IDA LUPINO BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Ida Lupino was born on February 4th, 1918 in Camberwell, London, England in the United Kingdom to parents, Stanley and Connie O'Shea. Her parents were very involved in show business and she was encouraged as a young girl to pursue a career as an actress.
She trained at RADA and her first film appearance was in, "The Love Race" (1931). She continued to work in films in England appearing in minor roles.
In 1933, her family immigrated to New York from England and ironically, in 1933, when her mother, Connie O'Shea, took her daughter along for an audition, it was her daughter, Ida who actually was cast in the role. She also had a younger sister, Rita Lupino who also grew took on a career as an actress and dancer.
Lupino's film career really took off when she appeared in the film, "The Light That Failed" (1939) and by the mid 1940's she was getting roles offered to her from all directions. Some of the films she appeared in were, "The Drive By Night" (1940), "High Sierra" (1941) starring Humphrey Bogart and "The Hard Way" (1943) for which she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
In 1947, Lupino left her contract with Warner Brothers and decided to work as a freelance actress. Some films during this time period were, "Road House" (1948) and "On Dangerous Ground" (1952). During this period she also became involved in directing making her first project, "Not Wanted" (1949) only by chance when another director, Elmer Clifton suffered a minor heart attack and could not finish directing the film.
A variety of films followed and many dealt with current social issues such as her film, "Outrage" (1950) which was based around the subject of rape. She was also the first woman to direct a film noir, "The Hitch-Hiker" (1953).
As her career progressed through the next three decades she continued to work as an actress and director and her main focus was in the television industry. Some of her directing projects were, "The Donna Reed Show", "Batman", "Sam Benedict", "The Untouchables" and "The Virginian" to name just a few. She was also not the only woman to direct an episode of, "The Twilight Zone' but she was also the only person to star in an episode and direct it as well.
Ida Lupino was married three times troughout her lifetime. First to Louis Hayward who was also an actor from November 1938 through May 1945. She then married her second husband, Collier Young who worked as a producer in the industry and they were married for three years from 1948 to 1951. Her third and final marriage was to Howard Duff, another actor from October 1951 through 1984 and the couple had her only biological child, Bridget Duff Born in 1952.
On August 3rd, 1995, Ida Lupino passsed away from a stroke at the age of seventy seven in Los Angeles, california while undergoing treatment for colon cancer. She is burried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Ida Lupino became known throughout her lifetime as a pioneer for women filmmakers. She was not only a talented actress but was also known as a very talented director within the industry. Throughout her forty eight years working in the entertainment industry, Lupino appeared in fifty nine films and directed nine others. She also had an amazing television career appearing on fifty eight programs, directed fifty other television episodes and even worked as a writer for five different films and four television episodes.
Lupino was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to the Television and Motion Picture Industry. Lupino was also the second woman to ever be admitted to the Director's Guild .
Filmography
1978 My Boys Are Good Boys
1977 Charlie's Angels
1976 The Food of the Gods
1975 Police Woman
1975 Switch
1975 Ellery Queen
1975 The Devil's Rain
1974 The Manhunter
1972-1974 Columbo
1974 The Streets of San Francisco
1974 Barnaby Jones
1973 The Letters
1973 I Love a Mystery
1973 Female Artillery
1973 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1972 The Strangers in 7A
1972 Junior Bonner
1972 Medical Center
1972 Alias Smith and Jones
1972 Women in Chains
1971 Nanny and the Professor
1970 Bracken's World
1969-1970 Family Affair
1969 The Name of the Game
1969 The Mod Squad
1969 The Outcasts
1968 It Takes a Thief
1968 Batman
1968 Judd for the Defense
1967 Insight
1966 The Wild Wild West
1963-1965 The Virginian
1964 The Rogues
1963-1964 Burke's Law
1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 Sam Benedict
1961 The Investigators
1961 G.E. True Theater
1960 Death Valley Days
1959 Bonanza
1959 Twilight Zone
1959 Lux Playhouse
1958 Teenage Idol
1957-1958 Mr. Adams and Eve
1956 Zane Grey Theatre
1956 Strange Intruder
1952-1956 Four Star Playhouse
1956 While the City Sleeps
1955 The Big Knife
1955 Women's Prison
1954 Private Hell 36
1954 The Ford Television Theatre
1953 The Bigamist
1953 Jennifer
1952 Beware, My Lovely
1952 On Dangerous Ground
1951 On the Loose
1951 Hard, Fast and Beautiful
1950 I Outrage
1950 Woman in Hiding
1949 Lust for Gold
1948 Road House
1947 Escape Me Never
1947 Deep Valley
1947 The Man I Love
1946 Devotion
1945 Pillow to Post
1944 In Our Time
1943 The Hard Way
1943 Forever and a Day
1942 Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
1942 Moontide
1941 Ladies in Retirement
1941 Out of the Fog
1941 The Sea Wolf
1941 High Sierra
1940 They Drive by Night
1939 The Light That Failed
1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 The Lady and the Mob
1939 The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1937 Fight for Your Lady
1937 Artists & Models
1937 Let's Get Married
1937 Sea Devils
1936 The Gay Desperado
1936 Yours for the Asking
1936 One Rainy Afternoon
1936 Anything Goes
1935 Peter Ibbetson
1935 Smart Girl
1935 Paris in Spring
1934 Ready for Love
1934 Come on Marines
1934 Search for Beauty
1933 Prince of Arcadia
1933 I Lived with You
1933 Money for Speed
1933 High Finance
1933 The Ghost Camera
1932 Her First Affaire
1931 The Love Race
