Jean Anderson
Actor
Biography
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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.
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Filmography
Solomon and Sheba
as Takyan 1959
The Lady Vanishes
as Baroness 1979
The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Mrs. MacKenzie 1963
A Town Like Alice
as Miss Horsefall 1956
Lucky Jim
as Mrs. Welch 1957
Screamtime
as Mildred Hurley 1983
The Road Builder
as Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey 1971
Time Bomb
1953
Half a Sixpence
as Lady Botting 1967
Leon the Pig Farmer
as Mrs Samuels 1993
The Kidnappers
as Grandma MacKenzie 1953
The Whipping Boy
as Queen Mum 1994
Street Corner
as Miss Haversham - Store Detective 1953
Simon Magus
as Roise 1999
The Weak and the Wicked
as Policewoman in Court 1954
Waltz of the Toreadors
as Agnes 1962