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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 17, 1897
Died
April 18, 1974
Place of Birth
Beaver, Utah, USA
Also Known As
- Eleanor Luicime Compson
- ベティ・カンプソン
Betty Compson
0.5 Popularity
Biography
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
9.0
Herself (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
6.1
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
4.6
Martha Blake
Here Comes Trouble
1948
5.0
Mrs. Davenport
Second Chance
1947
6.4
Selena Webster
Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947
7.0
Miss Spencer
Her Adventurous Night
1946
6.0
Madame Sappho
Danger! Women at Work
1943
3.8
Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Confessions of a Vice Baron
1943
3.0
Ruth Ashley
Escort Girl
1941
5.3
Mrs. Kessler
Invisible Ghost
1941
Credits
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
as Herself (archive footage)
2011
9.0
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
Here Comes Trouble
as Martha Blake
1948
4.6
Second Chance
as Mrs. Davenport
1947
5.0
Hard Boiled Mahoney
as Selena Webster
1947
6.4
Her Adventurous Night
as Miss Spencer
1946
7.0
Danger! Women at Work
as Madame Sappho
1943
6.0
Confessions of a Vice Baron
as Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)
1943
3.8
Escort Girl
as Ruth Ashley
1941
3.0
Invisible Ghost
as Mrs. Kessler
1941
5.3
Roar of the Press
as Mrs. Thelma Tate
1941
5.6
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Gertie
1941
6.0
Laughing at Danger
as Mrs. Van Horn
1940
0.0
Mad Youth
as Lucy Morgan
1940
4.6
Strange Cargo
as Suzanne (uncredited)
1940
7.0
Cafe Hostess
as Cafe Hostess
1940
5.3
Cowboys from Texas
as Belle Starkey
1939
2.0
News Is Made at Night
as Kitty Truman
1939
4.0
Hotel Imperial
as Soubrette (uncredited)
1939
6.0
Under the Big Top
as Marie
1938
5.5
Religious Racketeers
as Ada Bernard
1938
5.0
Torchy Blane in Panama
as Kitty, Gomez's Moll
1938
5.3
The Beloved Brat
as Eleanor Sparks
1938
6.4
Two Gun Justice
as Kate
1938
6.0
A Slight Case of Murder
as Loretta
1938
6.2
Port of Missing Girls
as Chicago
1938
0.0
Blondes at Work
as Blanche Revelle
1938
6.1
Federal Bullets
as Sue, Gang Moll
1937
0.0
God's Country and the Man
as Roxey Moore
1937
6.0
Circus Girl
as Carlotta
1937
4.0
Two Minutes to Play
as 'Fluff' Harding
1936
5.0
Killer at Large
as Kate
1936
6.0
Bulldog Edition
as Billie Blake
1936
2.3
Hollywood Boulevard
as Betty
1936
2.7
The Drag-Net
as Mollie Cole
1936
4.7
The Millionaire Kid
as Gloria Neville
1936
5.0
Laughing Irish Eyes
as Molly
1936
0.0
August Week End
as Ethel Ames
1936
5.0
False Pretenses
as Clarissa Stanhope
1935
5.0
No Sleep on the Deep
as Mrs. Eldridge
1934
0.0
Notorious But Nice
as Millie Sprague
1933
5.5
Destination Unknown
as Ruby Smith
1933
0.0
West of Singapore
as Lou
1933
0.0
Guilty or Not Guilty
as Maizie
1932
6.0
The Silver Lining
as Kate Flynn
1932
0.0
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Hollywood Halfbacks
1931
0.0
The Gay Diplomat
as Baroness Corri
1931
4.0
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
1931
7.0
Three Who Loved
as Helga Larson Hanson
1931
5.4
Virtuous Husband
as Inez Wakefield
1931
0.0
The Lady Refuses
as June
1931
5.1
The Boudoir Diplomat
as Helene
1930
1.0
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She Got What She Wanted
1930
0.0
The Spoilers
as Cherry Malotte
1930
6.0
Inside the Lines
as Jane Gershon
1930
5.1
Midnight Mystery
as Sally Wayne
1930
4.2
The Czar of Broadway
as Connie Colton
1930
0.0
Those Who Dance
as Kitty
1930
6.0
Isle of Escape
as Stella
1930
6.0
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
as Babka
1930
6.7
Blaze o' Glory
as Helen Williams
1929
0.0
The Show of Shows
as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
1929
5.5
Woman to Woman
as Deloryce / Lola
1929
4.8
The Great Gabbo
as Mary
1929
5.5
Skin Deep
as Sadie Rogers
1929
1.0
Street Girl
as Frederika Joyzelle
1929
5.8
On With the Show!
