Gene Tierney

1920-1991

Biography: life and films

Gene Tierney was an American actress. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA on 19th November 1920 and died in Houston, Texas, USA on 6th November 1991, aged 70.

Her best films as an actor include Josef von Sternberg's The Shanghai Gesture (1941), Ernst Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait (1943), Otto Preminger's crime-thriller Laura (1944), Edmund Goulding's The Razor's Edge (1946) and Sobey Martin's Las cuatro noches de la luna llena (1963).

Gene Tierney appeared in 37 films.

She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Otto Preminger (4 films), William A. Wellman (2), Sobey Martin (2), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (2) and Henry Hathaway (2).

Her most frequent genres include: drama (23 films), romance (9), Thriller (7), comedy (5), comedy-romance (4), Western (4), history (3), crime-thriller (3), War (3) and Fantasy (2).

Our average rating for Gene Tierney over all films is: 3.3

Filmography

Key: a = actor

The Return of Frank James (1940) [a]

Belle Starr (1941) [a]

Hudson's Bay (1941) [a]

Sundown (1941) [a]

The Shanghai Gesture (1941) [a]

China Girl (1942) [a]

Rings on Her Fingers (1942) [a]

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) [a]

Thunder Birds (Soldiers of the Air) (1942) [a]

Heaven Can Wait (1943) [a]

Laura (1944) [a]

A Bell for Adano (1945) [a]

Leave Her to Heaven (1945) [a]

Dragonwyck (1946) [a]

The Razor's Edge (1946) [a]

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) [a]

That Wonderful Urge (1948) [a]

The Iron Curtain (1948) [a]

Whirlpool (1949) [a]

Night and the City (1950) [a]

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) [a]

Close to My Heart (1951) [a]

On the Riviera (1951) [a]

The Mating Season (1951) [a]

The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) [a]

Plymouth Adventure (1952) [a]

Way of a Gaucho (1952) [a]

Never Let Me Go (1953) [a]

Personal Affair (1953) [a]

Black Widow (1954) [a]

The Egyptian (1954) [a]

The Left Hand of God (1955) [a]

Advise and Consent (1962) [a]

Las cuatro noches de la luna llena (1963) [a]

Toys in the Attic (1963) [a]

The Pleasure Seekers (1964) [a]



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