Jan Sterling
Acting • Born 1921-04-03 – Died 2004-03-26
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
79 credits
1984
Movie • 1956
Julia of the Outer Party
Ace in the Hole
Movie • 1951
Lorraine
Split Second
Movie • 1953
Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale
Appointment with Danger
Movie • 1950
Dodie
Women's Prison
Movie • 1955
Brenda Martin
Man with the Gun
Movie • 1955
Nelly Bain
The Harder They Fall
Movie • 1956
Beth Willis
Rhubarb
Movie • 1951
Polly Sickles
Caged
Movie • 1950
Gita "Smoochie" Kovsky
Pony Express
Movie • 1953
Denny Russell
High School Confidential!
Movie • 1958
Arlene Williams
The Human Jungle
Movie • 1954
Mary Abbott
Union Station
Movie • 1950
Marge Wrighter
The Vanquished
Movie • 1953
Rose Slater
Johnny Belinda
Movie • 1948
Stella McCormick
Female on the Beach
Movie • 1955
Amy Rawlinson
The Incident
Movie • 1967
Muriel Purvis
The High and the Mighty
Movie • 1954
Sally McKee
Mystery Street
Movie • 1950
Vivian Heldon
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Movie • 1957
Madge Pitts
Flesh and Fury
Movie • 1952
Sonya Bartow
Love in a Goldfish Bowl
Movie • 1961
Sandra Slide
Alaska Seas
Movie • 1954
Nicky Jackson
Sky Full of Moon
Movie • 1952
Dixie Delmar
The Angry Breed
Movie • 1968
Gloria Patton
The Female Animal
Movie • 1958
Lily Frayne
Kathy O'
Movie • 1958
Celeste Saunders
First Monday in October
Movie • 1981
Christine Snow
The Mating Season
Movie • 1951
Betsy
The Minx
Movie • 1969
Louise Baxter
Gunfire
Movie • 1950
Flo
My Kidnapper, My Love
Movie • 1980
Letty Fairlain
The Skipper Surprised His Wife
Movie • 1950
Rita Rossini
Sammy Somebody
Movie • 1976
Return from the Sea
Movie • 1954
Frieda
Dangerous Company
Movie • 1982
Ray's Mother
The Costume Designer
Movie • 1950
Self (archive footage)
Having Babies
Movie • 1976
Mrs. Fontreil
American in Paris
Movie • 1964
Gloria Miles
Tycoon
Movie • 1947
Dancer at Fiesta (uncredited)
Clipper Ship
Movie • 1957
Helen Ott
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Devora Cato
The Jackie Gleason Show
TV • 1966
The Incredible Hulk
TV • 1977
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
Naked City
TV • 1958
Myrtle Tiloff
Three's Company
TV • 1977
Judge Sheffield
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Gloria Miles
Backstairs at the White House
TV • 1979
Lou Hoover
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Fran Holland
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Clara Mallory
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Lee
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Climax!
TV • 1954
Dinah Lake
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Topaz Harmony
Riverboat
TV • 1959
Lorna Langton
The Brian Keith Show
TV • 1972
Breaking Point
TV • 1963
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
TV
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Lucia
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Mary Ford
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Chris Hunter
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Julia
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Maggie
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Vera Selby
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Elsa Roarke
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Wanda Ferlini
Mannix
TV • 1967
Anne Marion
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Dianne Jordan
Climax!
TV • 1954
Audrey Caldwell
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Florence Brent
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Suspicion
TV • 1957
Georgiana
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Beatrice Bartel
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Mary Beth Stanton
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Mary Jenkins