Bea Benaderet
Biography
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.
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Acting History
2010
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire as Granny (voice)(archive footage)
2005The History of Hooterville as Self (archive footage)
1991The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame as Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice)
1986The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration as Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage)
1982Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales as Witch Hazel (voice)
1981The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie as Granny (voice)
1965Green Acres as Kate Bradley
1963The Danny Kaye Show as Self
1963Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradley
1963Vacation Playhouse as Sybil Murdock
1962The Beverly Hillbillies as Cousin Pearl Bodine
1962The Jetsons as Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice)
1962Tender Is the Night as Mrs. McKisco
1961The New Breed as Miss Horne
1961Top Cat as Mrs. Ball (voice)
1961Top Cat as Julie / Mom (voice)
1961Top Cat as Fancy's Girlfriend (voice)
1961Top Cat as Fifi The Maid (voice)
1961Top Cat as Girl Cat / Receptionist (voice)
1961Top Cat as Receptionist (voice)
1960Peter Loves Mary as Wilma
1960The Flintstones as Betty Rubble (voice)
1960Pete and Gladys
1959Tweet Dreams as Various (voice)
1959The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Telephone Operator (voice)
1959Plunderers of Painted Flats as Ella Heather
1958The George Burns Show as Blanche Morton
195877 Sunset Strip as Mary Field
1957The Restless Gun as Madame Brimstone
1956The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
1955Matinee Theater
1955A Midsummer Daydream as Woman
1955Screen Director's Playhouse as Woman
1955The Hole Idea as Gertrude
1955Sandy Claws as Granny
1955Feather Dusted as Miss Prissy (voice)
1955The Bob Cummings Show as Dixie Yates
1955The Bob Cummings Show as Blanche Morton
1954Black Widow as Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)
1954Goo Goo Goliath as Ethel (voice) (uncredited)
1954Yankee Doodle Bugs as Various (voice) (uncredited)
1954Bewitched Bunny as Witch Hazel / Gretel / Pretty Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
1954The Cats Bah as Penelope's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
1954Wild Wife as Marsha, Daughter, Old Women with pennies, Beautician
1953Punch Trunk as Marsha, Delores
1953Of Rice and Hen as Miss Prissy (voice)
1953A Street Cat Named Sylvester as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1953Tom Tom Tomcat as Granny (voice)
1953Hare Trimmed as Granny (voice)
1953Fowl Weather as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1953Kiss Me Cat as Vi
1953General Electric Theater as Marie
1953A Mouse Divided as Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1953Snow Business as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1952Terrier-Stricken as Frisky's Mistress (voice)
1952Ain't She Tweet as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1952Orange Blossoms for Violet as Violet (voice) (uncredited)
1952Little Red Rodent Hood as Granny Mouse (voice)
1952Kiddin' the Kitten as Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
1952Gift Wrapped as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1952Feed the Kitty as Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)
1952The First Time as Mrs. Potter
1951Fresh Laid Plans
1951A Bear for Punishment as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
1951I Love Lucy as Miss Lewis
1951Tweety's S.O.S. as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1951Lovelorn Leghorn as Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens (voice)
1951Chow Hound as Pet Owner
1951Room and Bird as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1951Putty Tat Trouble as Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)
1951Hare We Go as Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited)
1950Two's a Crowd as (voice)
1950The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude Gearshift
1950The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude, switchboard operator
1950The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude - Switchboard Operator (voice)
1950The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude Gearshift - switchboard operator
1950The Jack Benny Program as Peggy
1950The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude, switchboard operator (voice)
1950The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Blanche Morton
1950Canary Row as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1950All a Bir-r-r-d as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1950An Egg Scramble as Miss Prissy / Hens / Housewife (voice)
1950The Scarlet Pumpernickel as The Fair Melissa (voice)
1949Bear Feat as Ma Bear
1949On the Town as Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)
1949For Scent-imental Reasons as Cat
1949The Windblown Hare as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1949Doggone Tired as Operator (voice) (uncredited)
1949The Bee-Deviled Bruin as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
1948Kit for Cat as Beatrice (voice) (uncredited)
1948I Taw a Putty Tat as Woman (voice) (uncredited)
1948A Hick, a Slick and a Chick as Daisy Lou (voice)
1948Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home as Turtle / Kangaroo (voice)
1947Doggone Cats as Dog's owner (voice)
1947Tweetie Pie as Woman (voice) (uncredited)
1947A Hare Grows in Manhattan as Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited)
1947Scent-imental Over You as Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)
1946Notorious as File Clerk (uncredited)
1946Hollywood Canine Canteen as Female dog voices
1946Quentin Quail as Baby Toots (voice)
1946Baseball Bugs as The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited)
1946Book Revue as Bobby-Soxer / Lady on 'Freckles' Cover / Various Screams (voice)
1945A Gruesome Twosome as Girl Cat
1945It's Murder She Says... as Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice)
1945The Shooting of Dan McGoo as Lou (voice) (uncredited)
1944Hare Force as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1944Brother Brat as Baby Butch's Mom
1944Censored as Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited)
1944Swooner Crooner as Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
1944Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips as Additional Characterizations
1944The Weakly Reporter as Lady Buying Steak, Saleslady, Narrator, Cabbie, Lady with Bottle
1944Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
1944Little Red Riding Rabbit as Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)
1943Puss n' Booty as Woman (voice)
1943A Corny Concerto as Screams (voice) (uncredited)
1943Hiss and Make Up as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1943Pigs in a Polka as Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited)
1942The Hep Cat as Bird
1941Goofy Groceries as Cow / Can Can Dancers / Gorilla's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
1940The Bear's Tale as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
1940Confederate Honey as Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited)
1940Cross Country Detours as Deer / Little Girl / Phone Operator (voice) (uncredited)