Jean Simmons

Actor Jan 31 (died age 80) Crouch Hill, London, England, UK 1944–2011 (67 year career)

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Biography

Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.

Known For

Film

Spartacus

Varinia

Film

Black Narcissus

Kanchi

Film

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Council Member (voice)

Film

The Big Country

Julie Maragon

Film

Great Expectations

Young Estella

Film

Hamlet

Ophelia

Film

Elmer Gantry

Sister Sharon Falconer

Film

North and South

Clarissa Main

Filmography

Acting (106)

Movies (80)

Discovering Hamlet

2011

as Ophelia (archive footage)

Shadows in the Sun

as Hannah

Winter Solstice

as Countess Lucinda Rhives

6.9

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

2001

as Council Member (voice)

6.2

On Cukor

2000

as Narrator

Her Own Rules

1998

as Katherine Stratton

5.0

How to Make an American Quilt

as Em

Daisies in December

as Katherine Palmer

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

1991

as Carrie-Louise Serrocold

6.8

Laker Girls

1990

as Connie Harrison

5.0

Sensibility and Sense

1990

as Older Elinor

People Like Us

1990

as Peach Prindible Bailey

4.3

A Friendship in Vienna

as Narrator (voice)

Going Undercover

as Maxine de la Hunt

The Dawning

as Aunt Mary

Inherit the Wind

as Lucy Brady

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

1987

as Laura Robertson

7.2

Midas Valley

1985

as Molly Hammond

The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio

1985

as Self

6.0

December Flower

1984

as Etta Marsh

Down at the Hydro

1983

as Diedre

A Moment in Time

1983

as Deidre Mackay

A Small Killing

1981

as Margaret Lawrence

8.0

Golden Gate

1981

as Jane Kingsley

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

as Helen Lawson

Dominique

as Dominique Ballard

Beggarman, Thief

as Gretchen Jordache Burke

The Easter Promise

as Constance Payne

Mr. Sycamore

as Estelle Benbow

Decisions! Decisions!

1971

as Phoebe Masterson

Say Hello to Yesterday

as Woman

The Happy Ending

as Mary Wilson

Heidi

as Frl. Rottenmeier

Divorce American Style

1967

as Nancy Downes

5.6

Rough Night in Jericho

1967

as Molly Lang

6.6

Soldier in Love

1967

as Sarah Jennings

Mister Buddwing

as The Blonde

Life at the Top

as Susan Lampton

All the Way Home

as Mary Follet

Spartacus

as Varinia

Elmer Gantry

as Sister Sharon Falconer

The Grass Is Greener

as Hattie Durant

This Earth Is Mine

as Elizabeth Rambeau

The Big Country

as Julie Maragon

Home Before Dark

as Charlotte Bronn

Fun in the Big Country

1958

as Self (narrator)

This Could Be the Night

1957

as Anne Leeds

5.8

Until They Sail

1957

as Barbara Leslie Forbes

Hilda Crane

as Hilda Crane Burns

Guys and Dolls

as Sarah Brown

Footsteps in the Fog

as Lily Watkins

The Egyptian

as Merit

A Bullet Is Waiting

as Cally Canham

Désirée

as Desiree Clary

She Couldn't Say No

as Corby Lane (Corby Johnson)

The Robe

as Diana

The Actress

as Ruth Gordon Jones

Angel Face

as Diane Tremayne Jessup

7.1

Young Bess

1953

as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)

5.7

Affair with a Stranger

1953

as Carolyn Parker

4.0

Androcles and the Lion

1952

as Lavinina

5.8

Trio

1950

as Evie Bishop (segment Sanatorium)

So Long at the Fair

as Vicky Barton

The Clouded Yellow

as Sophie Malraux

Cage of Gold

as Judith

The Blue Lagoon

as Emmeline Foster

Adam and Evelyne

as Evelyne Wallace

Hamlet

as Ophelia

Black Narcissus

as Kanchi

Hungry Hill

as Jane Brodrick

Uncle Silas

as Caroline Ruthyn

The Woman in the Hall

as Jay Blake

Great Expectations

as Young Estella

Kiss the Bride Goodbye

as Molly Dodd

The Way to the Stars

as A Singer

Meet Sexton Blake

as Eva Watkins

Caesar and Cleopatra

as Harpist (uncredited)

Give Us the Moon

as Heidi

Mr. Emmanuel

as Sally Cooper

Sports Day

as Peggy

Television (26)

Winter Solstice

2003

5.0

Mysteries of the Bible

Angel Falls

as Irene Larson

Dark Shadows

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins

7.7

Great Expectations

1989

as Miss Havisham

6.2

Star Trek: The Next Generation

1987

as Admiral Nora Satie

North and South

as Clarissa Main

North and South

as Clarissa Main

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1985

as Margaret Lowen

7.2

Murder, She Wrote

1984

as Eudora McVeigh Shipton

The Thorn Birds

as Fee Cleary

The Thorn Birds

as Fiona 'Fee' Cleary

Hotel

Beggarman, Thief

as Gretchen Jordache Burke

The Dain Curse

as Aaronia Haldorn

The Odd Couple

as Princess

Hawaii Five-O

as Terri O'Brien

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

as Suzy

The Danny Kaye Show

as Self

MGM Parade

The Oscars

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Sarah

8.6

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Mystery Guest

6.9

Bambi

1948

as Self (archive footage)

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter