Jane Greer
Born: 1924-09-09 in Washington, D.C., USA
Died: 2001-08-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jane Greer (born Bettejane Greer; September 9, 1924 – August 24, 2001) was an American film and television actress. Although best known for her femme fatale role in the noir Out of the Past (1947), her noteworthy roles in television include guest appearances on episodes of numerous shows over the decades, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bonanza, Quincy, M.E., Murder, She Wrote, and a 1975 gig with Peter Falk and Robert Vaughn in an episode of Columbo titled Troubled Waters. She even got to make fun of Out of the Past in a parody with Robert Mitchum on TV's Saturday Night Live in 1987. Greer joined the casts of Falcon Crest in 1984 and Twin Peaks in 1990 in recurring roles until her retirement in 1996. Greer was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1634 Vine Street for her contributions to the motion picture industry. The star was dedicated on February 8, 1960. In 2009, The Guardian named her one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.
Filmography
2006
1998
- Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero as Self
1996
1991
1990
- Twin Peaks as Vivian Smythe Niles
1989
- Immediate Family as Michael's Mother
1987
1986
- Just Between Friends as Ruth Chadwick
1985
- The Insiders as Mrs. West
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Bonnie Phelps
- Against All Odds as Mrs. Wyler
1982
- The Shadow Riders as Ma Traven
1981
- Falcon Crest as Charlotte Pershing
1976
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Kathie (uncredited)
1973
- The Outfit as Alma Macklin
1971
- Columbo as Sylvia Danziger
1965
- Billie as Agnes Carol
1964
- Where Love Has Gone as Marian Spicer
1963
- Burke's Law as Lonnie Smith
1960
- Thriller as Ann Moffat
1959
- Bonanza as Julia Bulette
1958
- No Time at All as Karen
1957
- Suspicion as Clare Stengler
- Man of a Thousand Faces as Hazel Bennet Chaney
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Ellen Morrow
- Playhouse 90 as Karen
- Run for the Sun as Katherine 'Katie' Connors
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mrs. Cannon-Hughes
1953
- Revlon Mirror Theatre
- The Clown as Paula Henderson
- Down Among the Sheltering Palms as Diana Forrester
1952
- The Ford Television Theatre as Mona Patton
- The Prisoner of Zenda as Antoinette de Mauban
- Desperate Search as Julie Heldon
- You for Me as Katie McDermad
1951
- You're in the Navy Now as Ellie C. Harkness
- The Company She Keeps as Diane
1949
- The Big Steal as Joan 'Chiquita' Graham
1948
- Station West as Charlie
1947
- Out of the Past as Kathie Moffat
- Sinbad the Sailor as Pirouze
- They Won't Believe Me as Janice Bell
1946
- The Bamboo Blonde as Eileen Sawyer
- Sunset Pass as Lolite Baxter
- The Falcon's Alibi as Lola Carpenter
1945
- Dick Tracy as Judith Owens
- George White's Scandals as Billie Randall
- Pan-Americana as Miss Downing (uncredited)
- Two O'Clock Courage as Helen Carter (as Bettejane Greer)