🏙 Towns & cities
Santa Barbara
city in and county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States
🇺🇸 United States · 34.4258, -119.7142
Santa Barbara is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Santa Barbara, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 5 more. 1 video game is also set here.
1 place inside Santa Barbara has a page of its own — listed below. Everything shot at it is already named above, recorded against Santa Barbara as well.
“Tony's opulent mansion was El Fureidis, a Roman-styled mansion near Santa Barbara, California.”
Movies filmed in Santa Barbara
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Santa Barbara as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
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Commando
1985
“San Nicolas Island off the coast of Santa Barbara, to which Matrix flies to rescue his daughter, was filmed on the Pacific coast at San Simeon.” Wikipedia
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Indecent Proposal
1993
“After a month in Las Vegas, the production moved to southern California, where locations included the Echo Park neighborhood and a Santa Barbara mansion that stood in for Gage's home.” Wikipedia
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981
“The film was shot in Santa Barbara, California.” Wikipedia
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It's Complicated
2009
“In mid-April, the crew spent a few days filming exteriors in Montecito and Santa Barbara – just days before wildfires took a heavy toll on the area.” Wikipedia
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The Gay Divorcee
1934
“Additional exteriors were filmed in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, California.” Wikipedia
Filming locations inside Santa Barbara
1 place inside Santa Barbara, with a page of its own. Every production shot at it is already listed above, because Wikidata records it against Santa Barbara too.
Named here by Santa Barbara’s own Wikipedia article
Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Santa Barbara, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.
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Psych 2006–2014
“Psych was set in Santa Barbara, though White Rock, British Columbia, Canada, was used as the filming location.” Wikipedia
Set here
Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood — a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.
Filming locations nearby
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
El Fureidis
🇺🇸 United States
building in California, United States
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Santa Barbara Channel
🇺🇸 United States
strait in the US state of California
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🏙 Towns & cities
Montecito
🇺🇸 United States
unincorporated census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Santa Barbara County
🇺🇸 United States
county in southern California, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Paseo de la Guerra
🇺🇸 United States
building in California, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Santa Barbara County Courthouse
🇺🇸 United States
place in California listed on National Register of Historic Places
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Santa Barbara?
6 productions are recorded as filmed in Santa Barbara, including Scarface (1983), Commando (1985) and Indecent Proposal (1993). 5 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Santa Barbara?
Scarface (1983), covered by 72 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Santa Barbara?
Santa Barbara is in the United States, at 34.4258, -119.7142.
What other filming locations are near Santa Barbara?
El Fureidis, Santa Barbara Channel, Montecito, Santa Barbara County and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by John Wiley User:Jw4nvc - Santa Barbara, California, CC BY 3.0.