Jane Wyatt
American actress (1910-2006) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 96
Jane Waddington Wyatt was an American actress. She starred in a number of Hollywood films, such as Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, but is likely best known for her role as homemaker and mother Margaret Anderson on the CBS and NBC television comedy series Father Knows Best, and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock...
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Frank Capra's American DreamFilm1989
Amityville: The Evil EscapesFilm, Alice Leacock1986
Star Trek IV: The Voyage HomeFilm, Amanda1982
HotelSeries, Agnes Simpson1978
Fantasy IslandSeries, Mildred Grayson
SuperdomeFilm, 1978Fay Bonelli1976
Treasure of MatecumbeFilm, Aunt Effie1973
You'll Never See Me AgainFilm, Mary Alden1971
Owen Marshall: Counselor at LawSeries, Margaret Wilson1969
Love, American StyleSeries, Mother1965
Never Too LateFilm, Grace Kimbrough1962
The Alfred Hitchcock HourSeries, Anne White1961
Alcoa PremiereSeries1959Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy SeriesAward1957
Wagon TrainSeries, Heather Mahoney1954
Father Knows BestSeries, Margaret Anderson1951
Criminal LawyerFilm, Maggie Powell1950
Robert Montgomery PresentsSeries1949
Bad BoyFilm, Mrs. Maud Brown1948
Studio OneSeries1947
Boomerang!Film, Madge Harvey1944
None But the Lonely HeartFilm, Aggie Hunter1942
Army SurgeonFilm, Elizabeth Ainsley1937
Lost HorizonFilm, Sondra Bizet1934
Great ExpectationsFilm, Estella1910Born12 August 1910People around Jane
Elia Kazan Directed Gentleman's Agreement and Boomerang
Lee J. Cobb Also in Boomerang (1947)
A. Edward Sutherland Directed The Navy Comes Through and Army Surgeon
Elinor Donahue Also in Happy Days
Dana Andrews Also in Boomerang, No Minor Vices and Boomerang!
Majel Barrett Duets: Amanda Grayson
Norman Lloyd Also in Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes (1993)
Albert Dekker Also in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Harve Bennett Produced Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)- Lewis J. Rachmil Produced The Kansan (1943)
Frank Capra Produced Lost Horizon (1937)
Leonard Nimoy Directed Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Fritz Lang Directed House by the River (1950)
Samuel Goldwyn Produced Our Very Own (1950)
Alfred Newman Wrote Gentleman's Agreement and My Blue Heaven
Ed Begley Also in Boomerang and Boomerang!
George Reeves Also in Buckskin Frontier and The Kansan- Franz Waxman Wrote Task Force and No Minor Vices
Richard Dix Also in The Kansan and Buckskin Frontier
Bud Yorkin Directed Never Too Late (1965)
Kurt Neumann Directed Bad Boy (1950)
Marjorie Bennett Also in Happy Days
George Archainbaud Directed The Kansan (1943)
Sol C. Siegel Produced My Blue Heaven (1950)
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986
Gentleman's Agreement 1947
Boomerang! 1947
Pitfall 1948
Lost Horizon 1937
Filmography 40
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Television 22
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Wyatt in Gentleman's Agreement
Jane Wyatt and Richard Dix in The Kansan in 1943
(L-R): Hollywood Stars manager Charlie Root, Jane Wyatt and Los Angeles Angels manager Bill Sweeney sit atop a pile of baseball equipment donated to members of the United States Armed Forces at military installations in Southern California in 1943
Cast photo of the Anderson Family from the television program Father Knows Best (front): Lauren Chapin (back) (L-R): Billy Gray, Jane Wyatt, Robert Young and Elinor Donahue in 1954Awards
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She starred in a number of Hollywood films, such as Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, but is likely best known for her role as homemaker and mother Margaret Anderson on the CBS and NBC 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.
