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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Movies (30)
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire
as Granny (voice)(archive footage)
2010
The History of Hooterville
as Self (archive footage)
2005
The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame
as Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice)
1991
The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration
as Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage)
1986
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
as Witch Hazel (voice)
1982
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
as Granny (voice)
1981
Tender Is the Night
as Mrs. McKisco
1962
Tweet Dreams
as Various (voice)
1959
Plunderers of Painted Flats
as Ella Heather
1959
A Midsummer Daydream
as Woman
1955
The Hole Idea
as Gertrude
1955
Sandy Claws
as Granny
1955
Feather Dusted
as Miss Prissy (voice)
1955
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
1954
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
A Mouse Divided
as Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Snow Business
as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Terrier-Stricken
as Frisky's Mistress (voice)
1952
Ain't She Tweet
as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1952
TV Shows (20)
Green Acres
as Kate Bradley
1965
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
Petticoat Junction
as Kate Bradley
1963
Vacation Playhouse
as Sybil Murdock
1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Cousin Pearl Bodine
1962
The Jetsons
as Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice)
1962
The New Breed
as Miss Horne
1961
Top Cat
as Mrs. Ball (voice)
1961
Peter Loves Mary
as Wilma
1960
The Flintstones
as Betty Rubble (voice)
1960
Pete and Gladys
1960
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
as Telephone Operator (voice)
1959
The George Burns Show
as Blanche Morton
1958
77 Sunset Strip
as Mary Field
1958
The Restless Gun
as Madame Brimstone
1957
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
Matinee Theater
1955
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Woman
1955
The Bob Cummings Show
as Dixie Yates
1955
General Electric Theater
as Marie
1953