Job Actress
Known for Petticoat Junction's Kate Bradley, original voice of Betty Rubble on The Flintstones, voice of Granny in the Tweety cartoons (until 1955)
Top Roles File Clerk, Brooklyn Girl on Subway, Mrs. McKisco, Baby Butch's Mom, Mama Bear
Top GenresAnimation, Family, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Musical
Top TopicsBook-Based, Spies, Romance (Drama)
Top Collaborators , (Director), (Director),
Shares birthday with Anthony Perkins, Elizabeth Wilson, Gene Reynolds  see more..

Bea Benaderet Overview:

Character actress, Bea Benaderet, was born on Apr 4, 1906 in New York City, NY. Benaderet died at the age of 62 on Oct 13, 1968 in Los Angeles, CA .

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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Just For Fun! The Voices behind The Flintstones

By Annmarie Gatti on Aug 25, 2014 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Just for Fun! The Fabulous Voices behind the Fabulous Flintstones!? I’m sure you’d recognize their voices anywhere, but here they are ‘in person’… the wonderful character actors that voiced Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty… Alan Reed as Fred Flintstone, Jean Vander P... Read full article


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Bea Benaderet Quotes:

Porky Pig: And w-w-what's your name?
Baby Butch: Butch.
Porky Pig: B-B-B-Butch? He-he-he-he.
Baby Butch: Not B-B-B-B-B-B-Butch - He-he-he-he. Just plain Butch!


[first lines]
Little Red Riding Hood: [singing] The five o'clock whistle's on the blink/ the whistle won't blow and waaadaya think?/ my poppa's still in the factory/ 'cause he don't know what tiiiiiiiiiime it happens to be!


Woman: Thomas! You mumbless, you coward, you scoundrel, you... Take that! And that!


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Bea Benaderet Facts
Her second husband, Gene Twombly, a sound-effects technician (both worked on "The Jack Benny Program" (1950)), died of a heart attack just four days after she died of cancer.

Benaderet became ill with cancer in 1967, which led to her leaving "Petticoat Junction" (1963) in what it was hoped would be a temporary retirement. Rosemary DeCamp was brought in to play the Bradley girls' Aunt Helen in the scripts that were obviously written for Benaderet's character, Kate Bradley. Benaderet only managed to return twice on the show after her departure. Following her death, June Lockhart was brought in as a surrogate mother figure and lady M.D. who sets up practice at the Shady Rest Hotel. Benaderet's anchoring presence was missed by the public, however, and the show lasted only two more seasons (1968-1970).

While attending the Reginald Travis School of Acting in San Francisco, she appeared with stock companies and little theaters, finding occasional employment as an actress, singer, writer, producer and announcer on radio.

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