Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas.
After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis ...
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Pocketful of Miracles
As Apple Annie
All About Eve
As Margo Channing
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
As Self (archive footage)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
As Baby Jane Hudson
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
As Self (archive footage)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
As Charlotte Hollis
Jezebel
As Julie Marsden
Death on the Nile
As Marie Van Schuyler
The Watcher in the Woods
As Mrs. Aylwood
Murder with Mirrors
As Carrie Louise Serrocold
Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
As Marie Van Schuyler (archive footage)
Dead Ringer
As Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips
Deception
As Christine Radcliffe
Marked Woman
As Mary Dwight Strauber
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
As (in "Deception") (archive footage)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
As Maggie Cutler
Bordertown
As Mrs. Marie Roark
Now, Voyager
As Charlotte Vale
The Horror Show
As (archive footage)
Dark Victory
As Judith Traherne
Burnt Offerings
As Aunt Elizabeth
Satan Met a Lady
As Valerie Purvis
Wicked Stepmother
As Miranda Pierpoint
Beyond the Forest
As Rosa Moline
The Bride Came C.O.D.
As Joan Winfield
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
As Fay Wilson
Return from Witch Mountain
As Letha Wedge
Three on a Match
As Ruth Westcott
Mr. Skeffington
As Fanny Trellis
The Cabin in the Cotton
As Madge Norwood
The Virgin Queen
As Queen Elizabeth I
Winter Meeting
As Susan Grieve
A Stolen Life
As Kate Bosworth / Patricia Bosworth
The Corn Is Green
As Miss Lilly Christabel Moffat
Thank Your Lucky Stars
As Self
In This Our Life
As Stanley Timberlake Kingsmill
The Little Foxes
As Regina Hubbard Giddens
All This, and Heaven Too
As Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
The Great Lie
As Maggie Patterson Van Allen
Of Human Bondage
As Mildred Rogers
The Old Maid
As Charlotte Lovell
Hollywood and the Stars
As (archive footage)
Storm Center
As Alicia Hull
Hollywood Canteen
As Self
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1938
As Self (archive footage)
Shining Victory
A Day at Santa Anita
A Dream Comes True
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
As Queen Elizabeth
The Petrified Forest
As Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple
The Nanny
As Nanny
The Letter
As Leslie Crosbie
Watch on the Rhine
As Sara Müller
The Whales of August
As Libby Strong
Fog Over Frisco
As Arlene Bradford
Breakdowns of 1941
As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Showbiz Goes to War
As (archive footage)
Jimmy the Gent
As Joan Martin
Dangerous
As Joyce Heath
Special Agent
As Julie Gardner
Bureau of Missing Persons
As Norma Roberts
Ex-Lady
As Helen Bauer
Kid Galahad
As Louise 'Fluff' Phillips
Where Love Has Gone
As Mrs. Gerald Hayden
Another Man's Poison
As Janet Frobisher
Fashions of 1934
As Lynn Mason
Old Acquaintance
As Kit Marlowe
John Paul Jones
As Empress Catherine the Great
Payment on Demand
As Joyce Ramsey (nee Jackson)
Madame Sin
As Madame Sin
The Scopone Game
As 'A vecchia
Phone Call from a Stranger
As Marie Hoke
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
As (archive footage)
Bette and Joan
As Self (archive footage)
The Empty Canvas
As Dino's Mother
The Star
As Margaret Elliot
The Anniversary
As Mrs. Taggart
Waterloo Bridge
As Janet Cronin
Juarez
As Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg
The Dark Horse
As Kay Russell
The Working Man
As Jenny Hartland alias Jane Grey
The Big Shakedown
As Norma Nelson
That Certain Woman
As Mary Donnell/Mme Al Haines
Bunny O'Hare
As Bunny O'Hare
So Big!
