peter Loves Mary | Wilma | 1960 |
| The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | Blanche Morton | 1950 |
| The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis | Telephone Operator (voice) | 1959 |
| The Jack Benny Program | Gertrude, switchboard operator | 1950 |
| The Jack Benny Program | Gertrude Gearshift | 1950 |
| Top Cat | Mrs. Ball (voice) | 1961 |
| Green Acres | Kate Bradley | 1965 |
| Top Cat | Fifi The Maid (voice) | 1961 |
| Top Cat | Julie / Mom (voice) | 1961 |
| Top Cat | Fancy's Girlfriend (voice) | 1961 |
| Top Cat | Receptionist (voice) | 1961 |
| Top Cat | Girl Cat / Receptionist (voice) | 1961 |
| The Jack Benny Program | Peggy | 1950 |
| The Jack Benny Program | Gertrude - Switchboard Operator (voice) | 1950 |
| The Restless Gun | Madame Brimstone | 1957 |
| The Bob Cummings Show | Blanche Morton | 1955 |
| Screen Director's Playhouse | Woman | 1955 |
| The Jack Benny Program | Gertrude, switchboard operator (voice) | 1950 |
| The Bob Cummings Show | Dixie Yates | 1955 |
| The Jack Benny Program | Gertrude Gearshift - switchboard operator | 1950 |
| The Jetsons | Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice) | 1962 |
| The Danny Kaye Show | Self | 1963 |
