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Eve Brent

Eve Brent

Acting1929Houston, Texas, USA

Biography

Jean Ann Ewers (September 11, 1929 – August 27, 2011), known professionally as Eve Brent and Jean Lewis, was an American actress who portrayed Jane in Tarzan's Fight for Life.

Eve Brent began her career in radio and early television and later moved on to the college and little theater stage. Arriving in Hollywood with a husband and infant son in the 1950s, she landed some films including Gun Girls (1957), Journey to Freedom (1957), The Bride and the Beast (1958), and episodic TV roles. Maverick director Samuel Fuller changed her name to Eve Brent when she appeared in his western Forty Guns (1957), the first of dozens of screen roles for her under that name. She then played Jane opposite Gordon Scott's Tarzan in Tarzan and the Trappers, Tarzan's Fight for Life (both 1958), and in episodes of a Tarzan TV series. In addition to her big-screen and episodic TV assignments, she has appeared in hundreds of commercials.

She later had the role of Elaine Connelly in The Green Mile and a small role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Acting History

2011
Ticket Out
as Emma
Hit List
as Mrs. Sheehan
2010
Community
TVas Glenda1 eps
2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
as Old Woman (uncredited)
2007
Palo Alto, CA
as Grandma
2006
Scrubs
TVas Mrs. Harris1 eps
2004
Garfield
as Mrs. Baker
2002
Roswell
TVas Jane Covendall1 eps
JAG
TVas Neighbor1 eps
2000
Get Real
TVas Edna1 eps
1999
The Green Mile
as Elaine Connelly
1994
Ellen
TVas Lovely Old Woman (uncredited)1 eps
1993
Frasier
TVas Hostess1 eps
1990
Twin Peaks
TVas Theodora Ridgely1 eps
1989
The Experts
as Aunt Thelma
Dallas
TVas Miss Ellie Ewing1 eps
Tales from the Crypt
TVas Judge #1 (segment "The Man Who Was Death")1 eps
Snoops
TVas Ramona Esterhause
1987
Deathrow Gameshow
as Crossing Guard
1985
Highway to Heaven
TVas Landlady1 eps
1984
Racing with the Moon
as Mrs. Kaiser
Finder of Lost Loves
TVas Parrish Housekeeper
1983
Going Berserk
as Mrs. Reese
BrainWaves
as Mrs. Simpson
1981
Knots Landing
TVas Rose Kaplan1 eps
1980
Fade to Black
as Aunt Stella Binford
1977
1975
Timber Tramps
as Corey Sykes
1974
Ironside
TVas Mrs. Creighton1 eps
Emergency!
TVas Alice1 eps
Little House on the Prairie
TVas Elna Jacobsen1 eps
1971
Adam-12
TVas Ginger1 eps
1970
Airport
as Mrs. David Corman (uncredited)
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TVas 2nd Nurse1 eps
1969
1968
Coogan's Bluff
as Hooker (uncredited)
Dragnet
TVas Sgt. Connie Speck1 eps
1967
A Guide for the Married Man
as Joe X's Blowsy Blonde
1962
Stakeout!
as Susie
Checkmate
TVas Barbara Walters1 eps
1958
The Bride and the Beast
as Stewardess (as Jean Ann Lewis)
1957
Forty Guns
as Louvenia Spanger
The Storm Rider
as Mrs. Cooper
The Garment Jungle
as Receptionist (uncredited)
1956
Female Jungle
as Monica Madison
Adventures of Superman
TVas Woman1 eps
1955
Annie Oakley
TVas Clara Bickel1 eps
1950
Lux Video Theatre
TVas Waitress

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
9/11/1929
Day of Death
8/27/2011
Place of Birth
Houston, Texas, USA