Eve Brent


Jean Ann Ewers,, known professionally as Eve Brent and Jean Lewis, was an American actress known for her role as Jane in Tarzan's Fight for Life.

Biography

Early years

Born as Jean Ann Ewers in Houston, Texas in 1929, and raised in Fort Worth, she appeared on radio and television, in movies and on the theater stage.

Career

Some of her early film work includes roles in Gun Girls, Journey to Freedom and Forty Guns. She became the twelfth actress to play Jane when she appeared opposite Gordon Scott's Tarzan in the film Tarzan's Fight for Life,. She also played the role in Tarzan and the Trappers 1958, three episodes filmed as a pilot for a proposed Tarzan television series. She also appeared in the "Girl on the Road" episode of The Veil, a short 1958 Boris Karloff TV series that was never aired. In 1967, she appeared as Benjie Carver's mother in the LSD Story episode of the Dragnet television show.

Recognition

In 1980, she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Fade to Black. In 1998, she appeared as the grandmother of a family gathered around the dinner table in a Christmas television commercial for Publix Super Markets. Her best-known recent work in films was in The Green Mile, 1999. She continued to work in episodic television, and made a guest appearance in Frasier, 2006 on an episode of Scrubs, and in 2010 on an episode of Community. She also appeared on Emergency in 1974 as a lady whose daughter had her toe stuck in the bathtub.

Widowhood

By her 40s, Brent had been married and divorced numerous times. Michael Ashe, her fifth and last husband died on July 31, 2008.

Death

Eve Brent died from natural causes, fifteen days before her 82nd birthday, on August 27, 2011, aged 81.

Partial filmography