Jan Sterling (born Jane Sterling Adriance; April 3, 1921 – March 26, 2004) was an American actress. At her most active in films during the 1950s, she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954) as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. Her best performance is often considered to be opposite Kirk Douglas, as the opportunistic wife in Billy Wilder's 1951 Ace in the Hole.

Filmography

• 1982Dangerous Company — Ray's Mother
• 1981First Monday in October — Christine Snow
• 1980My Kidnapper, My Love — Letty Fairlain
• Backstairs at the White House — Lou Hoover
• The Incredible Hulk
• Three's Company — Judge Sheffield
• 1976Having Babies — Mrs. Fontreil
• 1976Sammy Somebody
• Little House on the Prairie — Laura Colby Ingalls
• Kung Fu — Mary Jenkins
• The Brian Keith Show
• Medical Center — Florence Brent
• 1969The Minx — Louise Baxter
• 1968The Angry Breed — Gloria Patton
• The Name of the Game — Elsa Roarke
• Mannix — Anne Marion
• 1967The Incident — Muriel Purvis
• Run for Your Life — Clara Mallory
• 1964American in Paris — Gloria Miles
• Breaking Point
• Burke's Law — Devora Cato, Vera Selby
• Vacation Playhouse
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Beatrice Bartel
• The Virginian — Mary Beth Stanton
• 1961Love in a Goldfish Bowl — Sandra Slide
• Adventures in Paradise — Topaz Harmony
• Bonanza — Dianne Jordan
• Riverboat — Lorna Langton
• 1958High School Confidential! — Arlene Williams
• 1958Kathy O' — Celeste Saunders
• Naked City — Myrtle Tiloff
• 1958The Female Animal — Lily Frayne
• 1957Clipper Ship — Helen Ott
• 1957Slaughter on 10th Avenue — Madge Pitts
• Suspicion — Georgiana
• 19561984 — Julia of the Outer Party
• 1956The Harder They Fall — Beth Willis
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Fran Holland, Wanda Ferlini
• 1955Female on the Beach — Amy Rawlinson
• 1955Man with the Gun — Nelly Bain
• 1955Women's Prison — Brenda Martin
• 1954Alaska Seas — Nicky Jackson
• Climax! — Dinah Lake, Audrey Caldwell
• 1954Return from the Sea — Frieda
• 1954The High and the Mighty — Sally McKee
• 1954The Human Jungle — Mary Abbott
• General Electric Theater — Gloria Miles
• Letter to Loretta — Lucia
• 1953Pony Express — Denny Russell
• 1953Split Second — Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale
• 1953The Vanquished — Rose Slater
• 1952Flesh and Fury — Sonya Bartow
• 1952Sky Full of Moon — Dixie Delmar
• The Jackie Gleason Show
• 1951Ace in the Hole — Lorraine
• 1951Rhubarb — Polly Sickles
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
• 1951The Mating Season — Betsy
• 1950Appointment with Danger — Dodie
• 1950Caged — Gita "Smoochie" Kovsky
• 1950Gunfire — Flo
• Lux Video Theatre — Lee, Chris Hunter, Julia, Mary Ford, Maggie
• 1950Mystery Street — Vivian Heldon
• The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
• 1950The Skipper Surprised His Wife — Rita Rossini
• 1950Union Station — Marge Wrighter
• 1948Johnny Belinda — Stella McCormick
• 1947Tycoon — Dancer at Fiesta (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (3)

• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• 1950The Costume Designer — Self (archive footage)