Background
Of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, Wolfe was born in the tiny Pennsylvania borough of Saint St. Petersburg in Clarion County.
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Career
As a young girl she went to New York City to pursue a career in the theatre but soon became involved with acting in the fledgling motion picture industry. She made her film debut in 1910 at the age of 35 with Kalem Studios in A Lad from Old Ireland under the direction of Sidney Olcott. In 1911, Wolfe was part of the Kalem Company"s crew in New York City who relocated to the company"s new production facilities in Los Los Angeles
She went on to become one of the leading character actors of the decade, appearing in more than one hundred films including an important secondary role in the 1917 Mary Pickford film, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
After not appearing on screen for 17 years, in 1937 Jane Wolfe had a small role in a B-movie Western named Under Strange Flags. Wolfe used the board and credited some of her greatest spiritual communications to the use of this implement.
Jane Wolfe died in the Southern California city of Glendale eight days after her 83rd birthday. Thou Art the Manitoba The Round-Up.
