Home >

Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck

Birthday: 1907-07-16 | Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2006
Shadows of Suspense

as    Herself (archive footage)

2003
Complicated Women

as    Self (archive footage)

1983
The Thorn Birds

as    Mary Carson

1983
The Thorn Birds

as    Mary Carson

1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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

1977
The House That Would Not Die

as    Ruth Bennett

1971
A Taste of Evil

as    Miriam Jennings

1965
The Big Valley

as    Victoria Barkley

1964
Calhoun

as    Abby Rayner

1964
The Night Walker

as    Irene Trent

1964
Roustabout

as    Maggie Morgan

1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show

as    Self - Host

1957
Forty Guns

as    Jessica Drummond

1957
Crime of Passion

as    Kathy Ferguson

1956
The Maverick Queen

as    Kit Banion

1956
There's Always Tomorrow

as    Norma Miller Vale

1955
Escape to Burma

as    Gwen Moore

1955
The Violent Men

as    Martha Wilkison

1954
Witness to Murder

as    Cheryl Draper

1954
Executive Suite

as    Julia O. Tredway

1954
Cattle Queen of Montana

as    Sierra Nevada Jones

1953
Jeopardy

as    Helen Stilwin

1953
Titanic

as    Julia Sturges

1953
Blowing Wild

as    Marina Conway

1953
The Moonlighter

as    Rela

1952
Clash by Night

as    Mae Doyle D'Amato

1951
The Man with a Cloak

as    Lorna Bounty

1950
The File on Thelma Jordon

as    Thelma Jordon

1950
The Furies

as    Vance Jeffords