Eve Brent
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Frasier
Hostess
1993
Series
Dallas
Miss Ellie Ewing
1978
Series
JAG
Neighbor
1995
Series
Twin Peaks
Theodora Ridgely
1990
Series
Scrubs
Mrs. Harris
2001
Series
Community
Glenda
2009
Series
Little House on the Prairie
Elna Jacobsen
1974
Series
Ironside
Mrs. Creighton
1967
Series
The Red Skelton Show
Wife
1951
Series
The Red Skelton Show
1951
Series
Adam-12
Mrs. Hedley
1968
Series
Adam-12
Mrs. Wheatley
1968
Series
Adam-12
Helen Spencer
1968
Series
Adam-12
Ginger
1968
Series
Knots Landing
Rose Kaplan
1979
Series
Emergency!
Alice
1972
Film
The Green Mile
Elaine Connelly
1999
Series
Tales from the Crypt
Judge #1 (segment "The Man Who Was Death")
1989
Series
Ellen
Lovely Old Woman (uncredited)
1994
Series
Highway to Heaven
Landlady
1984
Series
Adventures of Superman
Woman
1952
Series
Roswell
Bess Covendall
1999
Series
Roswell
Jane Covendall
1999
Series
Dragnet
Mrs. Carver
1967
Series
Dragnet
Mrs. Fuller
1967
Series
Dragnet
Sgt. Connie Speck
1967
Series
Grace Under Fire
1993
Film
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Old Woman (uncredited)
2008
Series
Checkmate
Barbara Walters
1960
Series
Finder of Lost Loves
Parrish Housekeeper
1984
Series
Annie Oakley
Clara Bickel
1954
Lux Video Theatre
Waitress
1950
Film
Garfield
Mrs. Baker
2004
Series
Get Real
Edna
1999
Series
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1st Nurse
1969
Series
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
2nd Nurse
1969
Series
Water and Power
Mrs. Rose
2008
Series
Snoops
Ramona Esterhause
1989
Film
Coogan's Bluff
Hooker (uncredited)
1968
Film
Airport
Mrs. David Corman (uncredited)
1970
Film
The White Buffalo
Frieda
1977
Film
Racing with the Moon
Mrs. Kaiser
1984
Film
Date with an Angel
Matron #1
1987
Film
Ticket Out
Emma
2012
Film
A Guide for the Married Man
Joe X's Blowsy Blonde
1967
Film
The Experts
Aunt Thelma
1989
Film
Going Berserk
Mrs. Reese
1983
Film
Fade to Black
Aunt Stella Binford
1980
Film
Saved By the Bell: Hawaiian Style
Mrs. Finley
1992
Film
The Happy Ending
Ethel
1969
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
Self (uncredited)
2000
Film
The Garment Jungle
Receptionist (uncredited)
1957
Film
Forty Guns
Louvenia Spanger
1957
Film
Gun Girls
Joy
1957
Film
The Todd Killings
1971
Film
BrainWaves
Mrs. Simpson
1983
Film
Palo Alto, CA
Grandma
2007
Film
Deathrow Gameshow
Crossing Guard
1987
Film
Female Jungle
Monica Madison
1956
Film
Tarzan and the Trappers
Jane
1958
Film
Tarzan's Fight for Life
Jane
1958
Film
Timber Tramps
Corey Sykes
1975
Film
In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross
Self
1998
Film
The Bride and the Beast
Stewardess (as Jean Ann Lewis)
1958
Film
Hit List
Mrs. Sheehan
2011
Film
Between Christmas and New Year's
May
2000
Film
The Storm Rider
Mrs. Cooper
1957
Destination Nightmare
Lila Kirby
1958
Charlie Chan's Lucky Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Self
2006
Film
Journey to Freedom
Mary Raikin
1957
Film
S.L.I.P.
1970
Film
Stakeout!
Susie
1962