Jean Anderson

Actor Dec 12 (died age 93) Eastbourne, Sussex, England 1948–2000 (52 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

A Night to Remember

Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)

Film

Solomon and Sheba

Takyan

Film

The Three Lives of Thomasina

Mrs. MacKenzie

Film

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

Mrs. Fane

Film

The Lady Vanishes

Baroness

Film

A Town Like Alice

Miss Horsefall

Film

Tenko

Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook

Film

The Road Builder

Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey

Filmography

Acting (88)

Movies (52)

Endgame

as Nell

Simon Magus

as Roise

The Whipping Boy

as Queen Mum

Leon the Pig Farmer

as Mrs Samuels

Diana: Her True Story

as Lady Fermoy

The Bogie Man

as Mrs Napier

The Black Velvet Gown

1991

as Madame Gallmington

5.4

Do Not Disturb

1991

as Lady Ann

2.0

Survival of the Fittest

1990

as Molly Cowper

O.M.

1990

as Lady Crewe

Circles Of Deceit

1990

as Dowager

Back Home

1989

as Grandmother Dickinson

5.0

The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams

1986

as Mrs Langton-Jones

5.3

Paris

1985

as Miss McLeod

Screamtime

as Mildred Hurley

The Lady Vanishes

as Baroness

Dear Parents

The Road Builder

as Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey

6.2

Father's Help

1971

as Mrs. Harrogate

Brotherly Love

as Matron

Run a Crooked Mile

as Sister Teresa

Half a Sixpence

as Lady Botting

The Three Lives of Thomasina

1963

as Mrs. MacKenzie

6.8

The Silent Playground

as Mrs. Lacey

The Inspector

as Mrs. Jongman

Wuthering Heights

as Ellen

Waltz of the Toreadors

as Agnes

Spare the Rod

as Mrs. Pond

SOS Pacific

as Miss Shaw

Solomon and Sheba

as Takyan

Heart of a Child

as Maria

A Night to Remember

as Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)

Lucky Jim

as Mrs. Welch

Robbery Under Arms

as Ma Marston

A Town Like Alice

as Miss Horsefall

Laughing in the Sunshine

1956

The Weak and the Wicked

1954

as Policewoman in Court

Lease of Life

as Miss Calthorp

Johnny on the Run

as Mrs. MacIntyre

Street Corner

as Miss Haversham - Store Detective

Time Bomb

The Kidnappers

as Grandma MacKenzie

The Pleasure Garden

as Aunt Minerva

The Brave Don't Cry

as Mrs. Sloan

The Franchise Affair

as Miss Tuff

High Treason

as Woman in street (uncredited)

White Corridors

as Sister Gater

Life in Her Hands

as Night Sister

Out of True

as Dr. Bell

The Romantic Age

as Miss Sankey

Bond Street

as Dress Shop Assistant

6.8

Elizabeth of Ladymead

1948

6.0

Television (36)

Rebecca

as Grandma

The Uninvited

Keeping Mum

as Norma

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

1996

as Alice Marsden

7.3

Moonacre

1994

as Miss Heliotrope

Doctor Finlay

1993

as Mrs. Stirling

6.0

Heartbeat

1992

as Victoria Wainwright

7.1

The House of Eliott

1991

as Mrs. Spenser-Ewell

6.4

G.B.H.

1991

as Dr Goldup

6.2

Keeping Up Appearances

as Mrs. Fortescue

Campion

as Belle Lafcadio

Inspector Morse

as Lady Hinksey

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

as Mrs. Fane

Casualty

as Rosie Collier

Q.E.D.

Tenko

as Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook

The Brothers

Scoop

as Great Aunt Anne

Fathers and Sons

1971

Codename

1970

as Penelope Blanshard

Little Women

1970

as Aunt Josephine March

6.0

Late Night Horror

1968

as Mrs. Redvale

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1967

as Ada Grey

BBC Play of the Month

as Miss Ramsden

The Wednesday Play

as Mrs. Grant

Lorna Doone

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

as Mrs. Gordon

Suspense

as Miss Reid

Maigret

as Madame Gallet

The Odd Man

as Miss Twilight

Armchair Mystery Theatre

1960

as Meg

No Hiding Place

Interpol Calling

as Nun

Armchair Theatre

as Mrs. Bell

This Is Your Life

as Self

The Railway Children