Betty Compson
Department: Acting
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
The Docks of New York
1928
She Got What She Wanted
1930
The Time, the Place and the Girl
1929
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
Cheating Cheaters
1927
Hollywood
1923
Over the Border
1922
The Woman with Four Faces
1923
The Wise Guy
1926
For Those We Love
1921
Prisoners of Love
1921
The Garden of Weeds
1924
Strange Cargo
1940
Second Chance
1947
The Barker
1928
The Devil's Trail
1919
Street Girl
1929
Locked Doors
1925
The White Shadow
1924
The Lady Refuses
1931
The Great Gabbo
1929
On With the Show!
1929
Destination Unknown
1933
Woman to Woman
1929
Blondes at Work
1938
Here Comes Trouble
1948
False Pretenses
1935
Paths to Paradise
1925
Torchy Blane in Panama
1938
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
1930
Cowboys from Texas
1939
Notorious But Nice
1933
Escort Girl
1941
Bulldog Edition
1936
The Millionaire Kid
1936
August Week End
1936
The Drag Net
1936
Circus Girl
1937
Crazy by Proxy
1917
The Gay Diplomat
1931
Under the Big Top
1938
Hotel Imperial
1939
Weary River
1929
Three Who Loved
1931
The Belle of Broadway
1926
Guilty or Not Guilty
1932
West of Singapore
1933
Religious Racketeers
1938
Port of Missing Girls
1938
The Fast Set
1924
Hubby's Night Out
1917
Inside the Lines
1930
A Trip to Paramountown
1922
The Miracle Man
1919
The Czar of Broadway
1930
Say It with Diamonds
1927
Invisible Ghost
1941
Woman to Woman
1923
Beggar on Horseback
1925
Danger! Women at Work
1943
The Making Over of Mother
1916
Two Minutes to Play
1936
Midnight Mystery
1930
Scarlet Seas
1928
Mad Youth
1940
The Green Temptation
1922
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
News Is Made at Night
1939
Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947
The Palace of Pleasure
1926
Two Gun Justice
1938
Hollywood Boulevard
1936
The Pony Express
1925
Those Who Dance
1930
The Big City
1928
The Beloved Brat
1938
The Little Minister
1921
Federal Bullets
1937
Laughing at Danger
1940
Skin Deep
1929
The Spoilers
1930
That Doggone Baby
1916
As Luck Would Have It
1917
The Show of Shows
1929
Cafe Hostess
1940
Roar of the Press
1941
A Slight Case of Murder
1938
Ladies Must Live
1921
Isle of Escape
1930
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
The Boudoir Diplomat
1930
The Enemy Sex
1924
The Stranger
1924
The Silver Lining
1932
The Desert Bride
1928
Ramshackle House
1924
Love Me and the World Is Mine
1927
Laughing Irish Eyes
1936
At the End of the World
1921
The House That Shadows Built
1931
The White Flower
1923
Kick In
1922
The Rustle of Silk
1923
To Have and to Hold
1922
Court Martial
1928
Eve's Secret
1925
New Lives for Old
1925
The Bonded Woman
1922
Border Raiders
1918
Her Adventurous Night
1946
The Female
1924
The Light of Victory
1919
Blaze o' Glory
1929
Killer at Large
1936
Confessions of a Vice Baron
1943
The Royal Oak
1923
God's Country and the Man
1937
The Sheriff
1918
Law and the Woman
1922
Virtuous Husband
1931
Hollywood Halfbacks
1931
Inoculating Hubby
1916
No Sleep on the Deep
1934
The Masked Angel
1928
Miami
1924
Counsel for the Defense
1925
Always the Woman
1922
The Terror of the Range
1919
Temptations of a Shop Girl
1927
Life's Mockery
1928