10 Facts About Jena Engstrom

Jena Engstrom appeared in more than three dozen episodes of various television series between 1960 and 1964.

Jena Engstrom began acting after graduating from high school and first appeared on television in the 1960 episode "Adopted" of the ABC crime drama, The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor.

Jena Engstrom appeared in 37 television programs before making her final appearance opposite guest star Robert Culp in the 1964 episode, "The Stallion", of NBC's The Virginian.

Jena Engstrom played a girl who had a crush on Steve Douglas in an October 19,1961 episode of My Three Sons.

Jena Engstrom is the daughter of actress Jean Engstrom whose television career overlapped her daughter's and whose career included movie and regional stage appearances.

Jena Engstrom appeared three times each on Have Gun, Will Travel, and Wagon Train, as well as Rawhide, twice each on Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Laramie, and once each on The Tall Man, Death Valley Days, Frontier Circus, and Outlaws, as well as her final performance as an actress in The Virginian.

In "The Education of Sarah Jane" episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, Jena Engstrom appeared as Sarah Jane.

Jena Engstrom retired from acting in 1964, not long after appearing on Wagon Train and in an episode of Perry Mason in which she plays Vera Janel in "The Case of the Illicit Illusion".

Jena Engstrom left acting in 1964, possibly because of health considerations.

The acting credits of mother Jean and daughter Jena Engstrom were confused at the time they were active in the business resulting in mixed credits in newspapers and problems with pay checks.