Bette Davis

Bette Davis

acting Apr 5, 1908 Oct 6, 1989 Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

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2 wins

9 nominations

177 of 177 films rated

IMDb avg 7.1
IMDb median 7.0
RT avg 77%
RT median 83%

highest rated

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  1. Madonna: Madame X → Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  2. Morceaux de Cannes
  3. Mike Wallace Is Here → (archive footage)
  4. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood → Self (archive footage)
  5. Bette and Joan → Self (archive footage)
  6. Bette Davis: Larger Than Life → Self (archive footage)
  7. Listen to Me Marlon → Self (archive footage)
  8. Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire → Self - Actress (archive footage)
  9. Talking Pictures (TV) → Self (archive footage)
  10. Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored → Self (archive footage)
  11. Footsteps on the Ceiling → Margo Channing (archive footage)
  12. Marilyn at the Movies → Self (archive footage)
  13. 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year → Self (archive footage)
  14. The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka → Self (archive footage)
  15. Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis → Self (archive footage)
  16. Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema → Self (archive footage)
  17. Stardust: The Bette Davis Story → Self (archive footage)
  18. Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition → Self (archive footage)
  19. Jezebel: Legend of the South → Self (archive footage)
  20. The Adventures of Errol Flynn → Queen Elizabeth (archive footage)
  21. The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert → Self (archive footage)
  22. How Real is 'The Star'? → Self (archive footage)
  23. Complicated Women → Self (archive footage)
  24. Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour → Self (archive footage)
  25. Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies → Self (archive footage)
  26. Bride of Trailer Camp → (archive footage)
  27. Backstory: 'All About Eve' → Self (archive footage)
  28. Frank Capra's American Dream → Self (archive footage)
  29. The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender → Self (archive footage)
  30. Joan Crawford: Always the Star → Self (archive footage)
  31. Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis → Self (archive footage)
  32. The World of Hammer (TV) → Self (archive footage)
  33. All About Bette → Self
  34. Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill → Self (archive footage)
  35. Intimate Portrait (TV) → Self (archive footage)
  36. Wicked Stepmother → Miranda Pierpoint
  37. Hairway to the Stars → Self [Archive Footage]
  38. The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind → Self (archive footage)
  39. The Whales of August → Libby Strong
  40. Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood → (archive footage)
  41. As Summers Die → Hannah Loftin
  42. Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend → archive footage
  43. Directed by William Wyler → Self
  44. Bette Davis at the Cinémathèque Française → Self
  45. Murder with Mirrors → Carrie Louise Serrocold
  46. Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers → Self (archive footage)
  47. Going Hollywood: The '30s → (archive footage)
  48. Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage → Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  49. Right of Way → Miniature Dwyer
  50. Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano → Self
  51. Late Night with David Letterman (TV) → Self - Guest
  52. Night of 100 Stars → Self
  53. Little Gloria... Happy at Last (TV) → Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt
  54. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid → (in "Deception") (archive footage)
  55. Showbiz Goes to War → (archive footage)
  56. Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
  57. Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! → Self (archive footage)
  58. A Piano for Mrs. Cimino → Esther McDonald Cimino
  59. Showbiz Ballyhoo → Self (archive footage)
  60. Family Reunion (TV) → Elizabeth Winfield
  61. Family Reunion → Elizabeth Winfield
  62. The Watcher in the Woods → Mrs. Aylwood
  63. Skyward → Billie Dupree
  64. White Mama → Estelle Malone
  65. The Horror Show → (archive footage)
  66. Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter → Lucy Mason
  67. The Kennedy Center Honors (TV) → Self
  68. Death on the Nile → Marie Van Schuyler
  69. The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (TV) → Widow Fortune
  70. Return from Witch Mountain → Letha Wedge
  71. Mickey's 50 → Self
  72. Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette → Marie Van Schuyler
  73. Laugh-In (TV) → Guest Performer
  74. Burnt Offerings → Aunt Elizabeth
  75. The Disappearance of Aimee → Minnie Kennedy
  76. Dinah! (TV) → Self
  77. Hello Mother, Goodbye! (TV) → Mother
  78. Hello Mother, Goodbye! → Mother
  79. Miss Moffat → Miss Moffat
  80. The American Film Institute Salute to ... (TV) → Self
  81. The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor → Self (archive footage)
  82. Scream, Pretty Peggy → Mrs. Elliott
  83. Madame Sin → Madame Sin
  84. The Judge and Jake Wyler → Judge Meredith
  85. The Scopone Game → 'A vecchia
  86. Bette Davis → Self
  87. V.I.P. Schaukel (TV) → Self
  88. Bunny O'Hare → Bunny O'Hare
  89. Connecting Rooms → Wanda Fleming
  90. The Dick Cavett Show (TV) → Self - Guest
  91. It Takes a Thief (TV) → Bessie Grindel
  92. The Anniversary → Mrs. Taggart
  93. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (TV) → Self
  94. The Nanny → Nanny
  95. The Decorator → Liz
