Bette Davis

ActorCrewProducer Apr 5 (died age 81) Lowell, Massachusetts, USA 1931–2021 (90 year career)

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Biography

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films fo…

Known For

Film

All About Eve

Margo Channing

Film

All About My Mother

In Memory Of

Film

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Baby Jane Hudson

Film

Death on the Nile

Marie Van Schuyler

Film

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Charlotte Hollis

Film

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

(in "Deception") (archive footage)

Film

Now, Voyager

Charlotte Vale

Film

The Letter

Leslie Crosbie

Filmography

Acting (213)

Movies (174)

Madonna: Madame X

2021

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Morceaux de Cannes

Mike Wallace Is Here

as (archive footage)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Bette and Joan

2017

as Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

2017

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Listen to Me Marlon

2015

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

2014

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

7.3

Footsteps on the Ceiling

2013

as Margo Channing (archive footage)

Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

2013

as Self (archive footage)

5.5

The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka

2009

as Self (archive footage)

4.0

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis

2009

as Self (archive footage)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

2007

as Self (archive footage)

4.3

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

2006

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Jezebel: Legend of the South

2006

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition

2006

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert

2005

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005

as Queen Elizabeth (archive footage)

7.8

How Real is 'The Star'?

2005

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Complicated Women

2003

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

2002

as Self (archive footage)

2.0

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

2001

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Bride of Trailer Camp

2001

as (archive footage)

Backstory: 'All About Eve'

2000

as Self (archive footage)

Frank Capra's American Dream

1997

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

1997

as Self (archive footage)

4.9

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

1996

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis

1996

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

All About Bette

1994

as Self

7.6

Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill

1994

as Self (archive footage)

Wicked Stepmother

1989

as Miranda Pierpoint

4.5

Hairway to the Stars

1989

as Self [Archive Footage]

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

The Whales of August

1987

as Libby Strong

7.0

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

1987

as (archive footage)

6.4

Bette Davis at the Cinémathèque Française

1986

as Self

Directed by William Wyler

1986

as Self

As Summers Die

1986

as Hannah Loftin

6.2

Murder with Mirrors

1985

as Carrie Louise Serrocold

6.5

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

1985

as Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984

as (archive footage)

10.0

Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano

1983

as Self

7.3

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.5

Right of Way

1983

as Miniature Dwyer

7.3

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1982

as (in "Deception") (archive footage)

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

1982

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

A Piano for Mrs. Cimino

1982

as Esther McDonald Cimino

7.8

Showbiz Ballyhoo

1982

as Self (archive footage)

Family Reunion

1981

as Elizabeth Winfield

8.0

The Watcher in the Woods

as Mrs. Aylwood

Skyward

as Billie Dupree

White Mama

as Estelle Malone

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

1979

as Lucy Mason

9.2

Death on the Nile

1978

as Marie Van Schuyler

7.1

Return from Witch Mountain

1978

as Letha Wedge

5.9

Mickey's 50

1978

as Self

Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette

1978

as Marie Van Schuyler

The Disappearance of Aimee

as Minnie Kennedy

Burnt Offerings

as Aunt Elizabeth

Hello Mother, Goodbye!

1974

6.0

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

1973

as Self (archive footage)

Scream, Pretty Peggy

as Mrs. Elliott

Madame Sin

as Madame Sin

The Scopone Game

as 'A vecchia

Bette Davis

as Self

The Judge and Jake Wyler

as Judge Meredith

Bunny O'Hare

as Bunny O'Hare

Connecting Rooms

as Wanda Fleming

The Anniversary

as Mrs. Taggart

The Nanny

as Nanny

The Decorator

as Liz

Dead Ringer

as Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips

6.9

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

1964

as Charlotte Hollis

7.3

Where Love Has Gone

1964

as Mrs. Gerald Hayden

5.9

The Empty Canvas

1963

as Dino's Mother

5.9

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1962

as Baby Jane Hudson

7.9

The Andy Williams Christmas Show

1962

6.0

Pocketful of Miracles

as Apple Annie

The Scapegoat

as Countess

John Paul Jones

as Empress Catherine the Great

The Catered Affair

as Mrs. Agnes Hurley

Storm Center

as Alicia Hull

The Virgin Queen

as Queen Elizabeth I

Phone Call from a Stranger

as Marie Hoke

The Star

as Margaret Elliot

Another Man's Poison

as Janet Frobisher

Payment on Demand

as Joyce Ramsey (nee Jackson)

All About Eve

as Margo Channing

Beyond the Forest

as Rosa Moline

Breakdowns of 1949

as Self

June Bride

as Linda Gilman

Winter Meeting

as Susan Grieve

Deception

as Christine Radcliffe

6.6

A Stolen Life

1946

as Kate Bosworth / Patricia Bosworth

6.3

The Corn Is Green

1945

as Miss Lilly Christabel Moffat

Mr. Skeffington

as Fanny Trellis

Hollywood Canteen

as Self

Breakdowns of 1944

as Self

Watch on the Rhine

as Sara Müller

A Present with a Future

as Mother

Stars on Horseback

Old Acquaintance

as Kit Marlowe

The Voice That Thrilled the World

1943

as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)

5.3

Show-Business at War

1943

as Self

7.0

Thank Your Lucky Stars

as Self

Now, Voyager

as Charlotte Vale

In This Our Life

as Stanley Timberlake Kingsmill

6.8

Breakdowns of 1942

1942

as Self

6.0

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1941

as Maggie Cutler

6.9

The Little Foxes

1941

as Regina Hubbard Giddens

7.5

The Bride Came C.O.D.

