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Biography

Academy award winning actress Jane Wyman came up in Hollywood the hard way appearing in movies at age 8 where she spent 10 years…more

Born

Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA

Birth Name

Sarah Jane Mayfield

Gender

Female

Credits

Star (52)

Role
- Falcon Crest
  Angela Channing
  - S 9: Ep 22 Home Again
    5/17/90
  - S 9: Ep 21 Danny's Song
    5/10/90
  - S 9: Ep 20 The Return
    5/3/90
  - S 9: Ep 6 God of the Grape
    11/10/89
  - S 9: Ep 2 Charley
    10/6/89
  - + 149 More Credits
- Falcon Crest
  Angela Channing Erikson/Stavros
  - S 5: Ep 24 Unholy Alliance
    4/4/86
- Falcon Crest
  Angela Channing Erikson
  - S 5: Ep 23 In Absentia
    3/14/86
  - S 5: Ep 20 Flesh and Blood
    2/21/86
  - S 5: Ep 19 Finders and Losers
    2/14/86
  - S 5: Ep 18 Gambit Exposed
    2/7/86
  - S 5: Ep 17 Shattered Dreams
    1/31/86
  - + 48 More Credits
- Falcon Crest
  Angela Channing/Erikson
  - S 3: Ep 26 For Better, For Worse
    5/4/84
- The New Doctors
  Dr. Amanda Fallon
  - S 4: Ep 16 And Other Springs I May Not See
    5/4/73
- The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
  Dr. Amanda Fallon
  - S 4: Ep 16 And Other Springs I May Not See
    5/4/73
  - S 3: Ep 11 Discovery At Fourteen
    3/5/72
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess
  - S 3: Ep 24 Hide and Seek
    5/22/58
  - S 3: Ep 23 The Last Test
    5/8/58
  - S 3: Ep 22 On the Brink
    5/1/58
  - S 3: Ep 21 Man of Taste
    4/24/58
  - S 3: Ep 20 The Bravado Touch
    4/17/58
  - + 42 More Credits
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Cleary Penryn
  - S 3: Ep 19 Swindler's Inn
    4/10/58
  - S 2: Ep 20 The Golden Door
    1/22/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Carol / Susan
  - S 3: Ep 14 My Sister Susan
    2/6/58
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Marge
  - S 3: Ep 11 A Widow's Kiss
    1/9/58
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Amelia
  - S 3: Ep 7 Death Rides the 12:15
    12/5/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Fran
  - S 3: Ep 4 The Animal Instinct
    10/31/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Ann Langley
  - S 3: Ep 1 The Way Home
    9/26/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Diane Nolan
  - S 2: Ep 34 Night of Terror
    5/14/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Martha Carroll
  - S 2: Ep 32 The Man in the Car
    4/30/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Violet Fitzhugh
  - S 2: Ep 30 Not for Publication
    4/16/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Millie
  - S 2: Ep 29 Mama Bufano's
    4/9/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Laura Kincaid
  - S 2: Ep 27 The Pendulum
    3/12/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Susanna Holt
  - S 2: Ep 26 Married to a Stranger
    3/5/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Tita
  - S 2: Ep 24 Farmer's Wife
    2/19/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Ann Baker
  - S 2: Ep 23 Small Talk
    2/12/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Ellen Hensley
  - S 2: Ep 22 Birthright
    2/5/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Paula Miller
  - S 2: Ep 19 Portrait in Fear
    1/15/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Sarah March
  - S 2: Ep 18 Twenty Dollar Bride
    1/8/57
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Sidney Brandt
  - S 2: Ep 15 A Point of Law
    12/18/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Pauline
  - S 2: Ep 14 While There's Life
    12/11/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Susan
  - S 2: Ep 12 A Time to Live
    11/27/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Madame Olivia
  - S 2: Ep 11 The Marked Bullet
    11/20/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Katie Barns
  - S 2: Ep 10 Father Forgets
    11/13/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Peggy
  - S 2: Ep 8 Two Sides to Everything
    10/23/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Olivia
  - S 2: Ep 7 No More Tears
    10/16/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Susan Clarke
  - S 2: Ep 6 Assignment Champ
    10/2/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Mrs. Norwood
  - S 2: Ep 5 Let Yesterday Die
    9/25/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Lt. Edith Collins
  - S 2: Ep 3 Approved by Censor
    9/11/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Martha Quillen
  - S 2: Ep 2 Dirty Face
    9/4/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess /Laura Ann Roberts
  - S 2: Ep 1 Ten Percent
    8/28/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Karen Foster
  - S 1: Ep 34 The Past is Always Present
    4/17/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Marie
  - S 1: Ep 32 In a Different Life
    4/3/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Clarissa
  - S 1: Ep 29 Scent of Roses
    3/13/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Meg
  - S 1: Ep 28 Echo Out of the Past
    3/6/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Leslie Bell
  - S 1: Ep 26 The Thread
    2/21/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Kristi Stone
  - S 1: Ep 25 Kristi
    2/14/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Barbara Towne
  - S 1: Ep 24 Not What She Pretended
    2/7/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Helen Crane
  - S 1: Ep 21 The House on Elm Street
    1/17/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Emily Prince
  - S 1: Ep 19 Once Upon a Nightmare
    1/3/56
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Sister Regina
  - S 1: Ep 15 Bamboo Cross
    12/6/55
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Jean Bradford
  - S 1: Ep 12 The Key
    11/15/55
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Eve
  - S 1: Ep 11 Ride with the Executioner
    11/8/55
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Liz
  - S 1: Ep 8 One Last September
    10/18/55
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Mary
  - S 1: Ep 4 Holiday in Autumn
    9/20/55
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Maryann Goldsmith
  - S 1: Ep 2 Gusher City
    9/6/55
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Hostess / Rita
  - S 1: Ep 1 Technical Charge of Homicide
    8/30/55
Guest Star (36)

