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