Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 03, 1921
Died
Mar 26, 2004
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
71 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Dangerous Company
Ray's Mother
First Monday in October
Christine Snow
My Kidnapper, My Love
Letty Fairlain
Backstairs at the White House
Lou Hoover
The Incredible Hulk
Three's Company
Judge Sheffield
Having Babies
Mrs. Fontreil
Sammy Somebody
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Colby Ingalls
Kung Fu
Mary Jenkins
The Brian Keith Show
The Minx
Louise Baxter
Medical Center
Florence Brent
The Name of the Game
Elsa Roarke
The Angry Breed
Gloria Patton
The Incident
Muriel Purvis
Mannix
Anne Marion
Run for Your Life
Clara Mallory
American in Paris
Gloria Miles
Burke's Law
Devora Cato
Breaking Point
Vacation Playhouse
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Beatrice Bartel
The Virginian
Mary Beth Stanton
Love in a Goldfish Bowl
Sandra Slide
Adventures in Paradise
Topaz Harmony
Riverboat
Lorna Langton
Bonanza
Dianne Jordan
Naked City
Myrtle Tiloff
Kathy O'
Celeste Saunders
High School Confidential!
Arlene Williams
The Female Animal
Lily Frayne
Suspicion
Georgiana
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Madge Pitts
Clipper Ship
Helen Ott
The Harder They Fall
Beth Willis
1984
Julia of the Outer Party
Man with the Gun
Nelly Bain
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Fran Holland
Female on the Beach
Amy Rawlinson
Women's Prison
Brenda Martin
Climax!
Dinah Lake
The Human Jungle
Mary Abbott
Return from the Sea
Frieda
The High and the Mighty
Sally McKee
Alaska Seas
Nicky Jackson
Letter to Loretta
Lucia
Pony Express
Denny Russell
The Vanquished
Rose Slater