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