Jean Anderson
Acting • Born 1907-12-12 – Died 2001-04-01
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
87 credits
The Lady Vanishes
Movie • 1979
Baroness
The Romantic Age
Movie • 1949
Miss Sankey
The Black Velvet Gown
Movie • 1991
Madame Gallmington
The Three Lives of Thomasina
Movie • 1963
Mrs. MacKenzie
Survival of the Fittest
Movie • 1990
Molly Cowper
The Kidnappers
Movie • 1953
Grandma MacKenzie
O.M.
Movie • 1990
Lady Crewe
The Road Builder
Movie • 1971
Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
A Town Like Alice
Movie • 1956
Miss Horsefall
A Night to Remember
Movie • 1958
Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
Out of True
Movie • 1951
Dr. Bell
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Movie • 1948
Back Home
Movie • 1989
Grandmother Dickinson
Circles Of Deceit
Movie • 1990
Dowager
Lucky Jim
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Welch
Endgame
Movie • 2000
Nell
The Silent Playground
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Lacey
Run a Crooked Mile
Movie • 1969
Sister Teresa
The Pleasure Garden
Movie • 1953
Aunt Minerva
Brotherly Love
Movie • 1970
Matron
Father's Help
Movie • 1971
Mrs. Harrogate
Laughing in the Sunshine
Movie • 1956
The Franchise Affair
Movie • 1951
Miss Tuff
Robbery Under Arms
Movie • 1957
Ma Marston
The Whipping Boy
Movie • 1994
Queen Mum
The Brave Don't Cry
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Sloan
Lease of Life
Movie • 1954
Miss Calthorp
Dear Parents
Movie • 1973
The Bogie Man
Movie • 1992
Mrs Napier
Diana: Her True Story
Movie • 1993
Lady Fermoy
Do Not Disturb
Movie • 1991
Lady Ann
Life in Her Hands
Movie • 1951
Night Sister
Street Corner
Movie • 1953
Miss Haversham - Store Detective
Simon Magus
Movie • 1999
Roise
The Weak and the Wicked
Movie • 1954
Policewoman in Court
Screamtime
Movie • 1983
Mildred Hurley
Leon the Pig Farmer
Movie • 1993
Mrs Samuels
SOS Pacific
Movie • 1959
Miss Shaw
Bond Street
Movie • 1948
Dress Shop Assistant
Spare the Rod
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Pond
Johnny on the Run
Movie • 1953
Mrs. MacIntyre
Heart of a Child
Movie • 1958
Maria
Half a Sixpence
Movie • 1967
Lady Botting
Wuthering Heights
Movie • 1962
Ellen
Solomon and Sheba
Movie • 1959
Takyan
The Inspector
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Jongman
White Corridors
Movie • 1951
Sister Gater
Waltz of the Toreadors
Movie • 1962
Agnes
Time Bomb
Movie • 1953
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
Movie • 1986
Mrs Langton-Jones
Paris
Movie • 1985
Miss McLeod
High Treason
Movie • 1951
Woman in street (uncredited)
Keeping Up Appearances
TV • 1990
Mrs. Fortescue
Q.E.D.
TV • 1982
The Uninvited
TV • 1997
Tenko
TV • 1981
Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Victoria Wainwright
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Lady Hinksey
Interpol Calling
TV • 1959
Nun
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
Codename
TV • 1970
Penelope Blanshard
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
TV • 1962
Lady Mary McDowell
Lorna Doone
TV • 1963
The Brothers
TV • 1972
Maigret
TV • 1960
Madame Gallet
The Railway Children
TV • 1951
Fathers and Sons
TV • 1971
Keeping Mum
TV • 1997
Norma
Rebecca
TV • 1997
Grandma
The House of Eliott
TV • 1991
Mrs. Spenser-Ewell
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
TV • 1996
Alice Marsden
Campion
TV • 1989
Belle Lafcadio
Doctor Finlay
TV • 1993
Mrs. Stirling
Casualty
TV • 1986
Rosie Collier
Casualty
TV • 1986
Jessie Baine
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
TV • 1987
Mrs. Fane
G.B.H.
TV • 1991
Dr Goldup
This Is Your Life
TV • 1955
Self
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Mrs. Grant
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Miss Ramsden
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
TV • 1967
Ada Grey
Late Night Horror
TV • 1968
Mrs. Redvale
Scoop
TV • 1972
Great Aunt Anne
The Odd Man
TV • 1960
Miss Twilight
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
TV • 1962
Mrs. Gordon
Little Women
TV • 1970
Aunt Josephine March
Moonacre
TV • 1994
Miss Heliotrope