Betty Compson

Acting

Born: 1897-03-17 in Beaver, Utah, USA

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.

Acting

The Docks of New York

Mae

She Got What She Wanted

The Time, the Place and the Girl

Doris Ward

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Gertie

Cheating Cheaters

Nan Carey

Hollywood

Betty Compson

Over the Border

Jen Galbraith

The Woman with Four Faces

Elizabeth West

The Wise Guy

Hula Kate

For Those We Love

Bernice Arnold

Prisoners of Love

Blanche Davis

The Garden of Weeds

Dorothy Delbridge

Strange Cargo

Suzanne (uncredited)

Second Chance

Mrs. Davenport

The Barker

Carrie

The Devil's Trail

Rose

Street Girl

Frederika Joyzelle

Locked Doors

Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter

The White Shadow

Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent

The Lady Refuses

June

The Great Gabbo

Mary

On With the Show!

Nita

Destination Unknown

Ruby Smith

Woman to Woman

Deloryce / Lola

Blondes at Work

Blanche Revelle

Here Comes Trouble

Martha Blake

False Pretenses

Clarissa Stanhope

Paths to Paradise

Molly

Torchy Blane in Panama

Kitty, Gomez's Moll

The Case of Sergeant Grischa

Babka

Cowboys from Texas

Belle Starkey

Notorious But Nice

Millie Sprague

Escort Girl

Ruth Ashley

Bulldog Edition

Billie Blake

The Millionaire Kid

Gloria Neville

August Week End

Ethel Ames

The Drag-Net

Mollie Cole

Circus Girl

Carlotta

Crazy by Proxy

The Gay Diplomat

Baroness Corri

Under the Big Top

Marie

Hotel Imperial

Soubrette (uncredited)

Weary River

Alice Gray

Three Who Loved

Helga Larson Hanson

The Belle of Broadway

Marie Duval / The Young Adele

Guilty or Not Guilty

Maizie

West of Singapore

Lou

Religious Racketeers

Ada Bernard

Port of Missing Girls

Chicago

The Fast Set

Margaret Sones

Hubby's Night Out

Wifey

Inside the Lines

Jane Gershon

A Trip to Paramountown

Self

The Miracle Man

Rose

The Czar of Broadway

Connie Colton

Say It with Diamonds

Betty Howard

Invisible Ghost

Mrs. Kessler

Woman to Woman

Louise Boucher / Deloryse

Beggar on Horseback

Princess in Pantomime

Danger! Women at Work

Madame Sappho

The Making Over of Mother

Mrs. Newlywed

Two Minutes to Play

'Fluff' Harding

Midnight Mystery

Sally Wayne

Scarlet Seas

Rose

Mad Youth

Lucy Morgan

The Green Temptation

Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Herself (archive footage)

News Is Made at Night

Kitty Truman

Hard Boiled Mahoney

Selena Webster

The Palace of Pleasure

Lola Montez

Two Gun Justice

Kate

Hollywood Boulevard

Betty

The Pony Express

Molly Jones

Those Who Dance

Kitty

The Big City

Helen

The Beloved Brat

Eleanor Sparks

The Little Minister

Lady Babbie

Federal Bullets

Sue, Gang Moll

Laughing at Danger

Mrs. Van Horn

Skin Deep

Sadie Rogers

The Spoilers

Cherry Malotte

That Doggone Baby

Wifie Parker

As Luck Would Have It

The Show of Shows

Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)

Cafe Hostess

Roar of the Press

Mrs. Thelma Tate

A Slight Case of Murder

Loretta

Ladies Must Live

Christine Bleeker

Isle of Escape

Stella

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage)

The Boudoir Diplomat

Helene

The Enemy Sex

Dodo Baxter

The Stranger

Peggy Bowlin

The Silver Lining

Kate Flynn

The Desert Bride

Diane Duval

Ramshackle House

Pen Broome

Love Me and the World Is Mine

Mitzel

Laughing Irish Eyes

Molly

At the End of the World

Cherry O'Day

The House That Shadows Built

(archive footage)

Kick In

Molly Brandon

The White Flower

Konia Markham

To Have and to Hold

Lady Jocelyn Leigh

The Rustle of Silk

Lala De Breeze

Court Martial

Belle Starr

Eve's Secret

Eve

New Lives for Old

Olympe

Border Raiders

Rose Hardy

The Bonded Woman

Angela Gaskell

Her Adventurous Night

Miss Spencer

The Female

Dalla

The Light of Victory

Jane Ravenslee

Blaze o' Glory

Helen Williams

Killer at Large

Kate

Confessions of a Vice Baron

Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Royal Oak

Lady Mildred Cholmondeley

God's Country and the Man

Roxey Moore

The Sheriff

School Teacher

Law and the Woman

Margaret Rolfe

Virtuous Husband

Inez Wakefield

Hollywood Halfbacks

Inoculating Hubby

No Sleep on the Deep

Mrs. Eldridge

The Masked Angel

Betty

Miami

Joan Bruce

Counsel for the Defense

Katherine West

Always the Woman

Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris

The Terror of the Range

Thelma Grant

The Docks of New York

Mae

She Got What She Wanted

The Time, the Place and the Girl

Doris Ward

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Gertie

Cheating Cheaters

Nan Carey

Hollywood

Betty Compson

Over the Border

Jen Galbraith

The Woman with Four Faces

Elizabeth West

The Wise Guy

Hula Kate

For Those We Love

Bernice Arnold

Prisoners of Love

Blanche Davis

The Garden of Weeds

Dorothy Delbridge

Strange Cargo

Suzanne (uncredited)

Second Chance

Mrs. Davenport

The Barker

Carrie

The Devil's Trail

Rose

Street Girl

Frederika Joyzelle

Locked Doors

Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter

The White Shadow

Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent

The Lady Refuses

June

The Great Gabbo

Mary

On With the Show!

