10.0
10.0
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
as (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Also known as: Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Acting
Born:April 5, 1908
Died:October 6, 1989(aged 81)
Birthplace:Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:Cushing Academy
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CommunityBiography
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 moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances. In 1937, she attempted to free herself from her contract and although she lost a well-publicized legal case, it marked the beginning of the most successful period of her career. Until the late 1940s, she was one of American cinema's most celebrated leading ladies, known for her forceful and intense style. Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative, and confrontations with studio executives, film directors and costars were often reported. Her forthright manner, clipped vocal style and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona which has often been imitated and satirized. Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue 10 Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. Her career went through several periods of eclipse, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships. Married four times, she was once widowed and thrice divorced, and raised her children as a single parent. Her final years were marred by a long period of ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer, with more than 100 films, television and theater roles to her credit. In 1999, Davis was placed second, after Katharine Hepburn, on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of all time.
Filmography (155 movies)
9.2
9.2
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
1979
as Lucy Mason
8.1
8.1
All About Eve
1950
as Margo Channing
8.0
8.0
Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis
1996
as Self (archive footage)
8.0
8.0
The Disappearance of Aimee
1976
as Minnie Kennedy
8.0
8.0
White Mama
1980
as Estelle Malone
8.0
8.0
Family Reunion
1981
as Elizabeth Winfield
8.0
8.0
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001
as Self (archive footage)
7.9
7.9
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962
as Baby Jane Hudson
7.8
7.8
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino
1982
as Esther McDonald Cimino
7.7
7.7
Housewife
1934
as Patricia Berkeley
7.6
7.6
All About Bette
1994
as Self
7.5
7.5
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1996
as Self (archive footage)
7.5
7.5
The Little Foxes
1941
as Regina Hubbard Giddens
7.5
7.5
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
as Self (archive footage)
7.5
7.5
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
as Self (archive footage)
7.4
7.4
Right of Way
1983
as Miniature Dwyer
7.4
7.4
The Scopone Game
1972
as 'A vecchia
7.3
7.3
Now, Voyager
1942
as Charlotte Vale
7.3
7.3
Hollywood Canteen
1944
as Self
7.3
7.3
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
7.3
7.3
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
as Apple Annie
7.3
7.3
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983
as Self
7.3
7.3
The Letter
1940
as Leslie Crosbie
7.3
7.3
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
as Charlotte Hollis
7.2
7.2
June Bride
1948
as Linda Gilman
7.2
7.2
The Man Who Played God
1932
as Grace Blair
7.2
7.2
The Dark Horse
1932
as Kay Russell
7.2
7.2
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
as Henriette Deluzy-Desportes
7.2
7.2
The Virgin Queen
1955
as Queen Elizabeth I
7.2
7.2
The Corn Is Green
1945
as Miss Lilly Christabel Moffat
7.2
7.2
The Star
1952
as Margaret Elliot
7.1
7.1
Death on the Nile
1978
as Marie Van Schuyler
7.1
7.1
The Catered Affair
1956
as Mrs. Agnes Hurley
7.1
7.1
The Petrified Forest
1936
as Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple
7.0
7.0
Jezebel
1938
as Julie Marsden
7.0
7.0
Breakdowns of 1939
1939
as Self
7.0
7.0
Old Acquaintance
1943
as Kit Marlowe
7.0
7.0
It's Love I'm After
1937
as Joyce Arden
7.0
7.0
Kid Galahad
1937
as Louise 'Fluff' Phillips
7.0
7.0
The Whales of August
1987
as Libby Strong
7.0
7.0
Jezebel: Legend of the South
2006
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
Dark Victory
1939
as Judith Traherne
7.0
7.0
The Old Maid
1939
as Charlotte Lovell
6.9
6.9
The Great Lie
1941
as Maggie Patterson Van Allen
6.9
6.9
Skyward
1980
as Billie Dupree
6.9
6.9
The Nanny
1965
as Nanny
6.9
6.9
The Bride Came C.O.D.
