Jan Sterling
Born: 1921-04-03 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2004-03-26
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1982
- Dangerous Company as Ray's Mother
1981
- First Monday in October as Christine Snow
1980
- My Kidnapper, My Love as Letty Fairlain
1979
- Backstairs at the White House as Lou Hoover
1977
- The Incredible Hulk
- Three's Company as Judge Sheffield
1976
- Having Babies as Mrs. Fontreil
- Sammy Somebody
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Laura Colby Ingalls
1972
- The Brian Keith Show
- Kung Fu as Mary Jenkins
1969
- Medical Center as Florence Brent
- The Minx as Louise Baxter
1968
- The Name of the Game as Elsa Roarke
- The Angry Breed as Gloria Patton
1967
- Mannix as Anne Marion
- The Incident as Muriel Purvis
1965
- Run for Your Life as Clara Mallory
1964
- American in Paris as Gloria Miles
1963
- Burke's Law as Devora Cato
- Vacation Playhouse
- Breaking Point
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Beatrice Bartel
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Virginian as Mary Beth Stanton
1961
- Love in a Goldfish Bowl as Sandra Slide
1959
- Bonanza as Dianne Jordan
- Adventures in Paradise as Topaz Harmony
- Riverboat as Lorna Langton
1958
- Naked City as Myrtle Tiloff
- The Female Animal as Lily Frayne
- High School Confidential! as Arlene Williams
- Kathy O' as Celeste Saunders
1957
- Suspicion as Georgiana
- Slaughter on 10th Avenue as Madge Pitts
- Clipper Ship as Helen Ott
1956
- The Harder They Fall as Beth Willis
- 1984 as Julia of the Outer Party
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Fran Holland
- Man with the Gun as Nelly Bain
- Female on the Beach as Amy Rawlinson
- Women's Prison as Brenda Martin
1954
- Climax! as Dinah Lake
- The High and the Mighty as Sally McKee
- The Human Jungle as Mary Abbott
- Alaska Seas as Nicky Jackson
- Return from the Sea as Frieda
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Letter to Loretta as Lucia
- General Electric Theater as Gloria Miles
- The Vanquished as Rose Slater
- Pony Express as Denny Russell
- Split Second as Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale
1952
- Sky Full of Moon as Dixie Delmar
- Flesh and Fury as Sonya Bartow
1951
- Ace in the Hole as Lorraine
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- The Mating Season as Betsy
- Rhubarb as Polly Sickles
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Lee
- Appointment with Danger as Dodie
- Caged as Gita "Smoochie" Kovsky
- Mystery Street as Vivian Heldon
- The Costume Designer as Self (archive footage)
- The Skipper Surprised His Wife as Rita Rossini
- Union Station as Marge Wrighter
- Gunfire as Flo
1948
- Johnny Belinda as Stella McCormick
1947
- Tycoon as Dancer at Fiesta (uncredited)