Jean Anderson
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.
Movie Appearances
The Lady Vanishes
as Baroness
1979
The Romantic Age
as Miss Sankey
1949
The Black Velvet Gown
as Madame Gallmington
1991
The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Mrs. MacKenzie
1963
Survival of the Fittest
as Molly Cowper
1990
The Kidnappers
as Grandma MacKenzie
1953
O.M.
as Lady Crewe
1990
The Road Builder
as Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
1971
A Town Like Alice
as Miss Horsefall
1956
A Night to Remember
as Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
1958
Out of True
as Dr. Bell
1951
Elizabeth of Ladymead
1948
Back Home
as Grandmother Dickinson
1989
Circles Of Deceit
as Dowager
1990
Lucky Jim
as Mrs. Welch
1957
Endgame
as Nell
2000
The Silent Playground
as Mrs. Lacey
1963
Run a Crooked Mile
as Sister Teresa
1969
The Pleasure Garden
as Aunt Minerva
1953
Brotherly Love
as Matron
1970
TV Appearances
Keeping Up Appearances
as Mrs. Fortescue
1990
Q.E.D.
1982
The Uninvited
1997
Tenko
as Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
1981
Heartbeat
as Victoria Wainwright
1992
Inspector Morse
as Lady Hinksey
1987
Interpol Calling
as Nun
1959
No Hiding Place
1959
Codename
as Penelope Blanshard
1970
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
as Lady Mary McDowell
1962
Lorna Doone
1963
The Brothers
1972