Full Name Jean Walasek Role Television actress Name Jean Wallace | Years active 1941 – 1970 Occupation Actress | |
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Children Cornel Wallace Wilde Jr., Thomas Jefferson Tone, Pascal Franchot Tone Parents Mary A. Walasek, John T. Walasek Movies The Big Combo, No Blade of Grass, Beach Red, Jigsaw, Storm Fear Similar People Cornel Wilde, Franchot Tone, Joseph H Lewis, Patricia Knight, Fletcher Markle | ||
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Jean Wallace (October 12, 1923 – February 14, 1990) was an American television and film actress.
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Born Jean Walasek (some sources give Wallasek) 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 three times: to her Jigsaw co-star Franchot Tone from 1941 to 1948, to former US Army Captain Jim Lloyd Randall (marriage and annulment in 1950), and 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 (Pascal "Pat" Franchot Tone (b. July 29, 1943; Thomas Jefferson Tone b. September 16, 1945) and one with Wilde (Cornel Wilde, b. December 19, 1967). 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.
She was Polish American.