1941

as Joan Winfield

7.0

The Great Lie

1941

as Maggie Patterson Van Allen

6.9

Breakdowns of 1941

1941

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.0

Shining Victory

1941

5.9

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self

If I Forget You

as Bette Davis

The Letter

as Leslie Crosbie

All This, and Heaven Too

1940

as Henriette Deluzy-Desportes

7.3

Juarez

1939

as Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg

The Old Maid

as Charlotte Lovell

Dark Victory

as Judith Traherne

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

as Queen Elizabeth

Breakdowns of 1939

as Self

Jezebel

as Julie Marsden

Breakdowns of 1938

as Self (archive footage)

4.7

The Sisters

1938

as Louise Elliott Medlin

5.8

Marked Woman

1937

as Mary Dwight Strauber

6.5

Kid Galahad

1937

as Louise 'Fluff' Phillips

That Certain Woman

as Mary Donnell

It's Love I'm After

as Joyce Arden

Breakdowns of 1937

as Self

A Day at Santa Anita

as Bette Davis (uncredited)

5.0

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

1936

as Self

6.0

The Petrified Forest

1936

as Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple

Satan Met a Lady

as Valerie Purvis

The Golden Arrow

as Daisy Appleby

Breakdowns of 1936

as Self

Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"

Front Page Woman

as Ellen Garfield

Dangerous

as Joyce Heath

Bordertown

as Mrs. Marie Roark

Special Agent

as Julie Gardner

A Dream Comes True

The Girl from 10th Avenue

as Miriam A. Brady

Housewife

as Patricia Berkeley

Jimmy the Gent

as Joan Martin

Of Human Bondage

as Mildred Rogers

The Big Shakedown

as Norma Nelson

Fashions of 1934

as Lynn Mason

Fog Over Frisco

as Arlene Bradford

The 42nd Street Special

1933

as Self (uncredited)

5.3

Parachute Jumper

1933

as Patricia 'Alabama' Brent

5.9

Bureau of Missing Persons

as Norma Roberts

Ex-Lady

as Helen Bauer

The Working Man

as Jenny Hartland alias Jane Grey

6.6

Just Around the Corner

1933

as Ginger

6.0

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

1932

as Fay Wilson

6.3

So Big!

1932

as Miss Dallas O'Mara

Three on a Match

as Ruth Westcott

The Menace

as Peggy Lowell

Hell's House

as Peggy Gardner

The Dark Horse

as Kay Russell

The Rich Are Always with Us

1932

as Malbro

4.8

The Cabin in the Cotton

1932

as Madge Norwood

6.3

The Man Who Played God

as Grace Blair

Way Back Home

as Mary Lucy Duffy

Waterloo Bridge

as Janet Cronin

The Bad Sister

as Laura Madison

Seed

as Margaret Carter

Miss Moffat

as Miss Moffat

Television (39)

Talking Pictures

2013

as Self (archive footage)

5.8

Parkinson

1998

as Self (archive footage)

The World of Hammer

1994

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Intimate Portrait

1993

as Self (archive footage)

4.5

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

1982

as Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt

5.4

Family Reunion

1981

as Elizabeth Winfield

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978

as Self

7.4

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home

as Widow Fortune

Laugh-In

as Guest Performer

Dinah!

as Self

Hello Mother, Goodbye!

1974

as Mother

6.0

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self

V.I.P. Schaukel

as Self

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

It Takes a Thief

as Bessie Grindel

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

as Self

The Hollywood Palace

as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Merv Griffin Show

as Self

The Virginian

as Celia Miller

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self - Co-Host

5.4

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

as Sarah Whitney

Perry Mason

as Constant Doyle

Wagon Train

as Ella Lindstrom

Suspicion

as Mrs. Wilfred Ellis

5.9

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Presenter

5.9

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

as Self

Telephone Time

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Miss Fox

Gunsmoke

as Etta Stone

The 20th Century Fox Hour

as Marie Hoke

Reflets de Cannes

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

General Electric Theater

1953

as Miss Burrows

6.4

The Ford Television Theatre

1952

as Dolley Madison

7.3

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, Aimee's mother

8.6

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Irene Van Buren

What's My Line?

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

All About My Mother

In Memory Of

A Stolen Life

Producer