Biography: life and films
Bette Davis was an American actress. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA on 5th April 1908 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 6th October 1989, aged 81.Her best films as an actor include Michael Curtiz's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), William Wyler's The Letter (1940), Irving Rapper's Now, Voyager (1942), Deception (1946) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve (1950).
Bette Davis appeared in 98 films.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Alfred E. Green (7 films), Michael Curtiz (6), Irving Rapper (5), William Dieterle (4), Edmund Goulding (4), William Wyler (3), William Keighley (3), Archie Mayo (3), Vincent Sherman (2), Robert Aldrich (2), John Hough (2), John G. Adolfi (2), Curtis Bernhardt (2), Bretaigne Windust (2) and Anatole Litvak (2).
Her most frequent genres include: drama (62 films), romance (20), comedy-drama (13), comedy (13), Thriller (10), comedy-romance (8), Horror (6), crime-thriller (4), War (4), history (3), Fantasy (3), Documentary (3) and comedy-thriller (2).
Our average rating for Bette Davis over all films is: 3.3
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Seed (1931) [a]
The Bad Sister (1931) [a]
Waterloo Bridge (1931) [a]
Way Back Home (1931) [a]
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) [a]
So Big! (1932) [a]
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) [a]
The Dark Horse (1932) [a]
The Man Who Played God (1932) [a]
The Menace (1932) [a]
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932) [a]
Three on a Match (1932) [a]
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933) [a]
Ex-Lady (1933) [a]
Parachute Jumper (1933) [a]
The Working Man (1933) [a]
Fashions of 1934 (1934) [a]
Fog Over Frisco (1934) [a]
Housewife (1934) [a]
Jimmy the Gent (1934) [a]
The Big Shakedown (1934) [a]
Bordertown (1935) [a]
Dangerous (1935) [a]
Front Page Woman (1935) [a]
Special Agent (1935) [a]
The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935) [a]
Satan Met a Lady (1936) [a]
The Golden Arrow (1936) [a]
The Petrified Forest (1936) [a]
It's Love I'm After (1937) [a]
Kid Galahad (1937) [a]
Marked Woman (1937) [a]
That Certain Woman (1937) [a]
Jezebel (1938) [a]
The Sisters (1938) [a]
Juarez (1939) [a]
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) [a]
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) [a]
Shining Victory (1941) [a]
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) [a]
The Little Foxes (1941) [a]
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) [a]
Old Acquaintance (1943) [a]
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) [a]
Hollywood Canteen (1944) [a]
The Corn Is Green (1945) [a]
A Stolen Life (1946) [a]
Deception (1946) [a]
June Bride (1948) [a]
Winter Meeting (1948) [a]
Beyond the Forest (1949) [a]
Another Man's Poison (1951) [a]
Payment on Demand (1951) [a]
Phone Call from a Stranger (1952) [a]
The Star (1952) [a]
Storm Center (1956) [a]
The Catered Affair (1956) [a]
John Paul Jones (1959) [a]
The Scapegoat (1959) [a]
Pocketful of Miracles (1961) [a]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) [a]
La Noia (1963) [a]
Dead Ringer (1964) [a]
Where Love Has Gone (1964) [a]
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) [a]
The Love Goddesses (1965) [a]
The Nanny (1965) [a]
Connecting Rooms (1970) [a]
Bunny O'Hare (1971) [a]
Lo Scopone scientifico (1972) [a]
Burnt Offerings (1976) [a]
Return from Witch Mountain (1978) [a]
The Children of Sanchez (1978) [a]
The Watcher in the Woods (1980) [a]
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [a]
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987) [a]
The Whales of August (1987) [a]
South of Reno (1988) [a]
Wicked Stepmother (1989) [a]
Entertaining the Troops (1994) [a]
Mina Tannenbaum (1994) [a]
Todo sobre mi madre (1999) [a]
P.S. I Love You (2007) [a]
The best films of Ingmar Bergman
The very best fantasy films in French cinema
The best of Japanese cinema
