JAN STERLING
ACTING
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.
- 1984 1956
- Ace in the Hole 1951
- Appointment with Danger 1950
- Split Second 1953
- Women's Prison 1955
- Man with the Gun 1955
- The Harder They Fall 1956
- Rhubarb 1951
- Caged 1950
- High School Confidential! 1958
- The Human Jungle 1954
- Pony Express 1953
- Union Station 1950
- The Vanquished 1953
- Johnny Belinda 1948
- Female on the Beach 1955
- The Incident 1967
- The High and the Mighty 1954
- Mystery Street 1950
- Slaughter on 10th Avenue 1957
- Flesh and Fury 1952
- Love in a Goldfish Bowl 1961
- Alaska Seas 1954
- Sky Full of Moon 1952
- The Angry Breed 1968
- The Female Animal 1958
- Kathy O' 1958
- The Mating Season 1951
- First Monday in October 1981
- The Skipper Surprised His Wife 1950
- Return from the Sea 1954
- Tycoon 1947
- Gunfire 1950
- Burke's Law 1963
- Three's Company 1977
- General Electric Theater 1953
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955
- Climax! 1954
- Letter to Loretta 1953
- Naked City 1958
- Backstairs at the White House 1979
- Run for Your Life 1965
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962
- Burke's Law 1963
- The Name of the Game 1968
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955
- Bonanza 1959
- Climax! 1954
- Mannix 1967
- Medical Center 1969