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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 16, 1907
Died
January 20, 1990
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Ruby Catherine Stevens
- バーバラ・スタンウィック
Barbara Stanwyck
1.2 Popularity
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
7.0
(archive footage)
Warner at War
2008
6.1
Various Roles (archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008
4.3
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
0.5
Nan Taylor (archive footage)
Bad Girls Behind Bars
2005
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
5.8
Jessica Drummond (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997
5.7
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
🎬
0.0
Self
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
5.1
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
Credits
Warner at War
as (archive footage)
2008
7.0
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)
2008
6.1
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2007
4.3
Bad Girls Behind Bars
as Nan Taylor (archive footage)
2005
0.5
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.7
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Jessica Drummond (archive footage)
2002
5.8
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
1997
7.5
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
1991
5.7
🎬
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self
1989
0.0
Hollywood Uncensored
as Self (archive footage)
1987
5.1
The Colbys
as Constance Colby
1985
6.1
The Thorn Birds
as Mary Carson
1983
7.2
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
1982
10.0
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
1982
6.6
This Is Elvis
1981
7.0
Dynasty
as Constance Colby
1981
6.4
The House That Would Not Die
as Ruth Bennett
1977
5.7
Charlie's Angels
as Toni Blake
1976
6.7
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
The Letters
as Geraldine Parkington
1973
6.2
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self (archive footage)
1973
6.0
A Taste of Evil
as Miriam Jennings
1971
5.9
The Big Valley
as Victoria Barkley
1965
6.1
The Night Walker
as Irene Trent
1964
6.6
Roustabout
as Maggie Morgan
1964
6.0
Calhoun
as Abby Rayner
1964
6.0
Walk on the Wild Side
as Jo Courtney
1962
6.5
The Dick Powell Show
as Irene Phillips
1961
5.5
Dragon by the Tail
as Self - Host/Josephine Little
1961
0.0
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Elizabeth Mowry
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Marian Andres
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Maggie Wenley
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Dr. Susan Bryce
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Stella King
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Liz Randall
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Ella Cahill
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Josephine Little
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Harriet Melvane
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Amanda Prescott
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Fanny Evans
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Rachel Harrison
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Hazel Wexley
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Fran Elick
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Maggie McClay
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Avis Fleming
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Nellie Bly
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Paula Manning
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Alicia
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Amelia Lambert
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Louise Forest
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Sister Thomas Aquinas
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Syd Charing
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Chris Mathews
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Trixie Callahan
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Carolyn Callendar
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Cara Lester
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Margot LaChelle
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Janet Jones
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Madge Terry
1960
6.2
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Self - Host
1960
6.2
Rawhide
as Nora Holloway
1959
7.2
Wagon Train
as Caroline Casteel
1957
6.6
Forty Guns
as Jessica Drummond
