Eve Brent
Known For
Acting
Born
1929-09-11 in Houston, Texas, USA
Died
2011-08-27
Biography
Jean Ann Ewers (September 11, 1929 – August 27, 2011), known professionally as Eve Brent and Jean Lewis, was an American actress who portrayed Jane in Tarzan's Fight for Life. Eve Brent began her career in radio and early television and later moved on to the college and little theater stage. Arriving in Hollywood with a husband and infant son in the 1950s, she landed some films including Gun Girls (1957), Journey to Freedom (1957), The Bride and the Beast (1958), and episodic TV roles. Maverick director Samuel Fuller changed her name to Eve Brent when she appeared in his western Forty Guns (1957), the first of dozens of screen roles for her under that name. She then played Jane opposite Gordon Scott's Tarzan in Tarzan and the Trappers, Tarzan's Fight for Life (both 1958), and in episodes of a Tarzan TV series. In addition to her big-screen and episodic TV assignments, she has appeared in hundreds of commercials. She later had the role of Elaine Connelly in The Green Mile and a small role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Most Known For
Twin Peaks
as Theodora Ridgely
JAG
as Neighbor
Frasier
as Hostess
Community
as Glenda
Scrubs
as Mrs. Harris
Little House on the Prairie
as Elna Jacobsen
Dallas
as Miss Ellie Ewing
Adam-12
as Mrs. Hedley
Adam-12
as Mrs. Wheatley
Adam-12
as Helen Spencer
Adam-12
as Ginger
Ironside
as Mrs. Creighton
Knots Landing
as Rose Kaplan
The Red Skelton Show
as Wife / Silent Spot
The Red Skelton Show
Emergency!
as Alice
Tales from the Crypt
as Judge #1 (segment "The Man Who Was Death")
The Green Mile
as Elaine Connelly
Highway to Heaven
as Landlady
Ellen
as Lovely Old Woman (uncredited)