Eve Brent
Born: 1929-09-11 in Houston, Texas, USA
Died: 2011-08-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jean Ann Ewers (September 11, 1929 – August 27, 2011), known professionally as Eve Brent and Jean Lewis, was an American actress who portrayed Jane in Tarzan's Fight for Life. Eve Brent began her career in radio and early television and later moved on to the college and little theater stage. Arriving in Hollywood with a husband and infant son in the 1950s, she landed some films including Gun Girls (1957), Journey to Freedom (1957), The Bride and the Beast (1958), and episodic TV roles. Maverick director Samuel Fuller changed her name to Eve Brent when she appeared in his western Forty Guns (1957), the first of dozens of screen roles for her under that name. She then played Jane opposite Gordon Scott's Tarzan in Tarzan and the Trappers, Tarzan's Fight for Life (both 1958), and in episodes of a Tarzan TV series. In addition to her big-screen and episodic TV assignments, she has appeared in hundreds of commercials. She later had the role of Elaine Connelly in The Green Mile and a small role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Filmography
2011
- Ticket Out as Emma
- Hit List as Mrs. Sheehan
2009
- Community as Glenda
2008
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Old Woman (uncredited)
- Water And Power as Mrs. Rose
2007
- Palo Alto, CA as Grandma
2006
2004
- Garfield as Mrs. Baker
2001
- Scrubs as Mrs. Harris
2000
- Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile as Self (uncredited)
- Between Christmas and New Year's as May
1999
- The Green Mile as Elaine Connelly
- Roswell as Bess Covendall
- Get Real as Edna
1998
1995
- JAG as Neighbor
1994
- Ellen as Lovely Old Woman (uncredited)
1993
- Frasier as Hostess
- Grace Under Fire
1992
- Saved By The Bell: Hawaiian Style as Mrs. Finley
1990
- Twin Peaks as Theodora Ridgely
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as Judge #1 (segment "The Man Who Was Death")
- The Experts as Aunt Thelma
- Snoops as Ramona Esterhause
1987
- Deathrow Gameshow as Crossing Guard
1984
- Highway to Heaven as Landlady
- Racing with the Moon as Mrs. Kaiser
- Finder of Lost Loves as Parrish Housekeeper
1983
- BrainWaves as Mrs. Simpson
- Going Berserk as Mrs. Reese
1980
- Fade to Black as Aunt Stella Binford
1979
- Knots Landing as Rose Kaplan
1978
- Dallas as Miss Ellie Ewing
1977
- The White Buffalo as Frieda
1975
- Timber Tramps as Corey Sykes
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Elna Jacobsen
1972
- Emergency! as Alice
1971
1969
- The Happy Ending as Ethel
- The Bold Ones: The New Doctors as 1st Nurse
1968
- Adam-12 as Mrs. Hedley
- Coogan's Bluff as Hooker (uncredited)
1967
- Ironside as Mrs. Creighton
- Dragnet as Mrs. Carver
- A Guide for the Married Man as Joe X's Blowsy Blonde
1962
- Stakeout! as Susie
1960
- Checkmate as Barbara Walters
1958
- Tarzan and the Trappers as Jane
- The Bride and the Beast as Stewardess (as Jean Ann Lewis)
- Tarzan's Fight for Life as Jane
- Destination Nightmare as Lila Kirby
1957
- The Garment Jungle as Receptionist (uncredited)
- The Storm Rider as Mrs. Cooper
- Gun Girls as Joy
- Forty Guns as Louvenia Spanger
- Journey to Freedom as Mary Raikin
1956
- Female Jungle as Monica Madison
1954
- Annie Oakley as Clara Bickel
1952
- Adventures of Superman as Woman
1951
- Dragnet
- The Red Skelton Show as Wife / Silent Spot
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Waitress