Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 4, 1906
Place of Birth
New York, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Bee Benadaret
- Bea Benadaret
- Beatrice Benaderet
Bea Benaderet
Biography
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.
Known For - Movies
Notorious
as File Clerk (uncredited)
On the Town
as Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
as Granny (voice)
Black Widow
as Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)
Tender Is the Night
as Mrs. McKisco
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
as Witch Hazel (voice)
The Hep Cat
as Bird
Tweety's S.O.S.
as Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Plunderers of Painted Flats
as Ella Heather
Tweetie Pie
as Woman (voice) (uncredited)
Known For - TV Shows
I Love Lucy
as Miss Lewis
The Flintstones
as Betty Rubble (voice)
The Beverly Hillbillies
as Cousin Pearl Bodine
Petticoat Junction
as Kate Bradley
Green Acres
as Kate Bradley
Matinee Theater
The Jetsons
as Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice)
The Jack Benny Program
as Gertrude, switchboard operator
The Jack Benny Program
as Gertrude Gearshift
The Jack Benny Program
as Peggy