Nita

Destination Unknown

Ruby Smith

Woman to Woman

Deloryce / Lola

Blondes at Work

Blanche Revelle

Here Comes Trouble

Martha Blake

False Pretenses

Clarissa Stanhope

Paths to Paradise

Molly

Torchy Blane in Panama

Kitty, Gomez's Moll

The Case of Sergeant Grischa

Babka

Cowboys from Texas

Belle Starkey

Notorious But Nice

Millie Sprague

Escort Girl

Ruth Ashley

Bulldog Edition

Billie Blake

The Millionaire Kid

Gloria Neville

August Week End

Ethel Ames

The Drag-Net

Mollie Cole

Circus Girl

Carlotta

Crazy by Proxy

The Gay Diplomat

Baroness Corri

Under the Big Top

Marie

Hotel Imperial

Soubrette (uncredited)

Weary River

Alice Gray

Three Who Loved

Helga Larson Hanson

The Belle of Broadway

Marie Duval / The Young Adele

Guilty or Not Guilty

Maizie

West of Singapore

Lou

Religious Racketeers

Ada Bernard

Port of Missing Girls

Chicago

The Fast Set

Margaret Sones

Hubby's Night Out

Wifey

Inside the Lines

Jane Gershon

A Trip to Paramountown

Self

The Miracle Man

Rose

The Czar of Broadway

Connie Colton

Say It with Diamonds

Betty Howard

Invisible Ghost

Mrs. Kessler

Woman to Woman

Louise Boucher / Deloryse

Beggar on Horseback

Princess in Pantomime

Danger! Women at Work

Madame Sappho

The Making Over of Mother

Mrs. Newlywed

Two Minutes to Play

'Fluff' Harding

Midnight Mystery

Sally Wayne

Scarlet Seas

Rose

Mad Youth

Lucy Morgan

The Green Temptation

Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Herself (archive footage)

News Is Made at Night

Kitty Truman

Hard Boiled Mahoney

Selena Webster

The Palace of Pleasure

Lola Montez

Two Gun Justice

Kate

Hollywood Boulevard

Betty

The Pony Express

Molly Jones

Those Who Dance

Kitty

The Big City

Helen

The Beloved Brat

Eleanor Sparks

The Little Minister

Lady Babbie

Federal Bullets

Sue, Gang Moll

Laughing at Danger

Mrs. Van Horn

Skin Deep

Sadie Rogers

The Spoilers

Cherry Malotte

That Doggone Baby

Wifie Parker

As Luck Would Have It

The Show of Shows

Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)

Cafe Hostess

Roar of the Press

Mrs. Thelma Tate

A Slight Case of Murder

Loretta

Ladies Must Live

Christine Bleeker

Isle of Escape

Stella

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage)

The Boudoir Diplomat

Helene

The Enemy Sex

Dodo Baxter

The Stranger

Peggy Bowlin

The Silver Lining

Kate Flynn

The Desert Bride

Diane Duval

Ramshackle House

Pen Broome

Love Me and the World Is Mine

Mitzel

Laughing Irish Eyes

Molly

At the End of the World

Cherry O'Day

The House That Shadows Built

(archive footage)

Kick In

Molly Brandon

The White Flower

Konia Markham

To Have and to Hold

Lady Jocelyn Leigh

The Rustle of Silk

Lala De Breeze

Court Martial

Belle Starr

Eve's Secret

Eve

New Lives for Old

Olympe

Border Raiders

Rose Hardy

The Bonded Woman

Angela Gaskell

Her Adventurous Night

Miss Spencer

The Female

Dalla

The Light of Victory

Jane Ravenslee

Blaze o' Glory

Helen Williams

Killer at Large

Kate

Confessions of a Vice Baron

Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Royal Oak

Lady Mildred Cholmondeley

God's Country and the Man

Roxey Moore

The Sheriff

School Teacher

Law and the Woman

Margaret Rolfe

Virtuous Husband

Inez Wakefield

Hollywood Halfbacks

Inoculating Hubby

No Sleep on the Deep

Mrs. Eldridge

The Masked Angel

Betty

Miami

Joan Bruce

Counsel for the Defense

Katherine West

Always the Woman

Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris

The Terror of the Range

Thelma Grant

Other Credits

For Those We Love

Writer

Prisoners of Love

Writer

Always the Woman

Producer

For Those We Love

Writer

Prisoners of Love

Writer

Always the Woman

Producer