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Jayne Meadows

Jayne Meadows

AKA: Jane Meadows Allen · Jayne Meadows Allen · Mrs. Steve Allen · Jane Cotter

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Born: 1919 Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China 26 Global Credits 🔥 0.8 Popularity
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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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Show / Title Year Credit / Role
The Nanny 1993 Jayne Meadows
Homicide: Life on the Street 1993 Mrs. Cochran
Alice in Wonderland 1985 Queen of Hearts
Crazy like a Fox 1984 Vi
Murder, She Wrote 1984 Lila Lee Amberson
St. Elsewhere 1982 Olga Oseransky
Matt Houston 1982 Holly Harkens
Hotel 1982 Contributor
Trapper John, M.D. 1979 Contributor
The Love Boat 1977 Mrs. Tate
Switch 1975 Andrea
Temperatures Rising 1972 Miss Brandon
Love, American Style 1969 Tana
Medical Center 1969 Nurse Chambers
Here's Lucy 1968 Laura Trenton
Adam-12 1968 Ida Huntington
Hawaii Five-O 1968 Jessica Humboldt
The Outsider 1968 LIl
The Merv Griffin Show 1962 Self
The Steve Allen Show 1956 Self
The Oscars 1953 Self
I've Got a Secret 1952 Self
What's My Line? 1950 Self - Panelist
Robert Montgomery Presents 1950 Contributor
Suspense 1949 Helen Brady
Studio One 1948 Leslie