Bette Davis
Birthday
1908/04/05
Day of death
1989/10/06 (81 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Also know as
The First Lady of Film, Ruth Elizabeth Davis, The Fourth Warner Brother, 베티 데이비스, Μπέτι Ντέιβις, Бетт Дейвіс
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...Read more
Acting
(1961) Pocketful of Miracles
as Apple Annie
(1950) All About Eve
as Margo Channing
(1985) Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
as Self (archive footage)
(1962) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Baby Jane Hudson
(2005) The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
as Self (archive footage)
(1964) Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
as Charlotte Hollis
(1938) Jezebel
as Julie Marsden
(1978) Death on the Nile
as Marie Van Schuyler
(1980) The Watcher in the Woods
as Mrs. Aylwood
(1985) Murder with Mirrors
as Carrie Louise Serrocold
(1964) Dead Ringer
as Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips
(1946) Deception
as Christine Radcliffe
(1937) Marked Woman
as Mary Dwight Strauber
(1982) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "Deception") (archive footage)
(1941) The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Maggie Cutler
(1935) Bordertown
as Mrs. Marie Roark
(1942) Now, Voyager
as Charlotte Vale
(1979) The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
(1939) Dark Victory
as Judith Traherne
(1976) Burnt Offerings
as Aunt Elizabeth
(1936) Satan Met a Lady
as Valerie Purvis
(1989) Wicked Stepmother
as Miranda Pierpoint
(1949) Beyond the Forest
as Rosa Moline
(1941) The Bride Came C.O.D.
as Joan Winfield
(1932) 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
as Fay Wilson
(1978) Return from Witch Mountain
as Letha Wedge
(1932) Three on a Match
as Ruth Westcott
(1944) Mr. Skeffington
as Fanny Trellis
(1932) The Cabin in the Cotton
as Madge Norwood
(1955) The Virgin Queen
as Queen Elizabeth I
(1948) Winter Meeting
as Susan Grieve
(1946) A Stolen Life
as Kate Bosworth / Patricia Bosworth
(1945) The Corn Is Green
as Miss Lilly Christabel Moffat
(1943) Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Self
(1942) In This Our Life
as Stanley Timberlake Kingsmill
(1941) The Little Foxes
as Regina Hubbard Giddens
(1940) All This, and Heaven Too
as Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
(1941) The Great Lie
as Maggie Patterson Van Allen
(1934) Of Human Bondage
as Mildred Rogers
(1939) The Old Maid
as Charlotte Lovell
(1956) Storm Center
as Alicia Hull
(1944) Hollywood Canteen
as Self
(1983) Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1938) Breakdowns of 1938
as Self (archive footage)
(1941) Shining Victory
as ---
(1937) A Day at Santa Anita
as Bette Davis (uncredited)
(1935) A Dream Comes True
as ---
(1939) The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as Queen Elizabeth
(1936) The Petrified Forest
as Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple
(1965) The Nanny
as Nanny
(1940) The Letter
as Leslie Crosbie
(1943) Watch on the Rhine
as Sara Müller
(1987) The Whales of August
as Libby Strong
(1934) Fog Over Frisco
as Arlene Bradford
(1941) Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1982) Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
(1934) Jimmy the Gent
as Joan Martin
(1935) Dangerous
as Joyce Heath
(1935) Special Agent
as Julie Gardner
(1933) Bureau of Missing Persons
as Norma Roberts
(1933) Ex-Lady
as Helen Bauer
(1937) Kid Galahad
as Louise 'Fluff' Phillips
(1964) Where Love Has Gone
as Mrs. Gerald Hayden
(1951) Another Man's Poison
as Janet Frobisher
(1934) Fashions of 1934
as Lynn Mason
(1943) Old Acquaintance
as Kit Marlowe
(1959) John Paul Jones
as Empress Catherine the Great
(1951) Payment on Demand
as Joyce Ramsey (nee Jackson)
(1972) Madame Sin
as Madame Sin
(1972) The Scopone Game
as 'A vecchia
(1952) Phone Call from a Stranger
as Marie Hoke
(1987) Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as (archive footage)
(2017) Bette and Joan
as Self (archive footage)
(1963) The Empty Canvas
as Dino's Mother
(1952) The Star
as Margaret Elliot
(1968) The Anniversary
as Mrs. Taggart
(1931) Waterloo Bridge
as Janet Cronin
(1939) Juarez
as Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg
(1932) The Dark Horse
as Kay Russell
(1933) The Working Man
as Jenny Hartland alias Jane Grey
(1934) The Big Shakedown
as Norma Nelson
(1937) That Certain Woman
as Mary Donnell
(1971) Bunny O'Hare
as Bunny O'Hare
(1932) So Big!
