Betty Compson
Acting • Born 1897-03-17 – Died 1974-04-18
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.
Filmography
128 credits
The Docks of New York
Movie • 1928
Mae
She Got What She Wanted
Movie • 1930
The Time, the Place and the Girl
Movie • 1929
Doris Ward
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Movie • 1941
Gertie
Cheating Cheaters
Movie • 1927
Nan Carey
Hollywood
Movie • 1923
Betty Compson
Over the Border
Movie • 1922
Jen Galbraith
The Woman with Four Faces
Movie • 1923
Elizabeth West
The Wise Guy
Movie • 1926
Hula Kate
For Those We Love
Movie • 1921
Bernice Arnold
Prisoners of Love
Movie • 1921
Blanche Davis
The Garden of Weeds
Movie • 1924
Dorothy Delbridge
Strange Cargo
Movie • 1940
Suzanne (uncredited)
Second Chance
Movie • 1947
Mrs. Davenport
The Barker
Movie • 1928
Carrie
The Devil's Trail
Movie • 1919
Rose
Street Girl
Movie • 1929
Frederika Joyzelle
Locked Doors
Movie • 1925
Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter
The White Shadow
Movie • 1924
Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
The Lady Refuses
Movie • 1931
June
The Great Gabbo
Movie • 1929
Mary
On With the Show!
Movie • 1929
Nita
Destination Unknown
Movie • 1933
Ruby Smith
Woman to Woman
Movie • 1929
Deloryce / Lola
Blondes at Work
Movie • 1938
Blanche Revelle
Here Comes Trouble
Movie • 1948
Martha Blake
False Pretenses
Movie • 1935
Clarissa Stanhope
Paths to Paradise
Movie • 1925
Molly
Torchy Blane in Panama
Movie • 1938
Kitty, Gomez's Moll
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Movie • 1930
Babka
Cowboys from Texas
Movie • 1939
Belle Starkey
Notorious But Nice
Movie • 1933
Millie Sprague
Escort Girl
Movie • 1941
Ruth Ashley
Bulldog Edition
Movie • 1936
Billie Blake
The Millionaire Kid
Movie • 1936
Gloria Neville
August Week End
Movie • 1936
Ethel Ames
The Drag-Net
Movie • 1936
Mollie Cole
Circus Girl
Movie • 1937
Carlotta
Crazy by Proxy
Movie • 1917
The Gay Diplomat
Movie • 1931
Baroness Corri
Under the Big Top
Movie • 1938
Marie
Hotel Imperial
Movie • 1939
Soubrette (uncredited)
Weary River
Movie • 1929
Alice Gray
Three Who Loved
Movie • 1931
Helga Larson Hanson
The Belle of Broadway
Movie • 1926
Marie Duval / The Young Adele
Guilty or Not Guilty
Movie • 1932
Maizie
West of Singapore
Movie • 1933
Lou
Religious Racketeers
Movie • 1938
Ada Bernard
Port of Missing Girls
Movie • 1938
Chicago
The Fast Set
Movie • 1924
Margaret Sones
Hubby's Night Out
Movie • 1917
Wifey
Inside the Lines
Movie • 1930
Jane Gershon
A Trip to Paramountown
Movie • 1922
Self
The Miracle Man
Movie • 1919
Rose
The Czar of Broadway
Movie • 1930
Connie Colton
Say It with Diamonds
Movie • 1927
Betty Howard
Invisible Ghost
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Kessler
Woman to Woman
Movie • 1923
Louise Boucher / Deloryse
Beggar on Horseback
Movie • 1925
Princess in Pantomime
Danger! Women at Work
Movie • 1943
Madame Sappho
The Making Over of Mother
Movie • 1916
Mrs. Newlywed
Two Minutes to Play
Movie • 1936
'Fluff' Harding
Midnight Mystery
Movie • 1930
Sally Wayne
Scarlet Seas
Movie • 1928
Rose
Mad Youth
Movie • 1940
Lucy Morgan
The Green Temptation
Movie • 1922
Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Movie • 2011
Herself (archive footage)
News Is Made at Night
Movie • 1939
Kitty Truman
Hard Boiled Mahoney
Movie • 1947
Selena Webster
The Palace of Pleasure
Movie • 1926
Lola Montez
Two Gun Justice
Movie • 1938
Kate
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie • 1936
Betty
The Pony Express
Movie • 1925
Molly Jones
Those Who Dance
Movie • 1930
Kitty
The Big City
Movie • 1928
Helen
The Beloved Brat
Movie • 1938
Eleanor Sparks
The Little Minister
Movie • 1921
Lady Babbie
Federal Bullets
Movie • 1937
Sue, Gang Moll
Laughing at Danger
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Van Horn
Skin Deep
Movie • 1929
Sadie Rogers
The Spoilers
Movie • 1930
Cherry Malotte
That Doggone Baby
Movie • 1916
Wifie Parker
As Luck Would Have It
Movie • 1917
The Show of Shows
Movie • 1929
Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
Cafe Hostess
Movie • 1940
Cafe Hostess
Roar of the Press
Movie • 1941
Mrs. Thelma Tate
A Slight Case of Murder
Movie • 1938
Loretta
Ladies Must Live
Movie • 1921
Christine Bleeker
Isle of Escape
Movie • 1930
Stella
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)
The Boudoir Diplomat
Movie • 1930
Helene
The Enemy Sex
Movie • 1924
Dodo Baxter
The Stranger
Movie • 1924
Peggy Bowlin
The Silver Lining
Movie • 1932
Kate Flynn
The Desert Bride
Movie • 1928
Diane Duval
Ramshackle House
Movie • 1924
Pen Broome
Love Me and the World Is Mine
Movie • 1927
Mitzel
Laughing Irish Eyes
Movie • 1936
Molly
At the End of the World
Movie • 1921
Cherry O'Day
The House That Shadows Built
Movie • 1931
(archive footage)
The White Flower
Movie • 1923
Konia Markham
Kick In
Movie • 1922
Molly Brandon
The Rustle of Silk
Movie • 1923
Lala De Breeze
To Have and to Hold
Movie • 1922
Lady Jocelyn Leigh
Court Martial
Movie • 1928
Belle Starr
Eve's Secret
Movie • 1925
Eve
New Lives for Old
Movie • 1925
Olympe
The Bonded Woman
Movie • 1922
Angela Gaskell
Border Raiders
Movie • 1918
Rose Hardy
Her Adventurous Night
Movie • 1946
Miss Spencer
The Female
Movie • 1924
Dalla
The Light of Victory
Movie • 1919
Jane Ravenslee
Blaze o' Glory
Movie • 1929
Helen Williams
Killer at Large
Movie • 1936
Kate
Confessions of a Vice Baron
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Royal Oak
Movie • 1923
Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
God's Country and the Man
Movie • 1937
Roxey Moore
The Sheriff
Movie • 1918
School Teacher
Law and the Woman
Movie • 1922
Margaret Rolfe
Virtuous Husband
Movie • 1931
Inez Wakefield
Hollywood Halfbacks
Movie • 1931
Inoculating Hubby
Movie • 1916
No Sleep on the Deep
Movie • 1934
Mrs. Eldridge
The Masked Angel
Movie • 1928
Betty
Miami
Movie • 1924
Joan Bruce
Counsel for the Defense
Movie • 1925
Katherine West
Always the Woman
Movie • 1922
Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris
The Terror of the Range
Movie • 1919
Thelma Grant