Actor
Florence Bates
April 13, 1888 · San Antonio, Texas, USA
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Gladys Cooper
3 titles together
Rebecca, Kitty Foyle, Mr. Lucky
Walter Kingsford
3 titles together
The Devil and Miss Jones, Kitty Foyle, Mr. Lucky
Judith Anderson
2 titles together
Rebecca, The Diary of a Chambermaid
Reginald Denny
2 titles together
Rebecca, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
C. Aubrey Smith
2 titles together
Rebecca, Cluny Brown
Leonard Carey
2 titles together
Rebecca, Heaven Can Wait
Full filmography · 63
Paris Model
as Nora Sullivan
1953
Main Street to Broadway
as Mrs. Bessmer in Fantasy Sequence
1953
Les Miserables
as Madame Bonnet
1952
The San Francisco Story
as Sadie
1952
Havana Rose
as Mrs. Fillmore
1951
The Tall Target
as Mrs. Charlotte Alsop
19516.9
Father Takes the Air
as Minerva Bobbin
1951
Lullaby of Broadway
as Mrs. Anna Hubbell
1951
County Fair
as Nora 'Ma' Ryan
1950
The Second Woman
as Amelia Foster
19505.6
Belle of Old Mexico
as Nellie Chatfield
1950
On the Town
as Madame Dilyovska
19497