Jesslyn Fax

Actor Jan 2 (died age 82) Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1951–1969 (18 year career)

6.4 avg rating

Biography

Jesslyn Fax (January 4, 1893 – February 16, 1975) was an Canadian-American actress. She is known for playing the elderly Miss Hearing Aid in Rear Window (1954)

Known For

Film

Rear Window

Miss Hearing Aid

Film

North by Northwest

Train Passenger (uncredited)

Film

An Affair to Remember

Terry's Landlady (uncredited)

Film

Kiss Me Deadly

Horace's Wife

Film

The Music Man

Avis Grubb

Film

Desk Set

Mrs. Hewitt (uncredited)

Film

Doctor Dolittle

Old Woman (uncredited)

Film

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

Mrs. Hutchinson

Filmography

Acting (48)

Movies (27)

The Love God?

1969

as Miss Love

5.8

Doctor Dolittle

1967

as Old Woman (uncredited)

6.2

The Spy in the Green Hat

as Mrs. Feinberg

Three on a Couch

as Rich Lady

The Trouble with Angels

1966

as Retirement Home Resident

6.7

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

1966

as Mrs. Hutchinson

6.7

A Very Special Favor

1965

as Miss Feeny (uncredited)

The Family Jewels

as Airline Passenger

4 for Texas

as Mildred

The Wheeler Dealers

as Secretary (uncredited)

The Music Man

as Avis Grubb

Paradise Alley

as Mrs. Holman

The Interns

as Mrs. Hitchcock

All the Fine Young Cannibals

1960

as Old Lady (uncredited)

5.3

North by Northwest

1959

as Train Passenger (uncredited)

8.0

The Best of Everything

as Aunt (uncredited)

Blue Denim

as Aunt Margaret

The Man Who Died Twice

1958

as Sally Hemphill

5.6

An Affair to Remember

1957

as Terry's Landlady (uncredited)

7.4

Desk Set

1957

as Mrs. Hewitt (uncredited)

7.0

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

1957

as Dora (uncredited)

5.8

The Wayward Girl

1957

as Older Prisoner (uncredited)

6.0

Kiss Me Deadly

1955

as Horace's Wife

7.2

How to Be Very, Very Popular

as Music Teacher

Rear Window

as Miss Hearing Aid

Scared Stiff

as Woman in Hotel Hallway (uncredited)

6.4

So You Want to Learn to Dance

1953

as Dance Instructress

Television (21)

The Second Hundred Years

as Mildred

Batman

as Bon Bon

The Monkees

as Mrs. Purdy

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

as Mrs. Barnes

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Many Happy Returns

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962

as Mrs. Bates

7.8

The Andy Griffith Show

as Mrs. Le Grande

Route 66

Pete and Gladys

Johnny Staccato

as Clara - Cleaning Lady (uncredited)

5.0

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Peter Gunn

Perry Mason

as Court Clerk

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Wife

Gunsmoke

as Proprietress

Public Defender

Letter to Loretta

as Mrs. Hulgard

I Love Lucy

as Woman in Brooklyn (uncredited)

7.9

Dragnet

1951

6.4

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

as Agnes

7.2