Bette Davis (I) (1908–1989)

Actress | Soundtrack | Make Up Department

Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and ...

Born: April 5, 1908
Died: October 6, 1989 (age 81)

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Filmography

Known For

All About Eve Margo (1950)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Baby Jane Hudson (1962)
Dark Victory Judith Traherne (1939)
Known For

Now, Voyager Charlotte Vale (1942)
Actress

Wicked Stepmother Miranda Pierpoint (1989)
The Whales of August Libby Strong (1987)
As Summers Die Hannah Loftin (1986)
Murder with Mirrors Carrie Louise Serrocold (1985)
Hotel Laura Trent (1983)
Right of Way Mini Dwyer (1983)
Little Gloria... Happy at Last Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt (1982)
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino Esther McDonald Cimino (1982)
Family Reunion Elizabeth Winfield (1981)
Skyward Billie Dupree (1980)
The Watcher in the Woods Mrs. Aylwood (1980)
White Mama Adele Malone (1980)
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter Lucy Mason (1979)
Death on the Nile Mrs. Van Schuyler (1978)
Return from Witch Mountain Letha (1978)
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home Widow Fortune (1978)
Laugh-In Guest Performer (1977)
The Disappearance of Aimee Minnie Kennedy (1976)
Burnt Offerings Aunt Elizabeth (1976)
Hello Mother, Goodbye! (1974)
Scream, Pretty Peggy Mrs. Elliott (1973)
The Judge and Jake Wyler Judge Meredith (1972)
The Scopone Game The Millionairess (1972)
Madame Sin Madame Sin (1972)
Bunny O'Hare Bunny O'Hare (1971)
Connecting Rooms Wanda Fleming (1970)
It Takes a Thief Bessie Grindel (1970)
The Anniversary Mrs. Taggart (1968)
Gunsmoke Etta Stone (1966)
The Decorator Liz (1965)
The Nanny Nanny (1965)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte Charlotte (1964)
Where Love Has Gone Mrs. Gerald Hayden (1964)
Dead Ringer Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips (1964)
The Empty Canvas Dino's mother (1963)
Perry Mason Constant Doyle (1963)
The Virginian Celia Miller (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Baby Jane Hudson (1962)
Wagon Train Bettina May (1959-1961)
Pocketful of Miracles Apple Annie (1961)
The DuPont Show with June Allyson Sarah Whitney (1959)
The Scapegoat Countess (1959)
John Paul Jones Empress Catherine the Great (1959)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Miss Fox (1959)
Suspicion Mrs. Wilfred Ellis (1958)
General Electric Theater Christine Marlowe (1957-1958)
Studio 57 Paula (1958)
Telephone Time Mrs. Beatrice Enter (1957)
The Ford Television Theatre Dolley Madison (1957)
Schlitz Playhouse Irene Van Buren (1957)
The Catered Affair Aggie Hurley (1956)
Storm Center Alicia Hull (1956)
The 20th Century-Fox Hour Marie Hoke (1956)
The Virgin Queen Queen Elizabeth I (1955)
The Star Margaret Elliot (1952)
Phone Call from a Stranger Marie Hoke (1952)
Another Man's Poison Janet Frobisher (1951)
Payment on Demand Joyce Ramsey (1951)
All About Eve Margo (1950)
Beyond the Forest Rosa Moline (1949)
June Bride Linda Gilman (1948)
Winter Meeting Susan Grieve (1948)
Deception Christine Radcliffe (1946)
A Stolen Life Kate Bosworth / Patricia Bosworth (1946)
The Corn Is Green Miss Lilly Moffat (1945)
Hollywood Canteen Bette Davis (1944)
Mr. Skeffington Fanny Trellis Skeffington (1944)
Old Acquaintance Katherine 'Kit' Marlowe (1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars Bette Davis (1943)
Watch on the Rhine Sara Muller (1943)
Now, Voyager Charlotte Vale (1942)
In This Our Life Stanley Timberlake (1942)
The Man Who Came to Dinner Maggie Cutler (1942)
The Little Foxes Regina Giddens (1941)
The Bride Came C.O.D. Joan Winfield (1941)
Shining Victory Nurse (1941)
The Great Lie Maggie Patterson (1941)
The Letter Leslie Crosbie (1940)
All This, and Heaven Too Henriette Deluzy-Desportes (1940)
If I Forget You Bette Davis (1940)
Breakdowns of 1939 (1940)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex Queen Elizabeth (1939)
The Old Maid Charlotte Lovell (1939)
Juarez Carlota of Mexico (1939)
Dark Victory Judith Traherne (1939)
The Sisters Louise Elliott (1938)
Jezebel Julie Marsden (1938)
It's Love I'm After Joyce Arden (1937)
That Certain Woman Mary Donnell (1937)
Kid Galahad Fluff (1937)
A Day at Santa Anita Bette Davis (1937)
Marked Woman Mary (1937)
Satan Met a Lady Valerie Purvis (1936)
The Golden Arrow Daisy Appleby (1936)
The Petrified Forest Gabrielle Maple (1936)
Dangerous Joyce Heath (1935)
Special Agent Julie Gardner (1935)
Front Page Woman Ellen Garfield (1935)
The Girl from 10th Avenue Miriam Brady (1935)
Bordertown Marie Roark (1935)
Housewife Patricia Berkeley (1934)
Of Human Bondage Mildred (1934)
Fog Over Frisco Arlene Bradford (1934)
Jimmy the Gent Joan Martin (1934)
Fashions of 1934 Lynn Mason (1934)
The Big Shakedown Norma Nelson (1934)
Just Around the Corner Ginger (1933)
Bureau of Missing Persons Norma Roberts (1933)
Ex-Lady Helen Bauer (1933)
The Working Man Jenny Hartland / Jane Grey (1933)
Parachute Jumper Patricia 'Alabama' Brent (1933)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing Fay Wilson (1932)
Three on a Match Ruth Westcott (1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton Madge Norwood (1932)
The Dark Horse Kay Russell (1932)
The Rich Are Always with Us Malbro (1932)
So Big! Miss Dallas O'Mara (1932)
Hell's House Peggy Gardner (1932)
The Man Who Played God Grace Blair (1932)
The Menace Peggy Lowell (1932)
Way Back Home Mary Lucy (1931)
Waterloo Bridge Janet Cronin (1931)
Seed Margaret Carter (1931)
Actress

