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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

123

Gender

Female

Birthday

1906-04-04

Deathday

1968-10-13 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

New York, New York, USA

Also Known As

Bee Benadaret
Bea Benadaret

Bea Benaderet

Biography

Beatrice "Bea" Benaderet was an American actress born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. She appeared in a wide variety of television work, which included a starring role in the 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and Green Acres as Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate Bradley, supporting roles as Blanche Morton in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and as the voice of Betty Rubble during the first four seasons of The Flintstones, and in The Beverly Hillbillies as Pearl Bodine. She did a great deal of voice work in Warner Bros. animated cartoons of the 1940s/50s.

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Acting

2010

Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire as Granny (voice)(archive footage)

2005

The History of Hooterville as Self (archive footage)

1991

The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame as Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice)

1986

The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration as Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage)

1983

Henry's Cat

1982

Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales as Witch Hazel (voice)

1981

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie as Granny (voice)

1965

Green Acres as Kate Bradley

1963		The Danny Kaye Show as Self
1963		Petticoat Junction as Kate Bradley
1963		Vacation Playhouse as Sybil Murdock

1962		The Beverly Hillbillies as Cousin Pearl Bodine
1962		The Jetsons as Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice)
1962		Tender Is the Night as Mrs. McKisco

1961		The New Breed as Miss Horne
1961		Top Cat as Mrs. Ball (voice)
1961		Top Cat as Fifi The Maid (voice)
1961		Top Cat as Julie / Mom (voice)
1961		Top Cat as Fancy's Girlfriend (voice)
1961		Top Cat as Receptionist (voice)
1961		Top Cat as Girl Cat / Receptionist (voice)

1960		Peter Loves Mary as Wilma
1960		The Flintstones as Betty Rubble (voice)
1960		Pete and Gladys

1959		Tweet Dreams as Various (voice)
1959		The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Telephone Operator (voice)
1959		Plunderers of Painted Flats as Ella Heather

1958		The George Burns Show as Blanche Morton
1958		77 Sunset Strip as Mary Field

1957

The Restless Gun as Madame Brimstone

1956

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self

1955		Matinee Theater
1955		A Midsummer Daydream as Woman
1955		Screen Director's Playhouse as Woman
1955		The Hole Idea as Gertrude
1955		Sandy Claws as Granny
1955		Feather Dusted as Miss Prissy (voice)
1955		The Bob Cummings Show as Blanche Morton
1955		The Bob Cummings Show as Dixie Yates

1954		Black Widow as Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)
1954		Goo Goo Goliath as Ethel (voice) (uncredited)
1954		Yankee Doodle Bugs as Various (voice) (uncredited)
1954		Bewitched Bunny as Witch Hazel / Gretel / Pretty Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
1954		The Cats Bah as Penelope's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
1954		Wild Wife as Marsha, Daughter, Old Women with pennies, Beautician

1953		Punch Trunk as Marsha, Delores
1953		Of Rice and Hen as Miss Prissy (voice)
1953		A Street Cat Named Sylvester as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1953		Tom Tom Tomcat as Granny (voice)
1953		Hare Trimmed as Granny (voice)
1953		Fowl Weather as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1953		Kiss Me Cat as Vi
1953		General Electric Theater as Marie
1953		A Mouse Divided as Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1953		Snow Business as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

1952		Terrier-Stricken as Frisky's Mistress (voice)
1952		Ain't She Tweet as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1952		Orange Blossoms for Violet as Violet (voice) (uncredited)
1952		Little Red Rodent Hood as Granny Mouse (voice)
1952		Kiddin' the Kitten as Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
1952		Gift Wrapped as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1952		Feed the Kitty as Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)
1952		The First Time as Mrs. Potter

1951		Fresh Laid Plans
1951		A Bear for Punishment as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
1951		I Love Lucy as Miss Lewis
1951		Tweety's S.O.S. as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1951		Lovelorn Leghorn as Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens (voice)
1951		Chow Hound as Pet Owner
1951		Room and Bird as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1951		Putty Tat Trouble as Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)
1951		Hare We Go as Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited)

1950		Two's a Crowd as (voice)
1950		The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude, switchboard operator
1950		The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude Gearshift
1950		The Jack Benny Program as Peggy
1950		The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude - Switchboard Operator (voice)
1950		The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude, switchboard operator (voice)
1950		The Jack Benny Program as Gertrude Gearshift - switchboard operator
1950		The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as Blanche Morton
1950		Canary Row as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1950		All a Bir-r-r-d as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1950		An Egg Scramble as Miss Prissy / Hens / Housewife (voice)
1950		The Scarlet Pumpernickel as The Fair Melissa (voice)

1949		Bear Feat as Ma Bear
1949		On the Town as Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)
1949		For Scent-imental Reasons as Cat
1949		The Windblown Hare as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1949		Doggone Tired as Operator (voice) (uncredited)
1949		The Bee-Deviled Bruin as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)

1948		Kit for Cat as Beatrice (voice) (uncredited)
1948		I Taw a Putty Tat as Woman (voice) (uncredited)
1948		A Hick, a Slick and a Chick as Daisy Lou (voice)
1948		Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home as Turtle / Kangaroo (voice)

1947		Doggone Cats as Dog's owner (voice)
1947		Tweetie Pie as Woman (voice) (uncredited)
1947		A Hare Grows in Manhattan as Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited)
1947		Scent-imental Over You as Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)

1946		Notorious as File Clerk (uncredited)
1946		Hollywood Canine Canteen as Female dog voices
1946		Quentin Quail as Baby Toots (voice)
1946		Baseball Bugs as The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited)
1946		Book Revue as Bobby-Soxer / Lady on 'Freckles' Cover / Various Screams (voice)

1945		A Gruesome Twosome as Girl Cat
1945		It's Murder She Says... as Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice)
1945		The Shooting of Dan McGoo as Lou (voice) (uncredited)

1944		Hare Force as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1944		Censored as Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited)
1944		Brother Brat as Baby Butch's Mom
1944		Swooner Crooner as Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
1944		Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips as Additional Characterizations
1944		The Weakly Reporter as Lady Buying Steak, Saleslady, Narrator, Cabbie, Lady with Bottle
1944		Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
1944		Little Red Riding Rabbit as Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)

1943		Puss n' Booty as Woman (voice)
1943		A Corny Concerto as Screams (voice) (uncredited)
1943		Hiss and Make Up as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1943		Pigs in a Polka as Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited)

1942

The Hep Cat as Bird

1941

Goofy Groceries as Cow / Can Can Dancers / Gorilla's Mother (voice) (uncredited)

1940		The Bear's Tale as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
1940		Confederate Honey as Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited)
1940		Cross Country Detours as Deer / Little Girl / Phone Operator (voice) (uncredited)