1941
as Joan Winfield
6.9
6.9
Waterloo Bridge
1931
as Janet Cronin
6.9
6.9
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
as Maggie Cutler
6.9
6.9
Dead Ringer
1964
as Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips
6.8
6.8
The Scapegoat
1959
as Countess
6.8
6.8
Watch on the Rhine
1943
as Sara Müller
6.8
6.8
In This Our Life
1942
as Stanley Timberlake Kingsmill
6.7
6.7
Madame Sin
1972
as Madame Sin
6.7
6.7
Complicated Women
2003
as Self (archive footage)
6.7
6.7
Another Man's Poison
1951
as Janet Frobisher
6.7
6.7
Beyond the Forest
1949
as Rosa Moline
6.7
6.7
Bette and Joan: Blind Ambition
2006
as Self (archive footage)
6.7
6.7
Mr. Skeffington
1944
as Fanny Trellis
6.6
6.6
Dangerous
1935
as Joyce Heath
6.6
6.6
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
as (in "Deception") (archive footage)
6.6
6.6
The Working Man
1933
as Jenny Hartland alias Jane Grey
6.5
6.5
Marked Woman
1937
as Mary Dwight Strauber
6.5
6.5
Storm Center
1956
as Alicia Hull
6.5
6.5
Deception
1946
as Christine Radcliffe
6.5
6.5
Burnt Offerings
1976
as Aunt Elizabeth
6.5
6.5
The Anniversary
1968
as Mrs. Taggart
6.5
6.5
Murder with Mirrors
1985
as Carrie Louise Serrocold
6.5
6.5
Winter Meeting
1948
as Susan Grieve
6.5
6.5
The Girl from 10th Avenue
1935
as Miriam A. Brady
6.5
6.5
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
as Self
6.5
6.5
Juarez
1939
as Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg
6.5
6.5
Breakdowns of 1944
1944
as Self
6.5
6.5
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
as (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
Of Human Bondage
1934
as Mildred Rogers
6.4
6.4
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
as (archive footage)
6.4
6.4
Fashions of 1934
1934
as Lynn Mason
6.3
6.3
A Stolen Life
1946
Producer
6.3
6.3
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
as Fay Wilson
6.3
6.3
The Cabin in the Cotton
1932
as Madge Norwood
6.3
6.3
Jimmy the Gent
1934
as Joan Martin
6.2
6.2
Phone Call from a Stranger
1952
as Marie Hoke
6.2
6.2
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
as Queen Elizabeth
6.2
6.2
Way Back Home
1931
as Mary Lucy Duffy
6.2
6.2
Fog Over Frisco
1934
as Arlene Bradford
6.2
6.2
Special Agent
1935
as Julie Gardner
6.2
6.2
Three on a Match
1932
as Ruth Westcott
6.2
6.2
As Summers Die
1986
as Hannah Loftin
6.1
6.1
Ex-Lady
1933
as Helen Bauer
6.1
6.1
The Golden Arrow
1936
as Daisy Appleby
6.0
6.0
Payment on Demand
1951
as Joyce Ramsey (nee Jackson)
6.0
6.0
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017
as Self (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
as Self
6.0
6.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1973
as Self (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
Breakdowns of 1949
1949
as Self
6.0
6.0
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
as Self (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
Hello Mother, Goodbye!
1974
6.0
6.0
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
as Self
6.0
6.0
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
as Self
6.0
6.0
Seed
1931
as Margaret Carter
6.0
6.0
Scream, Pretty Peggy
1973
as Mrs. Elliott
6.0
6.0
Just Around the Corner
1933
as Ginger
6.0
6.0
Breakdowns of 1937
1937
as Self
6.0
6.0
A Present with a Future
1943
as Mother
6.0
6.0
The Decorator
1965
as Liz
6.0
6.0
The Andy Williams Christmas Show
1962
5.9
5.9
Where Love Has Gone
1964
as Mrs. Gerald Hayden
5.9
5.9
The Watcher in the Woods
1980
as Mrs. Aylwood
5.9
5.9
Return from Witch Mountain
1978
as Letha Wedge
5.9
5.9
Bordertown
1935
as Mrs. Marie Roark
5.9
5.9
Shining Victory
1941
5.9
5.9
Parachute Jumper
1933
as Patricia 'Alabama' Brent
5.9
5.9
John Paul Jones
1959
as Empress Catherine the Great
5.8
5.8
The Sisters
1938
as Louise Elliott Medlin
5.8
5.8
Front Page Woman
1935
as Ellen Garfield
5.8
5.8
The Empty Canvas
1963
as Dino's Mother
5.6
5.6
Satan Met a Lady
1936
as Valerie Purvis
5.6
5.6
Bunny O'Hare
1971
as Bunny O'Hare
5.6
5.6
The Big Shakedown
1934
as Norma Nelson
5.6
5.6
So Big!
1932
as Miss Dallas O'Mara
5.6
5.6
Bureau of Missing Persons
1933
as Norma Roberts
5.5
5.5
The Bad Sister
1931
as Laura Madison
5.5
5.5
Connecting Rooms
1970
as Wanda Fleming
5.5
5.5
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
2013
as Self (archive footage)
5.4
5.4
That Certain Woman
1937
as Mary Donnell
5.3
5.3
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943
as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
5.3
5.3
The 42nd Street Special
1933
as Self (uncredited)
5.3
5.3
If I Forget You
1940
as Bette Davis
5.1
5.1
Hell's House
1932
as Peggy Gardner
5.0
5.0
A Day at Santa Anita
1937
as Bette Davis (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
2005
as Self (archive footage)
4.9
4.9
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
as Self (archive footage)
4.6
4.6
The Rich Are Always with Us
1932
as Malbro
4.5
4.5
Wicked Stepmother
1989
as Miranda Pierpoint
4.5
4.5
The Menace
1932
as Peggy Lowell
4.0
4.0
Stars on Horseback
1943
4.0
4.0
The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka
2009
as Self (archive footage)
3.8
3.8
The Horror Show
1979
as (archive footage)
3.0
3.0
The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972
as Judge Meredith
2.0
2.0
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Backstory: 'All About Eve'
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Bette and Joan
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Hairway to the Stars
1989
as Self [Archive Footage]
Bride of Trailer Camp
2001
as (archive footage)
Breakdowns of 1936
1936
as Self
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
1985
as Self (archive footage)
Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis at the Cinémathèque Française
1986
as Self
Biography: Bette Davis — If Looks Could Kill
1994
as Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
1972
as Self
Miss Moffat
TBA
as Miss Moffat
Showbiz Ballyhoo
1982
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by William Wyler
1986
as Self
Footsteps on the Ceiling
2013
as Margo Channing (archive footage)
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