Jean Anderson
Birthday
1907/12/12
Day of death
2001/04/01 (93 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Also know as
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jean Anderson (12 December 1907 – 1 April 2001) was an English actress born in Eastbourne, Sussex. She is best remembered for her television roles as hard-faced matriarch Mary Hammond in the 1970s BBC drama The Brothers and as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook in the 1980s Second World War series Tenko . She is also notable for playing the role of the Mother in The Railway Children in two separate BBC adaptations in 1951 and 1957. Other ...Read more
Acting
(1979) The Lady Vanishes
as Baroness
(1949) Naughty Arlette
as Miss Sankey
(1991) The Black Velvet Gown
as Madame Gallmington
(1963) The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Mrs. MacKenzie
(1990) Survival of the Fittest
as Molly Cowper
(1953) The Kidnappers
as Grandma MacKenzie
(1990) O.M.
as Lady Crewe
(1971) The Road Builder
as Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
(1956) A Town Like Alice
as Miss Horsefall
(1958) A Night to Remember
as Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
(1951) Out of True
as Dr. Bell
(1948) Elizabeth of Ladymead
as ---
(1989) Back Home
as Grandmother Dickinson
(1990) Circles Of Deceit
as Dowager
(1957) Lucky Jim
as Mrs. Welch
(2000) Endgame
as Nell
(1963) The Silent Playground
as Mrs. Lacey
(1969) Run a Crooked Mile
as Sister Teresa
(1953) The Pleasure Garden
as Aunt Minerva
(1970) Brotherly Love
as Matron
(1971) Father's Help
as Mrs. Harrogate
(1956) Laughing in the Sunshine
as ---
(1951) The Franchise Affair
as Miss Tuff
(1954) Lease of Life
as Miss Calthorp
(1994) The Whipping Boy
as Queen Mum
(1957) Robbery Under Arms
as Ma Marston
(1952) The Brave Don't Cry
as Mrs. Sloan
(1973) Dear Parents
as ---
(1992) The Bogie Man
as Mrs Napier
(1993) Diana: Her True Story
as Lady Fermoy
(1991) Do Not Disturb
as Lady Ann
(1951) Life in Her Hands
as Night Sister
(1953) Street Corner
as Miss Haversham - Store Detective
(1999) Simon Magus
as Roise
(1954) The Weak and the Wicked
as Policewoman in Court
(1983) Screamtime
as Mildred Hurley
(1993) Leon the Pig Farmer
as Mrs Samuels
(1959) SOS Pacific
as Miss Shaw
(1948) Bond Street
as Dress Shop Assistant
(1961) Spare the Rod
as Mrs. Pond
(1953) Johnny on the Run
as Mrs. MacIntyre
(1958) Heart of a Child
as Maria
(1967) Half a Sixpence
as Lady Botting
(1962) Wuthering Heights
as Ellen
(1959) Solomon and Sheba
as Takyan
(1962) The Inspector
as Mrs. Jongman
(1951) White Corridors
as Sister Gater
(1962) Waltz of the Toreadors
as Agnes
(1953) Time Bomb
as ---
(1990) Keeping Up Appearances
as Mrs. Fortescue
(1982) Q.E.D.
as ---
(1997) The Uninvited
as ---
(1981) Tenko
as Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
(1992) Heartbeat
as Victoria Wainwright
(1987) Inspector Morse
as Lady Hinksey
(1959) Interpol Calling
as Nun
(1959) No Hiding Place
as ---
(1970) Codename
as Penelope Blanshard
(1962) Dr. Finlay's Casebook
as Lady Mary McDowell
(1963) Lorna Doone
as ---
(1972) The Brothers
as ---
(1960) Maigret
as Madame Gallet
(1951) The Railway Children
as ---
(1971) Fathers and Sons
as ---
(1997) Keeping Mum
as Norma
(1997) Rebecca
as Grandma
(1991) The House of Eliott
as Mrs. Spenser-Ewell
(1996) Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Alice Marsden
(1989) Campion
as Belle Lafcadio
(1993) Doctor Finlay
as Mrs. Stirling
(1986) Casualty
as Rosie Collier
(1986) Casualty
as Jessie Baine
(1987) Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
as Mrs. Fane
(1991) G.B.H.
as Dr Goldup
(1984) Miss Marple
as Mrs. Fane
(1962) Suspense
as Miss Reid
(1955) This Is Your Life
as Self