Lauren Bacall
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks. She began her career as a model. She first appeared as a leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have and Have Not (1944) and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in Bogart movies The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948), as well as comedic roles in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck. Bacall worked on Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981. Her performance in the movie The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. In 1999, Bacall was ranked 20th out of the 25 actresses on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list by the American Film Institute. In 2009, she was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Academy Honorary Award "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures." Bacall died on August 12, 2014, at the age of 89. According to her grandson Jamie Bogart, the actress died after suffering from a stroke.
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Movies (45)
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe
2022
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Capote Tapes
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Beautiful Like a Poem
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Lauren Bacall, ombre et lumière
as Self (archive footage)
2017
The Untameable Kirk Douglas
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2017
Trumbo
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
as Self (archive footage)
2012
All at Sea
as May
2012
Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe
as Self (archive footage)
2012
The Forger
as Anne-Marie
2011
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self – Interviewee
2010
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
as The Grand Witch (voice)
2008
Eve
as Grandma
2008
The Walker
as Natalie Van Miter
2007
These Foolish Things
as Dame Lydia
2006
The Road to Manderlay
as Self - actress
2005
Private Screenings: Lauren Bacall
as Self
2005
Manderlay
as Mam
2005
The Limit
as May Markham
2004
Birth
as Eleanor
2004
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
as Host
2004
Dogville Confessions
as Self
2004
Judy Garland: By Myself
as Self (archive footage)
2004
A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not'
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers: The Story of 'Dark Passage'
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
as Various Roles (archive footage)
2003
Dogville
as Ma Ginger
2003
New York at the Movies
as Self
2002
Greta Garbo: A Lone Star
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2001
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
Pulp Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2001
Presence of Mind
as Mado Remei
2000
Amália Traída
as TV Announcer
2000
Diamonds
as Sin-Dee
1999
A Conversation with Gregory Peck
as Self
1999
The Venice Project
as Countess Camilla Volta
1999
Madeline: Lost in Paris
as Madame LaCroque (voice)
1999