Role
- This is Your Life (UK)
  Herself
  - S 35: Ep 18 Howard Keel
    2/17/95
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
  Elizabeth Quinn
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Visitor
    1/9/93
- Charlie's Angels
  Eleanor Willard
  - S 5: Ep 2 To See an Angel Die
    11/30/80
- The Love Boat
  Sister Patricia
  - S 3: Ep 23 Another Time, Another Place/Doctor Who/Gopher's Engagement
    3/3/80
- Dinah!
  Herself
  - S 4: Ep 122 March 14, 1978
    3/14/78
- Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
  Mrs. Ryder
  - S 3: Ep 22 The Desertion of Keith Ryder
    3/30/74
- The Sixth Sense
  Ruth Ames
  - S 2: Ep 9 If I Should Die Before I Wake
    12/2/72
- The Hollywood Squares (1966)
  Herself
  - S 6: Ep 30 January 10-16, 1972 (1)
    1/10/72
- The Merv Griffin Show
  Herself
  - S 8: Ep 211 July 15, 1971
    7/15/71
  - S 8: Ep 146 April 12, 1971
    4/12/71
  - S 8: Ep 63 December 10, 1970
    12/10/70
  - S 7: Ep 117 January 29, 1970
    1/29/70
- The Mike Douglas Show
  Herself/Co-host
  - S 9: Ep 20 October 2, 1970
    10/2/70
  - S 9: Ep 19 October 1, 1970
    10/1/70
  - S 9: Ep 18 September 30, 1970
    9/30/70
  - S 9: Ep 17 September 29, 1970
    9/29/70
  - S 9: Ep 16 Week of September 28, 1970
    9/28/70
- Insight
  Marie
  - S 10: Ep 43 The Hermit
    6/26/70
- My Three Sons
  Sylvia Cannon
  - S 10: Ep 17 Who is Sylvia?
    1/31/70
- The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
  Amanda Fallon
- Allen Ludden's Gallery
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 57 September 9, 1969
    9/9/69
- TV SPECIAL
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 2 The Bob Hope Show
    4/17/69
- The Bob Hope Show
  Herself
  - S 19: Ep 9 April 17, 1969
    4/17/69
  - S 11: Ep 6 February 15, 1961
    2/15/61
  - S 32: Ep 5 Bob Hope's Women I Love: Beautiful But Funny
    2/28/82
- The Joey Bishop Show
  Herself
  - S 3: Ep 133 March 10, 1969
    3/10/69
  - S 3: Ep 87 January 3, 1969
    1/3/69
- The Red Skelton Show
  Clara Appleby
  - S 18: Ep 9 Jane Wyman / The Vogues
    11/26/68
- Insight
  Herself
  - S 7: Ep 44 Why Does God Allow Men to Suffer?
    7/2/67
  - S 11: Ep 11 Prince of Apple Towns
    11/15/70
- Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
  Addie Joslin
  - S 3: Ep 13 When Hell Froze
    2/2/66
- The Match Game
  Herself
  - S 3: Ep 7 Jane Wyman & Sydney Chaplin
    10/12/64
- The Bell Telephone Hour
  Host
  - S 6: Ep 8 The Younger Generation
    1/14/64
- Disneyland
  Aunt Polly Harrington
  - S 10: Ep 8 Pollyanna (1)
    12/1/63
- The Andy Williams Show (1962)
  Herself
  - S 2: Ep 3 October 29, 1963
    10/29/63
  - S 1: Ep 16 January 17, 1963
