Betsy Palmer (November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015) was an American actress, best known as a regular panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret and later for playing Mrs. Voorhees in the slasher film Friday the 13th (1980).

Filmography

• 2023Friday the 13th: Origin of Evil - Part 3
• 2007Bell Witch: The Movie — Bell Witch
• 2005Penny Dreadful — Trudie Tredwell
• FreakyLinks — Betty
• 1999The Fear: Resurrection — Grandmother
• Just Shoot Me! — Rhonda
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1994Unveiled — Eva
• 1992Still Not Quite Human — Aunt Mildred
• 1988Goddess of Love — Hera
• Windmills of the Gods — Mrs. Hart Brisbane
• Charles in Charge — Gloria
• 1984Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter — Pamela Voorhees (archive footage)
• Murder, She Wrote — Lila Norris, Valerie
• 1982Friday the 13th Part III — Mrs. Pamela Voorhees (archive footage)
• Newhart
• T. J. Hooker — Anne Armstrong
• 1981Friday the 13th Part 2 — Mrs. Voorhees
• 1981Isabel's Choice — Ellie Fineman
• Maggie — Virginia Sullivan
• 1980Friday the 13th — Mrs. Voorhees
• Knots Landing — Virginia Bullock
• The Love Boat — Millicent Holton
• Columbo — Martha Lamarr
• 1959It Happened to Jane — Betsy Palmer
• 1959The Last Angry Man — Anna Thrasher
• 1958No Time at All — Emmy Verdon
• 1958The True Story of Lynn Stuart — Phyllis Carter / Lynn Stuart
• 1957The Tin Star — Nona Mayfield
• Playhouse 90 — Emmy Verdon
• 1955Death Tide — Gloria
• 1955Mister Roberts — Ann Girard
• 1955Queen Bee — Carol Lee Phillips
• 1955The Long Gray Line — Kitty Carter
• Climax! — Elizabeth, Fran Coates, Connie Rankin Hill
• Inner Sanctum
• 1953Death Is My Neighbor — Netta
• General Electric Theater — (uncredited)
• 1953Marty — Virginia
• 1953Sentence of Death — Ellen Morrison
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Nancy Aragon
• Miss Susan
• Lux Video Theatre
• Studio One — Edith Olmstead, Ann Meade, Dony Waller, Maureen Drew, Mimi, Ellen Morrison
• The Philco Television Playhouse — Janice Gans

Appearances as themselves (22)

• 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self
• 2013Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th — Self
• 2010His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th — Self
• 2009Friday's Legacy: Horror Conventions — Self
• 2009Into the Pit: The Shocking Story of Deadpit.com — Self
• 2006Betsy Palmer: A Scream Queen Legend — Herself
• 2006Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film — Self
• 2005James Dean: Forever Young — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Friday the 13th: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan (Crystal Lake Victims Tell All - Documentary) — Self
• 2004The Friday the 13th Chronicles — Self
• 2003Return to Crystal Lake: Making 'Friday the 13th' — Herself
• 2002Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star — Self - Actress
• 1999Television: The First Fifty Years — Self
• 1995James Dean and Me — Self (uncredited)
• CHiPs — Self (uncredited)
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self
• 1955The Red, White and Blue Line — Self
• I've Got a Secret — Self
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self