Acting
Jean Alexander
Born
1926-02-24 (100)
Place of birth
Rochester, New York, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
4 titles
Jean Alexander began her acting career while in high school in Rochester. Soon after graduation she joined Stanley Woolf's Civic Drama Guild of New York for a car-and-truck tour of "Junior Miss" (1945) and just months after WWII she was touring the South Pacific in "Petticoat Fever" with the USO. In New York, she trained as an actor with such luminaries as Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg, and became a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio in 1951. Jean played on, off, and off-off Broadway. She was featured in several films, including the noir classic "The Mob (1951)". Her TV credits include most golden-era prime-time drama anthologies, including The United States Steel Hour (1953), The Philco…
Known for
6.8Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion.
Love with the Proper Stranger
1963
6.7An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.
The Mob
1951
6.1When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
The Family Secret
1951
6.7A ship with a cargo full of diamonds gets taken over by pirates.
Death Tide
1955
Film credits
1950s · 3 titles
6.7An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.
The Mob
1951
6.1When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
The Family Secret
1951
6.7A ship with a cargo full of diamonds gets taken over by pirates.
Death Tide
1955