  96. The Hollywood Palace (TV) → Self
  97. Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte → Charlotte Hollis
  98. Dead Ringer → Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips
  99. Where Love Has Gone → Mrs. Gerald Hayden
  100. The Empty Canvas → Dino's Mother
  101. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV) → Self
  102. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV) → Self (archive footage)
  103. The Merv Griffin Show (TV) → Self
  104. The Virginian (TV) → Celia Miller
  105. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? → Baby Jane Hudson
  106. The Mike Douglas Show (TV) → Self - Co-Host
  107. Pocketful of Miracles → Apple Annie
  108. The DuPont Show with June Allyson (TV) → Sarah Whitney
  109. The Scapegoat → Countess
  110. John Paul Jones → Empress Catherine the Great
  111. Perry Mason (TV) → Constant Doyle
  112. Wagon Train (TV) → Ella Lindstrom
  113. Wagon Train (TV) → Madame Elizabeth McQueeny
  114. Suspicion (TV) → Mrs. Wilfred Ellis
  115. Tony Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
  116. The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV) → Self
  117. Telephone Time (TV)
  118. Storm Center → Alicia Hull
  119. The Catered Affair → Mrs. Agnes Hurley
  120. Gunsmoke (TV) → Etta Stone
  121. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV) → Miss Fox
  122. The 20th Century Fox Hour (TV) → Marie Hoke
  123. The Virgin Queen → Queen Elizabeth I
  124. Reflets de Cannes (TV) → Self
  125. The Oscars (TV) → Self
  126. General Electric Theater (TV) → Miss Burrows
  127. General Electric Theater (TV) → Christine Marlowe
  128. The Ford Television Theatre (TV) → Dolley Madison
  129. The Star → Margaret Elliot
  130. Phone Call from a Stranger → Marie Hoke
  131. Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV) → Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, Aimee's mother
  132. Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV) → Irene Van Buren
  133. Payment on Demand → Joyce Ramsey (nee Jackson)
  134. Another Man's Poison → Janet Frobisher
  135. What's My Line? (TV) → Self
  136. All About Eve → Margo Channing
  137. Beyond the Forest → Rosa Moline
  138. Breakdowns of 1949 → Self
  139. June Bride → Linda Gilman
  140. Winter Meeting → Susan Grieve
  141. Deception → Christine Radcliffe
  142. A Stolen Life → Kate Bosworth / Patricia Bosworth
  143. The Corn Is Green → Miss Lilly Christabel Moffat
  144. Golden Globe Awards (TV) → Self - Presenter
  145. Hollywood Canteen → Self
  146. Mr. Skeffington → Fanny Trellis
  147. Breakdowns of 1944 → Self
  148. Thank Your Lucky Stars → Self
  149. Show-Business at War → Self
  150. Watch on the Rhine → Sara Müller
  151. Old Acquaintance → Kit Marlowe
  152. The Voice That Thrilled the World → Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
  153. Stars on Horseback
  154. A Present with a Future → Mother
  155. Now, Voyager → Charlotte Vale
  156. In This Our Life → Stanley Timberlake Kingsmill
  157. Breakdowns of 1942 → Self
  158. The Little Foxes → Regina Hubbard Giddens
  159. The Man Who Came to Dinner → Maggie Cutler
  160. The Great Lie → Maggie Patterson Van Allen
  161. The Bride Came C.O.D. → Joan Winfield
  162. Breakdowns of 1941 → Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  163. Shining Victory
  164. The Letter → Leslie Crosbie
  165. Cavalcade of the Academy Awards → Self
  166. All This, and Heaven Too → Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
  167. If I Forget You → Bette Davis
  168. Dark Victory → Judith Traherne
  169. Juarez → Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg
  170. The Old Maid → Charlotte Lovell
  171. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex → Queen Elizabeth
  172. Breakdowns of 1939 → Self
  173. Jezebel → Julie Marsden
  174. The Sisters → Louise Elliott Medlin
  175. Breakdowns of 1938 → Self (archive footage)
  176. Marked Woman → Mary Dwight Strauber
  177. Kid Galahad → Louise 'Fluff' Phillips
  178. It's Love I'm After → Joyce Arden
  179. That Certain Woman → Mary Donnell
  180. Breakdowns of 1937 → Self
  181. A Day at Santa Anita → Bette Davis (uncredited)
  182. The Petrified Forest → Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple
  183. Breakdowns of 1936 → Self
  184. Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) → Self
  185. The Golden Arrow → Daisy Appleby
  186. Satan Met a Lady → Valerie Purvis
  187. Dick Powell and Joan Blondell home movies: "No. 1, From beginning"
  188. Dangerous → Joyce Heath
  189. Bordertown → Mrs. Marie Roark
  190. Special Agent → Julie Gardner
  191. A Dream Comes True
  192. The Girl from 10th Avenue → Miriam A. Brady
  193. Front Page Woman → Ellen Garfield
  194. Of Human Bondage → Mildred Rogers
  195. Jimmy the Gent → Joan Martin
  196. Fashions of 1934 → Lynn Mason
  197. Fog Over Frisco → Arlene Bradford
  198. Housewife → Patricia Berkeley
  199. The Big Shakedown → Norma Nelson
  200. The Working Man → Jenny Hartland alias Jane Grey
  201. Parachute Jumper → Patricia 'Alabama' Brent
  202. Bureau of Missing Persons → Norma Roberts
  203. Ex-Lady → Helen Bauer
  204. The 42nd Street Special → Self (uncredited)
  205. Just Around the Corner → Ginger
  206. So Big! → Miss Dallas O'Mara
  207. Three on a Match → Ruth Westcott
  208. The Rich Are Always with Us → Malbro
  209. 20,000 Years in Sing Sing → Fay Wilson
  210. The Man Who Played God → Grace Blair
  211. The Cabin in the Cotton → Madge Norwood
  212. The Dark Horse → Kay Russell
  213. Hell's House → Peggy Gardner
  214. The Menace → Peggy Lowell
  215. Waterloo Bridge → Janet Cronin
  216. Way Back Home → Mary Lucy Duffy
  217. The Bad Sister → Laura Madison
  218. Seed → Margaret Carter

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