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Jane Waddington Wyatt was an American actress. She starred in a number of Hollywood films like Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, but is likely best known for her role as the housewife and mother Margaret Anderson on the CBS and NBC television comedy series Father Knows Best, and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science-fiction television series Star Trek. Wyatt was a three-time Emmy Award-winner.
Birth Name
Jane Waddington Wyatt
Born
Friday, 12 August 1910
Died
Friday, 20 October 2006
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| History of the Sitcom | Margaret Anderson | 2021 |
| Reagan | Self | 2011 |
| Pioneers of Television | Margaret Anderson - Father Knows Best | 2008 |
| Finding Shangri-La | 2007 | |
| Television: The First Fifty Years | Margaret Anderson | 1999 |
| Frank Capra's American Dream | Self - Interviewee: Actor / Self | 1997 |
| The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 1993 |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Older Vicky | 1992 |
| Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes | Alice Leacock | 1989 |
| Baby Boom | Margaret Anderson | 1988 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| History of the Sitcom | Margaret Anderson | 2021 |
| Reagan | Self | 2011 |
| Pioneers of Television | Margaret Anderson - Father Knows Best | 2008 |
| Finding Shangri-La | 2007 | |
| Television: The First Fifty Years | Margaret Anderson | 1999 |
| Frank Capra's American Dream | Self - Interviewee: Actor / Self | 1997 |
| The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 1993 |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Older Vicky | 1992 |
| Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes | Alice Leacock | 1989 |
| Baby Boom | Margaret Anderson | 1988 |
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Amanda | 1986 |
| Starman | Stella Forrester | 1986 |
| NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration | Self | 1986 |
| Super Password | Self - Celebrity Contestant | 1984 |
| Missing Children: A Mother's Story | Judge Eloise Walker | 1982 |
| St. Elsewhere | Katherine Auschlander | 1982 |
| Hotel | Katherine Jenkins / Agnes Simpson | 1982 |
| The Nativity | Anna | 1978 |
| Superdome | Fay Bonelli | 1978 |
| Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas | Margaret Anderson | 1977 |
| A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story | Eleanor's Mother | 1977 |
| The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | Self - Presenter | 1977 |
| The Father Knows Best Reunion | Margaret Anderson | 1977 |
| The Love Boat | Laurette Ferot / Marcy Banes / Margaret Anderson / Margaret Wallingford | 1977 |
| Fantasy Island | Martha Wilson / Mildred Grayson | 1977 |
| Gibbsville | Emily Kinsworth | 1976 |
| Amelia Earhart | Amy Earhart | 1976 |
| Quincy M.E. | Mrs. Bridges | 1976 |
| Treasure of Matecumbe | Aunt Effie | 1976 |
| Gemini Man | Miss Carlisle | 1976 |
| Katherine | Emily Alman | 1975 |
| Bicentennial Minutes | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
| Happy Days | Joan | 1974 |
| You'll Never See Me Again | Mary Alden | 1973 |
| Neighbors | Mary | 1971 |
| Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | Margaret Wilson | 1971 |
| Alias Smith and Jones | Sister Julia | 1971 |
| Weekend of Terror | Sister Frances | 1970 |
| Love, American Style | Ellen Palmer (segment "Love and the Pill") / Mother (segment "Love and the Good Deal") | 1969 |
| Medical Center | Louise Bycroft | 1969 |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | Edwina | 1969 |
