Betty Compson is a Actor, Writer and Producer American born on 17 march 1897 at Beaver (USA)
Betty Compson
Betty Compson participated to
107 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
2 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actress
, 1h22
Directed by Herbert BrenonOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Prison films,
Political films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Chester Morris,
Betty Compson,
Gustav von Seyffertitz,
Alec B. Francis,
Jean Hersholt,
Leyland HodgsonRoles Babka
Rating71%
Sergeant Grischa Paprotkin of the Imperial Russian Army has been captured by the Imperial German Army during World War I, and is interned in a Prisoner-of-war camp. When his chance comes to escape, he takes it, ending up staying with a young Russian refugee, Babka. However, after a time, he longs to return to his home in Russia. Babka, even though she has fallen in love with him, agrees to help him. Since he cannot travel under his real name, being an escaped POW, Babka obtains the credentials of a dead Russian soldier, Bjuscheff., 1h20
Directed by George FitzmauriceOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films based on playsActors Milton Sills,
Dorothy Mackaill,
George Cooper,
Betty Compson,
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
Sylvia AshtonRoles Carrie
Rating70%
The film tells the story of a woman (Dorothy Mackaill) who comes between a man (Milton Sills) and his estranged son (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) Sills is a carnival barker who is in love with a dancing girl and is ambitious to have his son, Fairbanks, become a lawyer. Fairbanks has other ideas and during his vacation he hops a freight, joins the carnival, and weds a dancing girl (Mackaill). Eventually, Fairbanks fulfills the ambition his father had for him.