Jean Anderson

Born: 1907-12-12, Eastbourne, Sussex, England

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

• Casualty (1986)
• Screen Two (1985)
• Heartbeat (1992)
• Keeping Up Appearances (1990)
• The Wednesday Play (1964)
• Inspector Morse (1987)
• Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962)
• The House of Eliott (1991)
• Screen One (1989)
• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996)
• Interpol Calling (1959)
• Tenko (1981)
• Doctor Finlay (1993)
• The Brothers (1972)
• The Odd Man (1960)
• A Night to Remember (1958)
• Solomon and Sheba (1959)
• Simon Magus (1999)
• The Whipping Boy (1994)
• Fathers and Sons (1971)
• Lucky Jim (1957)
• Cari genitori (1973)
• The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
• A Town Like Alice (1956)
• Leon the Pig Farmer (1993)
• The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams (1986)
• Robbery Under Arms (1957)
• Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
• The Black Velvet Gown (1991)
• Half a Sixpence (1967)