Natalie Wood

Acting · 2.1 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981
From: San Francisco, California, USA

Biography

Natalie Wood (née Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles. Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a role in John Ford's The Searchers (1956). Wood starred in the musical films West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962) and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued with films such as Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). During the 1970s, Wood began a hiatus from film and had two daughters: one with her second husband Richard Gregson, and one with Robert Wagner, her first husband whom she married again after divorcing Gregson. She acted in only two feature films throughout the decade, but she appeared slightly more often in television productions, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1979) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Wood's films represented a "coming of age" for her and for Hollywood films in general. Critics have suggested that her cinematic career represents a portrait of modern American womanhood in transition, as she was one of the few to take both child roles and those of middle-aged characters. Wood died off the coast of Santa Catalina Island on November 29, 1981, at age 43, during a holiday break from the production of her would-be comeback film Brainstorm (1983) with Christopher Walken. The events surrounding her death have been the subject of conflicting witness statements, prompting the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, under the instruction of the coroner's office, to list her cause of death as "drowning and other undetermined factors" in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Natalie Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

88 films

Miracle on 34th Street

19477.4

The Searchers

19567.7

Sex and the Single Girl

19646.6

Rebel Without a Cause

19557.5

West Side Story

19617.2

The Great Race

19657.1

Brainstorm

19836.2

Splendor in the Grass

19617.5

Bombers B-52

19575.8

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

19696.2

Gypsy

19626.3

Natalie Wood: An American Murder Mystery

20185.5

The Candidate

19726.5

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

19477.5

The Burning Hills

19566.1

This Property Is Condemned

19666.5

Meteor

19795.2

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

20185.5

The Last Married Couple in America

19804.4

Paul Newman: The Restless

20237.7

Tab Hunter Confidential

20157.3

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

19826.0

Tomorrow Is Forever

19466.3

Willie & Phil

19804.6

Penelope

19665.4

Love with the Proper Stranger

19636.8

Howard

20186.8

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

20177.5

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

2026

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind

20206.4

Inside Daisy Clover

19665.6

Driftwood

19476.8

The Silver Chalice

19544.5

Peeper

19755.1

The James Dean Story

19575.4

The Fabulous Allan Carr

20174.5

All the Fine Young Cannibals

19605.9

Kings Go Forth

19586.1

Feathertop

1955

Playmates

1954

Dominick Dunne: After the Party

20087.5

Cash McCall

19606.3

The Memory of Eva Ryker

19808.0

Marjorie Morningstar

19586.3

Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool

19546.0

Brunes et Blondes

2010

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

19765.0

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's

2009

The Jackpot

19507.0

The Star

19527.2

The Girl He Left Behind

19564.5

One Desire

19556.1

James Dean Remembered

19748.0

The Blue Veil

19516.8

Chicken Every Sunday

19496.2

The Affair

19733.8

Never a Dull Moment

19506.1

Hollywood’s Children

19829.0

Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

19905.7

The Rose Bowl Story

19524.3

Hart to Hart

19797.5

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

19566.0

Happy Land

19437.1

No Sad Songs for Me

19506.3

Father Was a Fullback

19496.3

Rediscovering a Rebel

1996

Just for You

19525.4

A Cry in the Night

19565.4

Death In Hollywood

19906.8

The Bride Wore Boots

19466.1

The Wild Bunch

1955

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

19886.0

The Moon Is Down

19436.9

Trumbull Land

20187.3

Our Very Own

19505.9

The Green Promise

19496.4

The Cracker Factory

19799.3

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

19486.6

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

19756.7

James Dean: The First American Teenager

19757.5

Heidi

1955

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

2009

Dear Brat

19514.5

How Real is 'The Star'?

20056.0

Too Old for Dolls

1955

Return of the Dead

19545.0

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

2005

The Deadly Riddle

1956