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Jayne Meadows

Jayne Meadows

Acting1919Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China

Biography

Jayne Meadows (September 27, 1919 – April 26, 2015), also known as Jayne Meadows-Allen, was an American stage, film and television actress, as well as an author and lecturer. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards during her career.

Meadows' most famous movies include: Undercurrent, Song of the Thin Man, David and Bathsheba, Lady in the Lake, Enchantment.

Among her earliest television appearances, Meadows played reporter Helen Brady in the 1953 Suspense episode F.O.B. Vienna. She was a regular panelist on the original version of I've Got a Secret and an occasional panelist on What's My Line?. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. Prior to Allen's death in 2000, the couple made several television appearances together; in 1998 they played an argumentative elderly couple in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. In 1999, the couple made their last joint TV appearance in the Diagnosis: Murder episode The Roast, which marked Steve Allen's final screen appearance. She also appeared in City Slickers.

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Acting History

2010
1999
Diagnosis: Murder
TVas Connie Masters1 eps
1998
Homicide: Life on the Street
TVas Mrs. Cochran1 eps
1997
The Nanny
TVas Jayne Meadows1 eps
1995
Casino
as Jayne Meadows
High Society
TVas Alice7 eps
1993
Sisters
TVas Ida Benbow1 eps
1992
The Player
as Jayne Meadows
1991
City Slickers
as Mitch's Mom
1989
1987
St. Elsewhere
TVas Olga Oseransky3 eps
1986
A Masterpiece of Murder
as Matilda Hussey
Crazy like a Fox
TVas Vi1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
TVas Lila Lee Amberson1 eps
1985
Da Capo
as Mrs. Thomas
Alice in Wonderland
TVas Queen of Hearts2 eps
1982
Miss All-American Beauty
as Gertrude Hunnicutt
The Love Boat
TVas Mrs. Tate / Myrna Foster / Gwen Finley / Gertrude Benson / Jayne Meadows1 eps
1980
1979
Hawaii Five-O
TVas Jessica Humboldt1 eps
1977
1976
1973
Adam-12
TVas Ida Huntington1 eps
1972
Temperatures Rising
TVas Miss Brandon1 eps
1970
Medical Center
TVas Nurse Chambers1 eps
Love, American Style
TVas Tana1 eps
Here's Lucy
TVas Laura Trenton1 eps
1969
The Outsider
TVas LIl1 eps
1968
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
Good Morning World
TVas Mary Margaret1 eps
1965
The Merv Griffin Show
TVas Self1 eps
1961
The Oscars
TVas Self1 eps
1960
College Confidential
as Betty Duquesne
General Electric Theater
TVas Jean Fletcher1 eps
1959
It Happened to Jane
as Jayne Meadows
What's My Line?
TVas Self - Panelist10 eps
The Ann Sothern Show
TVas Liza Vincent1 eps
1958
The Steve Allen Show
TVas Self8 eps
1956
1954
Your Show of Shows
TVas Various1 eps
1953
Suspense
TVas Helen Brady1 eps
1951
The Fat Man
as Jane Adams
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TVas Anna Ella Carroll / Rita Solomon
1948
Enchantment
as Selina Dane
The Luck of the Irish
as Frances Augur
1947
Song of the Thin Man
as Janet Thayar
Dark Delusion
as Mrs. Selkirk
1946
Lady in the Lake
as Mildred Haveland
Undercurrent
as Sylvia Burton

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
9/27/1919
Day of Death
4/26/2015
Place of Birth
Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China