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Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film, and has committed herself to a variety of charitable causes.
Jane Alexander Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jane Alexander |
| Also Know | Jane Quigley |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1939-10-28 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 82 |
| Deathday |
Jane Alexander Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Testament | Carol Wetherly | 1983-11-04 | It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has bee… |
| Building Bombs | Narrator | 1989-05-09 | This Oscar-nominated documentary chronicles everyday life in Aiken, S.C. — ground zero for America’s hydrogen bomb-making facility, the Savannah Rive… |
| A Friendship in Vienna | Hannah Dournenvald | 1988-08-27 | Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympath… |
| Calamity Jane | Calamity Jane | 1984-03-06 | The story of Martha Jane Canary aka Calamity Jane…. |
| Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | Eleanor Roosevelt | 1977-03-13 | The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House…. |
| Sweet Country | Anna | 1987-01-23 | An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende’s 1973 overthrow…. |
| In Love and War | Sybil Stockdale | 1987-01-01 | This movie is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale’s 8 year imprisonment in North Vietnam. During his confinement in such camps as the infa… |
| In Search of the Titanic | Elizabeth (voice) | 2004-06-17 | Tentacolino, or “In Search for the Titanic” tells the story of the familiar characters Juan and Elizabeth, along with their mice friends Top Connors a… |
| The Powder & the Glory | Herself – Narrator | 2007-04-07 | The story of pioneering entrepreneurs Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, who built cosmetics empires and competed against each other for more than… |
| John Muir in the New World | Narrator (voice) | 2011-04-18 | The life and the career of John Muir come to life through this inspiring and beautiful documentary set against the magnificent landscapes of the Ameri… |
| Mountain View | Bartender | 1989-08-07 | A dance drama work which, through movement and very little spoken text, details the interaction of several people residing at or visiting a motel or m… |
| Night of 100 Stars | Self | 1982-03-08 | The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York’s Radio City … |
| Kennedy’s Children | Wanda | 1982-02-11 | In 1974, five former activists from the 1960s meet in a bar, but do not relate. Each is lost in his or her own memories of more hopeful, revolutionary… |
| Backstage – Dietro le quinte | Serena | 2022-08-09 | 9 young performers participate in a difficult selection process for a new musical by a gifted director with a dark past. They come from different back… |
| Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II | Mary MacCracken | 1978-12-13 | A sequel to “A Circle of Children” (1977). A teacher of “emotionally disturbed” children takes on a new student who is considered to be “untrainable” … |
| Open Admissions | Ginny Carlsen | 1988-09-08 | An indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself challenged by a ghetto youth with an intense desire to get … |
| Playing for Time | Alma Rose | 1980-09-30 | When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using … |
| Night Crossing | Doris Strelzyk | 1982-02-05 | Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story… |
| Square Dance | Juanelle | 1987-03-01 | An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth…. |
| In the Custody of Strangers | Sandy Caldwell | 1982-05-26 | A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But even… |
| Malice in Wonderland | Hedda Hopper | 1985-01-01 | Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can’t get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Pa… |
| The Great White Hope | Eleanor | 1970-10-11 | A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down…. |
| Miracle on 34th Street | Karen Walker | 1973-12-14 | A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn’t believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to pro… |
| Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol | Anne Palmer | 1972-01-30 | An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finall… |
| Blood & Orchids | Doris Ashley | 1986-02-23 | Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn’t wan… |
| A Question of Love | Barbara Moreland | 1978-11-26 | A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband…. |
| Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | 2019-10-12 | “Alan Pakula: Going for Truth” encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was… |
| Drug Free Kids: A Parents’ Guide | Self | 1988-01-11 | Ken Howard hosts a series of role-playing vignettes (featuring some of Hollywood’s top stars) to help parents and children deal with typical family si… |
| Brubaker | Lillian Gray | 1980-06-20 | The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate…. |
| Kramer vs. Kramer | Margaret Phelps | 1979-12-07 | Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is no… |
| The New Centurions | Dorothy Fehler | 1972-08-03 | An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he … |
| The Legend of the Titanic | Elizabeth Camden | 1999-01-01 | Old Grandpa mouse tells to his grandchildren the “real” story of the Titanic disaster, including evil sharks, a giant octopus, and an evil whaling sch… |
