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Jan Sterling‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1921-04-03

Popularity

star5.2

Jan Sterling

New York City, New York, USA

Jan Sterling

New York City, New York, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1921-04-03

Popularity

star5.2

Biography

Most active in films during the 1950s, Jan Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same performance. Her career declined during the 1960s, however she continued to play occasional roles for television and theatre. Sterling was born Jane Sterling Adriance in New York City, into a well-to-do family. She was educated in private schools before heading to Europe with her family. She was schooled by private tutors in London and Paris, and was enrolled in Fay Compton's dramatic school in London. As a teenager she returned to Manhattan, and using variations of her given name, such as Jane Adriance and Jane Sterling, began her career by making a Broadway appearance in Bachelor Born, and went on to appear in such major stage works as Panama Hattie, Over 21, and Present Laughter. In 1947, she made her film debut in Tycoon, billed as Jane Darian. Ruth Gordon reportedly insisted she change her stage name and they agreed upon Jan Sterling. She played a prominent supporting role in Johnny Belinda (1948). Alternating between films and television, Sterling appeared in several television anthology series during the 1950s, and played film roles in Caged (1950), Mystery Street (1950), The Mating Season (1951), Ace in the Hole (1951), Flesh and Fury (1952), The Human Jungle (1954), and Female on the Beach (1955). Often cast as hard and determined characters, she played a more sympathetic character in Sky Full of Moon (1952). In 1950, she was cast as Ruth in the ABC western series The Marshal of Gunsight Pass. The series was telecast live from a primitive studio lot at the Iverson Ranch at Chatsworth, California. In 1954 Sterling was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty. Later that year, she travelled to England to play the role of Julia in the first film version of George Orwell's 1984, despite being several months pregnant at the time. During the following years, she appeared regularly in films such as Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Kathy O, and The Female Animal. In late 1968, she began portraying the role of conniving Miss Foss in the long-running CBS soap opera The Guiding Light. She retired from films in favor of the stage in 1969 and returned to television in 1979 to portray Lou Henry Hoover in the miniseries Backstairs at the White House. Sterling's marriage to John Merivale ended in divorce, and her career began to decline after the death of her second husband, the actor Paul Douglas, in 1959. In the 1970s, she entered into a long-lasting personal relationship with Sam Wanamaker. Jan Sterling died in 2004 in Los Angeles, California, aged 82.

Movie Credits

1984

1984‌
star6.5
calendar 1956

Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole‌
star7.9
calendar 1951

Split Second

Split Second‌
star6.2
calendar 1953

Appointment with Danger

Appointment with Danger‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Women's Prison

Women's Prison‌
star5.5
calendar 1955

Man with the Gun

Man with the Gun‌
star6.2
calendar 1955

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall‌
star7.1
calendar 1956

Rhubarb

Rhubarb‌
star5.5
calendar 1951

Caged

Caged‌
star7.1
calendar 1950

High School Confidential!

High School Confidential!‌
star5.6
calendar 1958

Pony Express

Pony Express‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

The Human Jungle

The Human Jungle‌
star5.3
calendar 1954

The Vanquished

The Vanquished‌
star4.5
calendar 1953

Union Station

Union Station‌
star6.3
calendar 1950

Johnny Belinda

Johnny Belinda‌
star6.8
calendar 1948

Female on the Beach

Female on the Beach‌
star5.7
calendar 1955

The Incident

The Incident‌
star7.3
calendar 1967

The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty‌
star5.9
calendar 1954

Mystery Street

Mystery Street‌
star6.7
calendar 1950

Slaughter on 10th Avenue

Slaughter on 10th Avenue‌
star5.4
calendar 1957

Flesh and Fury

Flesh and Fury‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

Love in a Goldfish Bowl

Love in a Goldfish Bowl‌
star2.0
calendar 1961

Alaska Seas

Alaska Seas‌
star6.2
calendar 1954

Sky Full of Moon

Sky Full of Moon‌
star5.5
calendar 1952

The Angry Breed

The Angry Breed‌
star4.5
calendar 1968

The Female Animal

The Female Animal‌
star5.6
calendar 1958

Kathy O'

Kathy O'‌
star10.0
calendar 1958

First Monday in October

First Monday in October‌
star6.3
calendar 1981

The Mating Season

The Mating Season‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

The Minx

The Minx‌
star2.3
calendar 1969

Gunfire

Gunfire‌
star5.0
calendar 1950

My Kidnapper, My Love

My Kidnapper, My Love‌
star6.0
calendar 1980

The Skipper Surprised His Wife

The Skipper Surprised His Wife‌
star4.7
calendar 1950

Sammy Somebody

Sammy Somebody‌
star0.0
calendar 1976

Return from the Sea

Return from the Sea‌
star4.5
calendar 1954

Dangerous Company

Dangerous Company‌
star6.0
calendar 1982

The Costume Designer

The Costume Designer‌
star0.0
calendar 1950

Having Babies

Having Babies‌
star6.0
calendar 1976

American in Paris

American in Paris‌
star0.0
calendar 1964

Tycoon

Tycoon‌
star5.3
calendar 1947

Tv Credits

Burke's Law

Burke's Law‌
star6.0
calendar 1963

The Jackie Gleason Show

The Jackie Gleason Show‌
star8.3
calendar 1966

The Incredible Hulk

The Incredible Hulk‌
star7.2
calendar 1977

Kung Fu

Kung Fu‌
star7.6
calendar 1972

Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie‌
star8.0
calendar 1974

Naked City

Naked City‌
star5.3
calendar 1958

Three's Company

Three's Company‌
star7.8
calendar 1977

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater‌
star5.5
calendar 1953

Backstairs at the White House

Backstairs at the White House‌
star5.9
calendar 1979

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents‌
star7.7
calendar 1955

Run for Your Life

Run for Your Life‌
star7.2
calendar 1965

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars‌
star6.5
calendar 1951

Climax!

Climax!‌
star2.7
calendar 1954

Adventures in Paradise

Adventures in Paradise‌
star5.7
calendar 1959

Riverboat

Riverboat‌
star6.3
calendar 1959

The Brian Keith Show

The Brian Keith Show‌
star5.0
calendar 1972

Breaking Point

Breaking Point‌
star7.5
calendar 1963

Vacation Playhouse

Vacation Playhouse‌
star0.0
calendar 1963

The Oscars

The Oscars‌
star7.0
calendar 1953

The Marshal of Gunsight Pass

The Marshal of Gunsight Pass‌
star0.0
calendar

Letter to Loretta

Letter to Loretta‌
star5.8
calendar 1953

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

Burke's Law

Burke's Law‌
star6.0
calendar 1963

The Name of the Game

The Name of the Game‌
star6.8
calendar 1968

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents‌
star7.7
calendar 1955

Mannix

Mannix‌
star6.7
calendar 1967

Bonanza

Bonanza‌
star7.5
calendar 1959

Climax!

Climax!‌
star2.7
calendar 1954

Medical Center

Medical Center‌
star6.1
calendar 1969

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson‌
star7.4
calendar 1962

Suspicion

Suspicion‌
star5.9
calendar 1957

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour‌
star7.8
calendar 1962