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
Baby Face
(1933)
Lily Powers
Night Nurse
(1931)
Lora Hart
Double Indemnity
(1944)
Phyllis Dietrichson
Titanic
(1953)
Julia Sturges
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(1982)
(in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
Hollywood Uncensored
(1987)
Self (archive footage)
Ball of Fire
(1941)
Sugarpuss O’Shea
The Lady Eve
(1941)
Jean Harrington
Forty Guns
(1957)
Jessica Drummond
Clash by Night
(1952)
Mae Doyle D'Amato
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
(1946)
Martha Ivers
Roustabout
(1964)
Maggie Morgan
Sorry, Wrong Number
(1948)
Leona Cotterell Stevenson
Stella Dallas
(1937)
Stella Dallas
Remember the Night
(1940)
Lee Leander
Hollywood Canteen
(1944)
Self
Full Filmography
Acting
Broadway Nights
(1927)
The Locked Door
(1929)
Ann Carter
Mexicali Rose
(1929)
Mexicali Rose
Ladies of Leisure
(1930)
Kay Arnold
The Miracle Woman
(1931)
Florence Fallon
Night Nurse
(1931)
Lora Hart
Ten Cents a Dance
(1931)
Barbara O'Neill
Illicit
(1931)
Anne Vincent
The Stolen Jools
(1931)
Mrs. Frank Fay
Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
(1931)
Self
Round About Hollywood
(1931)
Self
Forbidden
(1932)
Lulu
The Purchase Price
(1932)
Joan Gordon Gilson
So Big!
(1932)
Selina Peake De Jong
Shopworn
(1932)
Kitty Lane
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
(1932)
Herself
Baby Face
(1933)
Lily Powers
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
(1933)
Megan Davis
Ladies They Talk About
(1933)
Nan Taylor / Nan Ellis / Mrs. Andrews
Ever in My Heart
(1933)
Mary Archer Wilbrandt
Gambling Lady
(1934)
Jennifer Lady Lee
The Secret Bride
(1934)
Ruth Vincent
A Lost Lady
(1934)
Marian Ormsby Forrester
Annie Oakley
(1935)
Annie Oakley
The Woman in Red
(1935)
Shelby Barret Wyatt
Red Salute
(1935)
Drue Van Allen
Things You Never See on the Screen
(1935)
Self
The Bride Walks Out
(1936)
Carolyn Martin
His Brother's Wife
(1936)
Rita Wilson Claybourne
A Message to Garcia
(1936)
Raphaelita Maderos
Banjo on My Knee
(1936)
Pearl Elliott Holley
The Plough and the Stars
(1936)
Nora Clitheroe
Stella Dallas
(1937)
Stella Dallas
Breakfast for Two
(1937)
Valentine Ransome
Internes Can't Take Money
(1937)
Janet Haley
This Is My Affair
(1937)
Lil Duryea
The Mad Miss Manton
(1938)
Melsa Manton
Always Goodbye
(1938)
Margot Weston
Hollywood Goes to Town
(1938)
Self
Golden Boy
(1939)
Lorna Moon
Union Pacific
(1939)
Mollie Monahan
Remember the Night
(1940)
Lee Leander
The Lady Eve
(1941)
Jean Harrington
Meet John Doe
(1941)
Ann Mitchell
Ball of Fire
(1941)
Sugarpuss O’Shea
You Belong to Me
(1941)
Helen Hunt
The Gay Sisters
(1942)
Fiona Gaylord
The Great Man's Lady
(1942)
Hannah Sempler Hoyt
Breakdowns of 1942
(1942)
Self
Lady of Burlesque
(1943)
Dixie Daisy
Flesh and Fantasy
(1943)
Joan Stanley (segment 3)
Double Indemnity
(1944)
Phyllis Dietrichson
Hollywood Canteen
(1944)
Self
Breakdowns of 1944
(1944)
Self
Christmas in Connecticut
(1945)
Elizabeth Lane
Hollywood Victory Caravan
(1945)
Barbara Stanwyck
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
(1946)
Martha Ivers
My Reputation
(1946)
Jessica Drummond
The Bride Wore Boots
(1946)
Sally Apley Warren
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
(1947)
Sally Morton Carroll
Cry Wolf
(1947)
Sandra Marshall
The Other Love
(1947)
Karen Duncan
California
(1947)
Lily Bishop
Variety Girl
(1947)
Barbara Stanwyck
Performers arrive in Hampshire
(1947)
Self
Sorry, Wrong Number
(1948)
Leona Cotterell Stevenson
B.F.'s Daughter
(1948)
Pauline 'Polly' Fulton Brett
The File on Thelma Jordon
(1949)
Thelma Jordon
The Lady Gambles
(1949)
Joan Phillips Boothe
East Side, West Side
(1949)
Jessie Bourne
The Furies
(1950)
Vance Jeffords
No Man of Her Own
(1950)
Helen Ferguson
To Please a Lady
(1950)
Regina Forbes
The Man with a Cloak
(1951)
Lorna Bounty
Clash by Night
(1952)
Mae Doyle D'Amato
Jeopardy
(1953)
Helen Stilwin
All I Desire
(1953)
Naomi Murdoch
Titanic
(1953)
Julia Sturges
Blowing Wild
(1953)
Marina Conway
The Moonlighter
(1953)
Rela
Executive Suite
(1954)
Julia O. Tredway
Witness to Murder
(1954)
Cheryl Draper
Cattle Queen of Montana
(1954)
Sierra Nevada Jones
The Violent Men
(1955)
Martha Wilkison
Escape to Burma
(1955)
Gwen Moore
Crime of Passion
(1956)
Kathy Ferguson
There's Always Tomorrow
(1956)
Norma Miller Vale
These Wilder Years
(1956)
Ann Dempster
The Maverick Queen
(1956)
Kit Banion
Forty Guns
(1957)
Jessica Drummond
Trooper Hook
(1957)
Cora Sutliff
Walk on the Wild Side
(1962)
Jo Courtney
Roustabout
(1964)
Maggie Morgan
The Night Walker
(1964)
Irene Trent
Calhoun
(1964)
Abby Rayner
The Love Goddesses
(1965)
(archive footage)
The House That Would Not Die
(1970)
Ruth Bennett
A Taste of Evil
(1971)
Miriam Jennings
The Letters
(1973)
Geraldine Parkington
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(1975)
Self (archive footage)
This Is Elvis
(1981)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(1982)
(in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
(1982)
(archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
(1986)
Self (from Clash by Night [1952]) (archive footage)
Hollywood Uncensored
(1987)
Self (archive footage)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
(1989)
Self
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
(1991)
Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
(1995)
(archive footage)
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
(1996)
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
(1997)
Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
(2002)
Jessica Drummond (archive footage)
Complicated Women
(2003)
Self (archive footage)
Shadows of Suspense
(2006)
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
(2008)
Various Roles (archive footage)
Warner at War
(2008)
(archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
(2014)
Self (archive footage)
AFI Life Achievement Award: 50th Anniversary Special
(2023)
Self (archive footage)