as Miss Dallas O'Mara
(1937) It's Love I'm After
as Joyce Arden
(1932) The Rich Are Always with Us
as Malbro
(1956) The Catered Affair
as Mrs. Agnes Hurley
(1948) June Bride
as Linda Gilman
(1938) The Sisters
as Louise Elliott Medlin
(2005) The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Queen Elizabeth (archive footage)
(1989) Hairway to the Stars
as Self [Archive Footage]
(1959) The Scapegoat
as Countess
(1932) The Man Who Played God
as Grace Blair
(2018) Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1931) The Bad Sister
as Laura Madison
(1935) Front Page Woman
as Ellen Garfield
(1932) Hell's House
as Peggy Gardner
(1933) Parachute Jumper
as Patricia 'Alabama' Brent
(2000) Backstory: 'All About Eve'
as Self (archive footage)
(1931) Way Back Home
as Mary Lucy Duffy
(1982) Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
as Self (archive footage)
(1973) Scream, Pretty Peggy
as Mrs. Elliott
(1983) Right of Way
as Miniature Dwyer
(1934) Housewife
as Patricia Berkeley
(2021) Madonna: Madame X
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1935) The Girl from 10th Avenue
as Miriam A. Brady
(1936) The Golden Arrow
as Daisy Appleby
(1932) The Menace
as Peggy Lowell
(1976) The Disappearance of Aimee
as Minnie Kennedy
(1933) Just Around the Corner
as Ginger
(1931) Seed
as Margaret Carter
(1970) Connecting Rooms
as Wanda Fleming
(1980) White Mama
as Estelle Malone
(1979) Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
as Lucy Mason
(1980) Skyward
as Billie Dupree
(1984) Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
(1982) A Piano for Mrs. Cimino
as Esther McDonald Cimino
(1965) The Decorator
as Liz
(1986) Bette Davis at the Cinémathèque Française
as Self
(1994) Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
as Self (archive footage)
(2006) Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
(2006) Jezebel: Legend of the South
as Self (archive footage)
(1943) A Present with a Future
as Mother
(2013) Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
as Self (archive footage)
(1986) As Summers Die
as Hannah Loftin
(1962) The Andy Williams Christmas Show
as ---
(1996) Joan Crawford: Always the Star
as Self (archive footage)
(2019) Mike Wallace Is Here
as (archive footage)
(1981) Family Reunion
as Elizabeth Winfield
(1972) The Judge and Jake Wyler
as Judge Meredith
(2001) Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
as Self (archive footage)
(1936) Breakdowns of 1936
as Self
(1994) All About Bette
as Self
(1973) The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self (archive footage)
(2015) Listen to Me Marlon
as Self (archive footage)
(1937) Breakdowns of 1937
as Self
(1939) Breakdowns of 1939
as Self
(1944) Breakdowns of 1944
as Self
(1949) Breakdowns of 1949
as Self
(1943) Show-Business at War
as Self
(1940) If I Forget You
as Bette Davis
(1940) Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
(2003) Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
(2002) Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self (archive footage)
(1988) The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
(1936) Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
(2017) Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
as Self (archive footage)
(1974) Hello Mother, Goodbye!
as ---
(2009) 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
(1983) Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
as Self
(2007) Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(1943) The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
(1943) Stars on Horseback
as ---
(1997) Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self (archive footage)
(1997) The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage)
(1986) Directed by William Wyler
as Self
(2014) Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
(2009) The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka
as Self (archive footage)
(1942) Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
(1996) Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis
as Self (archive footage)
(2009) Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis
as Self (archive footage)
(2013) Footsteps on the Ceiling
as Margo Channing (archive footage)
(1933) The 42nd Street Special
as Self (uncredited)
(1982) Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1972) Bette Davis
as Self
Miss Moffat
as Miss Moffat
(1978) Mickey's 50
as Self
(2001) Bride of Trailer Camp
as (archive footage)
(1982) Showbiz Ballyhoo
as Self (archive footage)
(1957) Perry Mason
as Constant Doyle
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Etta Stone
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Miss Burrows
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, Aimee's mother
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Miss Fox
(1964) The Hollywood Palace
as Self
(1962) The Virginian
as Celia Miller
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Irene Van Buren
(1955) The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Marie Hoke
(1956) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
(1973) The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
(1978) The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
as Widow Fortune
(1956) Telephone Time
as ---
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(1959) The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Sarah Whitney
(1978) The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
(2013) Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
(1957) Wagon Train
as Ella Lindstrom
(1993) Intimate Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Christine Marlowe
(1982) Little Gloria... Happy at Last
as Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt
(1974) Hello Mother, Goodbye!
as Mother
(1971) V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
(1968) It Takes a Thief
as Bessie Grindel
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
(1957) Suspicion
as Mrs. Wilfred Ellis
(1952) The Ford Television Theatre
as Dolley Madison
(1954) Reflets de Cannes
as Self
(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
(1944) Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
(1974) Dinah!
as Self
(1967) The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
as Self
(1977) Laugh-In
as Guest Performer
(1981) Family Reunion
as Elizabeth Winfield
(1957) Wagon Train
as Madame Elizabeth McQueeny
(1962) The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
(1994) The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)