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Amityville: The Evil Escapes

as Alice Leacock

1989
The Nativity

as Anna

1978
The Father Knows Best Reunion

as Margaret Anderson

1977
Treasure of Matecumbe

as Aunt Effie

1976
Amelia Earhart

as Amy Earhart

1976
You'll Never See Me Again

as Mary Alden

1973
Weekend of Terror

as Sister Frances

1970
The Two Little Bears

as Anne Davis

1961
Criminal Lawyer

as Maggie Powell

1951
House by the River

as Marjorie Byrne

1950
The Man Who Cheated Himself

as Lois Frazer

1950
My Blue Heaven

as Janet Pringle

1950
Task Force

as Mary Morgan

1949
Canadian Pacific

as Dr. Edith Cabot

1949
Pitfall

as Sue Forbes

1948
Boomerang!

as Madge Harvey

1947
The Bachelor's Daughters

as Marta Jordan

1946
None But the Lonely Heart

as Aggie Hunter

1944
The Kansan

as Eleanor Sager

1943
The Navy Comes Through

as Myra Mallory

1942
Army Surgeon

as Elizabeth Ainsley

1942
Kisses for Breakfast

as Laura Anders

1941
Hurricane Smith

as Joan Bradley

1941
Lost Horizon

as Sondra Bizet

1937
We're Only Human

as Sally Rodgers

1935
Great Expectations

as Estella

1934
Jane Wyatt Jane Wyatt

Birthday

1910-08-12

Place of Birth

Campgaw, New Jersey, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia Jane Wyatt (August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress best known for her role as the housewife and mother on the NBC and CBS television comedy series, Father Knows Best, and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science fiction television series Star Trek. Wyatt was a three-time Emmy Award-winner. Jane Waddington Wyatt was born on August 12, 1910 in Mahwah, New Jersey, but raised in Manhattan. Her father, Christopher Billopp Wyatt, Jr., was a Wall Street investment banker, and her mother, the former Euphemia Van Rensselaer Waddington, was a drama critic for the Catholic World. Both of her parents were Roman Catholic converts. She made her film debut in 1934 in One More River. In arguably her most famous role, she co-starred as Ronald Colman's character's love interest in Frank Capra's Columbia Pictures film Lost Horizon (1937). Other film appearances included Gentleman's Agreement with Gregory Peck, None but the Lonely Heart with Cary Grant, Boomerang with Dana Andrews, and Our Very Own. Her film career suffered because of her outspoken opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy, the chief figure in the anti-Communist investigations of that era, and was temporarily derailed for having assisted in hosting a performance by the Bolshoi Ballet during the Second World War, even though it was at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wyatt returned to her roots on the New York stage for a time and appeared in such plays as Lillian Hellman's The Autumn Garden, opposite Fredric March. For many people, Wyatt is best remembered as Margaret Anderson on Father Knows Best, which aired from 1954 to 1960. She played opposite Robert Young as the devoted wife and mother of the Anderson family in the Midwestern town of Springfield. This role won Wyatt three Emmy Awards for best actress in a comedy series. After Father Knows Best, Wyatt guest starred in several other series. On June 13, 1962, she was cast in the lead in "The Heather Mahoney Story" on NBC's Wagon Train. In 1963, she portrayed Kitty McMullen in "Don't Forget to Say Goodbye" on the ABC drama, Going My Way, with Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll, a series about the Catholic priesthood in New York City. In 1965, Wyatt was cast as Anne White in "The Monkey's Paw – A Retelling" on CBS's The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Wyatt was married to investment broker Edgar Bethune Ward from November 9, 1935, until his death on November 8, 2000, just one day short of the couple's 65th wedding anniversary. The couple reportedly met in the late 1920s when both were weekend houseguests of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York. Ward later converted to the Catholic faith of his wife. Wyatt suffered a mild stroke in the 1990s, but recovered well. She remained in relatively good health for the rest of her life Jane Wyatt died on October 20, 2006 of natural causes at her home in Bel-Air, California, aged 96. She was interred at San Fernando Mission Cemetery, next to her husband.
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