Birthday

1906-04-04

Died

1968-10-13

Birthplace

New York, New York, USA

Gender

Female

Known For

Acting

Bea Benaderet

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.

Acting Credits

The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame

Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice)

Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home

Turtle / Kangaroo (voice)

Fresh Laid Plans

Of Rice and Hen

Miss Prissy (voice)

A Bear for Punishment

Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)

Baseball Bugs

The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited)

On the Town

Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)

Gift Wrapped

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Two's a Crowd

(voice)

Bewitched Bunny

Witch Hazel / Gretel / Pretty Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)

Chow Hound

Pet Owner

Feed the Kitty

Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)

For Scent-imental Reasons

Cat

Kiss Me Cat

Vi

A Hare Grows in Manhattan

Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited)

Hare Force

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

A Gruesome Twosome

Girl Cat

Little Red Riding Rabbit

Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)

Kit for Cat

Beatrice (voice) (uncredited)

Pigs in a Polka

Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited)

Putty Tat Trouble

Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)

The Hep Cat

Bird

Tweety's S.O.S.

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Censored

Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited)

It's Murder She Says...

Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice)

Tweetie Pie

Woman (voice) (uncredited)

The Scarlet Pumpernickel

The Fair Melissa (voice)

Bear Feat

Ma Bear

Lovelorn Leghorn

Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens (voice)

Tweet Dreams

Various (voice)

Book Revue

Bobby-Soxer / Lady on 'Freckles' Cover / Various Screams (voice)

Goofy Groceries

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

Orange Blossoms for Violet

Violet (voice) (uncredited)

Goo Goo Goliath

Ethel (voice) (uncredited)

A Mouse Divided

Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

Canary Row

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears

Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)

Kiddin' the Kitten

Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)

Ain't She Tweet

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Room and Bird

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

All a Bir-r-r-d

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Snow Business

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Puss n' Booty

Woman (voice)

An Egg Scramble

Miss Prissy / Hens / Housewife (voice)

Sandy Claws

Granny

Punch Trunk

Marsha, Delores

The Bear's Tale

Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)

Little Red Rodent Hood

Granny Mouse (voice)

Tom Tom Tomcat

Granny (voice)

Plunderers of Painted Flats

Ella Heather

Terrier-Stricken

Frisky's Mistress (voice)

The First Time

Mrs. Potter

Wild Wife

Marsha, Daughter, Old Women with pennies, Beautician

The Hole Idea

Gertrude

The Weakly Reporter

Lady Buying Steak, Saleslady, Narrator, Cabbie, Lady with Bottle

Hollywood Canine Canteen

Female dog voices

A Hick, a Slick and a Chick

Daisy Lou (voice)

Doggone Cats

Dog's owner (voice)

Quentin Quail

Baby Toots (voice)

I Taw a Putty Tat

Woman (voice) (uncredited)

The Shooting of Dan McGoo

Lou (voice) (uncredited)

Black Widow

Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)

Hare Trimmed

Granny (voice)

Hare We Go

Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited)

The Cats Bah

Penelope's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)

A Corny Concerto

Screams (voice) (uncredited)

The Bee-Deviled Bruin

Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)

Confederate Honey

Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited)

Cross Country Detours

Deer / Little Girl / Phone Operator (voice) (uncredited)

Scent-imental Over You

Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)

A Street Cat Named Sylvester

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Doggone Tired

Operator (voice) (uncredited)

Notorious

File Clerk (uncredited)

Hiss and Make Up

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips

Additional Characterizations

Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire

Granny (voice)(archive footage)

Brother Brat

Baby Butch's Mom

Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales

Witch Hazel (voice)

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

Granny (voice)

Swooner Crooner

Chickens (voice) (uncredited)

The History of Hooterville

Self (archive footage)

Tender Is the Night

Mrs. McKisco

The Windblown Hare

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration

Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage)

Yankee Doodle Bugs

Various (voice) (uncredited)

Fowl Weather

Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Feather Dusted

Miss Prissy (voice)

A Midsummer Daydream

Woman

77 Sunset Strip

Mary Field

The Beverly Hillbillies

Cousin Pearl Bodine

The Flintstones

Betty Rubble (voice)

I Love Lucy

Miss Lewis

Petticoat Junction

Kate Bradley

General Electric Theater

Marie

Pete and Gladys

Matinee Theater

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Self

The New Breed

Miss Horne

Vacation Playhouse

Vacation Playhouse

Sybil Murdock

The George Burns Show

The George Burns Show

Blanche Morton

Peter Loves Mary

Peter Loves Mary

Wilma

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Blanche Morton

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Telephone Operator (voice)

The Jack Benny Program

Gertrude Gearshift

The Jack Benny Program

Gertrude, switchboard operator

Top Cat

Mrs. Ball (voice)

Green Acres

Kate Bradley

Top Cat

Julie / Mom (voice)

Top Cat

Fancy's Girlfriend (voice)

Top Cat

Fifi The Maid (voice)

Top Cat

Girl Cat / Receptionist (voice)

Top Cat

Receptionist (voice)

The Bob Cummings Show

Blanche Morton

The Jack Benny Program

Gertrude Gearshift - switchboard operator

Screen Director's Playhouse

Woman

The Jack Benny Program

Gertrude, switchboard operator (voice)

The Jack Benny Program

Peggy

The Bob Cummings Show

Dixie Yates

The Restless Gun

Madame Brimstone

The Jack Benny Program

Gertrude - Switchboard Operator (voice)

The Jetsons

Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice)

The Danny Kaye Show

Self