Jean Spurney Inness (December 18, 1900 – December 27, 1978) was an American film, stage and television actress. Inness played nurse Beatrice Fain in the American medical drama television series Dr. Kildare.^[1][2]

Inness was born in Cleveland, Ohio.^[1] She attended Bryn Mawr College,^[1] and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.^[3] Inness began her career in 1920 touring Indianapolis and Cincinnati with the Stuart Walker Stock Company.^[1] She also starred with Stewart Walker in productions of The Cradle Snatchers and An Ideal Husband.^[3]

Inness performed for 34 weeks with the Denham Stock Company in Denver, Colorado, and for 26 weeks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[3] She performed at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, with leading roles in stage plays including Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Stages and Death of a Salesman.^[1] Her son Jon Jory was a stage director at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.^[1] In 1928, Inness was cast in the lead role of the stage play The Jest at the Pasadena Playhouse.^[3]

Inness played the title role in the 1940 production of Ramona, starring with Onslow Stevens.^[4]

Inness began her screen career in 1942, appearing in the film Not a Ladies' Man.^[5] She appeared on television programs including Gunsmoke, The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Wagon Train, The Virginian, The Big Valley and Rawhide.^[1] Inness played Nurse Beatrice Fain in the medical drama television series Dr. Kildare.^[1][2]

Inness died in December 1978 at her home in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 78.^[1]