This past weekend, my fiance and I rented the movie Taken – which was phenomenal, by the way!!!! – and I immediately recognized a home featured in it that was originally used in a Season One episode of fave show Beverly Hills, 90210. I have been dying to stalk the home for the past few years, but, unfortunately, it is located inside of a gated community and I haven’t been able to get past the guards. Yet!!! 🙂 But that’s why God created real estate websites – which is where I got the above photo. 🙂 The home, which was built in 1915 and is located inside of the exclusive Fremont Place complex in Hancock Park, has been featured in DOZENS of productions over the years. It has five bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, boasts 8,240 square feet, and sits on almost two acres! Besides being featured on the silver screen, the home was also lived in by both Mary Pickford and Mary Miles Minter at different points in time.
In the movie Taken, the mansion stood in for the home of Liam Neeson’s ex-wife, Lenore, and her new uber-wealthy husband, Stuart. The mansion shows up several times in the movie, most notably as the site of Liam’s daughter’s birthday party.
Way back in 1990, the mansion was featured as the home of Brenda’s shoplifting pal Tiffany Morgan in the Season One episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 entitled “Every Dream Has It’s Price”. Ironically enough, though, no actual filming of Beverly Hills, 90210 took place at the home. A very brief establishing shot of the mansion was used in the episode, but all of the actual filming took place in the backyard of an Altadena home located directly across the street from Casa Walsh.
The same house also showed up in the Season 7 episode of CSI: Miami entitled “Dead on Arrival”. In the episode, the mansion was used as the setting of the fictional Bachelor-esque reality series “The Marrying Kind”.
The mansion was also used in the Season Six episode of Cold Case entitled “November 22” as the present day home of pool shark Baltimore Red. And, as if all of that was not enough, in 2008 alone the home was featured in an infomercial, a DiGiorno pizza commercial, and episodes of Prison Break, Monk, Numbers, and the episode of The Mentalist entitled “Ladies in Red”. How cool would it be to own that place?!?!? Oh, I would be in heaven!!!! 🙂
According to The Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book, the movie War of the Roses was also filmed in the Fremont Place community, just a few houses down from the Taken mansion. But, if you compare the above screen capture to the aerial image of the property supposedly used, the two houses don’t quite seem to match. So, unless some major renovations were done to the home since the filming of War of the Roses took place, I don’t think The Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book’s information is correct. 🙁 Supposedly, the house from the Rocky movies is also located on the same street, but I haven’t been able to verify that yet. You can see photographs of some of the Fremont Place homes that have been used for filming and a really cool schedule of the 2007 and 2008 productions that filmed there here.
Until next time, Happy Stalking! 🙂
Stalk It: The Taken mansion is located at 56 Fremont Place in Los Angeles. The supposed War of the Roses home is located just down the street at 119 Fremont Place West. Please keep in mind that both of these houses are located inside of a gated, private community and trespassing is not allowed. 🙂
Hi Molly
I was the previous owner of 119 Fremont place when they made War of the Roses
Amongst other feature films. We sure miss Fremont place . Love to read your book about all the filming that took place in Fremont place.
It was also Rocky Balboa’s house in Rocky IV.
Just watched you tube episode of LA realtor, Christoph Choo – the gated community of Fremont Place. Mohammed Ali lived across from The Taken mansion. It is currently selling for $16,999,000 mil. Choo gives a nice driving tour of Fremont Place. He’s a li’ mixed up on War of the Roses exterior home but I still love looking at these neighborhoods and thanks to you & your website, I know which one the house is on Fremont Place. 😎🎬🏠🎬😎 Thank you!
Love this site too much! Just worked here today, and it’s so much fun to see what else the location has served as. Thanks for the resource!
Here’s a look inside the house 🙂 (The video *might* be in Filipino) Thanks for this post, I saw the video and I was trying to see where it has appeared before.
On The War of the Roses house, it DEFINITELY was this house. I have driven by it in real life (was along with someone seeing a friend who lived in the neighborhood) and it looks exactly like it with the exception of the large dormer over the middle and columns coming down, plus the addition to the left when looking at the front. I asked my friend to ask the neighbor if they knew, and they said they remember the filming and the construction of the “addition” and the “dormer and columns”. The front (as is) has the balcony over the front door and the little room on the front and the covering over the driveway. Wish I could share a pic of the house so people could see too.
Yes, when I saw Taken 2 immediately I knew it was the same mansion that Sly Stallone filmed ROCKY IV. #Yo
I believe this was also used in the 4th episode of The Mentalist, titled Ladies in Red. You can see some really great shots of the house in the last few minutes of the episode. 🙂
WAS IT!? That’s sooo cool! 🙂 When did we see it in the episode? x
The War of the Roses was shot in a mansion on the other Fremont Pl street not at #56, my home for 24 years. I’m writing a book about the filming there.