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.
Movies
The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice)
Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home Turtle / Kangaroo (voice)
Fresh Laid Plans
Of Rice and Hen Miss Prissy (voice)
A Bear for Punishment Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Baseball Bugs The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited)
On the Town Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)
Gift Wrapped Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Two's a Crowd (voice)
Bewitched Bunny Witch Hazel / Gretel / Pretty Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
Chow Hound Pet Owner
Feed the Kitty Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)
For Scent-imental Reasons Cat
Kiss Me Cat Vi
A Hare Grows in Manhattan Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited)
A Gruesome Twosome Girl Cat
Hare Force Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Kit for Cat Beatrice (voice) (uncredited)
Little Red Riding Rabbit Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)
Pigs in a Polka Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited)
Putty Tat Trouble Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)
The Hep Cat Bird
Tweety's S.O.S. Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Censored Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited)
It's Murder She Says... Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel The Fair Melissa (voice)
Tweetie Pie Woman (voice) (uncredited)
Bear Feat Ma Bear
Lovelorn Leghorn Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens
Tweet Dreams Various (voice)
Book Revue Bobby-Soxer / Lady on 'Freckles' Cover / Various Screams (voice)
Goofy Groceries Cow / Can Can Dancers / Gorilla's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
Orange Blossoms for Violet Violet (voice) (uncredited)
Goo Goo Goliath Ethel (voice) (uncredited)
A Mouse Divided Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Canary Row Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Kiddin' the Kitten Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
Ain't She Tweet Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Room and Bird Granny (voice) (uncredited)
All a Bir-r-r-d Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Snow Business Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Puss n' Booty Woman (voice)
An Egg Scramble Miss Prissy / Hens / Housewife (voice)
Sandy Claws Granny
Punch Trunk Marsha, Delores
The Bear's Tale Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Little Red Rodent Hood Granny Mouse (voice)
Tom Tom Tomcat Granny (voice)
Plunderers of Painted Flats Ella Heather
Terrier-Stricken Frisky's Mistress (voice)
The First Time Mrs. Potter
Wild Wife Marsha, Daughter, Old Women with pennies, Beautician
The Hole Idea Gertrude
The Weakly Reporter Lady Buying Steak, Saleslady, Narrator, Cabbie, Lady with Bottle
Hollywood Canine Canteen Female dog voices
A Hick, a Slick and a Chick Daisy Lou (voice)
Doggone Cats Dog's owner (voice)
Quentin Quail Baby Toots (voice)
I Taw a Putty Tat Woman (voice) (uncredited)
The Shooting of Dan McGoo Lou (voice) (uncredited)
Black Widow Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)
Hare Trimmed Granny
Hare We Go Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited)
The Cats Bah Penelope's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
A Corny Concerto Screams (voice) (uncredited)
The Bee-Deviled Bruin Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Confederate Honey Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited)
Cross Country Detours Deer / Little Girl / Phone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
Scent-imental Over You Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)
A Street Cat Named Sylvester Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Doggone Tired Operator (voice) (uncredited)
Notorious File Clerk (uncredited)
Hiss and Make Up Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips Additional Characterizations
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire Granny (voice)(archive footage)
Brother Brat Baby Butch's Mom
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie Granny (voice)
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales Witch Hazel (voice)
Swooner Crooner Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
The History of Hooterville Self (archive footage)
Tender Is the Night Mrs. McKisco
The Windblown Hare Granny (voice) (uncredited)
The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage)
Yankee Doodle Bugs Various (voice) (uncredited)
Fowl Weather Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Feather Dusted Miss Prissy (voice)
A Midsummer Daydream Woman
Shows
77 Sunset Strip Mary Field
The Beverly Hillbillies Cousin Pearl Bodine
The Flintstones Betty Rubble (voice)
I Love Lucy Miss Lewis
Petticoat Junction Kate Bradley
General Electric Theater Marie
Henry's Cat
Pete and Gladys
Matinee Theater
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show Self
The New Breed Miss Horne
Vacation Playhouse Sybil Murdock
The George Burns Show Blanche Morton
Peter Loves Mary Wilma
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Blanche Morton
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Telephone Operator (voice)
The Jack Benny Program Gertrude Gearshift
The Jack Benny Program Gertrude, switchboard operator
Green Acres Kate Bradley
Top Cat Mrs. Ball (voice)
Top Cat Julie / Mom (voice)
Top Cat Fancy's Girlfriend (voice)
Top Cat Fifi The Maid (voice)
Top Cat Girl Cat / Receptionist (voice)
Top Cat Receptionist (voice)
The Restless Gun Madame Brimstone
The Bob Cummings Show Dixie Yates
The Bob Cummings Show Blanche Morton
Screen Director's Playhouse Woman
The Jack Benny Program Gertrude - Switchboard Operator (voice)
The Jack Benny Program Gertrude Gearshift - switchboard operator
The Jack Benny Program Peggy
The Jack Benny Program Gertrude, switchboard operator (voice)
The Jetsons Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice)
The Danny Kaye Show Self
