Jeanine Basinger

Career Overview

Jeanine Basinger has 26 screen credits in a career dating back to 1986. Signature works include Dean Martin: King of Cool, Murnau, Borzage and Fox, Frank Capra, Jr. Remembers... 'American Madness'. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

female

Known Credits

26

Birth Date

1936-02-03

Birth Place

Ravenden, Arkansas

Known For

• 

  Dean Martin: King of Cool
• 

  Murnau, Borzage and Fox
• Frank Capra, Jr. Remembers... 'American Madness'
• 

  Jezebel: Legend of the South
• Old Acquaintance: A Classic Woman's Picture
• The Man Who Came to Dinner: Inside a Classic Comedy

Frequent Collaborators

• Rick Jewell (3 collaborations)
• Drew Casper (3 collaborations)
• Boze Hadleigh (2 collaborations)
• Dean Martin (1 collaborations)
• Alec Baldwin (1 collaborations)
• Jerry Blavat (1 collaborations)
• Peter Bogdanovich (1 collaborations)
• Bill Boggs (1 collaborations)
• Carol Burnett (1 collaborations)
• Bing Crosby (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (25 credits)

  • William Wyler: Forty Takes Willy

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Frank Capra: Mr. America

    Self - Film Historian and Founder of the Frank Capra Archive

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Dean Martin: King of Cool

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • An American Named Kazan

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Casting By

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... You Can't Take It with You

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Murnau, Borzage and Fox

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Frank Capra, Jr. Remembers... 'American Madness'

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Wanderlust

    Herself

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Jezebel: Legend of the South

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Old Acquaintance: A Classic Woman's Picture

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner: Inside a Classic Comedy

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Cary Grant: A Class Apart

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • A Better Way to Die

    Sexton's Wife

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • On Cukor

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Frank Capra's American Dream

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • American Experience

    - Mary Pickford (2005) ... Self actor actors
    1988
  • American Masters

    - Mae West: Dirty Blonde (2020) ... Self actor actors
    1986

• production (1 credits)

  • Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

    co-producer

    production
    2000