Florence Bates
Birthday
1888/04/13
Day of death
1954/01/31 (65 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Also know as
Florence Rabe
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Florence Bates (born Florence Rabe, April 15, 1888 – January 31, 1954) was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles. Her path to becoming an actress had many turns. She had a degree in Mathematics, taught school until married, then became the first Texas female lawyer. Then she became a bilingual radio commentator. After her husband lost her fortune, she and her husband opened a bakery in Los ...Read more
Acting
(1940) Rebecca
as Edythe Van Hopper
(1947) The Brasher Doubloon
as Mrs. Murdock
(1941) Love Crazy
as Mrs. Cooper
(1950) Belle of Old Mexico
as Nellie Chatfield
(1953) Main Street to Broadway
as Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
(1951) The Tall Target
as Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
(1944) Tahiti Nights
as Queen Liliha
(1947) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Mrs. Griswold
(1944) The Mask of Dimitrios
as Madame Elise Chavez
(1951) Lullaby of Broadway
as Mrs. Anna Hubbell
(1948) I Remember Mama
as Florence Dana Moorhead
(1948) Winter Meeting
as Mrs. Castle
(1944) Kismet
as Karsha
(1945) Tonight and Every Night
as May Tolliver
(1941) The Devil and Miss Jones
as Store Shopper
(1950) The Second Woman
as Amelia Foster
(1946) The Diary of a Chambermaid
as Rose
(1944) Belle of the Yukon
as Viola Chase
(1949) A Letter to Three Wives
as Mrs. Manleigh
(1943) Mr. Lucky
as Mrs. Van Every
(1945) San Antonio
as Henrietta
(1940) The Son of Monte Cristo
as Countess Mathilde Von Braun
(1941) Strange Alibi
as Katie
(1946) Cluny Brown
as Dowager at Ames's Party
(1942) The Moon and Sixpence
as Tiare Johnson
(1946) Whistle Stop
as Molly Veech
(1941) The Chocolate Soldier
as Madame Helene
(1948) River Lady
as Ma Dunnegan
(1952) Les Miserables
as Madame Bonnet
(1942) The Tuttles of Tahiti
as Emily
(1941) Road Show
as Mrs. Newton
(1948) The Inside Story
as Geraldine Atherton
(1943) Slightly Dangerous
as Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
(1942) We Were Dancing
as Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
(1943) Mister Big
as Mrs. Mary Davis
(1942) Mexican Spitfire at Sea
as Mrs. Baldwin
(1953) Paris Model
as Nora Sullivan
(1946) Claudia and David
as Nancy Riddle
(1948) Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
as Mandy
(1945) Out of This World
as Harriet Pringle
(1947) The Judge Steps Out
as Chita
(1940) Calling All Husbands
as Emmie Trippe
(1948) My Dear Secretary
as Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
(1943) Heaven Can Wait
as Mrs. Edna Craig
(1949) The Girl from Jones Beach
as Miss Emma Shoemaker
(1952) The San Francisco Story
as Sadie
(1942) My Heart Belongs to Daddy
as Mrs. Saunders
(1943) They Got Me Covered
as Gypsy Woman
(1940) Kitty Foyle
as Customer
(1945) Saratoga Trunk
as Sophie Bellop
(1946) The Time, The Place and The Girl
as Mme. Lucia Cassel
(1949) On the Town
as Madame Dilyovska
(1947) Love and Learn
as Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
(1943) His Butler's Sister
as Lady Sloughberry
(1950) County Fair
as Nora 'Ma' Ryan
(1948) Portrait of Jennie
as Mrs. Jekes
(1951) Father Takes the Air
as Minerva Bobbin
(1951) Havana Rose
as Mrs. Fillmore
(1946) The Man I Love
as Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
(1952) Four Star Playhouse
as Ottilie
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mrs. Van Hopper (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1951) I Love Lucy
as Mrs. Pettebone
(1950) Dick Tracy
as Mrs. Frothingham