
Ida Lupino
Highest Rated: 100% Road House (1948)
Lowest Rated: 18% The Devil's Rain (1975)
Birthday: Feb 04, 1918
Birthplace: Camberwell, London, England, UK
Though Paramount had imported her from England as an ingénue, Ida Lupino proved more than merely wise beyond her years when she landed in Hollywood in 1934. The 16-year-old scion of a British acting dynasty, Lupino evinced a husky sensuality that had won her a reputation in her homeland as the British Jean Harlow. Plugged into programmers, the progressive Lupino swiftly grew dissatisfied and shifted to Warner Brothers, landing edgier roles in Raoul Walsh's "They Drive by Night" (1940) and "High Sierra" (1941) with Humphrey Bogart. A lead role as a steely murderess in Charles Vidor's "Ladies in Retirement" (1941) proved an apt showcase for Lupino's acting abilities, but she always had her sights set higher. With second husband Collier Young, Lupino crafted a string of mostly independent dramas with an emphasis on social issues, among them the unwed mother meller "Not Wanted" (1949) and "Outrage" (1950), which concerned the aftermath of a brutal rape. Lupino's "The Hitch-Hiker" (1952) was at once a skewering of the fragile male psyche and an important entry in the suspense subgenre of film noir. Diverting her efforts as a director-for-hire to television following her marriage to actor Howard Duff, Lupino made occasional film appearances, albeit often in such drive-in fodder as "The Devil's Rain" (1976) and "Food of the Gods" (1976). At the time of her death in 1995, Lupino was only beginning to be reevaluated as a pioneering female director, as well as a guiding hand in the gestation of American independent cinema.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Boys Are Good Boys | Mrs. Morton (Character) | - | 1978 |
24% | 26% | The Food of the Gods | Mrs. Skinner (Character) | - | 1976 |
18% | 35% | The Devil's Rain | Mrs. Preston (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Female Artillery | Martha Lindstrom (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Letters | Mrs. Forrester (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Love a Mystery | Randolph Cheyne (Character) | - | 1973 |
92% | 63% | Junior Bonner | Elvira Bonner (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Strangers in 7A | Iris Sawyer (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Women in Chains | Claire Tyson (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Perfect Image | Monique Madison (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Backtrack | Mama Dolores (Character) | - | 1969 |
75% | 86% | The Trouble With Angels | Director | - | 1966 |
89% | 67% | While the City Sleeps | Mildred Donner (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strange Intruder | Alice Carmichael (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 25% | Women's Prison | Amelia van Zandt (Character) | - | 1955 |
88% | 58% | The Big Knife | Marion Castle (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 70% | Private Hell 36 | Lilli Marlowe (Character) | - | 1954 |
78% | 50% | The Bigamist |
Phyllis Martin (Character), Director |
- | 1953 |
94% | 61% | The Hitch-Hiker |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jennifer | Agnes Langley (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 52% | Beware My Lovely | Helen Gordon (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 45% | Hard, Fast and Beautiful | Director | - | 1951 |
94% | 79% | On Dangerous Ground | Mary Malden (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Young Lovers | Director | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Never Fear | Director | - | 1950 |
61% | 70% | Outrage | Director | - | 1950 |
80% | 42% | Shame |
Director, Producer |
- | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Lust for Gold | Julia Thomas (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Woman in Hiding | Deborah Chandler Clark (Character) | - | 1949 |
100% | 68% | Road House | Lily Stevens (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | 69% | Deep Valley | Libby Saul (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Escape Me Never | Gemma Smith (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | 54% | Devotion | Emily Bronte (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | 73% | The Man I Love | Petey Brown (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pillow to Post | Jean Howard (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In Our Time | Jennifer Whittredge (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Hollywood Canteen | Herself (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Forever and a Day | Jenny (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | 77% | The Hard Way | Mrs. Helen Chernen (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | 68% | Moontide | Anna (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life Begins at 8:30 | Kathy Thomas (Character) | - | 1942 |
100% | 77% | The Sea Wolf | Ruth Webster (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | 26% | Out of the Fog | Stella Goodwin (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Ladies in Retirement | Ellen Creed (Character) | - | 1941 |
90% | 78% | High Sierra | Marie Garson (Character) | - | 1941 |
92% | 71% | They Drive by Night | Lana Carlsen (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Light That Failed | Bessie Broke (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lone Wolf Spy Hunt | Val Carson (Character) | - | 1939 |
100% | 78% | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Ann Brandon (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lady and the Mob | Lila Thorne (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Let's Get Married | Paula Quinn (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Artists and Models |
Paula Sewell/ |
- | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fight for Your Lady | Marietta (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sea Devils | Doris Malone (Character) | - | 1937 |
83% | 20% | Anything Goes | Hope Harcourt (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | 69% | The Gay Desperado | Jane (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yours for the Asking | Gert Malloy (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Rainy Afternoon | Monique Pelerin (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smart Girl | Pat Reynolds (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 65% | Peter Ibbetson | Agnes (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paris in Spring | Mignon de Charelle (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | 8% | Search for Beauty | Barbara Hilton (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Come on Marines | Esther Smith-Hamilton (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Money for Speed | Jane (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ghost Camera | Mary Elton (Character) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Lived With You | Ada Wallis (Character) | - | 1933 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Four Star Playhouse | Unknown (Character) | 2019 1952-1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Hilda Morris (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Columbo | Edna Basket Brown (Guest Star) | 1974 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Wilma Jamison (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Affair | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969-1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mod Squad | Iris Potter (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Director | 1968 |
93% | 79% | Batman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Judd for the Defense | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
90% | 73% | Gilligan's Island | Director | 1966 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Novak | Director | 1963-1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bewitched | Director | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rogues | Director | 1964 |
82% | 94% | The Twilight Zone |
Barbara Jean Trenton (Character), Director |
1964 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Director | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Director | 1963-1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Director | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thriller | Director | 1961-1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have Gun -- Will Travel | Director | 1959-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Director | 1960-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dante | Director | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Valley Days | Pamela Mann (Character) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | We Love Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theater | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! |
Unknown (Character), Director |
1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Screen Directors Playhouse | Director | 1956 |
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