Bea Benaderet
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame
1991
Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home
1948
Fresh Laid Plans
1951
Of Rice and Hen
1953
A Bear for Punishment
1951
Baseball Bugs
1946
On the Town
1949
Gift Wrapped
1952
Two's a Crowd
1950
Bewitched Bunny
1954
Chow Hound
1951
Feed the Kitty
1952
For Scent-imental Reasons
1949
Kiss Me Cat
1953
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
1947
Hare Force
1944
A Gruesome Twosome
1945
Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944
Kit for Cat
1948
Pigs in a Polka
1943
Putty Tat Trouble
1951
The Hep Cat
1942
Tweety's S.O.S.
1951
Censored
1944
It's Murder She Says...
1945
Tweetie Pie
1947
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
1950
Bear Feat
1949
Lovelorn Leghorn
1951
Tweet Dreams
1959
Book Revue
1946
Goofy Groceries
1941
Orange Blossoms for Violet
1952
Goo Goo Goliath
1954
A Mouse Divided
1953
Canary Row
1950
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
1944
Kiddin' the Kitten
1952
Ain't She Tweet
1952
Room and Bird
1951
All a Bir-r-r-d
1950
Snow Business
1953
Puss n' Booty
1943
An Egg Scramble
1950
Sandy Claws
1955
Punch Trunk
1953
The Bear's Tale
1940
Little Red Rodent Hood
1952
Tom Tom Tomcat
1953
Plunderers of Painted Flats
1959
Terrier-Stricken
1952
The First Time
1952
Wild Wife
1954
The Hole Idea
1955
The Weakly Reporter
1944
Hollywood Canine Canteen
1946
A Hick, a Slick and a Chick
1948
Doggone Cats
1947
Quentin Quail
1946
I Taw a Putty Tat
1948
The Shooting of Dan McGoo
1945
Black Widow
1954
Hare Trimmed
1953
Hare We Go
1951
The Cats Bah
1954
A Corny Concerto
1943
The Bee-Deviled Bruin
1949
Confederate Honey
1940
Cross Country Detours
1940
Scent-imental Over You
1947
A Street Cat Named Sylvester
1953
Doggone Tired
1949
Notorious
1946
Hiss and Make Up
1943
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
1944
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire
2010
Brother Brat
1944
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
1982
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
1981
Swooner Crooner
1944
The History of Hooterville
2005
Tender Is the Night
1962
The Windblown Hare
1949
The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration
1986
Yankee Doodle Bugs
1954
Fowl Weather
1953
Feather Dusted
1955
A Midsummer Daydream
1955
Looney Tunes Collector's Vault, Volume 2
2026
77 Sunset Strip
1958
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
The Flintstones
1960
I Love Lucy
1951
Petticoat Junction
1963
General Electric Theater
1953
Pete and Gladys
1960
Matinee Theater
1955
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
The New Breed
1961
Vacation Playhouse
1963
The George Burns Show
1958
Peter Loves Mary
1960
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
The Jack Benny Program
1950
The Jack Benny Program
1950
Top Cat
1961
Green Acres
1965
Top Cat
1961
Top Cat
1961
Top Cat
1961
Top Cat
1961
Top Cat
1961
The Bob Cummings Show
1955
The Jack Benny Program
1950
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
The Jack Benny Program
1950
The Jack Benny Program
1950
The Bob Cummings Show
1955
The Restless Gun
1957
The Jack Benny Program
1950
The Jetsons
1962
The Danny Kaye Show
1963