1957
6.5
Trooper Hook
as Cora Sutliff
1957
6.8
Crime of Passion
as Kathy Ferguson
1956
6.1
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Belle Garrison
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Regan Moore
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Julie Holman
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Leona Butler
1956
6.0
These Wilder Years
as Ann Dempster
1956
6.3
The Maverick Queen
as Kit Banion
1956
5.5
There's Always Tomorrow
as Norma Miller Vale
1956
7.1
Escape to Burma
as Gwen Moore
1955
5.9
The Violent Men
as Martha Wilkison
1955
6.4
Cattle Queen of Montana
as Sierra Nevada Jones
1954
5.6
Executive Suite
as Julia O. Tredway
1954
7.0
Witness to Murder
as Cheryl Draper
1954
6.2
Blowing Wild
as Marina Conway
1953
5.8
Letter to Loretta
as Self - Guest Host
1953
6.5
The Moonlighter
as Rela
1953
5.7
All I Desire
as Naomi Murdoch
1953
6.8
Titanic
as Julia Sturges
1953
6.6
Jeopardy
as Helen Stilwin
1953
6.6
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
General Electric Theater
as Lili Parrish
1953
6.4
Clash by Night
as Mae Doyle D'Amato
1952
6.6
The Man with a Cloak
as Lorna Bounty
1951
6.9
To Please a Lady
as Regina Forbes
1950
6.3
The Furies
as Vance Jeffords
1950
7.2
No Man of Her Own
as Helen Ferguson
1950
6.8
East Side, West Side
as Jessie Bourne
1949
6.9
The File on Thelma Jordon
as Thelma Jordon
1949
6.5
The Lady Gambles
as Joan Phillips Boothe
1949
6.0
Sorry, Wrong Number
as Leona Cotterell Stevenson
1948
6.7
B.F.'s Daughter
as Pauline 'Polly' Fulton Brett
1948
6.3
Performers arrive in Hampshire
as Self
1947
0.0
Variety Girl
as Barbara Stanwyck
1947
6.1
Cry Wolf
as Sandra Marshall
1947
5.9
The Other Love
as Karen Duncan
1947
6.0
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
as Sally Morton Carroll
1947
6.4
California
as Lily Bishop
1947
6.7
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
as Martha Ivers
1946
7.1
The Bride Wore Boots
as Sally Warren
1946
5.9
My Reputation
as Jessica Drummond
1946
7.1
Hollywood Victory Caravan
as Barbara Stanwyck
1945
5.2
Christmas in Connecticut
as Elizabeth Lane
1945
7.0
Breakdowns of 1944
as Self
1944
6.5
Hollywood Canteen
as Self
1944
7.3
Double Indemnity
as Phyllis Dietrichson
1944
8.1
Flesh and Fantasy
as Joan Stanley (segment 3)
1943
6.8
Lady of Burlesque
as Dixie Daisy
1943
5.2
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
1942
6.0
The Gay Sisters
as Fiona Gaylord
1942
6.5
Ball of Fire
as Sugarpuss O’Shea
1941
7.3
The Great Man's Lady
as Hannah Sempler Hoyt
1941
6.3
You Belong to Me
as Helen Hunt
1941
5.8
Meet John Doe
as Ann Mitchell
1941
7.3
The Lady Eve
as Jean Harrington
1941
7.2
Remember the Night
as Lee Leander/Anna Rose Malone
1940
7.3
Golden Boy
as Lorna Moon
1939
6.4
Union Pacific
as Mollie Monahan
1939
6.6
The Mad Miss Manton
as Melsa Manton
1938
6.3
Hollywood Goes to Town
as Self
1938
7.0
Always Goodbye
as Margot Weston
1938
6.8
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
as Self
1938
0.0
Breakfast for Two
as Valentine Ransome
1937
5.6
Stella Dallas
as Stella Dallas
1937
6.9
This Is My Affair
as Lil Duryea
1937
7.3
Internes Can't Take Money
as Janet Haley
1937
6.3
The Plough and the Stars
as Nora Clitheroe
1936
5.8
Banjo on My Knee
as Pearl Elliott Holley
1936
5.5
His Brother's Wife
as Rita Wilson Claybourne
1936
5.6
The Bride Walks Out
as Carolyn Martin
1936
5.1
A Message to Garcia
as Raphaelita Maderos
1936
4.8
Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
1935
5.0
Annie Oakley
as Annie Oakley
1935
6.3
Red Salute
as Drue Van Allen
1935
5.6
The Woman in Red
as Shelby Barret Wyatt
1935
6.0
The Secret Bride
as Ruth Vincent
1934
5.9
A Lost Lady
as Marian Ormsby Forrester
1934
5.6
Gambling Lady
as Jennifer Lady Lee
1934
6.2
Ever in My Heart
as Mary Archer Wilbrandt
1933
5.3
Baby Face
as Lily Powers
1933
7.2
Ladies They Talk About
as Nan Taylor
1933
6.1
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as Megan Davis
1932
6.2
The Purchase Price
as Joan Gordon Gilson
1932
6.5
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
as Herself
1932
6.0
So Big!
as Selina Peake De Jong
1932
5.6
Shopworn
as Kitty Lane
1932
6.5
Forbidden
as Lulu Smith
1932
6.5
The Miracle Woman
as Florence Fallon
1931
6.7
Night Nurse
as Lora Hart
1931
6.7
Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
as Self
1931
6.0
Round About Hollywood
as Self
1931
6.0
The Stolen Jools
as Mrs. Frank Fay
1931
5.6
Illicit
as Anne Vincent
1931
5.6
Ten Cents a Dance
as Barbara O'Neill
1931
6.8
Ladies of Leisure
as Kay Arnold
1930
6.1
Mexicali Rose
as Mexicali Rose
1929
5.2
The Locked Door
as Ann Carter
1929
5.9