Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 20, 1938
Died
Nov 29, 1981
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Credits
118 titles
Natalie Wood
Biography
Natalie Wood (née Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles. Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a role in John Ford's The Searchers (1956). Wood starred in the musical films West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962) and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued with films such as Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). During the 1970s, Wood began a hiatus from film and had two daughters: one with her second husband Richard Gregson, and one with Robert Wagner, her first husband whom she married again after divorcing Gregson. She acted in only two feature films throughout the decade, but she appeared slightly more often in television productions, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1979) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Wood's films represented a "coming of age" for her and for Hollywood films in general. Critics have suggested that her cinematic career represents a portrait of modern American womanhood in transition, as she was one of the few to take both child roles and those of middle-aged characters. Wood died off the coast of Santa Catalina Island on November 29, 1981, at age 43, during a holiday break from the production of her would-be comeback film Brainstorm (1983) with Christopher Walken. The events surrounding her death have been the subject of conflicting witness statements, prompting the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, under the instruction of the coroner's office, to list her cause of death as "drowning and other undetermined factors" in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Natalie Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Debbie Edwards - Age 15 (archive footage) (uncredited)
Paul Newman: The Restless
Self
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
Self (archive footage)
Trumbull Land
Self (archive footage)
Howard
Maria (archive footage)
Natalie Wood: An American Murder Mystery
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive)
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime
Self (archive footage)
Tab Hunter Confidential
Self (archive)
Too Young to Die
Self (archive footage)
Brunes et Blondes
Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's
(archive footage)
Dominick Dunne: After the Party
Self (archive footage)
How Real is 'The Star'?
Self (archive footage)
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
Herself (uncredited)
Rediscovering a Rebel
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
Death In Hollywood
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
(archive footage)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brainstorm
Karen Brace
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
Willie & Phil
Herself
The Memory of Eva Ryker
Eva Ryker / Claire Ryker
The Last Married Couple in America
Mari Thompson
From Here to Eternity
Karen Holmes
Meteor
Tatiana Donskaya
Hart to Hart
Movie Star
The Cracker Factory
Cassie Barrett
From Here to Eternity
Karen Holmes
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Margaret
Laurence Olivier Presents
Margaret
Peeper
Ellen Prendergast
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Self
Switch
Cruise Ship Passenger (uncredited)
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Self
Dinah!
Self
James Dean Remembered
Self
The Affair
Courtney Patterson
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
The Candidate
Natalie Wood
Film '72
Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Carol Sanders
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest