---
name: "Jocelyn Brando"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jocelyn-brando"
fi1m_id: "jocelyn-brando"
imdb_id: "nm0104720"
tmdb_id: 96283
wikidata_id: "Q449209"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 November 1919"
died: "27 November 2005"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:36:31.101978+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jocelyn Brando

## Identity

Jocelyn Brando

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jocelyn-brando
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jocelyn-brando
- **IMDb ID:** nm0104720
- **TMDB ID:** 96283
- **Wikidata ID:** Q449209
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Brando, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449209, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/96283

Actor. Born 18 November 1919 in San Francisco, California, USA. Died 27 November 2005.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 November 1919, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Died:** 27 November 2005
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Brando, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449209, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/96283

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Big Heat*](https://film.one/film/the-big-heat.md) (86)

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## Biography

Jocelyn Brando was an American film, stage and television actress. She trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and made her Broadway debut in 1942.

Her film debut came in the war drama *China Venture* (1953). She is best known for playing Katie Bannion, the wife of Glenn Ford's character, in Fritz Lang's film noir *The Big Heat* (1953). She also appeared in supporting roles in two films starring her brother Marlon Brando: *The Ugly American* (1963) and *The Chase* (1966). Brando worked extensively in television, with guest roles in series including *Alfred Hitchcock Presents*, *The Alfred Hitchcock Hour*, *Kojak* and *Dallas*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Big Heat* (1953), Fi1m 86, as Katie Bannion — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-heat.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land* (1983), as Mrs. Harvey
- *Darkroom* (1981), series, as Mrs. Mingle
- *Dark Night of the Scarecrow* (1981), as Mrs. Ritter
- *Mommie Dearest* (1981), as Barbara Bennett
- *Why Would I Lie?* (1980), as Mrs. Crumpe
- *Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff* (1979), as Mrs. Hemmings
- *A Question of Love* (1978), as Mrs. Hunnicutt
- *Movie Movie* (1978), as Mama Popchik / Mrs. Updike
- *The Tony Randall Show* (1976), series, Actor
- *Kojak* (1973), series, as Mrs. Newfield — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/kojak.md)
- *Ironside* (1967), series, Actor
- *The Chase* (1966), as Mrs. Briggs
- *Bus Riley's Back in Town* (1965), as Mrs. Riley
- *Arrest and Trial* (1963), series, Actor
- *The Ugly American* (1963), as Emma Atkins
- *The Alfred Hitchcock Hour* (1962), series, as Emma Jane
- *The Virginian* (1962), series, as Lucy Wallace, Ida Martin
- *The Explosive Generation* (1961), as Mrs. Ryker
- *Dr. Kildare* (1961), series, as Doris Phillips
- *87th Precinct* (1961), series, Actor
- *Thriller* (1960), series, as Emma Snyder, Myrtle Hooper
- *The Tall Man* (1960), series, Actor
- *Coronado 9* (1960), series, Actor
- *Riverboat* (1959), series, as Mrs. Pauley, Charity Jennings
- *One Step Beyond* (1959), series, as Ellen Larrabee
- *Step Down to Terror* (1958), as Lily
- *Richard Diamond, Private Detective* (1957), series, as Celia Saxon
- *Tales of Wells Fargo* (1957), series, as Frances Cobb
- *Official Detective* (1957), series, Actor
- *Nightfall* (1956), as Laura Fraser
- *State Trooper* (1956), series, Actor
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Alice, Julia Conrad, Della Hudson
- *Ten Wanted Men* (1955), as Corinne Michaels
- *The Millionaire* (1955), series, as Janet Conover
- *The Big Heat* (1953), as Katie Bannion — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-heat.md)
- *China Venture* (1953), as Lt. Ellen Wilkins
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Nurse, Margaret Hobbs
- *Schlitz Playhouse of Stars* (1951), series, Actor
- *Combat Fatigue Irritability* (1945), as Sue

## Gallery

- ![Jocelyn Brando](https://film.one/media/person/3872285/gallery-15fb42c10369.jpg) Jocelyn Brando — episode screenshot (ABC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Jocelyn_Brando_in_One_Step_Beyond_%28Emergency_Only%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jocelyn Brando plays a spurned spinster who takes things -- including a pistol -- into her own hands as she goes after her fiance who jilted her in "Mail Order  (1959)](https://film.one/media/person/3872285/gallery-6c0cab0d24ae.jpg) Jocelyn Brando plays a spurned spinster who takes things -- including a pistol -- into her own hands as she goes after her fiance who jilted her in "Mail Order  (1959) — NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Jocelyn_Brando_%22Buckskin%22_%281959_NBC_Press_Photo%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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