Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1907-12-12
Day of Death
2001-04-01
Place of Birth
Eastbourne, Sussex, England
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.
Filmography (52)
Endgame
2000
Simon Magus
1999
The Whipping Boy
1994
Diana: Her True Story
1993
Leon the Pig Farmer
1993
The Bogie Man
1992
The Black Velvet Gown
1991Do Not Disturb
1991
O.M.
1990
Survival of the Fittest
1990
Circles Of Deceit
1990
Back Home
1989
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
1986
Paris
1985