Barbara Stanwyck
Known for Acting · 133 credits
- Born
- 1907-07-16
- Died
- 1990-01-20
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Ruby Catherine Stevens
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
TV Shows (14)
Wagon Train
1957
as Caroline Casteel
Dynasty
1981
as Constance Colby
Charlie's Angels
1976
as Toni Blake
Rawhide
1959
as Nora Holloway
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Belle Garrison / Julie Holman / Regan Moore / Leona Butler
The Big Valley
1965
as Victoria Barkley
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Thorn Birds
1983
as Mary Carson
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
as Stella King / Elizabeth Mowry / Josephine Little / Liz Randall / Ella Cahill / Dr. Susan Bryce / Marian Andres / Maggie Wenley / Janet Jones / Harriet Melvane / Paula Manning / Trixie Callahan / Rachel Harrison / Avis Fleming / Fran Elick / Madge Terry / Amanda Prescott / Hazel Wexley / Fanny Evans / Nellie Bly / Louise Forest / Maggie McClay / Chris Mathews / Syd Charing / Margot LaChelle / Amelia Lambert / Alicia / Cara Lester / Sister Thomas Aquinas / Carolyn Callendar / Self - Host
The Dick Powell Show
1961
as Irene Phillips
The Colbys
1985
as Constance Colby
Letter to Loretta
1953
as Self - Guest Host
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
General Electric Theater
1953
as Lili Parrish
Movies (119)
Baby Face
1933
as Lily Powers
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
as Leona Cotterell Stevenson
Double Indemnity
1944
as Phyllis Dietrichson
Annie Oakley
1935
as Annie Oakley
A Lost Lady
1934
as Marian Ormsby Forrester
Shopworn
1932
as Kitty Lane
Hollywood Victory Caravan
1945
as Barbara Stanwyck
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
as Self (archive footage)
Ladies of Leisure
1930
as Kay Arnold
Titanic
1953
as Julia Sturges
Flesh and Fantasy
1943
as Joan Stanley (segment 3)
Forbidden
1932
as Lulu Smith
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
as (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
Clash by Night
1952
as Mae Doyle D'Amato
My Reputation
1946
as Jessica Drummond
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
as Self
The Maverick Queen
1956
as Kit Banion
Union Pacific
1939
as Mollie Monahan
The Lady Gambles
1949
as Joan Phillips Boothe
Variety Girl
1947
as Barbara Stanwyck
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
His Brother's Wife
1936
as Rita Wilson Claybourne
The Man with a Cloak
1951
as Lorna Bounty
Ball of Fire
1941
as Sugarpuss O’Shea
The Lady Eve
1941
as Jean Harrington
Walk on the Wild Side
1962
as Jo Courtney
Warner at War
2008
as (archive footage)
The Purchase Price
1932
as Joan Gordon Gilson
Executive Suite
1954
as Julia O. Tredway
All I Desire
1953
as Naomi Murdoch
Breakdowns of 1944
1944
as Self
Christmas in Connecticut
1945
as Elizabeth Lane
A Taste of Evil
1971
as Miriam Jennings
The Violent Men
1955
as Martha Wilkison
Ten Cents a Dance
1931
as Barbara O'Neill
There's Always Tomorrow
1956
as Norma Miller Vale
B.F.'s Daughter
1948
as Pauline 'Polly' Fulton Brett
Lady of Burlesque
1943
as Dixie Daisy
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954
as Sierra Nevada Jones
The Casting Couch
1995
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
as (archive footage)
East Side, West Side
1949
as Jessie Bourne
Bad Girls Behind Bars
2005
as Nan Taylor (archive footage)
Meet John Doe
1941
as Ann Mitchell
California
1947
as Lily Bishop
The Great Man's Lady
1941
as Hannah Sempler Hoyt
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
as Megan Davis
Jeopardy
1953
as Helen Stilwin
Hollywood Canteen
1944
as Self
Stella Dallas
1937
as Stella Dallas
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1946
as Martha Ivers
Round About Hollywood
1931
as Self
Roustabout
1964
as Maggie Morgan
Night Nurse
1931
as Lora Hart
The Night Walker
1964
as Irene Trent
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Crime of Passion
1956
as Kathy Ferguson
The Furies
1950
as Vance Jeffords
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938
as Self
Ladies They Talk About
1933
as Nan Taylor
Complicated Women
2003
as Self (archive footage)
The Other Love
1947
as Karen Duncan
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
as Melsa Manton
You Belong to Me
1941
as Helen Hunt
The Miracle Woman
1931
as Florence Fallon
Ever in My Heart
1933
as Mary Archer Wilbrandt
Remember the Night
1940
as Lee Leander/Anna Rose Malone
The House That Would Not Die
1970
as Ruth Bennett
This Is Elvis
1981
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
as Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
as Jessica Drummond (archive footage)
Witness to Murder
1954
as Cheryl Draper
Banjo on My Knee
1936
as Pearl Elliott Holley
Golden Boy
1939
as Lorna Moon
Forty Guns
1957
as Jessica Drummond
Gambling Lady
1934
as Jennifer Lady Lee
The Woman in Red
1935
as Shelby Barret Wyatt
The Stolen Jools
1931
as Mrs. Frank Fay
The Bride Walks Out
1936
as Carolyn Martin
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
1947
as Sally Morton Carroll
This Is My Affair
1937
as Lil Duryea
Trooper Hook
1957
as Cora Sutliff
Cry Wolf
1947
as Sandra Marshall
So Big!
1932
as Selina Peake De Jong
To Please a Lady
1950
as Regina Forbes
The Bride Wore Boots
1946
as Sally Warren
The Moonlighter
1953
as Rela
Blowing Wild
1953
as Marina Conway
No Man of Her Own
1950
as Helen Ferguson
Internes Can't Take Money
1937
as Janet Haley
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
as Self
The Letters
1973
as Geraldine Parkington
Dragon by the Tail
1961
as Self - Host/Josephine Little
Broadway Nights
1927
as Showgirl (uncredited)
The Gay Sisters
1942
as Fiona Gaylord
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
as archive footage
These Wilder Years
1956
as Ann Dempster
The Plough and the Stars
1936
as Nora Clitheroe
The Secret Bride
1934
as Ruth Vincent
Escape to Burma
1955
as Gwen Moore
Breakfast for Two
1937
as Valentine Ransome
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
as Self (archive footage)
The File on Thelma Jordon
1949
as Thelma Jordon
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
as Various Roles (archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996
as Self (archive footage)
The Locked Door
1929
as Ann Carter
Red Salute
1935
as Drue Van Allen
Things You Never See on the Screen
1935
as Self
Always Goodbye
1938
as Margot Weston
Mexicali Rose
1929
as Mexicali Rose
A Message to Garcia
1936
as Raphaelita Maderos
Calhoun
1964
as Abby Rayner
Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
1931
as Self
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
1938
as Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1973
as Self (archive footage)
Illicit
1931
as Anne Vincent
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
1932
as Herself
Performers Arrive in Hampshire
1947
as Self
About Barbara Stanwyck
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… With 133 credits spanning from 1927 to 2020, Barbara Stanwyck has appeared in 119 films and 14 TV shows.
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Most Popular Barbara Stanwyck Movies
- Baby Face (1933) — as Lily Powers
- Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) — as Leona Cotterell Stevenson
- Double Indemnity (1944) — as Phyllis Dietrichson
- Annie Oakley (1935) — as Annie Oakley
- A Lost Lady (1934) — as Marian Ormsby Forrester
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