| Here Come the Brides | Emma Peak | 1968 |
| The Ghost & Mrs. Muir | Emily Williams | 1968 |
| CBS Playhouse | Ned's mother | 1967 |
| Star Trek | Amanda | 1966 |
| Confidential for Women | Self | 1966 |
| Never Too Late | Grace Kimbrough | 1965 |
| Oh My Word | Self | 1965 |
| See How They Run | Augusta Flanders | 1964 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Sarah | 1963 |
| You Don't Say | Self | 1963 |
| The Match Game | Self - Team Captain | 1962 |
| Going My Way | Kitty McMullen | 1962 |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Anne White | 1962 |
| The Virginian | Mrs. Sarah Brynmar / Mrs. Lori Kinkaid | 1962 |
| The Mike Douglas Show | Self - Co-Host | 1961 |
| The Two Little Bears | Anne Davis | 1961 |
| Alcoa Premiere | Martha Ellison | 1961 |
| Password | Self - Celebrity Contestant | 1961 |
| Here's Hollywood | Self | 1960 |
| The Bell Telephone Hour | Self - Hostess | 1959 |
| The Kraft Music Hall | Self | 1958 |
| Interlude | Prue Stubbins | 1957 |
| Wagon Train | Heather Mahoney | 1957 |
| The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | Self | 1956 |
| The Steve Allen Plymouth Show | Self - Recipient | 1956 |
| Playwrights '56 | Glenda Bingham | 1955 |
| The Magical World of Disney | Aunt Effie | 1954 |
| Father Knows Best | Margaret Anderson / Katrina's Mama | 1954 |
| The Motorola Television Hour | Ruth Updyke | 1953 |
| The United States Steel Hour | Phyllis Bannister | 1953 |
| General Electric Theater | Beatrice Freeman | 1953 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Mattie Smith | 1951 |
| Criminal Lawyer | Maggie Powell | 1951 |
| The Man Who Cheated Himself | Lois Frazer | 1950 |
| My Blue Heaven | Janet Pringle | 1950 |
| Our Very Own | Mrs. Fred (Lois) Macaulay / Lois Macaulay | 1950 |
| House by the River | Marjorie Byrne | 1950 |
| Your Show of Shows | Self - Guest Performer | 1950 |
| What's My Line? | Herself - Mystery Guest Duo | 1950 |
| Robert Montgomery Presents | Lucy Warriner / Kitty Foyle | 1950 |
| 20 Questions | Self | 1949 |
| Task Force | Mary Morgan | 1949 |
| This Is Show Business | Self | 1949 |
| Canadian Pacific | Dr. Edith Cabot | 1949 |
| Fireside Theatre | Valerie | 1949 |
| Bad Boy | Mrs. Maud Brown | 1949 |
| No Minor Vices | Miss Darlington | 1948 |
| Studio One | Bunny Gates | 1948 |
| Pitfall | Sue Forbes | 1948 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | 1948 |
| Gentleman's Agreement | Jane | 1947 |
| Boomerang! | Madge Harvey | 1947 |
| The Bachelor's Daughters | Marta Jordan | 1946 |
| Strange Conquest | Dr. Mary Palmer | 1946 |
| None But the Lonely Heart | Aggie Hunter | 1944 |
| The Kansan | Eleanor Sager | 1943 |
| Buckskin Frontier | Vinnie Marr | 1943 |
| Army Surgeon | Elizabeth 'Beth' Ainsley / Elizabeth Ainsley | 1942 |
| The Navy Comes Through | Myra Mallory | 1942 |
| Weekend for Three | Ellen Craig / Ellen 'Gretch' Craig | 1941 |
| Hurricane Smith | Joan Bradley | 1941 |
| Kisses for Breakfast | Laura Anders | 1941 |
| Girl from God's Country | Anne Webster | 1940 |
| Lost Horizon | Sondra / Sondra Bizet | 1937 |
| The Luckiest Girl in the World | Pat Duncan | 1936 |
| We're Only Human | Sally Rogers / Sally Rodgers | 1935 |
| Great Expectations | Estella | 1934 |
| One More River | Dinny Cherrell | 1934 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1960 | Emmy | Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead or Support) | Won |
| 1959 | Emmy | Best Actress in a Leading Role (Continuing Character) in a Comedy Series | Won |
| 1958 | Emmy | Best Continuing Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic or Comedy Series | Won |
