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Jean Anderson

Jean Anderson

Birthday: 1907-12-12 | Place of Birth: Eastbourne, Sussex, England

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2000
Endgame

as    Nell

1997
Rebecca

as    Grandma

1987
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

as    Mrs. Fane

1981
Tenko

as    Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook

1980
The Lady Vanishes

as    Baroness

1971
The Road Builder

as    Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey

1963
The Three Lives of Thomasina

as    Mrs. MacKenzie

1959
SOS Pacific

as    Miss Shaw

1956
A Town Like Alice

as    Miss Horsefall

1953
The Kidnappers

as    Grandma MacKenzie