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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 12, 1907
Died
April 1, 2001
Place of Birth
Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Jean Anderson
0.6 Popularity
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.
Known For
Credits
Endgame
as Nell
2000
6.8
Simon Magus
as Roise
1999
7.3
The Uninvited
1997
6.0
Keeping Mum
as Norma
1997
0.0
Rebecca
as Grandma
1997
5.8
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Alice Marsden
1996
7.3
The Whipping Boy
as Queen Mum
1994
6.5
🎬
Moonacre
as Miss Heliotrope
1994
0.0
Doctor Finlay
as Mrs. Stirling
1993
6.0
Diana: Her True Story
as Lady Fermoy
1993
1.5
Leon the Pig Farmer
as Mrs Samuels
1993
5.3
The Bogie Man
as Mrs Napier
1992
6.0
Heartbeat
as Victoria Wainwright
1992
7.1
The House of Eliott
as Mrs. Spenser-Ewell
1991
6.4
G.B.H.
as Dr Goldup
1991
6.2
The Black Velvet Gown
as Madame Gallmington
1991
5.4
🎬
Do Not Disturb
as Lady Ann
1991
2.0
O.M.
as Lady Crewe
1990
0.0
Keeping Up Appearances
as Mrs. Fortescue
1990
7.7
Survival of the Fittest
as Molly Cowper
1990
0.0
Circles Of Deceit
as Dowager
1990
0.0
Back Home
as Grandmother Dickinson
1989
5.0
Campion
as Belle Lafcadio
1989
5.6
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
as Mrs. Fane
1987
7.2
Inspector Morse
as Lady Hinksey
1987
7.8
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
as Mrs Langton-Jones
1986
5.3
Casualty
as Rosie Collier
1986
6.1
Casualty
as Jessie Baine
1986
6.1
Paris
as Miss McLeod
1985
0.0
Screamtime
as Mildred Hurley
1983
3.7
Q.E.D.
1982
6.8
Tenko
as Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
1981
8.1
The Lady Vanishes
as Baroness
1979
6.0
Dear Parents
1973
6.0
🎬
Scoop
as Great Aunt Anne
1972
0.0
The Brothers
1972
3.3
🎬
Father's Help
as Mrs. Harrogate
1971
0.0
🎬
Fathers and Sons
1971
0.0
The Road Builder
as Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
1971
6.1
🎬
Little Women
as Aunt Josephine March
1970
6.0
🎬
Codename
as Penelope Blanshard
1970
0.0
Brotherly Love
as Matron
1970
5.9
Run a Crooked Mile
as Sister Teresa
1969
8.0
🎬
Late Night Horror
as Mrs. Redvale
1968
0.0
Half a Sixpence
as Lady Botting
1967
5.9
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
as Ada Grey
1967
0.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Miss Ramsden
1965
5.0
The Wednesday Play
as Mrs. Grant
1964
4.5
The Silent Playground
as Mrs. Lacey
1963
4.7
The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Mrs. MacKenzie
1963
6.8
🎬
Lorna Doone
1963
5.0
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
as Lady Mary McDowell
1962
6.0
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
as Mrs. Gordon
1962
6.0
The Inspector
as Mrs. Jongman
1962
7.0
🎬
Wuthering Heights
as Ellen
1962
10.0
Suspense
as Miss Reid
1962
5.5
Waltz of the Toreadors
as Agnes
1962
4.8
Spare the Rod
as Mrs. Pond
1961
5.3
Maigret
as Madame Gallet
1960
7.2
The Odd Man
as Miss Twilight
1960
0.0
Solomon and Sheba
as Takyan
1959
6.4
SOS Pacific
as Miss Shaw
1959
6.9
No Hiding Place
1959
3.7
Interpol Calling
as Nun
1959
6.7
A Night to Remember
as Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
1958
7.7
Heart of a Child
as Maria
1958
6.5
Lucky Jim
as Mrs. Welch
1957
5.4
Robbery Under Arms
as Ma Marston
1957
4.9
A Town Like Alice
as Miss Horsefall
1956
6.3
Laughing in the Sunshine
1956
0.0
This Is Your Life
as Self
1955
6.4
Lease of Life
as Miss Calthorp
1954
7.4
The Weak and the Wicked
as Policewoman in Court
1954
6.4
The Kidnappers
as Grandma MacKenzie
1953
6.4
The Pleasure Garden
as Aunt Minerva
1953
6.0
Johnny on the Run
as Mrs. MacIntyre
1953
7.5
Street Corner
as Miss Haversham - Store Detective
1953
5.4
Time Bomb
1953
5.2
The Brave Don't Cry
as Mrs. Sloan
1952
5.8
High Treason
as Woman in street (uncredited)
1951
5.3
Life in Her Hands
as Night Sister
1951
0.0
The Franchise Affair
as Miss Tuff
1951
6.7
🎬
The Railway Children
1951
0.0
White Corridors
as Sister Gater
1951
6.6
🎬
Out of True
as Dr. Bell
1951
6.0
The Romantic Age
as Miss Sankey
1949
5.1
Elizabeth of Ladymead
1948
6.0
Bond Street
as Dress Shop Assistant
1948
6.8