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Acting

Billie Burke

Career: Active from 1916 to 2000, with a break from 1961 to 1999, busiest in 1935 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 36
top three billing

Average score: 63/100

Highest rated: The Wizard of Oz
85/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Academy Awards · Actress in a Supporting Role
1939 · Nominated · 11th Academy Awards
Merrily We Live
Source: Wikidata

Characters

1

The characters Billie Burke played, best-known titles first.

Billie Burke as Glinda the Good Witch of the North

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 39 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Billie Burke Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Violence
1.1, average 4.1
Contemporary Realism
2.8, average 5.4
Adrenaline
2.5, average 4.8
Tension
3.9, average 5.9

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Nostalgic 8
Classic Hollywood 6
Romantic Comedy 5
Lighthearted 5
Screwball Comedy 4
Character-Driven 4
Golden Age Hollywood 3
Classic Hollywood Romance 3
Witty Dialogue 3
Early Cinema 3
Supernatural 3
Situational Humor 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

87

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title · average score 80

The Dark Side of the Rainbow

80

as Glinda (archive footage)

1990s

1 title · average score 87

That's Entertainment! III

87

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1960s

2 titles · average score 70

Sergeant Rutledge

84

as Mrs. Cordelia Fosgate

Pepe

57

as Billie Burke

1950s

10 titles · average score 67

The Young Philadelphians

72

as Mrs. J. Arthur Allen

77 Sunset Strip

74

TV show

The Star Wagon

as Mrs. Rutledge

Matinee Theater

TV show

Small Town Girl

50

as Mrs. Livingston

TV show · as Melinda

Father's Little Dividend

75

as Doris Dunstan

Father of the Bride

72

as Doris Dunstan

The Boy From Indiana

as Zelda Bagley

Three Husbands

59

as Jenny Bard Whittaker

1940s

26 titles · average score 63

The Barkleys of Broadway

62

as Mrs. Livingston Belney

The Cheaters

61

as Clara Pidgeon

Swing Out, Sister

as Jessica Mariman

Gildersleeve on Broadway

66

as Mrs. Laura Chandler

So's Your Uncle

as Aunt Minerva

Girl Trouble

71

as Celeste Rowland

In This Our Life

72

as Lavinia Timberlake

They All Kissed the Bride

57

as Mrs. Drew

The Wild Man of Borneo

64

as Bernice Marshall, Boardinghouse Keeper

The Man Who Came to Dinner

69

as Daisy Stanley

Topper Returns

78

as Mrs. Clara Topper

The Ghost Comes Home

58

as Cora Adams

1930s

31 titles · average score 63

The Wizard of Oz

85

as Glinda

Zenobia

56

as Mrs. Tibbett

Topper Takes a Trip

64

as Mrs. Clara Topper

Merrily We Live

73

as Mrs. Emily Kilbourne

Topper

79

as Mrs. Topper

Parnell

48

as Clara Wood

Craig's Wife

83

as Mrs. Frazier

We're Rich Again

63

as Linda Page

Finishing School

52

as Mrs. Radcliffe

Forsaking All Others

59

as Aunt Paula

Christopher Strong

68

as Lady Elaine Strong

A Bill of Divorcement

61

as Meg Fairfield

1920s

3 titles

The Education of Elizabeth

as Elizabeth Banks

The Frisky Mrs. Johnson

as Belle Johnson

Away Goes Prudence

as Prudence Thorne

1910s

13 titles

as Sadie Love

The Misleading Widow

as Betty Taradine

Wanted: A Husband

as Amanda Darcy Cole

Good Gracious, Annabelle

as Annabelle Leigh

The Make-Believe Wife

as Phyllis Ashbrook

In Pursuit of Polly

as Polly Marsden

Let's Get a Divorce

as Mme. Cyprienne Marcey

The Land of Promise

as Nora Marsh

Arms and the Girl

as Ruth Sherwood

The Mysterious Miss Terry

as Mavis Terry

Peggy

as Peggy Cameron

Gloria's Romance

as Gloria Stafford (as Miss Billie Burke)