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.

Filmography

• 1991Halloween Monster Bash — Mrs. Kessler (archive footage)
• 1948Here Comes Trouble — Martha Blake
• 1947Hard Boiled Mahoney — Selena Webster
• 1947Second Chance — Mrs. Davenport
• 1946Her Adventurous Night — Miss Spencer
• 1943Confessions of a Vice Baron — Mrs. Lucy Morgan (edited from Mad Youth) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1943Danger! Women at Work — Madame Sappho
• 1941Escort Girl — Ruth Ashley
• 1941Invisible Ghost — Mrs. Kessler
• 1941Mr. & Mrs. Smith — Gertie
• 1941Roar of the Press — Mrs. Thelma Tate
• 1940Cafe Hostess — Cafe Hostess
• 1940Laughing at Danger — Mrs. Van Horn
• 1940Mad Youth — Lucy Morgan
• 1940Strange Cargo — Suzanne (uncredited)
• 1939Cowboys from Texas — Belle Starkey
• 1939Hotel Imperial — Soubrette (uncredited)
• 1939News Is Made at Night — Kitty Truman
• 1938A Slight Case of Murder — Loretta
• 1938Blondes at Work — Blanche Revelle
• 1938Port of Missing Girls — Chicago
• 1938Religious Racketeers — Ada Bernard
• 1938The Beloved Brat — Eleanor Sparks
• 1938Torchy Blane in Panama — Kitty, Gomez's Moll
• 1938Two Gun Justice — Kate
• 1938Under the Big Top — Marie
• 1937Circus Girl — Carlotta
• 1937Federal Bullets — Sue, Gang Moll
• 1937God's Country and the Man — Roxey Moore
• 1936August Week End — Ethel Ames
• 1936Bulldog Edition — Billie Blake
• 1936Hollywood Boulevard — Betty
• 1936Killer at Large — Kate
• 1936Laughing Irish Eyes — Molly
• 1936The Drag Net — Mollie Cole
• 1936The Millionaire Kid — Gloria Neville
• 1936Two Minutes to Play — 'Fluff' Harding
• 1935False Pretenses — Clarissa Stanhope
• 1934No Sleep on the Deep — Mrs. Eldridge
• 1933Destination Unknown — Ruby Smith
• 1933Notorious But Nice — Millie Sprague
• 1933West of Singapore — Lou
• 1932Guilty or Not Guilty — Maizie
• 1932The Silver Lining — Kate Flynn
• 1931Hollywood Halfbacks
• 1931The Gay Diplomat — Baroness Corri
• 1931The House That Shadows Built — (archive footage)
• 1931The Lady Refuses — June
• 1931Three Who Loved — Helga Larson Hanson
• 1931Virtuous Husband — Inez Wakefield
• 1930Inside the Lines — Jane Gershon
• 1930Isle of Escape — Stella
• 1930Midnight Mystery — Sally Wayne
• 1930She Got What She Wanted
• 1930The Boudoir Diplomat — Helene
• 1930The Case of Sergeant Grischa — Babka
• 1930The Czar of Broadway — Connie Colton
• 1930The Spoilers — Cherry Malotte
• 1930Those Who Dance — Kitty
• 1929Blaze o' Glory — Helen Williams
• 1929On With the Show! — Nita
• 1929Skin Deep — Sadie Rogers
• 1929Street Girl — Frederika Joyzelle
• 1929The Great Gabbo — Mary
• 1929The Show of Shows — Performer in 'The Pirate Number' & 'Lady Luck' Numbers (uncredited)
• 1929The Time, the Place and the Girl — Doris Ward
• 1929Weary River — Alice Gray
• 1929Woman to Woman — Deloryce / Lola
• 1928Court Martial — Belle Starr
• 1928Life's Mockery — Kit Miller/Isabelle Fullerton
• 1928Scarlet Seas — Rose
• 1928The Barker — Carrie
• 1928The Big City — Helen
• 1928The Desert Bride — Diane Duval
• 1928The Docks of New York — Mae
• 1928The Masked Angel — Betty
• 1927Cheating Cheaters — Nan Carey
• 1927Love Me and the World Is Mine — Mitzel
• 1927Say It with Diamonds — Betty Howard
• 1927Temptations of a Shop Girl — Ruth Harrington
• 1926The Belle of Broadway — Marie Duval / The Young Adele
• 1926The Palace of Pleasure — Lola Montez
• 1926The Wise Guy — Hula Kate
• 1925Beggar on Horseback — Princess in Pantomime
• 1925Counsel for the Defense — Katherine West
• 1925Eve's Secret — Eve
• 1925Locked Doors — Mrs. Norman 'Mary Reid' Carter
• 1925New Lives for Old — Olympe
• 1925Paths to Paradise — Molly
• 1925The Pony Express — Molly Jones
• 1924Miami — Joan Bruce
• 1924Ramshackle House — Pen Broome
• 1924The Enemy Sex — Dodo Baxter
• 1924The Fast Set — Margaret Sones
• 1924The Female — Dalla
• 1924The Garden of Weeds — Dorothy Delbridge
• 1924The Stranger — Peggy Bowlin
• 1924The White Shadow — Nancy Brent / Georgina Brent
• 1923Hollywood — Betty Compson
• 1923The Royal Oak — Lady Mildred Cholmondeley
• 1923The Rustle of Silk — Lala De Breeze
• 1923The White Flower — Konia Markham
• 1923The Woman with Four Faces — Elizabeth West
• 1923Woman to Woman — Louise Boucher / Deloryse
• 1922Always the Woman — Celia Thaxter / Queen Neco Tokris, Producer
• 1922Kick In — Molly Brandon
• 1922Law and the Woman — Margaret Rolfe
• 1922Over the Border — Jen Galbraith
• 1922The Bonded Woman — Angela Gaskell
• 1922The Green Temptation — Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
• 1922To Have and to Hold — Lady Jocelyn Leigh
• 1921At the End of the World — Cherry O'Day
• 1921For Those We Love — Bernice Arnold, Writer
• 1921Ladies Must Live — Christine Bleeker
• 1921Prisoners of Love — Blanche Davis, Writer
• 1921The Little Minister — Lady Babbie
• 1919The Devil's Trail — Rose
• 1919The Light of Victory — Jane Ravenslee
• 1919The Miracle Man — Rose
• 1919The Terror of the Range — Thelma Grant
• 1918Border Raiders — Rose Hardy
• 1918The Sheriff — School Teacher
• 1917As Luck Would Have It
• 1917Crazy by Proxy
• 1917Hubby's Night Out — Wifey
• 1917Out for the Coin
• 1916Inoculating Hubby
• 1916That Doggone Baby — Wifie Parker
• 1916The Making Over of Mother — Mrs. Newlywed

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2011Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films — Herself (archive footage)
• 1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? — Self (archive footage)
• 1922A Trip to Paramountown — Self