Jan Sterling
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday3 April 1921
Died26 March 2004 (age 82)
Place of birthNew York City, New York, USA
Known credits71
Biography
Jan Sterling (born Jane Sterling Adriance; April 3, 1921 – March 26, 2004) was an American actress. At her most active in films during the 1950s, she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954) as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. Her best performance is often considered to be opposite Kirk Douglas, as the opportunistic wife in Billy Wilder's 1951 Ace in the Hole.
Dangerous Company
1982 · Ray's Mother
First Monday in October
1981 · Christine Snow
My Kidnapper, My Love
1980 · Letty Fairlain
Backstairs at the White House
1979 · Lou Hoover
The Incredible Hulk
1977
Three's Company
1977 · Judge Sheffield
Having Babies
1976 · Mrs. Fontreil
Sammy Somebody
1976
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · Laura Colby Ingalls
Kung Fu
1972 · Mary Jenkins
The Brian Keith Show
1972
The Minx
1969 · Louise Baxter
Medical Center
1969 · Florence Brent
The Name of the Game
1968 · Elsa Roarke
The Angry Breed
1968 · Gloria Patton
The Incident
1967 · Muriel Purvis
Mannix
1967 · Anne Marion
Run for Your Life
1965 · Clara Mallory
American in Paris
1964 · Gloria Miles
Burke's Law
1963 · Devora Cato
Burke's Law
1963 · Vera Selby
Breaking Point
1963
Vacation Playhouse
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Beatrice Bartel
The Virginian
1962 · Mary Beth Stanton
Love in a Goldfish Bowl
1961 · Sandra Slide
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · Topaz Harmony
Riverboat
1959 · Lorna Langton
Bonanza
1959 · Dianne Jordan
Naked City
1958 · Myrtle Tiloff
Kathy O'
1958 · Celeste Saunders
High School Confidential!
1958 · Arlene Williams
The Female Animal
1958 · Lily Frayne
Suspicion
1957 · Georgiana
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
1957 · Madge Pitts
Clipper Ship
1957 · Helen Ott
The Harder They Fall
1956 · Beth Willis
1984
1956 · Julia of the Outer Party
Man with the Gun
1955 · Nelly Bain
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Fran Holland
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Wanda Ferlini
Female on the Beach
1955 · Amy Rawlinson
Women's Prison
1955 · Brenda Martin
Climax!
1954 · Dinah Lake
Climax!
1954 · Audrey Caldwell
The Human Jungle
1954 · Mary Abbott
Return from the Sea
1954 · Frieda
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