Birthday
1913/01/02
Day of death
2004/05/14 (91 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Igtham, Kent, England, UK
Also know as
Joan Boniface Winnifrith, The British Bombshell, Joanna Boniface Stafford
Anna Lee, MBE (born Joan Boniface Winnifrith; 2 January 1913 – 14 May 2004) was a British actress. Lee married her first husband, the director Robert Stevenson, in 1933 and moved to Hollywood in 1939. She became a naturalised US citizen in 1945. In 1981, a car accident left her paralysed from the waist down. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
(1962) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Mrs. Bates
(1933) Mannequin
as Babette
(1936) The Man Who Changed His Mind
as Dr. Clare Wyatt
(1943) Hangmen Also Die!
as Masha Novotny
(1947) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
as Mrs. Fairley
(1946) Bedlam
as Nell Bowen
(1967) In Like Flint
as Elisabeth
(1962) Jack the Giant Killer
as Lady Constance
(1959) The Crimson Kimono
as Mac
(1940) Seven Sinners
as Dorothy
(1942) Flying Tigers
as Brooke Elliott
(1941) How Green Was My Valley
as Bronwyn
(1965) The Sound of Music
as Sister Margaretta
(1948) Fort Apache
as Mrs. Emily Collingwood
(1937) King Solomon's Mines
as Kathleen 'Kathy' O'Brien
(1958) Gideon's Day
as Mrs. Kate Gideon
(1965) 7 Women
as Mrs. Russell
(1941) My Life with Caroline
as Caroline Mason
(1944) Summer Storm
as Nadina Kalenin
(1958) The Last Hurrah
as Gert Minihan
(1942) Commandos Strike at Dawn
as Judith Bowen
(1964) For Those Who Think Young
as Laura Pruitt
(1935) The Passing of the Third Floor Back
as Vivian Tomkin
(1959) Jet Over The Atlantic
as Ursula Leverett
(1943) Flesh and Fantasy
as Rowena (segment 2)
(1934) Faces
as Madeleine Pelham
(1935) First a Girl
as Princess Mironoff
(1978) Legend of the Northwest
as ---
(1937) O.H.M.S.
as Sally Briggs
(1939) The Four Just Men
as Ann Lodge
(1949) Prison Warden
as Elisa Pennington Burnell
(1937) Non-Stop New York
as Jennie Carr
(1940) Return to Yesterday
as Carol Sands
(1959) The Horse Soldiers
as Mrs. Buford
(1960) The Big Night
as Mrs. Turner
(1939) Young Man's Fancy
as Ada
(2002) Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
as Self - Actress
(1934) The Camels Are Coming
as Anita Rodgers
(1979) The Night Rider
as Lady Earl
(1961) Two Rode Together
as Mrs. Malaprop
(1966) Picture Mommy Dead
as Elsie Kornwald
(1935) Heat Wave
as Jane Allison
(1946) G.I. War Brides
as Linda Powell
(1989) Listen to Me
as ---
(1962) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)
(1948) Best Man Wins
as Nancy Smiley
(1943) Forever and a Day
as Cornelia Trimble-Pomfret
(1964) The Unsinkable Molly Brown
as Titanic Passenger in Lifeboat
(1932) Ebb Tide
as (uncredited)
(1978) The Beasts Are on the Streets
as Mrs. Jackson
(1932) His Lordship
as Scrub Girl Chorine (uncredited)
(1989) Beverly Hills Brats
as Gertie
(1973) My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
as Judge Barbara Hanline
(1977) Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
as Laura Delano
(1993) What Can I Do?
as ---
(1959) This Earth Is Mine
as Charlotte Rambeau
(1947) High Conquest
as Marie Correl
(2000) Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
as Self
(1933) The King's Cup
as ---
(1934) Lucky Loser
as Ursula Hamilton
(1934) Rolling in Money
as Lady Eggleby
(1972) Oliver and the Artful Dodger
as Mrs. Grunch / Mistress Deadly / Farmer's Wife / The Old Crone (voice)
(1966) Family Affair
as ---
(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as ---
(1979) B. J. and the Bear
as ---
(1960) My Three Sons
as ---
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Eileen Crane
(1972) The Streets of San Francisco
as ---
(1967) Mannix
as ---
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Amy Bassett
(1962) Combat!
as Sister Lescaut
(1959) Hawaiian Eye
as ---
(1966) Mission: Impossible
as Maria Malik
(1966) Felony Squad
as ---
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Clara Merivale
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Julia
(1958) Peter Gunn
as ---
(1959) One Step Beyond
as Helen Mason
(1963) Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as ---
(1959) Lock-Up
as ---
(1963) Mr. Novak
as Mrs. Woodridge
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as Frances Lawrence
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Mrs. Frances Alland
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Anne Tracy
(1954) Studio 57
as ---
(1957) Maverick
as Helene Ferguson
(1960) The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as ---
(1957) Wagon Train
as Mrs. Allyris Craven
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Susan Harper
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as ---
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as Ann Hammond
(1976) Eleanor and Franklin
as Laura Delano
(1957) Perry Mason
as Crystal Durham
(1980) Scruples
as Aunt Wilhelmina
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Roberta Saunders
(1958) Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Fairy Godmother