Jan Sterling
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.
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Movies (25)
Dangerous Company
as Ray's Mother
1982
First Monday in October
as Christine Snow
1981
My Kidnapper, My Love
as Letty Fairlain
1980
Having Babies
as Mrs. Fontreil
1976
Sammy Somebody
1976
The Minx
as Louise Baxter
1969
The Angry Breed
as Gloria Patton
1968
The Incident
as Muriel Purvis
1967
American in Paris
as Gloria Miles
1964
Love in a Goldfish Bowl
as Sandra Slide
1961
Kathy O'
as Celeste Saunders
1958
High School Confidential!
as Arlene Williams
1958
The Female Animal
as Lily Frayne
1958
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
as Madge Pitts
1957
Clipper Ship
as Helen Ott
1957
The Harder They Fall
as Beth Willis
1956
1984
as Julia of the Outer Party
1956
Man with the Gun
as Nelly Bain
1955
Female on the Beach
as Amy Rawlinson
1955
Women's Prison
as Brenda Martin
1955
The Human Jungle
as Mary Abbott
1954
Return from the Sea
as Frieda
1954
The High and the Mighty
as Sally McKee
1954
Alaska Seas
as Nicky Jackson
1954
Pony Express
as Denny Russell
1953
TV Shows (25)
Backstairs at the White House
as Lou Hoover
1979
The Incredible Hulk
1977
Three's Company
as Judge Sheffield
1977
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Kung Fu
as Mary Jenkins
1972
The Brian Keith Show
1972
Medical Center
as Florence Brent
1969
The Name of the Game
as Elsa Roarke
1968
Mannix
as Anne Marion
1967
The Jackie Gleason Show
1966
Run for Your Life
as Clara Mallory
1965
Burke's Law
as Devora Cato
1963
Breaking Point
1963
Vacation Playhouse
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Beatrice Bartel
1962
The Virginian
as Mary Beth Stanton
1962
Adventures in Paradise
as Topaz Harmony
1959
Riverboat
as Lorna Langton
1959
Bonanza
as Dianne Jordan
1959
Naked City
as Myrtle Tiloff
1958
Suspicion
as Georgiana
1957
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Fran Holland
1955
Climax!
as Dinah Lake
1954
Letter to Loretta
as Lucia
1953