Bea Arthur Filmography

Born:: May 13, 1924 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Tall, deep-voiced American actress Beatrice Arthur, born Beatrice Frankel, is best known for her television work on the long-running series Maude and The Golden Girls, but she also occasionally appeared in films. Her most famous film is 1973's Mame in which she played Vera Charles, the role she...Read More

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Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson

Actors: Pamela Anderson

Synopsis: The Playboy playmate turned Baywatch bombshell proves that beauty is not above ridicule as Comedy Central brings together a who's who of top comedic talents to roast Pamela Anderson in a rousing night of insulting insight featuring the talents of Jimmy Kimmell, Tommy Lee, Eddie Griffin, Nick Read More

2005
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The End

Synopsis: In what may be the series finale, Louis Lewis (Bill Saluga) awakens from his coma, and refuses to give Richard (Richard Lewis) one of his kidneys, leaving Larry (Larry David) as Richard's best hope for survival. Omar Jones (Mekhi Phifer) calls Larry to tell him that he was, in fact, adopted. Larry Read More

2005
Broadway: The Golden Age

Actors: Edie Adams, Bea Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is both a celebration of current Broadway stars and a tribute to Broadway legends past. Through a plethora of interviews and vast amounts of archival footage, McKay presents a Read More

6/11/04
Intimate Portrait: Bea Arthur

2003
Paul McCartney and Friends: The PETA Concert for Party Animals

Actors: Paul McCartney, Jamie Lee Curtis, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: This video features the music icon Paul McCartney, with a stellar cast of performers, giving a live benefit concert for PETA. The organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was the special concern of the former Beatle's deceased wife Linda McCartney. The concert honors her memory Read More

2000
For Better or Worse

Actors: Jason Alexander, Lolita Davidovich, James Woods, Joe Mantegna, Jay Mohr

Synopsis: This made-for-cable comedy centers on the romantic travails of Michael Makeshift (Jason Alexander), a schnook who just can't get over the fact that his girlfriend dumped him. To make matters worse, his gross and sloppy landlord is bugging him for long-overdue rent. Things for Michael's brother Read More

1996
The Golden Girls: Season 07

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: With series star Bea Arthur announcing that she did not wish to continue playing fiftysomething teacher Dorothy Zbornak any longer, it was decided that the seventh season of the NBC sitcom Golden Girls would be the last. Perhaps for this reason, the series' ratings plummeted from tenth to 30th Read More

1991
The Golden Girls: Season 06

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: America's four favorite senior citizens, Dorothy (Bea Arthur), Rose (Betty White), Blanche (Rue McClanahan), and Sophia (Estelle Getty), are still residing in the same cozy Miami household as The Golden Girls launches its sixth season. This year's opener is "Blanche Delivers," as Blanche nervously Read More

1990
The Golden Girls: Season 05

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: The Golden Girls begins its fifth season minus several of its longtime writers, but with the basic cast intact: Bea Arthur as Dorothy, Betty White as Rose, Rue McClanahan as Blanche, and Estelle Getty as Dorothy's mom, Sophia, four very mature ladies living under the same roof in a small Miami Read More

1989
The Golden Girls: Season 04

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: Roommates Dorothy (Betty White), Blanche (Rue McClanahan), Rose (Betty White), and Sophia (Estelle Getty) continue to prove that there is still plenty of life (among other pleasurable things!) after age 50 in the fourth season of the NBC sitcom The Golden Girls. The opening episode, "Yokel Hero," Read More

1988
My First Love

Synopsis: An ageing widow's relationship with an ex-flame is re-ignited when she runs into her former boyfriend at a class reunion in this warmhearted tale of middle-aged romance starring Bea Arthur, Richard Kiley, and Joan Van Ark. Despite their rekindled feelings, the pair soon finds their powerful Read More

1988
The Golden Girls: Season 03

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: The third season of The Golden Girls continues to chronicle the adventures of four over-50 ladies who lived under the same Miami roof: widows Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan) and Rose Nylund (Betty White), divorcée Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur), and Dorothy's shamelessly outspoken mother, Sophia Read More

1987
The Golden Girls: Season 02

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: Having emerged from its first season as the seventh highest-rated program in America -- and one of four NBC sitcoms in the Top Ten -- The Golden Girls waltzed into its second season on NBC's Saturday-night lineup with the greatest of ease. Virtually no changes were made with the basic cast and Read More

1986
The Golden Girls: Season 01

Actors: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Synopsis: Legend has it that The Golden Girls, created by Susan Harris of Soap fame, was introduced to NBC's Saturday-evening lineup in the fall of 1986 to counter criticism that the network was ignoring its older viewers (that is, those over the age of 34) in favor of younger fans. Whatever the case, not Read More

1985
History of the World -- Part I

Actors: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio travesty The Story of Mankind. The film is divided into five sequences that play like blue-toned Eddie Cantor vaudeville sketches -- "The Dawn of Man," "The Stone Age," The Read More

1981
Saturday Night Live: Bea Arthur

Actors: Bea Arthur, The Roaches

Synopsis: This 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Bea Arthur and features musical guest The Roaches. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
The Star Wars Holiday Special

Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew

Synopsis: Wookie sidekick Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) races across the galaxy to spend the holidays with his family in this TV movie, which was broadcast after Star Wars became a pop phenomenon but before the release of The Empire Strikes Back. Sometime after the events of the first film, Han Solo (Harrison Ford Read More

1978
Mame

Actors: George Chiang, Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur, Kirby Furlong, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Lucille Ball stars in this film version of the hit Jerry Herman Broadway musical, which featured an electrifying performance by Angela Lansbury. As Patrick Dennis' plucky and resilient Auntie Mame, Ball's low-pitched, growling moan of a voice (a spine-chilling reminder of the sound of Linda Read More

1974
All in the Family: Maude

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Bea Arthur, Bob Dishy, Marcia Rodd

Synopsis: Having scored a hit with her earlier All in the Family appearance as Edith's ultraliberal cousin, Maude, Bea Arthur returned to the role in this episode, which originally aired on March 11, 1972. Archie and Edith are invited to Long Island to attend the wedding of Maude's daughter, Carol. Thugh Read More

1972
All in the Family: Cousin Maude's Visit

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Bea Arthur

Synopsis: Bea Arthur makes her first-ever appearance as Maude Findlay, ultra-conservative Archie's ultra-liberal cousin. Described by Archie as "the original creeping socialist," Maude has steered clear of the Bunker household for years. But when the entire family comes down with the flu, "Maudie" arrives Read More

1971
Lovers and Other Strangers

Actors: Bea Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon, Richard S. Castellano

Synopsis: Lovers and Other Strangers became a "sleeper" hit, based on a play by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna. The story is essentially a series of vignettes and anecdotes, unified by an impending marriage. Father of the bride Hal (Gig Young) has problems with his long-suffering mistress, Cathy (Anne Jackson Read More

1970
That Kind of Woman

Actors: Sophia Loren, Tab Hunter, Jack Warden, Barbara Nichols, Keenan Wynn, George Sanders

Synopsis: That Kind of Woman stars Sophia Loren as an Italian girl, Kay, who enjoys a brief wartime romance with American paratrooper Red (Tab Hunter). But Kay is already the property of a suave millionaire (George Sanders) known only as "The Man." When next we see her, Kay is living Hollywood's concept of Read More

1959