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