Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

122

Gender

Female

Birthday

1897-03-17

Deathday

1974-04-18 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Beaver, Utah, USA

Also Known As

Eleanor Luicime Compson
ベティ・カンプソン

Betty Compson

Biography

Betty Compson (March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer. Most famous in silent films and early talkies, she is best known in her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Known For

6.2%

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Jan 31, 1941

7.0%

The Docks of New York

Sep 16, 1928

7.0%

Strange Cargo

Mar 1, 1940

5.2%

Invisible Ghost

Apr 25, 1941

6.2%

A Slight Case of Murder

Feb 26, 1938

5.5%

The Great Gabbo

Sep 12, 1929

5.3%

The Lady Refuses

Mar 8, 1931

5.1%

Woman to Woman

Nov 1, 1929

5.5%

Weary River

Feb 10, 1929

7.2%

The White Shadow

May 5, 1924

3.2%

Escort Girl

Nov 4, 1941

5.1%

Inside the Lines

Jul 5, 1930

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Acting

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Herself (archive footage)

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)

1948

Here Comes Trouble as Martha Blake

1947		Second Chance as Mrs. Davenport
1947		Hard Boiled Mahoney as Selena Webster

1946

Her Adventurous Night as Miss Spencer

1943		Danger! Women at Work as Madame Sappho
1943		Confessions of a Vice Baron as Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)

1941		Escort Girl as Ruth Ashley
1941		Invisible Ghost as Mrs. Kessler
1941		Roar of the Press as Mrs. Thelma Tate
1941		Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Gertie

1940		Laughing at Danger as Mrs. Van Horn
1940		Mad Youth as Lucy Morgan
1940		Strange Cargo as Suzanne (uncredited)
1940		Cafe Hostess as Cafe Hostess

1939		Cowboys from Texas as Belle Starkey
1939		News Is Made at Night as Kitty Truman
1939		Hotel Imperial as Soubrette (uncredited)

1938		Under the Big Top as Marie
1938		Religious Racketeers as Ada Bernard
1938		Torchy Blane in Panama as Kitty, Gomez's Moll
1938		The Beloved Brat as Eleanor Sparks
1938		Two Gun Justice as Kate
1938		A Slight Case of Murder as Loretta
1938		Port of Missing Girls as Chicago
1938		Blondes at Work as Blanche Revelle

1937		Federal Bullets as Sue, Gang Moll
1937		God's Country and the Man as Roxey Moore
1937		Circus Girl as Carlotta

1936		Two Minutes to Play as 'Fluff' Harding
1936		Killer at Large as Kate
1936		Bulldog Edition as Billie Blake
1936		Hollywood Boulevard as Betty
1936		The Drag-Net as Mollie Cole
1936		The Millionaire Kid as Gloria Neville
1936		Laughing Irish Eyes as Molly
1936		August Week End as Ethel Ames

1935

False Pretenses as Clarissa Stanhope

1933		Notorious But Nice as Millie Sprague
1933		Destination Unknown as Ruby Smith
1933		West of Singapore as Lou

1932		Guilty or Not Guilty as Maizie
1932		The Silver Lining as Kate Flynn

1931		Hollywood Halfbacks
1931		The Gay Diplomat as Baroness Corri
1931		The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
1931		Three Who Loved as Helga Larson Hanson
1931		Virtuous Husband as Inez Wakefield
1931		The Lady Refuses as June

1930		The Boudoir Diplomat as Helene
1930		She Got What She Wanted
1930		The Spoilers as Cherry Malotte
1930		Inside the Lines as Jane Gershon
1930		Midnight Mystery as Sally Wayne
1930		The Czar of Broadway as Connie Colton
1930		Those Who Dance as Kitty
1930		Isle of Escape as Stella
1930		The Case of Sergeant Grischa as Babka

1929		Blaze o' Glory as Helen Williams
1929		Show of Shows as Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
1929		Woman to Woman as Deloryce / Lola
1929		The Great Gabbo as Mary
1929		Skin Deep as Sadie Rogers
1929		Street Girl as Frederika Joyzelle
1929		On With the Show! as Nita
1929		The Time, the Place and the Girl as Doris Ward
1929		Weary River as Alice Gray

1928		The Barker as Carrie
1928		The Docks of New York as Mae
1928		Court Martial as Belle Starr
1928		The Desert Bride as Diane Duval
1928		The Big City as Helen
1928		Scarlet Seas as Rose

1927		Cheating Cheaters as Nan Carey
1927		Love Me and the World Is Mine as Mitzel
1927		Say It with Diamonds as Betty Howard

1926		The Belle of Broadway as Marie Duval
1926		The Wise Guy as Hula Kate
1926		The Palace of Pleasure as Lola Montez

1925		The Pony Express as Molly Jones
1925		Paths to Paradise as Molly
1925		Beggar on Horseback as Princess in Pantomime
1925		Eve's Secret as Eve
1925		New Lives for Old as Olympe
1925		Locked Doors as Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter

1924		The Garden of Weeds as Dorothy Delbridge
1924		The Fast Set as Margaret Sones
1924		Ramshackle House as Pen Broome
1924		The Female as Dalla
1924		The Enemy Sex as Dodo Baxter
1924		The White Shadow as Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
1924		The Stranger as Peggy Bowlin

1923		The Royal Oak as Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
1923		Hollywood as Betty Compson
1923		The Woman with Four Faces as Elizabeth West
1923		The Rustle of Silk as Lala De Breeze
1923		The White Flower as Konia Markham
1923		Woman to Woman as Louise Boucher / Deloryse

1922		Kick In as Molly Brandon
1922		To Have and to Hold as Lady Jocelyn Leigh
1922		The Bonded Woman as Angela Gaskell
1922		A Trip to Paramountown as Self
1922		Over the Border as Jen Galbraith
1922		The Green Temptation as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
1922		Law and the Woman as Margaret Rolfe

1921		The Little Minister as Lady Babbie
1921		Ladies Must Live as Christine Bleeker
1921		For Those We Love as Bernice Arnold
1921		At the End of the World as Cherry O'Day
1921		Prisoners of Love as Blanche Davis

1919		The Miracle Man as Rose
1919		The Devil's Trail as Rose
1919		The Light of Victory as Jane Ravenslee

1918		The Sheriff as School Teacher
1918		Border Raiders as Rose Hardy

1917		Crazy by Proxy
1917		As Luck Would Have It
1917		Hubby's Night Out as Wifey

1916		That Doggone Baby as Wifie Parker
1916		The Making Over of Mother as Mrs. Newlywed
1916		Inoculating Hubby

Writing

1921		For Those We Love as Writer
1921		Prisoners of Love as Writer