Jean Wallace Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Jean Wallace

Jean Wallace

Acting

Biography

Born Jean Walasek in Chicago to John T. Walasek and Mary A. Walasek (née Sharkey), Wallace began her career as a model then got her first small movie role at the age of seventeen. She was married two times; once to her Jigsaw co-star Franchot Tone from 1941 to 1948 and once to actor Cornel Wilde (her co-star in The Big Combo and Lancelot and Guinevere) from 1951 to 1981. She had two sons with Tone and one with Wilde. She attempted suicide in 1946 with sleeping pills, and in 1949 with a self inflicted knife wound. Wallace died of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage on February 14, 1990. She is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Filmography Movies

Acting

No Blade of Grass movie poster
MOVIE

No Blade of Grass

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No Blade of Grass
Ann Custance
Jigsaw movie poster
MOVIE

Jigsaw

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Jigsaw
Barbara Whitfield
The Big Combo movie poster
MOVIE

The Big Combo

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The Big Combo
Susan Lowell
Sword of Lancelot movie poster
MOVIE

Sword of Lancelot

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Sword of Lancelot
Guinevere
Beach Red movie poster
MOVIE

Beach Red

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Beach Red
Julie MacDonald
The Man on the Eiffel Tower movie poster
MOVIE

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

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The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Edna Wallace
Storm Fear movie poster
MOVIE

Storm Fear

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Storm Fear
Elizabeth
The Good Humor Man movie poster
MOVIE

The Good Humor Man

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The Good Humor Man
Bonnie Conroy
Native Son movie poster
MOVIE

Native Son

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Native Son
Mary Dalton
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog movie poster
MOVIE

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

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It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Bess Williams

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Jean Wallace portrait
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