| City Heat | Addy | 1984-12-05 | Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye na… |
| A Gunfight | Nora Tenneray | 1971-08-25 | Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in … |
| Death Be Not Proud | Frances Gunther | 1975-02-04 | Based on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son Johnny, who died from a brain tumor…. |
| William & Catherine: A Royal Romance | HM Queen Elizabeth II | 2012-04-30 | The film is based on the story of William of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton. Shown in the same life of William of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleto… |
| Show Boat | Parthy Hawks | 2015-10-16 | The landmark musical brought vividly to life by the New York Philharmonic, with an all-star cast led by Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, Lauren Worsh… |
| Christmas Around the Corner | Mrs. Tumulty | 2018-12-14 | Claire (Alexandra Breckenridge), a savvy venture capitalist from New York City, escapes to a quaint town in Vermont for the holidays and becomes a gue… |
| The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Eleanor Bachman (segment “The Great White Hope”) / Sara Goode (segment “The Sisters Rosensweig”) | 2006-05-02 | The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway’s brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro… |
| This Is the West That Was | Sarah Shaw | 1974-12-17 | A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters…. |
| Night Of 100 Stars III | Self | 1990-05-21 | A celebrity benefit for The Actors’ Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy…. |
| Jenifer | Marilyn Estess | 2001-10-21 | The true story of three sisters who unite in the face of adversity when one of them is diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease…. |
| Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of “All the President’s Men” | Herself | 2006-02-28 | A short documentary on the making of “All the President’s Men.”… |
| Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women | Ednah Cheney | 2008-08-09 | Louisa May Alcott, author of “Little Women,” leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, an identity that remains until th… |
| The Ring | Dr. Grasnik | 2002-10-18 | Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will… |
| Gigantic | Barbara Weathersby | 2008-09-09 | Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he m… |
| Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus | Gertrude Nemerov | 2006-08-30 | In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respe… |
| Mr. Morgan’s Last Love | Joan Morgan | 2013-08-22 | A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman…. |
| The Betsy | Alicia Hardeman | 1978-02-02 | Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the wishes of his grandson. But things get even messier… |
| The Cider House Rules | Nurse Edna | 1999-12-17 | Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer… |
| Deck the Halls | Nora Regan Reilly | 2011-12-20 | Detective Regan Reilly and cleaning-woman-turned-private-eye Alvirah Meegan, investigate the kidnapping of Regan’s father and a young female driver ju… |
| When She Says No | Nora Strangis | 1984-01-30 | After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room during a teacher’s convention, she later accuses them … |
| Finding the Truth: The Making of ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ | Self | 2001-02-20 | A behind-the-scenes look at this Oscar-winning classic about a man who finds himself a single parent after his wife walks out on him, then is forced t… |
| Pressure and the Press: The Making of ‘All the President’s Men’ | Self (archive footage) | 1976-01-01 | Hoffman, Redford, Bernstein, Woodward, Pakula and Bradlee. Creators and creatures involved in one way or another with ‘All the President’s Men’, wheth… |
| All the President’s Men | Judy Hoback | 1976-01-18 | During the 1972 elections, two reporters’ investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from… |
| The Unborn | Sofi Kozma | 2009-01-09 | A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her…. |
| The Man in the Woods | Vivien Waldorf | 2020-11-24 | On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop, an… |
| Terminator Salvation | Virginia | 2009-05-20 | All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But whe… |
| Dream House | Dr. Greeley | 2011-09-29 | Publisher Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby, and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as… |
| Warm Springs | Sara Delano Roosevelt | 2005-04-30 | Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia…. |
| Feast of Love | Esther Stevenson | 2007-09-28 | A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, myst… |
| Three Christs | Dr. Abraham | 2017-09-23 | Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are… |
| Le donne non vogliono più | 1993-01-01 | … | |
| Glory | Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw | 1989-12-15 | Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates…. |
| Sunshine State | Delia Temple | 2002-06-21 | A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estat… |
Jane Alexander Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Square Dance | Executive Producer | 1987-03-01 | An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth…. |
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