Bad Sister Laura Madison (1931)
Soundtrack

Big Love (2007)
Johnny Carson Presents the Sun City Scandals '72 (1972)
The Anniversary (1968)
The Love Goddesses (1965)
Dead Ringer (1964)
The Andy Williams Show (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Payment on Demand (1951)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
The Old Maid (1939)
Jezebel (1938)
Kid Galahad (1937)
Soundtrack

The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Producer

A Stolen Life (1946)
Archive footage

Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
Kaye Ballard - The Show Goes On (2019)
Amazing World of Radio (2018)
Always at The Carlyle (2018)
The Confession (2018)
Talking Pictures (2013-2017)
Bette Davis: Größer als das Leben (2017)
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
Entertainment Tonight (2017)
Actors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2016)
Sir Terry Wogan Remembered: Fifty Years at the BBC (2016)
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016)
Listen to Me Marlon (2015)
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
Donne nel mito: Anna Magnani a Hollywood (2013)
Welcome to the Basement (2013)
The Time That Remains (2012)
Arena (2012)
60 Minutes (1991-2012)
Chess History (2011)
Stars of the Silver Screen (2011)
Vito (2011)
Making the Boys (2011)
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
Bette Davis: The Female Bogart (2010)
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010)
The Clock (2010)
Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis (2009)
Kinuyo Tanaka's New Departure (2009)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
Warner at War (2008)
Hollywood contra Franco (2008)
Strictly Courtroom (2008)
La 2 noticias (2008)
Mike Douglas: Moments & Memories (2008)
Crawford at Warners (2008)
Meryl Streep on Bette Davis (2007)
Ernest Borgnine on Bette Davis (2007)
P.S. I Love You (2007)
Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (2007)
Memoirs of a Cigarette (2007)
Never Apologize (2007)
Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
Brando (2007)
City Confidential (2007)
Hollywood Burn (2006)
Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon (2006)
Premio Donostia a Max Von Sydow (2006)
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story (2006)
Ciclo Agatha Christie (2005)
Cinema mil (2005)
Biography (1994-2005)
Premio Donostia a Willem Dafoe (2005)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases (2005)
Elizabeth & Essex: Battle Royale (2005)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
Dead Famous (2005)
Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go Hollywood (2004)
Bette Davis and William Wyler (2003)
Christmas from Hollywood (2003)
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003)
Complicated Women (2003)
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (2002)
American Masters (2001)
El informal (2001)
E! Mysteries & Scandals (2000-2001)
Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years (2001)
Great Romances of the 20th Century (2001)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001)
Backstory (2000-2001)
Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Denial (2000)
ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999)
Hollywood Greats (1999)
The Best of Hollywood (1999)
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998)
Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
Intimate Portrait (1996)
The Greatest Show You Never Saw (1996)
Legends of Entertainment Video (1995)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
100 Years at the Movies (1994)
The World of Hammer (1994)
All About Bette (1994)
Mina Tannenbaum (1994)
The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1992)
Big Breakdowns: Hollywood Bloopers of the 1930s (1991)
O Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu (1991)
Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991)
Wogan (1991)
Blushing Bloopers (1990)
Classic Movie Bloopers (1990)
Classic Bloopers (1990)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990)
Bloopers Galore (1989)
Hairway to the Stars (1989)
Movie Bloopers (1988)
The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones (1988)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon (1988)
Entertaining the Troops (1988)
South of Reno (1988)
Film 2018 (1988)
Bloopermania (1987)
Power Profiles: Legendary Ladies - Bette Davis and Carole Lombard (1987)
Super Duper Bloopers and Silly Shorts (1986)
The Return of Video Yesterbloop (1986)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986)
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers (1985)
The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue (1985)
Those Wild Bloopers (1984)
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982)
Showbiz Goes to War (1982)
The Hollywood Palace (1982)
Showbiz Ballyhoo (1982)
Oops, those Hollywood Bloopers! (1982)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Presidential Blooper Reel (1981)
Margret Dünser, auf der Suche nach den Besonderen (1981)
Sixty Years of Seduction (1981)
Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980)
Windows (1980)
Star Bloopers (1979)
The Horror Show (1979)
Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette (1978)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to James Cagney (1974)
The Hollywood Palace (1970)
Hollywood My Home Town (1965)
The Love Goddesses (1965)
Hollywood and the Stars (1963-1964)
Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963)
When the Talkies Were Young (1955)
The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)
Stars on Horseback (1943)
Breakdowns of 1941 (1941)
Archive footage

Land of Liberty (1939)
Hollywood Rivals (2001)
Makeup Department

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Videos

Awards

Did You Know

In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Elizabeth Taylor does an exaggerated impression of Bette Davis saying a line from Beyond the Forest (1949): "What a dump!" In an interview with Barbara Walters, Davis said that in Beyond the Forest (1949), ...