Jean Simmons
Acting • Born 1929-01-31 – Died 2010-01-22
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
107 credits
Spartacus
Movie • 1960
Varinia
Angel Face
Movie • 1953
Diane Tremayne Jessup
Guys and Dolls
Movie • 1955
Sarah Brown
Elmer Gantry
Movie • 1960
Sister Sharon Falconer
Hamlet
Movie • 1948
Ophelia
How to Make an American Quilt
Movie • 1995
Em
The Egyptian
Movie • 1954
Merit
The Grass Is Greener
Movie • 1960
Hattie Durant
The Big Country
Movie • 1958
Julie Maragon
Great Expectations
Movie • 1946
Young Estella
The Robe
Movie • 1953
Diana
Désirée
Movie • 1954
Desiree Clary
The Clouded Yellow
Movie • 1950
Sophie Malraux
Young Bess
Movie • 1953
Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)
The Way to the Stars
Movie • 1945
A Singer
A Bullet Is Waiting
Movie • 1954
Cally Canham
Footsteps in the Fog
Movie • 1955
Lily Watkins
Black Narcissus
Movie • 1947
Kanchi
Rough Night in Jericho
Movie • 1967
Molly Lang
Shadows in the Sun
Movie • 2009
Hannah
So Long at the Fair
Movie • 1950
Vicky Barton
Androcles and the Lion
Movie • 1952
Lavinina
Down at the Hydro
Movie • 1983
Diedre
Uncle Silas
Movie • 1947
Caroline Ruthyn
The Happy Ending
Movie • 1969
Mary Wilson
This Could Be the Night
Movie • 1957
Anne Leeds
Going Undercover
Movie • 1988
Maxine de la Hunt
On Cukor
Movie • 2000
Narrator
Divorce American Style
Movie • 1967
Nancy Downes
The Actress
Movie • 1953
Ruth Gordon Jones
Affair with a Stranger
Movie • 1953
Carolyn Parker
Fun in the Big Country
Movie • 1958
Self (narrator)
Home Before Dark
Movie • 1958
Charlotte Bronn
All the Way Home
Movie • 1963
Mary Follet
Until They Sail
Movie • 1957
Barbara Leslie Forbes
She Couldn't Say No
Movie • 1954
Corby Lane (Corby Johnson)
Winter Solstice
Movie • 2003
Countess Lucinda Rhives
Cage of Gold
Movie • 1950
Judith
This Earth Is Mine
Movie • 1959
Elizabeth Rambeau
Adam and Evelyne
Movie • 1949
Evelyne Wallace
Hilda Crane
Movie • 1956
Hilda Crane Burns
Life at the Top
Movie • 1965
Susan Lampton
Say Hello to Yesterday
Movie • 1971
Woman
Hungry Hill
Movie • 1947
Jane Brodrick
Dominique
Movie • 1980
Dominique Ballard
The Dawning
Movie • 1988
Aunt Mary
Mister Buddwing
Movie • 1966
The Blonde
Discovering Hamlet
Movie • 2011
Ophelia (archive footage)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
Movie • 1987
Laura Robertson
Meet Sexton Blake
Movie • 1945
Eva Watkins
The Blue Lagoon
Movie • 1949
Emmeline Foster
Laker Girls
Movie • 1990
Connie Harrison
Give Us the Moon
Movie • 1944
Heidi
Inherit the Wind
Movie • 1988
Lucy Brady
Heidi
Movie • 1968
Frl. Rottenmeier
The Woman in the Hall
Movie • 1947
Jay Blake
A Friendship in Vienna
Movie • 1988
Narrator (voice)
Midas Valley
Movie • 1985
Molly Hammond
Sensibility and Sense
Movie • 1990
Older Elinor
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Movie • 1945
Molly Dodd
Decisions! Decisions!
Movie • 1971
Phoebe Masterson
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Movie • 2001
Council Member (voice)
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Movie • 1981
Helen Lawson
Mr. Sycamore
Movie • 1975
Estelle Benbow
The Easter Promise
Movie • 1975
Constance Payne
Daisies in December
Movie • 1995
Katherine Palmer
A Moment in Time
Movie • 1983
Deidre Mackay
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Movie • 1985
Self
Soldier in Love
Movie • 1967
Sarah Jennings
Trio
Movie • 1950
Evie Bishop (segment Sanatorium)
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Movie • 1991
Carrie-Louise Serrocold
Mr. Emmanuel
Movie • 1944
Sally Cooper
Her Own Rules
Movie • 1998
Katherine Stratton
Beggarman, Thief
Movie • 1979
Gretchen Jordache Burke
December Flower
Movie • 1984
Etta Marsh
Caesar and Cleopatra
Movie • 1945
Harpist (uncredited)
Golden Gate
Movie • 1981
Jane Kingsley
People Like Us
Movie • 1990
Peach Prindible Bailey
A Small Killing
Movie • 1981
Margaret Lawrence
Sports Day
Movie • 1944
Peggy
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Eudora McVeigh Shipton
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Admiral Nora Satie
The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Princess
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Terri O'Brien
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1985
Margaret Lowen
Hotel
TV • 1982
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Sarah
Mysteries of the Bible
TV • 1994
Dark Shadows
TV • 1991
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins
Angel Falls
TV • 1993
Irene Larson
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Thorn Birds
TV • 1983
Fiona 'Fee' Cleary
North and South
TV • 1985
Clarissa Main
The Thorn Birds
TV • 1983
Fee Cleary
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Dain Curse
TV • 1978
Aaronia Haldorn
Winter Solstice
TV • 2003
Great Expectations
TV • 1989
Miss Havisham
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Ruth Bannister
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
Hotel
TV • 1982
Jessica Daniels
The Danny Kaye Show
TV • 1963
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Suzy
MGM Parade
TV • 1955