    1/17/63
- Wagon Train
  Hannah
  - S 6: Ep 1 Wagon Train Mutiny
    9/19/62
- The Investigators (1961)
  Elaine
  - S 1: Ep 9 Death Leaves a Tip
    11/30/61
- Checkmate
  Joan Talmadge
  - S 1: Ep 4 Lady on the Brink
    10/15/60
- What's My Line?
  Mystery Guest
  - S 11: Ep 39 EPISODE #515
    5/29/60
- Ford Startime
  Host
  - S 1: Ep 24 Academy Award Songs
    3/15/60
- The Academy Awards
  Herself - Presenter
  - S 31: Ep 1 The 31st Annual Academy Awards
    4/6/59
  - S 27: Ep 1 The 27th Annual Academy Awards
    3/30/55
  - S 25: Ep 1 The 25th Annual Academy Awards
    3/19/53
- The Perry Como Show
  Herself
  - S 11: Ep 18 January 10, 1959
    1/10/59
  - S 11: Ep 15 December 20, 1958
    12/20/58
  - S 10: Ep 36 May 24, 1958
    5/24/58
- Lux Playhouse
  Selena Shelby
  - S 1: Ep 8 A Deadly Guest
    1/9/59
- The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
  Herself
  - S 3: Ep 6 November 6, 1958
    11/6/58
  - S 2: Ep 1 September 26, 1957
    9/26/57
- Wagon Train
  Doctor Carol Willoughby
  - S 2: Ep 6 The Doctor Willoughby Story
    11/5/58
- The Lux Show With Rosemary Clooney
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 1 Episode 1
    9/26/57
- General Electric Theater
  Dr. Amelia Morrow
  - S 3: Ep 14 Amelia
    1/2/55

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Trivia
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- Best remembered by the public for her starring role as Angela Channing on Falcon Crest.
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- During her marriage to Ronald Reagan they adopted an infant son, Michael Reagan, who is now a nationally syndicated talk radio host.
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- Her ex-husband, Ronald Reagan, encouraged her to audition for the lead role of Angela Channing in Falcon Crest, after her old friend, Barbara Stanwyck, had turned down the part.
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- Jane Wyman: (On winning the 1949 Academy Award for Leading Actress in a Movie): I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.
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- Jane Wyman: (On commenting her newspaper interview in 1981 about her almost 50 year career in films): I've been through four different cycles in pictures: the brassy blonde, then came the musicals, the high dramas, then the inauguration of television.
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- Jane Wyman: (On the cancellation of Falcon Crest) It's a funny feeling, because you wake up and say, 'I'm not going to see my friends again, you know!' Because I never done anything this long.
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