Jean Anderson

Actor: Jean Anderson

Born: 1908 in Eastbourne, England
Occupation: Actor
Active: '50s-'90s
Major Genres: Drama
Career Highlights: A Town Like Alice, Campion: Death of a Ghost, The Little Kidnappers
First Major Screen Credit: The Little Kidnappers (1954)

Biography

Veteran British character actress Jean Anderson has been active in feature films, on-stage, and on television since 1947. She is typically cast as a wise, sweet-natured servant, a queen, or a never-married woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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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 TV credits include: Police Surgeon, Maigret, The Odd Man, The Man in Room 17, The Borderers, Paul Temple, Codename, Oil Strike North, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse, Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.

Filmography

Bond Street (1948)
The Romantic Age (1949)
Seven Days to Noon (1950)
White Corridors (1951)
High Treason (1951)
The Pleasure Garden (1953)
Time Bomb (1953)
Street Corner (1953)
Johnny on the Run (1953)
The Kidnappers (1953)
The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
A Town Like Alice (1956)
Lucky Jim (1957)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)

Robbery Under Arms (1957)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
SOS Pacific (1959)
Spare the Rod (1961)
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964)
Half a Sixpence (1967)
Country Dance (1970)
The Night Digger (1971)
The Lady Vanishes (1979)
Madame Sousatzka (1988)
Leon the Pig Farmer (1992)
Simon Magus (1999)
Love Actually (2003)

Personal life

For many years she lived in the village of Edenhall near Penrith, Cumbria.

External links

Jean Anderson at the Internet Movie Database

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