Eve Brent
Acting • Born 1929-09-11 – Died 2011-08-27
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
72 credits
The Green Mile
Movie • 1999
Elaine Connelly
A Guide for the Married Man
Movie • 1967
Joe X's Blowsy Blonde
Going Berserk
Movie • 1983
Mrs. Reese
Garfield
Movie • 2004
Mrs. Baker
Hit List
Movie • 2011
Mrs. Sheehan
Fade to Black
Movie • 1980
Aunt Stella Binford
Female Jungle
Movie • 1956
Monica Madison
Palo Alto, CA
Movie • 2007
Grandma
Tarzan and the Trappers
Movie • 1958
Jane
Tarzan's Fight for Life
Movie • 1958
Jane
Charlie Chan's Lucky Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Movie • 2006
Self
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
Movie • 2000
Self (uncredited)
Gun Girls
Movie • 1957
Joy
The Storm Rider
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Cooper
Journey to Freedom
Movie • 1957
Mary Raikin
Ticket Out
Movie • 2011
Emma
Forty Guns
Movie • 1957
Louvenia Spanger
Coogan's Bluff
Movie • 1968
Hooker (uncredited)
Airport
Movie • 1970
Mrs. David Corman (uncredited)
The Garment Jungle
Movie • 1957
Receptionist (uncredited)
In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross
Movie • 1998
Self
The Bride and the Beast
Movie • 1958
Stewardess (as Jean Ann Lewis)
Stakeout!
Movie • 1962
Susie
Destination Nightmare
Movie • 1958
Lila Kirby
The Todd Killings
Movie • 1971
The White Buffalo
Movie • 1977
Frieda
BrainWaves
Movie • 1983
Mrs. Simpson
Racing with the Moon
Movie • 1984
Mrs. Kaiser
The Experts
Movie • 1989
Aunt Thelma
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Movie • 2008
Old Woman (uncredited)
Timber Tramps
Movie • 1975
Corey Sykes
S.L.I.P.
Movie • 1970
Between Christmas and New Year's
Movie • 2000
May
The Happy Ending
Movie • 1969
Ethel
Saved By The Bell: Hawaiian Style
Movie • 1992
Mrs. Finley
Deathrow Gameshow
Movie • 1987
Crossing Guard
Frasier
TV • 1993
Hostess
Dragnet
TV • 1951
Dallas
TV • 1978
Miss Ellie Ewing
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Waitress
Community
TV • 2009
Glenda
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Judge #1 (segment "The Man Who Was Death")
Adventures of Superman
TV • 1952
Woman
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Mrs. Hedley
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Mrs. Wheatley
Dragnet
TV • 1967
Mrs. Carver
Dragnet
TV • 1967
Mrs. Fuller
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Helen Spencer
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Ginger
Twin Peaks
TV • 1990
Theodora Ridgely
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV • 1969
1st Nurse
Grace Under Fire
TV • 1993
Highway to Heaven
TV • 1984
Landlady
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Wife / Silent Spot
Get Real
TV • 1999
Edna
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV • 1969
2nd Nurse
Water And Power
TV • 2008
Mrs. Rose
Finder of Lost Loves
TV • 1984
Parrish Housekeeper
JAG
TV • 1995
Neighbor
Ellen
TV • 1994
Lovely Old Woman (uncredited)
Emergency!
TV • 1972
Alice
Ironside
TV • 1967
Mrs. Creighton
Roswell
TV • 1999
Bess Covendall
Roswell
TV • 1999
Jane Covendall
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Rose Kaplan
Annie Oakley
TV • 1954
Clara Bickel
Snoops
TV • 1989
Ramona Esterhause
Dragnet
TV • 1967
Sgt. Connie Speck
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
Elna Jacobsen
Checkmate
TV • 1960
Barbara Walters
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Scrubs
TV • 2001
Mrs. Harris