Actor · Acting

Bea Benaderet

Born 1906-04-04

Died 1968-10-13

📍 New York, New York, USA

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.

Filmography 119

Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire

as Granny (voice)(archive footage)

The History of Hooterville

as Self (archive footage)

The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame

as Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice)

The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration

as Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage)

The Bugs Bunny Show

Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales

as Witch Hazel (voice)

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

as Granny (voice)

as Kate Bradley

The Danny Kaye Show

Petticoat Junction

as Kate Bradley

The Beverly Hillbillies

as Cousin Pearl Bodine

as Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice)

Tender Is the Night

as Mrs. McKisco

as Mrs. Ball (voice)

as Fifi The Maid (voice)

as Julie / Mom (voice)

as Fancy's Girlfriend (voice)

as Receptionist (voice)

as Girl Cat / Receptionist (voice)

The Flintstones

as Betty Rubble (voice)

Pete and Gladys

as Various (voice)

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

as Telephone Operator (voice)

Plunderers of Painted Flats

as Ella Heather

77 Sunset Strip

The Restless Gun

as Madame Brimstone

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Matinee Theater

Screen Director's Playhouse

as Miss Prissy (voice)

The Bob Cummings Show

as Blanche Morton

The Bob Cummings Show

as Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)

Goo Goo Goliath

as Ethel (voice) (uncredited)

Yankee Doodle Bugs

as Various (voice) (uncredited)

Bewitched Bunny

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

as Penelope's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)

as Marsha, Daughter, Old Women with pennies, Beautician

as Marsha, Delores

Of Rice and Hen

as Miss Prissy (voice)

A Street Cat Named Sylvester

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

as Granny (voice)

as Granny (voice)

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

General Electric Theater

A Mouse Divided

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

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Terrier-Stricken

as Frisky's Mistress (voice)

Ain't She Tweet

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Orange Blossoms for Violet

as Violet (voice) (uncredited)

Little Red Rodent Hood

as Granny Mouse (voice)

Kiddin' the Kitten

as Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

as Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)

Fresh Laid Plans

A Bear for Punishment

as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)

Tweety's S.O.S.

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Lovelorn Leghorn

as Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens (voice)

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Putty Tat Trouble

as Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)

as Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited)

The Jack Benny Program

as Gertrude, switchboard operator

The Jack Benny Program

as Gertrude Gearshift

The Jack Benny Program

The Jack Benny Program

as Gertrude - Switchboard Operator (voice)

The Jack Benny Program

as Gertrude, switchboard operator (voice)

The Jack Benny Program

as Gertrude Gearshift - switchboard operator

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

as Blanche Morton

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

All a Bir-r-r-d

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

An Egg Scramble

as Miss Prissy / Hens / Housewife (voice)

The Scarlet Pumpernickel

as The Fair Melissa (voice)

as Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)

For Scent-imental Reasons

The Windblown Hare

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

as Operator (voice) (uncredited)

The Bee-Deviled Bruin

as Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)

as Beatrice (voice) (uncredited)

I Taw a Putty Tat

as Woman (voice) (uncredited)

A Hick, a Slick and a Chick

as Daisy Lou (voice)

as Dog's owner (voice)

as Woman (voice) (uncredited)

A Hare Grows in Manhattan

as Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited)

Scent-imental Over You

as Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)

as File Clerk (uncredited)

Hollywood Canine Canteen

as Female dog voices

as Baby Toots (voice)

as The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited)

Looney Tunes Golden Collection

as The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited)

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

A Gruesome Twosome

It's Murder She Says...

as Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice)

The Shooting of Dan McGoo

as Lou (voice) (uncredited)

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

as Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited)

as Baby Butch's Mom

Swooner Crooner

as Chickens (voice) (uncredited)

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips

as Additional Characterizations

The Weakly Reporter

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

Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears

as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)

Little Red Riding Rabbit

as Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)

as Woman (voice)

A Corny Concerto

as Screams (voice) (uncredited)

Hiss and Make Up

as Granny (voice) (uncredited)

Pigs in a Polka

as Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited)

Goofy Groceries

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

The Bear's Tale

as Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)

Confederate Honey

as Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited)

Cross Country Detours

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