Jan Wiley

Jan Wiley

Born: February 23, 1916
Died: May 27, 1993
in Marion, Wisconsin, USA
Jan Wiley was born on February 23, 1916 in Marion, Indiana, USA as Jan Harriet Wiley. She was an actress, known for She-Wolf of London (1946), The Brute Man (1946) and Stage Door (1937). She was married to Mort Greene and Roger Clark. She died on May 27, 1993 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA.

Movies for Jan Wiley...

The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Perfume Saleswoman (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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The Brute Man
Title: The Brute Man
Character: Virginia Rogers Scott
Released: October 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
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Below the Deadline
Title: Below the Deadline
Character: Vivian
Released: August 3, 1946
Type: Movie
A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his brother's illegal operations but his sweetheart, Lynn Turner, persuades him to change his ways and return to the straight and narrow.
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She-Wolf of London
Title: She-Wolf of London
Character: Carol Winthrop
Released: May 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
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Frontier Gal
Title: Frontier Gal
Character: Sheila Winthop
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.
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Secret Agent X-9
Title: Secret Agent X-9
Character: Lynn Moore
Released: July 24, 1945
Type: Movie
American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.
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The Master Key
Title: The Master Key
Character: Janet Lowe
Released: April 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Before the outbreak of WWII, Nazi sympathizers plot to undermine America.
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The Cisco Kid Returns
Title: The Cisco Kid Returns
Character: Jeanette
Released: February 16, 1945
Type: Movie
After several years' dormancy, the "Cisco Kid" western-film series returned to the screen with Monogram's The Cisco Kid Returns. Duncan Renaldo, actually Rumanian, starred as the Mexican "Robin Hood of the Old West", with Martin Garralaga as his corpulent sidekick Pancho. In the tradition of 20th Century-Fox's earlier "Cisco" efforts, our hero comes to the aid of an orphaned child, clears himself of a kidnapping charge, and proves that a "solid citizen" is in fact a criminal mastermind.
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day
Title: Adventures of Kitty O'Day
Character: Carla Brant
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
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A Fig Leaf for Eve
Title: A Fig Leaf for Eve
Character: Eve Lorraine
Released: July 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
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Law Men
Title: Law Men
Character: Phyliss
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial. Nevada infiltrates the gang, while Sandy works as a cobbler in town, keeping an ear open for local gossip as they try to flush out the inside man tipping off the crooks.
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Jive Junction
Title: Jive Junction
Character: Miss Forbes
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A young classical musician becomes the conductor a high-school all-girl jive band to entertain the troops.
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The Underdog
Title: The Underdog
Character: Amy Tate
Released: October 17, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight, at the same time striving to keep his honor while the gang in his new neighborhood bully him.
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So Proudly We Hail
Title: So Proudly We Hail
Character: Lieutenant Lynne Hopkins (Uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1943
Type: Movie
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Davidson tries to keep up the spirits of her staff, which includes Lieutenants Joan O'Doul and Olivia D'Arcy. They all seek to maintain a sense of normal life, including dating, while under constant danger as they tend to wounded soldiers.
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Fired Wife
Title: Fired Wife
Character: Leading Lady
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
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Dawn on the Great Divide
Title: Dawn on the Great Divide
Character: Martha Corkle
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
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Criminal Investigator
Title: Criminal Investigator
Character: Miss Drake
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian Wilcox), intrepid reporter Bob Martin (Robert Lowery) uncovers a connection between that case and another one he's been working on. An inmate (Lawrence Creighton) holds the key to the crime, but there's one problem: He's deaf and mute. Meanwhile, the murderers (Jan Wiley and Charlie Hall) appear to be working for a very powerful person.
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City of Silent Men
Title: City of Silent Men
Character: Jane Muller
Released: October 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The plot revolves around a group of ex-convicts who try to start life anew by relocating in a small town under assumed names. The mayor of the town welcomes the former cons with open arms, helping them re-open a dormant canning factory and encouraging them to hire other reformed criminals.
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The Living Ghost
Title: The Living Ghost
Character: Tina Craig
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
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Parachute Nurse
Title: Parachute Nurse
Character: Tenderfoot
Released: August 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Nurses parachuting.
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Almost Married
Title: Almost Married
Character: Louella Marvin
Released: May 22, 1942
Type: Movie
To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Title: The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Character: Lily
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
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Thunder River Feud
Title: Thunder River Feud
Character: Maybelle Pembroke
Released: January 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Attracted by a picture of Maybelle Pembroke, the Range Busters, bantering between themselves, head for the Pembroke ranch separetely. Crash arrives posing as a dude while Dusty arrives posing as Crash, a mixup having put his picture in the paper identified as Crash. Later Alibi arrives and the three go to work when outlaws trick the Pembroke ranch and it's neighbor into a gunfight with each other.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: June 'Eve' Chandler
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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Zis Boom Bah
Title: Zis Boom Bah
Character: Annabella
Released: December 7, 1941
Type: Movie
"Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
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Tonto Basin Outlaws
Title: Tonto Basin Outlaws
Character: Jane Blanchard
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Number 10 in Monogram's series of 24 "Range Busters" westerns, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, the Range Busters,enlist in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, but are mustered out and sent to Wyoming to clean up a cattle-rustling situation that is affecting the Army's meat supply. Arriving in North Butte, Crash's home town, they all get separate jobs. Jane Blanchard, a reporter from the Denver Daily, also arrives in town in search of a story, and is posing as a waitress. They learn that Jeff Miller is behind the huge combine of rustlers, but Miller also learns that they are the Range Busters and are on his trail. He and his henchmen engage the out-numbered Crash and Alibi in a fight, but Dusty stampedes a large herd of Miller's stolen cattle into the midst of the fray.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Reporter at Xanadu (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Kitty Foyle
Title: Kitty Foyle
Character: Miss Bala - Office Worker (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
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Stage Door
Title: Stage Door
Character: Madeline
Released: October 7, 1937
Type: Movie
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
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New Faces of 1937
Title: New Faces of 1937
Character: Showgirl
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.