Jan Englund

{{short description|American screenwriter}}

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| name = Jan Englund

| birth_name =

| birth_date = August 23, 1927

| birth_place = Bronx, New York, U.S.

| death_date = January 16, 2018 (aged 90)

| death_place = Boynton Beach, Florida, U.S.

| occupation = Actress, screenwriter

| years_active =

| spouse = Mark Lowell

}}

Jan Lowell ({{nee}} Englund; August 23, 1927 – January 16, 2018) was an American screenwriter and actress known for her work on exploitation films from the 1950s through the 1970s. She often worked alongside her husband, writer-actor Mark Lowell.

After marrying her husband, she began working as an actress for stage and screen.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/381192278/?terms=%22jan+englund%22+lowell|title=15 Feb 1957, 19 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}} Her first acting roles came in a series of Hugo Haas films in the mid-1950s. Soon, they were writing film scripts for B-movies like High School Hellcats and His and Hers. The pair also spent a significant amount of time living in Rome,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qTEoCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22jan+lowell%22+actress&pg=PT149|title=Interviews Too Shocking to Print!|last=Humphreys|first=Justin|date=2014|publisher=BearManor Media|language=en}} where they worked on spaghetti Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars.{{Cite web|url=http://www.classicimages.com/people/article_ff79b33d-14ad-59bf-a975-e6794bd48aa4.html|title=Jan Lowell's Improvised Life: From Hugo Haas to Spaghetti Westerns|website=Classic Images|access-date=2019-01-31}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M6D3AgAAQBAJ&dq=%22mark+lowell%22+%22a+fistful+of+dollars%22&pg=PT32|title=Once Upon A Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns|last=Hughes|first=Howard|date=2006-03-31|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=9780857730459|language=en}}