Biography: life and films
Veronica Lake was an American actress whose birth name was Constance Frances Marie Ockelman. She was born in Brooklyn, New York City, USA on 14th November 1922 and died in Burlington, Vermont, U.S. on 7th July 1973, aged 50.Her best films as an actor include Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels (1941), René Clair's comedy I Married a Witch (1942), Stuart Heisler's crime-thriller The Glass Key (1942), Frank Tuttle's This Gun for Hire (1942) and George Marshall's The Blue Dahlia (1946).
Veronica Lake appeared in 26 films.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: George Marshall (3 films), Hal Walker (2), Frank Tuttle (2) and André De Toth (2).
Her most frequent genres include: drama (10 films), comedy (8), Thriller (6), romance (5), crime-thriller (4), comedy-romance (3), War (3) and comedy-drama (2).
Our average rating for Veronica Lake over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor
All Women Have Secrets (1939) [a]
Sorority House (1939) [a]
I Wanted Wings (1941) [a]
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) [a]
So Proudly We Hail! (1943) [a]
The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) [a]
Bring on the Girls (1945) [a]
Duffy's Tavern (1945) [a]
Hold That Blonde (1945) [a]
Out of This World (1945) [a]
Miss Susie Slagle's (1946) [a]
Ramrod (1947) [a]
Isn't It Romantic? (1948) [a]
Saigon (1948) [a]
The Sainted Sisters (1948) [a]
Slattery's Hurricane (1949) [a]
Stronghold (1951) [a]
Footsteps in the Snow (1966) [a]
Flesh Feast (1970) [a]
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [a]
Congratulations (2012) [a]
The very best of French film comedy
The best French Films of the 1910s
The history of French cinema
