{{Short description|Australian actress (1905–1966)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox person | image = Actress_Betty_Stockfeld.jpg | image_size = | name = Betty Stockfeld | birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|1|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|1966|1|27|1905|1|15|df=yes}} | death_place = Tadworth, Surrey, England | other_names = Betty Stockfield | occupation = Film and television actress | years_active = 1931–60 }}
'''Betty Stockfeld''' (15 January 1905{{spaced ndash}}27 January 1966), often misspelled "Stockfield", was an Australian film actress.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/16782 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | STOCKFELD, Betty |access-date=6 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131045711/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/16782 |archive-date=31 January 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She appeared mostly in British and French films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/betty-stockfeld-p68374|title=Betty Stockfeld – Movies and Filmography – AllMovie}}</ref>
Betty was the daughter of Sydney businessman Harry Hooper Stockfeld and Susan Elizabeth Stockfeld, née Evans, and a niece of commander F. Pryce Evans of Shackleton's ''Nimrod'' expedition. They were in London at the outbreak of war in 1914, so unable to return to Australia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16671169 |title=Talkies in England |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=28,809 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 May 1930 |accessdate=7 July 2020 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147416606 |title=London's Latest |newspaper=Table Talk |issue=3315 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=19 November 1931 |accessdate=7 July 2020 |page=22 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The following is the copied entry from the Hungarian National Picture Gallery, which refers to the picture of Stockfeld, by Philip de László, in their collection:-
"2932 Betty Stockfeld as Mary Magdalen 1930 Standing half-length to the right, face turned upwards, wearing a large white wrap over a flowing purple dress, her long red hair loose, her hands raised to her face in a gesture of grief, all against a grey-blue background. Oil on canvas, 93 × 72 cm (36 ½ × 28 ¼ in.) Inscribed lower left:-
Philip de László / 1930 Laib L16226(433) / C31(12) Magdalaine [sic] NPG Album, 1929-30, p. 30 Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest".
The National Portrait Gallery, London's website, shows four of their six portraits of Stockfeld in their collection.
==Filmography== {{div col}} * ''Captivation'' (1931) * ''77 Park Lane'' (1931) * ''Blanc comme neige'' (1931) * ''City of Song'' (1931) with Jan Kiepura * ''Life Goes On'' (1932) * ''The Night at the Hotel'' (1932) * ''Monsieur Albert'' (1932) * ''The Impassive Footman'' (1932) * ''King of the Hotel'' (1932) * ''Money for Nothing'' (1932) * ''The Maid of the Mountains'' (1932) * ''La bataille'' (1933) * ''King of the Ritz'' (1933) * ''Lord of the Manor'' (1933) * ''Anne One Hundred'' (1933) * ''The Weaker Sex'' (1933) * ''The Abbot Constantine'' (1933) * ''La garnison amoureuse'' (1934) * ''The Man Who Changed His Name'' (1934) * ''Thunder in the East'' (1934) * ''Brides to Be'' (1934) * ''Three Sailors'' (1934) * ''The Slipper Episode'' (1935) * ''The Lad'' (1935) * ''Happy Arenas'' (1935) * ''Fanfare of Love'' (1935) * ''Runaway Ladies'' (1935) * ''Le vagabond bien-aimé'' (1936) * ''Under Proof'' (1936) * ''Une gueule en or'' (1936) * ''Women's Club'' (1936) * ''The Beloved Vagabond'' (1936) * ''Dishonour Bright'' (1936) * ''L'ange du foyer'' (1937) * ''Who's Your Lady Friend?'' (1937) * ''I See Ice'' (1938) * ''Les femmes collantes'' (1938) * ''The New Rich'' (1938) * ''Behind the Facade'' (1939) * ''Les gangsters du château d'If'' (1939) * ''His Uncle from Normandy'' (1939) * ''Nine Bachelors'' (1939) * ''Frenzy'' (1939) * ''Sur le plancher des vaches'' (1940) * ''President Haudecoeur'' (1940) * ''They Were Twelve Women'' (1940) * ''Hard Steel'' (1942) * ''Flying Fortress'' (1942) * ''The Girl Who Couldn't Quite'' (1950) * ''Edward and Caroline'' (1951) * ''The Lovers of Lisbon'' (1955) * ''Guilty?'' (1956) * ''True as a Turtle'' (1957) {{div col end}}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0830823}}
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