---
name: "Lucille Benson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lucille-benson"
fi1m_id: "lucille-benson"
imdb_id: "nm0072569"
tmdb_id: 12430
wikidata_id: "Q6697263"
roles: []
born: "17 July 1914"
died: "17 February 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T04:32:51.593200+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Lucille Benson

## Identity

Lucille Benson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lucille-benson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lucille-benson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0072569
- **TMDB ID:** 12430
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6697263
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Benson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6697263, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072569/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12430

Actor. Born 17 July 1914 in Scottsboro, Alabama, USA. Died 17 February 1984.

## Details

- **Born:** 17 July 1914, Scottsboro, Alabama, USA
- **Died:** 17 February 1984
- **Also known as:** Lucille Bensen
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Benson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6697263, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072569/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12430

## Biography

Lucille Benson (17 July 1914 – 17 February 1984) was an American character actress. She was born in Scottsboro, Alabama, and attended Huntingdon College and Northwestern University's School of Drama. After working briefly as a teacher, she moved to New York in the 1930s and appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including The Doughgirls, The Day Before Spring, Happy Birthday, As the Girls Go, Hotel Paradiso, Period of Adjustment and Walking Happy.

Benson made her film debut in The Fugitive Kind (1960). She appeared in films such as Duel (1971), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Silver Streak (1976) as Rita Babtree, 1941 (1979) and Halloween II (1981). On television she had roles in series including Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Wonder Woman, The Love Boat and Bosom Buddies, and made guest appearances in many other shows. She also worked in television commercials.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, encyclopediaofalabama.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Silver Streak* (1976), Fi1m 63, as Rita Babtree — [page](https://film.one/film/silver-streak.md)

## Complete filmography (67)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *When Your Lover Leaves* (1983), as Greta
- *The Adventures of Pollyanna* (1982), as Mrs. Levelor
- *Nero Wolfe* (1981), series, as Landlady
- *Simon & Simon* (1981), series, as Mrs. Dorothy Bartlett
- *Halloween II* (1981), as Mrs. Elrod
- *Amy* (1981), as Rose Metcalf
- *Bosom Buddies* (1980), series, as Lilly Sinclair
- *1941* (1979), as Gas Mama (Eloise)
- *Black Market Baby* (1979), as Mrs. Krieg
- *Concrete Cowboys* (1979), as Peg
- *Trapper John, M.D.* (1979), series, as Clarissa Mae Purcell
- *Ebony, Ivory and Jade* (1979), as Mrs. Stone
- *The Ropers* (1979), series, Actor
- *Murder in Music City* (1979), as Mrs. Bloom
- *Charleston* (1979), as Miss Fay
- *Lassie: The New Beginning* (1978), as Juno
- *The Young Runaways* (1978), as Grandma Hopkins
- *The Love Boat* (1977), series, as Doris
- *The Greatest* (1977), as Mrs. Fairlie
- *Nashville 99* (1977), series, as Birdie Huff
- *Eight Is Enough* (1977), series, Actor
- *The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver* (1977), as Housekeeper
- *How the West Was Won* (1977), series, as Miss Walker, Miss Agnes
- *Code R* (1977), series, as Emma
- *Silver Streak* (1976), as Rita Babtree — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/silver-streak.md)
- *Liza’s Pioneer Diary* (1976), as Mrs. Zink
- *Wanted: The Sundance Woman* (1976), as Miss Elsie Powell
- *Alice* (1976), series, Actor
- *The Killer Who Wouldn't Die* (1976), as Flo
- *Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur* (1976), as Bess Truman
- *The Cop and the Kid* (1975), series, Actor
- *Wonder Woman* (1975), series, as Flo
- *Switch* (1975), series, as Edna
- *Three for the Road* (1975), series, as Gas Station Attendant
- *Betrayal* (1974), as Eunice Russell
- *Reflections of Murder* (1974), as Mrs. Turner
- *The Day the Earth Moved* (1974), as Miss Virginia Porter
- *Kolchak: The Night Stalker* (1974), series, Actor
- *Police Woman* (1974), series, as Aunt Benjamin
- *Paper Moon* (1974), series, Actor
- *Little House on the Prairie* (1974), series, as Miss Trimble
- *Petrocelli* (1974), series, as Angie Crawford, Lucille Field, Madge Briar, Lucille Davis
- *Huckleberry Finn* (1974), as Widder Douglas
- *Mame* (1974), as Mother Burnside
- *Apple's Way* (1974), series, Actor
- *Message to My Daughter* (1973), as Woman on Train
- *The Blue Knight* (1973), as Elmira Gooch
- *The Blue Knight* (1973), series, as Elmira Gooch
- *Tom Sawyer* (1973), as Widder Douglas
- *The Devil's Daughter* (1973), as Janet Poole
- *The Waltons* (1972), series, as Tilly Shanks
- *Private Parts* (1972), as Aunt Martha
- *Slaughterhouse-Five* (1972), as Billy's Mother
- *The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment* (1972), as Mrs. Loveless
- *Heat of Anger* (1972), as Lillian McWhorter
- *Women in Chains* (1972), as Billie
- *Emergency!* (1972), series, as Martha, Annie
- *Duel* (1971), as Lady at Snakerama
- *Cactus in the Snow* (1971), as Mrs. Sawyer
- *Cannon* (1971), series, as Proprietress
- *Escape* (1971), as Trudy
- *The New Andy Griffith Show* (1971), series, Actor
- *Little Fauss and Big Halsy* (1970), as 'Mom' Fauss
- *Mannix* (1967), series, as Ida, Myra
- *The Fugitive Kind* (1960), as Beulah Binnings
- *Bonanza* (1959), series, as Mrs. Melody
- *The Wonderful World of Disney* (1954), series, as Grandma Hopkins, Mrs. Levelor

## Gallery

- ![Lucille Benson](https://film.one/media/person/6766246/gallery-3eb8bbce9f69.jpg) Lucille Benson — unknown (Penelope Prod.), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Lucille_Benson_in_Private_Parts.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Lucille Benson & Jackie Cooper in the TV movie The Day the Earth Moved - publicity still (cropped) (1974)](https://film.one/media/person/6766246/gallery-34b359977e5f.png) Lucille Benson & Jackie Cooper in the TV movie The Day the Earth Moved - publicity still (cropped) (1974) — unknown (ABC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Lucille_Benson-Jackie_Cooper_in_The_Day_the_Earth_Moved.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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