as Nita
1929
5.2
The Time, the Place and the Girl
as Doris Ward
1929
0.0
Weary River
as Alice Gray
1929
5.7
The Barker
as Carrie
1928
7.0
The Docks of New York
as Mae
1928
6.9
Court Martial
as Belle Starr
1928
6.0
The Masked Angel
as Betty
1928
0.0
The Desert Bride
as Diane Duval
1928
4.7
The Big City
as Helen
1928
0.0
Scarlet Seas
as Rose
1928
2.7
Cheating Cheaters
as Nan Carey
1927
0.0
Love Me and the World Is Mine
as Mitzel
1927
0.0
Say It with Diamonds
as Betty Howard
1927
0.0
The Belle of Broadway
as Marie Duval / The Young Adele
1926
5.8
The Wise Guy
as Hula Kate
1926
0.0
The Palace of Pleasure
as Lola Montez
1926
0.0
Counsel for the Defense
as Katherine West
1925
0.0
The Pony Express
as Molly Jones
1925
5.9
Paths to Paradise
as Molly
1925
5.8
Beggar on Horseback
as Princess in Pantomime
1925
6.0
Eve's Secret
as Eve
1925
0.0
New Lives for Old
as Olympe
1925
0.0
Locked Doors
as Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter
1925
1.0
The Garden of Weeds
as Dorothy Delbridge
1924
0.0
The Fast Set
as Margaret Sones
1924
0.0
The Female
as Dalla
1924
0.0
Ramshackle House
as Pen Broome
1924
0.0
The Enemy Sex
as Dodo Baxter
1924
9.0
The White Shadow
as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
1924
7.2
Miami
as Joan Bruce
1924
0.0
The Stranger
as Peggy Bowlin
1924
0.0
🎬
The Royal Oak
as Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
1923
0.0
Hollywood
as Betty Compson
1923
8.5
The Woman with Four Faces
as Elizabeth West
1923
0.0
The Rustle of Silk
as Lala De Breeze
1923
0.0
The White Flower
as Konia Markham
1923
0.0
Woman to Woman
as Louise Boucher / Deloryse
1923
6.5
Kick In
as Molly Brandon
1922
0.0
To Have and to Hold
as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
1922
0.0
The Bonded Woman
as Angela Gaskell
1922
3.0
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
1922
7.3
Always the Woman
as Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris
1922
0.0
Over the Border
as Jen Galbraith
1922
0.0
The Green Temptation
as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
1922
0.0
Law and the Woman
as Margaret Rolfe
1922
0.0
The Little Minister
as Lady Babbie
1921
7.0
Ladies Must Live
as Christine Bleeker
1921
0.0
For Those We Love
as Bernice Arnold
1921
0.0
At the End of the World
as Cherry O'Day
1921
0.0
Prisoners of Love
as Blanche Davis
1921
0.0
The Miracle Man
as Rose
1919
4.5
The Devil's Trail
as Rose
1919
0.0
The Light of Victory
as Jane Ravenslee
1919
0.0
The Sheriff
as School Teacher
1918
0.0
Border Raiders
as Rose Hardy
1918
0.0
Crazy by Proxy
1917
0.0
🎬
As Luck Would Have It
1917
0.0
Hubby's Night Out
as Wifey
1917
5.0
🎬
That Doggone Baby
as Wifie Parker
1916
0.0
The Making Over of Mother
as Mrs. Newlywed
1916
5.0
🎬
Inoculating Hubby
1916
0.0