Barbara Stanwyck
Born: 1907-07-16 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1990-01-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress. A film and television star, she was known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence and was a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. After a short stint as a stage actress, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television. Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award four times, and won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. She was the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the Motion Picture Academy, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Screen Actors Guild, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is ranked as the eleventh greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
Filmography
2020
2008
- Warner at War as (archive footage)
- Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood as Various Roles (archive footage)
2007
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Bad Girls Behind Bars as Nan Taylor (archive footage)
2003
- Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
2002
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller as Jessica Drummond (archive footage)
1997
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line as Self (archive footage)
1995
1991
- Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
1989
1987
- Hollywood Uncensored as Self (archive footage)
1986
- Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend as archive footage
1985
- The Colbys as Constance Colby
1983
- The Thorn Birds as Mary Carson
1982
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
1981
- Dynasty as Constance Colby
- This Is Elvis
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Toni Blake
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1973
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- The Letters as Geraldine Parkington
- The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor as Self (archive footage)
1971
- A Taste of Evil as Miriam Jennings
1970
- The House That Would Not Die as Ruth Bennett
1965
- The Big Valley as Victoria Barkley
1964
- The Night Walker as Irene Trent
- Roustabout as Maggie Morgan
- Calhoun as Abby Rayner
1962
- Walk on the Wild Side as Jo Courtney
1961
- The Dick Powell Show as Irene Phillips
- Dragon by the Tail as Self - Host/Josephine Little
1960
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show as Stella King
1959
- Rawhide as Nora Holloway
1957
- Wagon Train as Caroline Casteel
- Forty Guns as Jessica Drummond
- Trooper Hook as Cora Sutliff
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Belle Garrison
- There's Always Tomorrow as Norma Miller Vale
- Crime of Passion as Kathy Ferguson
- The Maverick Queen as Kit Banion
- These Wilder Years as Ann Dempster
1955
- The Violent Men as Martha Wilkison
- Escape to Burma as Gwen Moore
1954
- Cattle Queen of Montana as Sierra Nevada Jones
- Executive Suite as Julia O. Tredway
- Witness to Murder as Cheryl Draper
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Letter to Loretta as Self - Guest Host
- Titanic as Julia Sturges
- General Electric Theater as Lili Parrish
- Blowing Wild as Marina Conway
- All I Desire as Naomi Murdoch
- Jeopardy as Helen Stilwin
- The Moonlighter as Rela
1952
- Clash by Night as Mae Doyle D'Amato
1951
- The Man with a Cloak as Lorna Bounty
1950
- The Furies as Vance Jeffords
- No Man of Her Own as Helen Ferguson
- To Please a Lady as Regina Forbes
1949
- The Lady Gambles as Joan Phillips Boothe
- The File on Thelma Jordon as Thelma Jordon
- East Side, West Side as Jessie Bourne
1948
- Sorry, Wrong Number as Leona Cotterell Stevenson
- B.F.'s Daughter as Pauline 'Polly' Fulton Brett
1947
- Variety Girl as Barbara Stanwyck
- The Two Mrs. Carrolls as Sally Morton Carroll
- Cry Wolf as Sandra Marshall
- The Other Love as Karen Duncan
- California as Lily Bishop
- Performers Arrive in Hampshire as Self
1946
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers as Martha Ivers
- My Reputation as Jessica Drummond
- The Bride Wore Boots as Sally Warren
1945
- Christmas in Connecticut as Elizabeth Lane
- Hollywood Victory Caravan as Barbara Stanwyck
1944
- Double Indemnity as Phyllis Dietrichson
- Breakdowns of 1944 as Self
- Hollywood Canteen as Self
1943
- Flesh and Fantasy as Joan Stanley (segment 3)
- Lady of Burlesque as Dixie Daisy
1942
- Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
- The Gay Sisters as Fiona Gaylord
1941
- Ball of Fire as Sugarpuss O’Shea
- The Lady Eve as Jean Harrington
- Meet John Doe as Ann Mitchell
- The Great Man's Lady as Hannah Sempler Hoyt
- You Belong to Me as Helen Hunt
1940
- Remember the Night as Lee Leander/Anna Rose Malone
1939
- Union Pacific as Mollie Monahan
- Golden Boy as Lorna Moon
1938
- The Mad Miss Manton as Melsa Manton
- Hollywood Goes to Town as Self
- Always Goodbye as Margot Weston
- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 as Self
1937
- Stella Dallas as Stella Dallas
- Breakfast for Two as Valentine Ransome
- Internes Can't Take Money as Janet Haley
- This Is My Affair as Lil Duryea
1936
- His Brother's Wife as Rita Wilson Claybourne
- The Plough and the Stars as Nora Clitheroe
- Banjo on My Knee as Pearl Elliott Holley
- The Bride Walks Out as Carolyn Martin
- A Message to Garcia as Raphaelita Maderos
1935
- Annie Oakley as Annie Oakley
- The Woman in Red as Shelby Barret Wyatt
- Things You Never See on the Screen as Self
- Red Salute as Drue Van Allen
1934
- Gambling Lady as Jennifer Lady Lee
- A Lost Lady as Marian Ormsby Forrester
- The Secret Bride as Ruth Vincent
1933
- Baby Face as Lily Powers
- Ladies They Talk About as Nan Taylor
- Ever in My Heart as Mary Archer Wilbrandt
1932
- Shopworn as Kitty Lane
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen as Megan Davis
- Forbidden as Lulu Smith
- The Purchase Price as Joan Gordon Gilson
- So Big! as Selina Peake De Jong
- Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) as Herself
1931
- Night Nurse as Lora Hart
- The Miracle Woman as Florence Fallon
- Ten Cents a Dance as Barbara O'Neill
- The Stolen Jools as Mrs. Frank Fay
- Illicit as Anne Vincent
- Round About Hollywood as Self
- Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8) as Self
1930
- Ladies of Leisure as Kay Arnold
1929
- The Locked Door as Ann Carter
- Mexicali Rose as Mexicali Rose
1927
- Broadway Nights as Showgirl (uncredited)