Profile
Jan Sterling
Actress
Female
Born
Apr 3, 1921
Hometown
New York City, Ne...
Died
Mar 26, 2004
Death Place
Los Angeles
Other Names
Jane Sterling Adr...
Jan Sterling was an American actress. Most active in films during the 1950s, 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… Read More
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1921
Birth
Born on April 3, 1921.
TWENTIES
1950
29 Years Old
In 1950, she was cast as Ruth in the ABC western series The Marshal of Gunsight Pass, with Russell Hayden and Eddie Dean.
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THIRTIES
1954
33 Years Old
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.
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1959
38 Years Old
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.
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FORTIES
1963
42 Years Old
In 1963, she guest starred as Nurse Murdoch in the episode "Millions of Faces" on the ABC medical drama about psychiatry, Breaking Point.
1967
46 Years Old
In 1967, she and Tisha Sterling (no relation, the daughter of Robert Sterling and Ann Sothern) appeared in the episode "Eleven Miles to Eden" of NBC's western series The Road West starring Barry Sullivan.
1968
47 Years Old
In late 1968, she began portraying the role of conniving 'Miss Foss' in the long-running CBS soap opera, The Guiding Light.
1969
48 Years Old
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.
LATE ADULTHOOD
2001
80 Years Old
Inactive for nearly two decades, she made an appearance at the Cinecon Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2001.
2003
82 Years Old
Sterling's later life was marked by illness and injury that included diabetes, a broken hip and a series of strokes. Her only child, Adams Douglas (1955–2003), died in 2003, and Sterling died the following year, March 26, in Woodland Hills, California, aged 82.
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2004
83 Years Old
Died on March 26, 2004.
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