Jayne Meadows

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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Known For

Casino 1995 ★ 8.0
The Nanny 1993 ★ 8.1
Diagnosis: Murder 1993 ★ 7.1
Homicide: Life on the Street 1993 ★ 8.1
The Player 1992 ★ 7.2
City Slickers 1991 ★ 6.5
Murder, She Wrote 1984 ★ 7.5
Crazy like a Fox 1984 ★ 7.2
St. Elsewhere 1982 ★ 5.7
Hotel 1982 ★ 6.8
Matt Houston 1982 ★ 6.3
Trapper John, M.D. 1979 ★ 6.6
The Love Boat 1977 ★ 6.3
Switch 1975 ★ 6.6
Temperatures Rising 1972 ★ 7.5
Love, American Style 1969 ★ 6.2
Medical Center 1969 ★ 6.4
Hawaii Five-O 1968 ★ 7.2
Adam-12 1968 ★ 7.1
Here's Lucy 1968 ★ 6.7
Robert Montgomery Presents 1950 ★ 6.0
Your Show of Shows 1950 ★ 7.3
Suspense 1949 ★ 5.1
Studio One 1948 ★ 5.4