Bea Benaderet
Acting
🎂 1906-04-04
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.
Cast credits(122)
Betty Rubble (voice)
1960
Kate Bradley
1963
1955
Miss Lewis
1951
Cousin Pearl Bodine
1962
Mary Field
1958
Self
1956
Kate Bradley
1965
Telephone Operator (voice)
1959
Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice)
1962
Gertrude, switchboard operator
1950
Gertrude Gearshift
1950
Peggy
1950
Gertrude - Switchboard Operator (voice)
1950
Gertrude, switchboard operator (voice)
1950
Gertrude Gearshift - switchboard operator
1950
1960
Miss Horne
1961
Woman
1955
Mrs. Ball (voice)
1961
Fifi The Maid (voice)
1961
Julie / Mom (voice)
1961
Fancy's Girlfriend (voice)
1961
Receptionist (voice)
1961
Girl Cat / Receptionist (voice)
1961
Madame Brimstone
1957
Self
1963
Blanche Morton
1950
Frisky's Mistress (voice)
1952
Granny (voice)(archive footage)
2010
File Clerk (uncredited)
1946
Ma Bear
1949
Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Sybil Murdock
1963
Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Self (archive footage)
2005
Cat
1949
Pet Owner
1951
The Fair Melissa (voice)
1950
Wilma
1960
Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)
1949
Witch Hazel (voice)
1982
Baby Toots (voice)
1946
Marie
1953
(voice)
1950
Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice)
1945
Screams (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Granny (voice)
1981
Turtle / Kangaroo (voice)
1948
Blanche Morton
1955
Dixie Yates
1955
Mrs. McKisco
1962
Miss Prissy (voice)
1953
Granny Mouse (voice)
1952
Violet (voice) (uncredited)
1952
Marsha, Delores
1953
Penelope's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
1954
Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice)
1991
Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)
1954
Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)
1952
Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
1951
Witch Hazel / Gretel / Pretty Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
1954
Mrs. Potter
1952
Lady Buying Steak, Saleslady, Narrator, Cabbie, Lady with Bottle
1944
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1951
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Vi
1953
Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)
1951
Blanche Morton
1958
1951
Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Ella Heather
1959
Lou (voice) (uncredited)
1945
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1952
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1950
The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited)
1946
Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Daisy Lou (voice)
1948
Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
1952
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1953
Woman (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1951
Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
1940
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Bobby-Soxer / Lady on 'Freckles' Cover / Various Screams (voice)
1946
Deer / Little Girl / Phone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
1940
Beatrice (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Baby Butch's Mom
1944
Woman (voice) (uncredited)
1947
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1952
Bird
1942
Ethel (voice) (uncredited)
1954
Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited)
1951
Operator (voice) (uncredited)
1949
Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens (voice)
1951
Granny (voice)
1953
Cow / Can Can Dancers / Gorilla's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
1941
Granny
1955
Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage)
1986
Gertrude
1955
Girl Cat
1945
Woman (voice)
1943
Dog's owner (voice)
1947
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Additional Characterizations
1944
Various (voice) (uncredited)
1954
Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)
1944
Marsha, Daughter, Old Women with pennies, Beautician
1954
Female dog voices
1946
Miss Prissy (voice)
1955
Woman
1955
Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited)
1940
Granny (voice)
1953
Miss Prissy / Hens / Housewife (voice)
1950
Various (voice)
1959