Betty Danko

born: 19 September 1903 Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

died: 03 February 1979 Los Angeles, California, United States of America (age 75)

American actress-stuntwoman in the 1930s.  She was born to Czechoslovakian parents. She was a stunt double for Patsy Kelly as well as being the stand-in stuntwoman for the role of "Wicked Witch of the West" in The Wizard Of Oz (1939).  During the "Surrender Dorothy!" skywriting sequence she was severely burned whilst performing the stunt.

Real name: Bertha Danko

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography; plus 1 film with Laurel & Hardy.

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1929 Men O' War Boater 1929 Crazy Feet Woman in dressing room 1930 Hog Wild Bus passenger [*according to Jesse Brisson, though I am not 100%] 1932 Free Eats Maid 1932 County Hospital Desk nurse 1932 Girl Grief Student 1932 Alum And Eve Betty, nurse 1932 The Soilers News stand clerk/ Stunts for ZaSu Pitts 1933 Asleep In The Feet Hat check girl/ ZaSu Pitts' stand-in 1933 The Devil's Brother Tavern patron 1933 One Track Minds Train passenger 1933 Backs To Nature Patsy Kelly's stand-in 1934 Babes In The Goods Patsy's stand-in 1934 Mixed Nuts Miss Danko 1934 Next Week-End Nightclub patron 1934 Maid In Hollywood Script girl/Patsy Kelly's stand-in 1934 Honky-Donkey Stunts 1934 I'll Be Suing You Patsy Kelly's stand-in 1934 It Happened One Day Pedestrian 1934 Three Chumps Ahead Patsy's stunt double 1934 One-Horse Farmers Patsy Kelly's stunt double 1934 Opened By Mistake Miss Wilton 1935 Treasure Blues Waitress 1935 The Fixer Uppers Café patron having portrait drawn 1935 Sing Sister Sing Patsy Kelly's stand-in 1935 The Misses Stooge Patsy Kelly's stand-in 1935 Slightly Static Secretary/ Patsy Kelly's stand-in 1935 Hot Money Patsy Kelly's stand-in 1936 An All-American Toothache Patsy Kelly's stand-in 1941 Broadway Limited Stand-in (as per AFI database) ▼ NON-HAL ROACH FILMS 1943 The Dancing Masters Bus driver Acknowledgements: Jesse Brisson (help and information; identification in Men O' War, Free Eats, Crazy Feet, I'll Be Suing You, Backs To Nature, An All-American Toothache, Babes In The Goods, Treasure Blues, Girl Grief, The Dancing Masters, Slightly Static, The Fixer Uppers, One-Horse Farmers, Next Week-End, The Devil's Brother, Honky-Donkey, It Happened One Day, The Soilers, Hog Wild) Jim Jarvis (help and information) This page was last updated on: 24 November 2023