Jean Anderson
Born: 1907-12-12 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Died: 2001-04-01
Known For: Acting
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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2000
- Endgame as Nell
1999
- Simon Magus as Roise
1997
- Rebecca as Grandma
- Keeping Mum as Norma
- The Uninvited
1996
- Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Alice Marsden
1994
- The Whipping Boy as Queen Mum
1993
- Leon the Pig Farmer as Mrs Samuels
- Doctor Finlay as Mrs. Stirling
- Diana: Her True Story as Lady Fermoy
1992
- Heartbeat as Victoria Wainwright
- The Bogie Man as Mrs Napier
1991
- The House of Eliott as Mrs. Spenser-Ewell
- G.B.H. as Dr Goldup
- Do Not Disturb as Lady Ann
- The Black Velvet Gown as Madame Gallmington
1990
- Keeping Up Appearances as Mrs. Fortescue
- O.M. as Lady Crewe
- Survival of the Fittest as Molly Cowper
- Circles Of Deceit as Dowager
1987
- Inspector Morse as Lady Hinksey
- Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder as Mrs. Fane
1986
- Casualty as Rosie Collier
- The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams as Mrs Langton-Jones
1985
- Paris as Miss McLeod
1983
- Screamtime as Mildred Hurley
1982
1981
- Tenko as Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
1979
- The Lady Vanishes as Baroness
1973
1972
- The Brothers
- Scoop as Great Aunt Anne
1971
- The Road Builder as Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
- Father's Help as Mrs. Harrogate
- Fathers and Sons
1970
- Brotherly Love as Matron
- Codename as Penelope Blanshard
- Little Women as Aunt Josephine March
1969
- Run a Crooked Mile as Sister Teresa
1968
- Late Night Horror as Mrs. Redvale
1967
- Half a Sixpence as Lady Botting
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as Ada Grey
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Miss Ramsden
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Mrs. Grant
1963
- The Three Lives of Thomasina as Mrs. MacKenzie
- The Silent Playground as Mrs. Lacey
- Lorna Doone
1962
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook as Lady Mary McDowell
- Wuthering Heights as Ellen
- The Inspector as Mrs. Jongman
- Waltz of the Toreadors as Agnes
- Suspense as Miss Reid
1961
- Spare the Rod as Mrs. Pond
1960
- Maigret as Madame Gallet
- The Odd Man as Miss Twilight
1959
- No Hiding Place
- Solomon and Sheba as Takyan
- Interpol Calling as Nun
- SOS Pacific as Miss Shaw
1958
- Heart of a Child as Maria
- A Night to Remember as Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
1957
- Robbery Under Arms as Ma Marston
- Lucky Jim as Mrs. Welch
1956
- A Town Like Alice as Miss Horsefall
- Laughing in the Sunshine
1955
- This Is Your Life as Self
1954
- The Weak and the Wicked as Policewoman in Court
- Lease of Life as Miss Calthorp
1953
- Street Corner as Miss Haversham - Store Detective
- Time Bomb
- The Kidnappers as Grandma MacKenzie
- Johnny on the Run as Mrs. MacIntyre
- The Pleasure Garden as Aunt Minerva
1952
- The Brave Don't Cry as Mrs. Sloan
1951
- High Treason as Woman in street (uncredited)
- White Corridors as Sister Gater
- The Franchise Affair as Miss Tuff
- Life in Her Hands as Night Sister
- Out of True as Dr. Bell
- The Railway Children
1949
- The Romantic Age as Miss Sankey
1948
- Bond Street as Dress Shop Assistant
- Elizabeth of Ladymead