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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

8

Gender

Female

Birthday

1921-02-21

Day of Death

1995-10-29 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Also Known As

Jean Hetherington

Jean Heather

Biography

Jean Heather (February 21, 1921 – October 29, 1995) was an American actress who appeared in eight feature films during the 1940s. She acted in two Oscar-nominated movies in 1944: the crime drama Double Indemnity, in which she played Lola Dietrichson, a young woman convinced that her stepmother Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck) is responsible for the murder of Lola's father, and Going My Way, where she played a runaway teenager assisted by Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby). Heather's acting career was cut short by an automobile accident in December 1947, in which she was thrown from her car onto the pavement and suffered severe facial lacerations.

Known For

Acting

Double Indemnity

1944

Double Indemnity

as

Lola Dietrichson

Going My Way

1944

Going My Way

as

Carol James

Murder, He Says

1945

Murder, He Says

as

Elany Fleagle

The Last Round-up

1947

The Last Round-up

as

Carol Taylor

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

1944

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

as

Frances Smithers

Red Stallion In The Rockies

1949

Red Stallion In The Rockies

as

Cynthia 'Cindy' Smith

Production

Crew

Directing