Ava Gardner

1922-1990

Biography: life and films

Ava Gardner was an American actress. She was born in Smithfield, North Carolina, USA on 24th December 1922 and died in Westminster, London, England on 25th January 1990, aged 67.

Her best films as an actor include Robert Siodmak's crime-thriller The Killers (1946), The Great Sinner (1949), George Sidney's Show Boat (1951), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954) and John Frankenheimer's thriller Seven Days in May (1964).

Ava Gardner appeared in 52 films.

She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Willis Goldbeck (2 films), Roddy McDowall (2), Robert Siodmak (2), Richard Thorpe (2), Mark Robson (2), John Huston (2), Henry King (2) and George Cukor (2).

Her most frequent genres include: drama (31 films), romance (12), Thriller (11), comedy (6), comedy-romance (5), comedy-drama (4), Horror (4), history (3), Western (3), War (3), Fantasy (3), Documentary (3), crime-thriller (2) and Biography (2).

Our average rating for Ava Gardner over all films is: 3.1

Filmography

Key: a = actor

Babes on Broadway (1941) [a]

Joe Smith, American (1942) [a]

Sunday Punch (1942) [a]

This Time for Keeps (1942) [a]

Ghosts on the Loose (1943) [a]

Blonde Fever (1944) [a]

Maisie Goes to Reno (1944) [a]

Three Men in White (1944) [a]

She Went to the Races (1945) [a]

The Killers (1946) [a]

Whistle Stop (1946) [a]

Singapore (1947) [a]

The Hucksters (1947) [a]

One Touch of Venus (1948) [a]

East Side, West Side (1949) [a]

The Bribe (1949) [a]

The Great Sinner (1949) [a]

My Forbidden Past (1951) [a]

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) [a]

Show Boat (1951) [a]

Lone Star (1952) [a]

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) [a]

Knights of the Round Table (1953) [a]

Mogambo (1953) [a]

Ride, Vaquero! (1953) [a]

The Barefoot Contessa (1954) [a]

Bhowani Junction (1956) [a]

The Little Hut (1957) [a]

The Sun Also Rises (1957) [a]

The Naked Maja (1958) [a]

On the Beach (1959) [a]

The Angel Wore Red (1960) [a]

55 Days at Peking (1963) [a]

La Rabbia (1963) [a]

Seven Days in May (1964) [a]

The Night of the Iguana (1964) [a]

The Love Goddesses (1965) [a]

The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) [a]

Mayerling (1968) [a]

The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970) [a]

Earthquake (1974) [a]

Permission to Kill (1975) [a]

The Blue Bird (1976) [a]

The Cassandra Crossing (1976) [a]

The Sentinel (1977) [a]

City on Fire (1979) [a]

The Kidnapping of the President (1980) [a]

Priest of Love (1981) [a]

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [a]

Regina Roma (1982) [a]

Legends of the West (1992) [a]



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