Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 16, 1907
Died
Jan 20, 1990
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
133 titles
Barbara Stanwyck
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.
Known For
Filmography
Citizen Jane Fonda
Warner at War
(archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Various Roles (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Bad Girls Behind Bars
Nan Taylor (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Jessica Drummond (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Self (archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self (archive footage)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self
Hollywood Uncensored
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
archive footage
The Colbys
Constance Colby
The Thorn Birds
Mary Carson
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
This Is Elvis
Dynasty
Constance Colby
Charlie's Angels
Toni Blake
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
The Letters
Geraldine Parkington
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Self (archive footage)
A Taste of Evil
Miriam Jennings
The House That Would Not Die
Ruth Bennett
The Big Valley
Victoria Barkley
The Night Walker
Irene Trent
Roustabout
Maggie Morgan
Calhoun
Abby Rayner
Walk on the Wild Side
Jo Courtney
The Dick Powell Show
Irene Phillips
Dragon by the Tail
Self - Host/Josephine Little
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Stella King
Rawhide
Nora Holloway
Wagon Train
Caroline Casteel
Forty Guns
Jessica Drummond
Trooper Hook
Cora Sutliff
Crime of Passion
Kathy Ferguson
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Belle Garrison
These Wilder Years
Ann Dempster
The Maverick Queen
Kit Banion
There's Always Tomorrow
Norma Miller Vale
Escape to Burma
Gwen Moore
The Violent Men
Martha Wilkison
Cattle Queen of Montana
Sierra Nevada Jones
Executive Suite
Julia O. Tredway
Witness to Murder
Cheryl Draper
Blowing Wild
Marina Conway