Jean Wallace

Known for ActingBorn 1923-10-12Died 1990-02-14Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Salute for Three

You Can't Ration Love

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Big Combo

The Colgate Comedy Hour

General Electric Theater

Beach Red

Ziegfeld Girl

Maracaibo

Louisiana Purchase

Glamour Boy

The Good Humor Man

The Devil's Hairpin

Storm Fear

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

Blaze of Noon

Native Son

When My Baby Smiles at Me

No Blade of Grass

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

Jigsaw

Sword of Lancelot

Star of India