Florence Bates

Actor

Born: April 13, 1888
Died: January 31, 1954 (age 65)
From: San Antonio, Texas, USA

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…

Filmography (60)

Paris Model (1953)
Nora Sullivan
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
Les Miserables (1952)
Madame Bonnet
The San Francisco Story (1952)
Sadie
Havana Rose (1951)
Mrs. Fillmore
The Tall Target (1951)
Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
Father Takes the Air (1951)
Minerva Bobbin
Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
Mrs. Anna Hubbell
County Fair (1950)
Nora 'Ma' Ryan
The Second Woman (1950)
Amelia Foster
Belle of Old Mexico (1950)
Nellie Chatfield
On the Town (1949)
Madame Dilyovska
The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
Miss Emma Shoemaker
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Mrs. Manleigh
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Mrs. Jekes
My Dear Secretary (1948)
Horrible Hannah Reeve (the landlady)
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
Mandy
River Lady (1948)
Ma Dunnegan
Winter Meeting (1948)
Mrs. Castle
The Inside Story (1948)
Geraldine Atherton
I Remember Mama (1948)
Florence Dana Moorhead
The Judge Steps Out (1947)
Chita
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Mrs. Griswold
Love and Learn (1947)
Mrs. Bella Davis - Landlady
The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
Mrs. Murdock
The Time, The Place and The Girl (1946)
Mme. Lucia Cassel
The Man I Love (1946)
Mrs. Thorpe (uncredited)
Cluny Brown (1946)
Dowager at Ames's Party
Claudia and David (1946)
Nancy Riddle
The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)
Rose