- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- April 13, 1888
- Place of Birth
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Died
- January 31, 1954
Florence Bates
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Florence Bates (born Florence Rabe, April 15, 1888 – January 31, 1954) was an American film and stage character actress who often played grande dame characters in supporting roles. Her path to becoming an actress had many turns. She had a degree in Mathematics, taught school until married, then became the first Texas female lawyer. Then she became a bilingual radio commentator. After her husband lost her fortune, she and her husband opened a bakery in Los Angeles. In the mid-1930s, Bates auditioned for and won the role of Miss Bates in a Pasadena Playhouse adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma. When she decided to continue working with the theatre group, she changed her professional name to that of the first character she played on stage. In 1939, she was introduced to Alfred Hitchcock, who cast her in her first major screen role, the vain dowager Mrs.…
Filmography
movieParis Model
1953 · Nora Sullivan
movieMain Street to Broadway
1953 · Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
tvFour Star Playhouse
1952 · Ottilie
movieLes Miserables
1952 · Madame Bonnet
movieThe San Francisco Story
1952 · Sadie
tvI Love Lucy
1951 · Mrs. Pettebone
movieHavana Rose
1951 · Mrs. Fillmore
movieThe Tall Target
1951 · Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
movieFather Takes the Air
1951 · Minerva Bobbin
movieLullaby of Broadway
1951 · Mrs. Anna Hubbell
tvDick Tracy
1950 · Mrs. Frothingham
County Fair
movieCounty Fair
1950 · Nora 'Ma' Ryan
movieThe Second Woman
1950 · Amelia Foster
movieBelle of Old Mexico
1950 · Nellie Chatfield
movieOn the Town
1949 · Madame Dilyovska
movieThe Girl from Jones Beach
1949 · Miss Emma Shoemaker
movieA Letter to Three Wives
1949 · Mrs. Manleigh
moviePortrait of Jennie
1948 · Mrs. Jekes
movieMy Dear Secretary
1948 · Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
movieTexas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948 · Mandy
movieRiver Lady
1948 · Ma Dunnegan
movieWinter Meeting
1948 · Mrs. Castle
movieThe Inside Story
1948 · Geraldine Atherton
movieI Remember Mama
1948 · Florence Dana Moorhead
movieThe Judge Steps Out
1947 · Chita
movieThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947 · Mrs. Griswold
movieLove and Learn
1947 · Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
movieThe Brasher Doubloon
1947 · Mrs. Murdock
movieThe Time, The Place and The Girl
1946 · Mme. Lucia Cassel
movieThe Man I Love
1946 · Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
movieCluny Brown
1946 · Dowager at Ames's Party
movieClaudia and David
1946 · Nancy Riddle
movieThe Diary of a Chambermaid
1946 · Rose
movieWhistle Stop
1946 · Molly Veech
movieSan Antonio
1945 · Henrietta
movieSaratoga Trunk
1945 · Sophie Bellop
movieOut of This World
1945 · Harriet Pringle
movieTonight and Every Night
1945 · May Tolliver
movieTahiti Nights
1944 · Queen Liliha
movieBelle of the Yukon
1944 · Viola Chase
movieKismet
1944 · Karsha
movieThe Mask of Dimitrios
1944 · Madame Elise Chavez
movieHis Butler's Sister
1943 · Lady Sloughberry
movieHeaven Can Wait
1943 · Mrs. Edna Craig (uncredited)
movieMr. Lucky
1943 · Mrs. Van Every
movieMister Big
1943 · Mrs. Mary Davis
movieSlightly Dangerous
1943 · Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
movieThey Got Me Covered
1943 · Gypsy Woman
movieMy Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942 · Mrs. Saunders
movieThe Moon and Sixpence
1942 · Tiare Johnson
movieThe Tuttles of Tahiti
1942 · Emily
movieWe Were Dancing
1942 · Mrs. Elsa Vanderlip
movieMexican Spitfire at Sea
1942 · Mrs. Baldwin
movieThe Chocolate Soldier
1941 · Madame Helene
movieLove Crazy
1941 · Mrs. Cooper
movieStrange Alibi
1941 · Katie
movieThe Devil and Miss Jones
1941 · Store Shopper
movieRoad Show
1941 · Mrs. Newton
movieKitty Foyle
1940 · Customer
movieHudson's Bay
1940 · Duchess (scenes deleted)
movieThe Son of Monte Cristo
1940 · Countess Mathilde Von Braun
movieCalling All Husbands
1940 · Emmie Trippe
movieRebecca
1940 · Edythe Van Hopper