Jean Simmons
Born: 1929-01-31 in Crouch Hill, London, England, UK
Died: 2010-01-22
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2011
- Discovering Hamlet as Ophelia (archive footage)
2009
- Shadows in the Sun as Hannah
2003
- Winter Solstice as Countess Lucinda Rhives
- Winter Solstice
2001
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as Council Member (voice)
2000
- On Cukor as Narrator
1998
- Her Own Rules as Katherine Stratton
1995
- How to Make an American Quilt as Em
- Daisies in December as Katherine Palmer
1993
- Angel Falls as Irene Larson
1991
- Dark Shadows as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
- Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors as Carrie-Louise Serrocold
1990
- Sensibility and Sense as Older Elinor
- People Like Us as Peach Prindible Bailey
- Laker Girls as Connie Harrison
1989
- Great Expectations as Miss Havisham
1988
- The Dawning as Aunt Mary
- Going Undercover as Maxine de la Hunt
- A Friendship in Vienna as Narrator (voice)
- Inherit the Wind as Lucy Brady
1987
- Star Trek: The Next Generation as Admiral Nora Satie
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love as Laura Robertson
1985
- North and South as Clarissa Main
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Margaret Lowen
- Midas Valley as Molly Hammond
- The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio as Self
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Eudora McVeigh Shipton
- December Flower as Etta Marsh
1983
- The Thorn Birds as Fiona 'Fee' Cleary
- Down at the Hydro as Diedre
- A Moment in Time as Deidre Mackay
1982
1981
- Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls as Helen Lawson
- A Small Killing as Margaret Lawrence
- Golden Gate as Jane Kingsley
1980
- Dominique as Dominique Ballard
1979
- Beggarman, Thief as Gretchen Jordache Burke
1978
- The Dain Curse as Aaronia Haldorn
1975
- Mr. Sycamore as Estelle Benbow
- The Easter Promise as Constance Payne
1971
- Decisions! Decisions! as Phoebe Masterson
- Say Hello to Yesterday as Woman
1970
- The Odd Couple as Princess
1969
- The Happy Ending as Mary Wilson
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Terri O'Brien
- Heidi as Frl. Rottenmeier
1967
- Rough Night in Jericho as Molly Lang
- Soldier in Love as Sarah Jennings
- Divorce American Style as Nancy Downes
1966
- Mister Buddwing as The Blonde
1965
- Life at the Top as Susan Lampton
1963
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Ruth Bannister
- The Danny Kaye Show as Self
- All the Way Home as Mary Follet
1960
- Spartacus as Varinia
- Elmer Gantry as Sister Sharon Falconer
- The Grass Is Greener as Hattie Durant
1959
- This Earth Is Mine as Elizabeth Rambeau
1958
- The Big Country as Julie Maragon
- Home Before Dark as Charlotte Bronn
- Fun in the Big Country as Self (narrator)
1957
- Until They Sail as Barbara Leslie Forbes
- This Could Be the Night as Anne Leeds
1956
- Hilda Crane as Hilda Crane Burns
1955
- Guys and Dolls as Sarah Brown
- Footsteps in the Fog as Lily Watkins
1954
- A Bullet Is Waiting as Cally Canham
- Désirée as Desiree Clary
- The Egyptian as Merit
- She Couldn't Say No as Corby Lane (Corby Johnson)
1953
- The Robe as Diana
- The Oscars as Self
- Young Bess as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)
- The Actress as Ruth Gordon Jones
- Angel Face as Diane Tremayne Jessup
- Affair with a Stranger as Carolyn Parker
1952
- Androcles and the Lion as Lavinina
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Sarah
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- Trio as Evie Bishop (segment Sanatorium)
- So Long at the Fair as Vicky Barton
- Cage of Gold as Judith
- The Clouded Yellow as Sophie Malraux
1949
- The Blue Lagoon as Emmeline Foster
- Adam and Evelyne as Evelyne Wallace
1948
- Bambi as Self (archive footage)
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Hamlet as Ophelia
1947
- Uncle Silas as Caroline Ruthyn
- Black Narcissus as Kanchi
- Hungry Hill as Jane Brodrick
- The Woman in the Hall as Jay Blake
1946
- Great Expectations as Young Estella
1945
- The Way to the Stars as A Singer
- Kiss the Bride Goodbye as Molly Dodd
- Meet Sexton Blake as Eva Watkins
- Caesar and Cleopatra as Harpist (uncredited)
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Give Us the Moon as Heidi
- Mr. Emmanuel as Sally Cooper
- Sports Day as Peggy