
Known for
Acting
Born
July 8, 1932
Birthplace
Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Died
September 5, 1980 (aged 48)
Barbara Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980) was a Broadway Tony award-winning American stage and film actress, model, and stage/film director. She was the first woman to write, direct and star in her own feature film, Wanda, which won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival. Loden also directed several off-Broadway plays.
Loden was a life member of the famed Actors Studio and appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including Splendor in the Grass. In 1970 Loden wrote, produced, directed, and starred in her own independent film, Wanda, made with the collaboration of cinematographer and editor Nicholas T. Proferes, on a meager bu...
2024
as Self (archive footage)
2017
as Self (archive footage)
1980
as Self
1975
as Delilah Fowler, Producer, Director
1975
Director, Producer
1973
as Jean
1970
as Wanda Goronski, Writer, Director
1968
1966
as her daughter
1966
1961
1961
as Ginny Stamper
1961
1960
as Betty Jackson
1958
1958
1955
as Self