Lauren Bacall

1924-

Biography: life and films

Lauren Bacall is an American actress whose birth name is Betty Joan Perske. She was born in The Bronx, New York, USA on 16th September 1924.

Her best films as an actor include Howard Hawks's crime-thriller The Big Sleep (1946), John Huston's Key Largo (1948), Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind (1956), Harold Medford's Marilyn (1963) and Susan Warms Dryfoos's The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996).

Lauren Bacall has so far appeared in 56 films.

She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Jean Negulesco (3 films), Vincente Minnelli (2), Robert Altman (2), Michael Curtiz (2), Lars von Trier (2) and Howard Hawks (2).

Her most frequent genres include: drama (30 films), Thriller (10), romance (9), comedy (9), Documentary (7), comedy-drama (6), comedy-romance (5), crime-thriller (4), Biography (4) and Animation (2).

Our average rating for Lauren Bacall over all films is: 3.2

Filmography

Key: a = actor

To Have and Have Not (1944) [a]

Confidential Agent (1945) [a]

The Big Sleep (1946) [a]

Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946) [a]

Dark Passage (1947) [a]

Key Largo (1948) [a]

Bright Leaf (1950) [a]

Young Man with a Horn (1950) [a]

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) [a]

Woman's World (1954) [a]

Blood Alley (1955) [a]

The Cobweb (1955) [a]

Patterns (1956) [a]

Written on the Wind (1956) [a]

Designing Woman (1957) [a]

The Gift of Love (1958) [a]

North West Frontier (1959) [a]

Marilyn (1963) [a]

Sex and the Single Girl (1964) [a]

Shock Treatment (1964) [a]

Harper (1966) [a]

Murder on the Orient Express (1974) [a]

The Shootist (1976) [a]

HealtH (1980) [a]

The Fan (1981) [a]

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983) [a]

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1987) [a]

Appointment with Death (1988) [a]

Mr. North (1988) [a]

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) [a]

Tree of Hands (1989) [a]

Misery (1990) [a]

A Star for Two (1991) [a]

All I Want for Christmas (1991) [a]

On the Bridge (1992) [a]

A Foreign Field (1993) [a]

Humphrey Bogart: Behind the Legend (1994) [a]

Prêt-à-Porter (1994) [a]

My Fellow Americans (1996) [a]

The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996) [a]

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) [a]

Le Jour et la nuit (1997) [a]

Diamonds (1999) [a]

Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999) [a]

Presence of Mind (1999) [a]

The Venice Project (1999) [a]

Dogville (2003) [a]

The Limit (2003) [a]

Birth (2004) [a]

Firedog (2005) [a]

Manderlay (2005) [a]

These Foolish Things (2006) [a]

The Walker (2007) [a]

Wide Blue Yonder (2008) [a]

The Forger (2012) [a]

Trouble Is My Business (2013) [a]

Trumbo (2015) [a]



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