Jean Anderson
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
Solomon and Sheba
1959
as Takyan
A Night to Remember
1958
as Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
The Lady Vanishes
1979
as Baroness
Lucky Jim
1957
as Mrs. Welch
Simon Magus
1999
as Roise
The Whipping Boy
1994
as Queen Mum
The Kidnappers
1953
as Grandma MacKenzie
Brotherly Love
1970
as Matron
The Three Lives of Thomasina
1963
as Mrs. MacKenzie
The Weak and the Wicked
1954
as Policewoman in Court
SOS Pacific
1959
as Miss Shaw
A Town Like Alice
1956
as Miss Horsefall
The Inspector
1962
as Mrs. Jongman
White Corridors
1951
as Sister Gater
Back Home
1989
as Grandmother Dickinson
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962
as Agnes
Leon the Pig Farmer
1993
as Mrs Samuels
High Treason
1951
as Woman in street (uncredited)
The Franchise Affair
1951
as Miss Tuff
Run a Crooked Mile
1969
as Sister Teresa