Acting
Gloria Swanson
- Career
Active from 1914 to 1974, with a break from 1957 to 1969, busiest in 1915 and 1918 with 8 main titles each.
- Leading roles
- 65top three billing
- Average score
63/100
- Highest rated
Sunset Boulevard91/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 25 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
Rarely in their work
- Contemporary Realism2.5, average 5.4
- Violence1.4, average 4.1
- Adrenaline2.3, average 4.8
- Crime1.6, average 3.6
Main genres
Select a genre to see those titles.
Recurring tags
- Early Cinema 6
- Historical Setting 6
- Social Commentary 5
- Silent Film Era 5
- Classic Cinema 4
- Silent Film 4
- Character-Driven 4
- Romantic Drama 4
- Character Study 3
- Social Satire 3
- Classic Hollywood 3
- Nostalgic 3
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Sam WoodDirectorHer Husband’s Trademark, Bluebeard's 8th Wife, My American Wife, Under the Lash, The Impossible Mrs. Bellew, +5 more
Bobby VernonActorWhose Baby?, Haystacks and Steeples, Teddy at the Throttle, A Social Cub, The Danger Girl, +4 more
Allan DwanDirectorZaza, Wages of Virtue, A Society Scandal, Her Love Story, Manhandled, +3 more
Clarence G. BadgerDirectorWhose Baby?, Haystacks and Steeples, Teddy at the Throttle, A Social Cub, The Danger Girl, +3 more
Theodore RobertsActorThe Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel, For Better, for Worse, Male and Female, The Affairs of Anatol, Don't Change Your Husband, +2 more
Cecil B. DeMilleActorThe Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel, For Better, for Worse, Male and Female, Why Change Your Wife?, The Affairs of Anatol, +2 more
Elliott DexterActorThe Affairs of Anatol - Promo Reel, For Better, for Worse, The Affairs of Anatol, Don't Change Your Husband, Don't Tell Everything, +1 more- FForrest HalseyWriterWages of Virtue, The Humming Bird, A Society Scandal, Madame Sans-Gêne, The Coast of Folly, +1 more
Wallace BeeryActorTeddy at the Throttle, Sweedie Goes to College, A Dash of Courage, The Broken Pledge, Hearts and Sparks
Sylvia AshtonActorFor Better, for Worse, Why Change Your Wife?, Don't Change Your Husband, Queen Kelly, The Nick of Time Baby
Julia FayeActorMale and Female, Don't Change Your Husband, Something to Think About, The Great Moment
Helen DunbarActorThe Misjudged Mr. Hartley, Fine Manners, Beyond the Rocks, The Great Moment
Movies and TV shows
881980s
1 title
as archive footage
1970s
4 titles · average score 46
GoodWatch score 46as Madame Maria von Bohlen
GoodWatch score 46as Gloria Swanson
as Narrator
as Sef (archive footage)
1960s
7 titles · average score 66
GoodWatch score 68TV show · as Miss Lily Boles / Venus Hekate Walsh
GoodWatch score 70TV show · as Mrs. Charlotte Heaton
GoodWatch score 54TV show · as Mrs. Daniels
GoodWatch score 63TV show · as Julia Colton
GoodWatch score 65TV show · as Victoria Hoffman
TV show · as Lorraine Carrington
GoodWatch score 74as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1950s
3 titles · average score 76
GoodWatch score 60as Agrippina
GoodWatch score 78as Ann Haven
GoodWatch score 91as Norma Desmond
1940s
4 titles · average score 64
as The Reluctant Bride
as Miss Gloria
as (archive footage)
GoodWatch score 64as Leslie Collier Osborne
1930s
7 titles · average score 49
GoodWatch score 57as Frieda Hotzfelt
GoodWatch score 40as Judy Rogers
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
GoodWatch score 53as Nella Vago
GoodWatch score 48as Geraldine 'Gerry' Trent
as (archive footage)
as Tamarind Brook
1920s
30 titles · average score 67
GoodWatch score 85as Kitty Kelly / Queen Kelly
GoodWatch score 57as Marion Donnell
GoodWatch score 77as Sadie Thompson
GoodWatch score 68as Sunya Ashling
GoodWatch score 70as Orchid Murphy
GoodWatch score 68as Tessie McGuire
as Toinette
GoodWatch score 64as Zaza
GoodWatch score 63as Theodora Fitzgerald
GoodWatch score 57as Vivian Spencer (Anatol's wife)
GoodWatch score 63as Beth Gordon
GoodWatch score 63as Ruth Anderson
1910s
32 titles · average score 60
GoodWatch score 61as Sylvia Norcross
GoodWatch score 63as Lady Mary Lasenby
GoodWatch score 64as Leila Porter
GoodWatch score 57as Marcia Grey
as Kitty Manning
as Phylis Clyne
as Sally Carter Rand
GoodWatch score 64as Gloria Dawn
as Gloria
as The Wife
GoodWatch score 55as The Danger Girl - Reggie's Madcap Sister
GoodWatch score 59as Stenographer (uncredited)