Barbara Stanwyck

Acting • Born 1907-07-16 – Died 1990-01-20

Acting1Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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

163 credits

Double Indemnity

Movie • 1944

Phyllis Dietrichson

Roustabout

Movie • 1964

Maggie Morgan

The Lady Eve

Movie • 1941

Jean Harrington

Crime of Passion

Movie • 1956

Kathy Ferguson

Sorry, Wrong Number

Movie • 1948

Leona Cotterell Stevenson

Clash by Night

Movie • 1952

Mae Doyle D'Amato

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Movie • 1982

(in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)

Meet John Doe

Movie • 1941

Ann Mitchell

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Movie • 1946

Martha Ivers

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

Movie • 1932

Megan Davis

The Two Mrs. Carrolls

Movie • 1947

Sally Morton Carroll

Baby Face

Movie • 1933

Lily Powers

Christmas in Connecticut

Movie • 1945

Elizabeth Lane

The Furies

Movie • 1950

Vance Jeffords

No Man of Her Own

Movie • 1950

Helen Ferguson

The File on Thelma Jordon

Movie • 1949

Thelma Jordon

Remember the Night

Movie • 1940

Lee Leander/Anna Rose Malone

Jeopardy

Movie • 1953

Helen Stilwin

The Night Walker

Movie • 1964

Irene Trent

The Lady Gambles

Movie • 1949

Joan Phillips Boothe

Ball of Fire

Movie • 1941

Sugarpuss O’Shea

Forty Guns

Movie • 1957

Jessica Drummond

Executive Suite

Movie • 1954

Julia O. Tredway

The Violent Men

Movie • 1955

Martha Wilkison

Walk on the Wild Side

Movie • 1962

Jo Courtney

Witness to Murder

Movie • 1954

Cheryl Draper

There's Always Tomorrow

Movie • 1956

Norma Miller Vale

Golden Boy

Movie • 1939

Lorna Moon

Ladies They Talk About

Movie • 1933

Nan Taylor

Union Pacific

Movie • 1939

Mollie Monahan

The Mad Miss Manton

Movie • 1938

Melsa Manton

The Miracle Woman

Movie • 1931

Florence Fallon

Stella Dallas

Movie • 1937

Stella Dallas

Cry Wolf

Movie • 1947

Sandra Marshall

Annie Oakley

Movie • 1935

Annie Oakley

All I Desire

Movie • 1953

Naomi Murdoch

Titanic

Movie • 1953

Julia Sturges

Hollywood Canteen

Movie • 1944

Self

These Wilder Years

Movie • 1956

Ann Dempster

This Is Elvis

Movie • 1981

The Locked Door

Movie • 1929

Ann Carter

Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)

Movie • 1932

Herself

Lady of Burlesque

Movie • 1943

Dixie Daisy

Forbidden

Movie • 1932

Lulu Smith

Showbiz Goes to War

Movie • 1982

(archive footage)

Night Nurse

Movie • 1931

Lora Hart

Breakfast for Two

Movie • 1937

Valentine Ransome

The Stolen Jools

Movie • 1931

Mrs. Frank Fay

Internes Can't Take Money

Movie • 1937

Janet Haley

B.F.'s Daughter

Movie • 1948

Pauline 'Polly' Fulton Brett

The Man with a Cloak

Movie • 1951

Lorna Bounty

The Purchase Price

Movie • 1932

Joan Gordon Gilson

Blowing Wild

Movie • 1953

Marina Conway

The Gay Sisters

Movie • 1942

Fiona Gaylord

The House That Would Not Die

Movie • 1970

Ruth Bennett

You Belong to Me

Movie • 1941

Helen Hunt

The Great Man's Lady

Movie • 1941

Hannah Sempler Hoyt

The Woman in Red

Movie • 1935

Shelby Barret Wyatt

So Big!

Movie • 1932

Selina Peake De Jong

Shopworn

Movie • 1932

Kitty Lane

Ten Cents a Dance

Movie • 1931

Barbara O'Neill

Illicit

Movie • 1931

Anne Vincent

Escape to Burma

Movie • 1955

Gwen Moore

Cattle Queen of Montana

Movie • 1954

Sierra Nevada Jones

East Side, West Side

Movie • 1949

Jessie Bourne

Ladies of Leisure

Movie • 1930

Kay Arnold

My Reputation

Movie • 1946

Jessica Drummond

The Other Love

Movie • 1947

Karen Duncan

Trooper Hook

Movie • 1957

Cora Sutliff

California

Movie • 1947

Lily Bishop

The Bride Walks Out

Movie • 1936

Carolyn Martin

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood

Movie • 2008

Various Roles (archive footage)

Gambling Lady

Movie • 1934

Jennifer Lady Lee

His Brother's Wife

Movie • 1936

Rita Wilson Claybourne

The Moonlighter

Movie • 1953

Rela

Variety Girl

Movie • 1947

Barbara Stanwyck

Flesh and Fantasy

Movie • 1943

Joan Stanley (segment 3)

This Is My Affair

Movie • 1937

Lil Duryea

A Message to Garcia

Movie • 1936

Raphaelita Maderos

Ever in My Heart

Movie • 1933

Mary Archer Wilbrandt

The Maverick Queen

Movie • 1956

Kit Banion

The Secret Bride

Movie • 1934

Ruth Vincent

Banjo on My Knee

Movie • 1936

Pearl Elliott Holley

Always Goodbye

Movie • 1938

Margot Weston

To Please a Lady

Movie • 1950

Regina Forbes

A Taste of Evil

Movie • 1971

Miriam Jennings

Mexicali Rose

Movie • 1929

Mexicali Rose

Performers Arrive in Hampshire

Movie • 1947

Self

Red Salute

Movie • 1935

Drue Van Allen

The Plough and the Stars

Movie • 1936

Nora Clitheroe

The Bride Wore Boots

Movie • 1946

Sally Warren

A Lost Lady

Movie • 1934

Marian Ormsby Forrester

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Movie • 2002

Jessica Drummond (archive footage)

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Movie • 1989

Self

The Letters

Movie • 1973

Geraldine Parkington

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

Movie • 1973

Self (archive footage)

Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)

Movie • 1931

Self