As Miss Dallas O'Mara
It's Love I'm After
As Joyce Arden
The Rich Are Always with Us
As Malbro
The Catered Affair
As Mrs. Agnes Hurley
June Bride
As Linda Gilman
The Sisters
As Louise Elliott Medlin
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
As Queen Elizabeth (archive footage)
Hairway to the Stars
As Self [Archive Footage]
The Scapegoat
As Countess
The Man Who Played God
As Grace Blair
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
As Self (archive footage)
The Bad Sister
As Laura Madison
Front Page Woman
As Ellen Garfield
Hell's House
As Peggy Gardner
Parachute Jumper
As Patricia 'Alabama' Brent
Backstory: 'All About Eve'
As Self (archive footage)
Way Back Home
As Mary Lucy Duffy
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
As Self (archive footage)
Scream, Pretty Peggy
As Mrs. Elliott
Right of Way
As Miniature Dwyer
Housewife
As Patricia Berkeley
Madonna: Madame X
As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Girl from 10th Avenue
As Miriam A. Brady
The Golden Arrow
As Daisy Appleby
The Menace
As Peggy Lowell
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
As Self (from All About Eve [1950]) (archive footage)
The Disappearance of Aimee
As Minnie Kennedy
Just Around the Corner
As Ginger
Seed
As Margaret Carter
Connecting Rooms
As Wanda Fleming
White Mama
As Estelle Malone
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
As Lucy Mason
Skyward
As Billie Dupree
Going Hollywood: The '30s
As (archive footage)
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino
As Esther McDonald Cimino
The Decorator
As Liz
Bette Davis at the Cinémathèque Française
As Herself
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
As Self (archive footage)
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
As Self (archive footage)
Jezebel: Legend of the South
As Self (archive footage)
A Present with a Future
As Mother
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
As Self (archive footage)
As Summers Die
As Hannah Loftin
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
As Self (archive footage)
The Andy Williams Christmas Show
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
As Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
As (archive footage)
Always at The Carlyle
As Self (archive footage)
Family Reunion
As Elizabeth Winfield
The Judge and Jake Wyler
As Judge Meredith
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
As Self (archive footage)
Breakdowns of 1936
As Self
All About Bette
As Self
Faye
As Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
As Self (archive footage)
Listen to Me Marlon
As Self (archive footage)
Breakdowns of 1937
As Self
Breakdowns of 1939
As Self
Breakdowns of 1944
As Self
Breakdowns of 1949
As Self
Show-Business at War
As Self
If I Forget You
As Bette Davis
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
As Self
Complicated Women
As Self (archive footage)
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
As Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
As Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
As Self
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
As Self (archive footage)
Hello Mother, Goodbye!
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
As Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
As Self
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
As Self (archive footage)
The Voice That Thrilled the World
As Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Stars on Horseback
Frank Capra's American Dream
As Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
As Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
As Self (archive footage)
Directed by William Wyler
As Self
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
As Self - Actress (archive footage)
The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka
As Self (archive footage)
Breakdowns of 1942
As Self
Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis
As Self (archive footage)
Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis
As Self (archive footage)
Footsteps on the Ceiling
As Margo Channing (archive footage)
The 42nd Street Special
As Self (uncredited)
Night of 100 Stars
As Self
Bette Davis
As Self
Perry Mason
As Constant Doyle
Gunsmoke
As Etta Stone
General Electric Theater
As Miss Burrows
Hallmark Hall of Fame
As Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, Aimee's mother
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
As Miss Fox
The Hollywood Palace
As Self
The Virginian
As Celia Miller
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
As Irene Van Buren
The 20th Century Fox Hour
As Marie Hoke
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
As Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
As Self
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
As Widow Fortune
Telephone Time
The Oscars
As Self
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
As Sarah Whitney
The Kennedy Center Honors
As Self
Talking Pictures
As Self (archive footage)
Wagon Train
As Ella Lindstrom
Intimate Portrait
As Self (archive footage)
Laugh-In
As Self
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
As Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt
Hello Mother, Goodbye!
As Mother
V.I.P. Schaukel
As Self
It Takes a Thief
As Bessie Grindel
The Dick Cavett Show
As Self - Guest
What's My Line?
As Self - Mystery Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
As Self
Tony Awards
As Self - Presenter
Suspicion
As Mrs. Wilfred Ellis
The Ford Television Theatre
As Dolley Madison
Reflets de Cannes
As Self
Parkinson
As Self (archive footage)
The Mike Douglas Show
As Self - Co-Host
Golden Globe Awards
As Self - Presenter