Jean Anderson
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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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.006 |
| Birthday | 1907-12-12 |
| Place of Birth | Eastbourne, Sussex, England |
| Also Known As |
1979
The Lady Vanishes
6.025/59
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady,...
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The Lady Vanishes
1963
The Three Lives of Thomasina
6.784/44
Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet s...
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The Three Lives of Thomasina
1953
The Kidnappers
6.7/13
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and canta...
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The Kidnappers
1971
The Road Builder
6.4/19
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more...
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The Road Builder
1956
A Town Like Alice
6.3/32
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no...
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A Town Like Alice
1948
Elizabeth of Ladymead
6/1
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
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Elizabeth of Ladymead
2000
Endgame
6.8/6
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins....
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Endgame
1957
Robbery Under Arms
5.4/7
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief...
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Robbery Under Arms
1957
Lucky Jim
5.3/20
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping...
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Lucky Jim
1954
Lease of Life
7.4/7
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
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Lease of Life
1994
The Whipping Boy
6.4/11
A bored little prince makes a poor rat hunter his whipping boy but after his pranks at the royal court almost causes a war with the neighbor king he r...
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The Whipping Boy
1952
The Brave Don't Cry
5.8/9
The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim...
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The Brave Don't Cry
1951
The Franchise Affair
6.7/3
An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
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The Franchise Affair
1973
Dear Parents
6/2
An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted with...
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Dear Parents
1992
The Bogie Man
6/2
A mental patient who believes he is Humphrey Bogart escapes from his institution and sets up in business as a private eye. Based on the the comic book...
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The Bogie Man
1993
Diana: Her True Story
1.7/3
Television film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales, based on the publication of the same name by Andrew Morton.
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Diana: Her True Story
1991
Do Not Disturb
0/0
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writ...
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Do Not Disturb
1951
Life in Her Hands
0/0
A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.
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Life in Her Hands
1953
Street Corner
5.6/10
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
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Street Corner
1999
Simon Magus
7.3/11
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid...
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Simon Magus
1954
The Weak and the Wicked
6/7
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At...
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The Weak and the Wicked
1983
Screamtime
4.3/16
Compilation of three short horror films: "That's The Way To Do It", "Dreamhouse" and "Do You Believe In Fairies?" plus some new linking material.
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Screamtime
1993
Leon The Pig Farmer
5.3/15
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial...
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Leon The Pig Farmer
1959
SOS Pacific
6.7/7
A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prison...
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SOS Pacific
1948
Bond Street
6.8/3
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending w...
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Bond Street
1961
Spare the Rod
6/3
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupil...
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Spare the Rod
1953
Johnny on the Run
7/1
A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encount...
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Johnny on the Run
1958
Heart of a Child
6.5/2
A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.
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Heart of a Child
1967
Half a Sixpence
6/16
"If I had the money, I'd buy me a banjo!" says struggling sales clerk Arthur Kipps. Soon he'll inherit enough to buy a whole bloomin' orchestra. But c...
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Half a Sixpence
1962
Wuthering Heights
10/1
Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.
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Wuthering Heights
1959
Solomon and Sheba
6.3/89
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the cou...
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Solomon and Sheba
1962
The Inspector
6.7/8
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
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The Inspector
1951
White Corridors
6.2/4
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a bus...
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White Corridors
1962
Waltz of the Toreadors
5.167/9
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, some...
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Waltz of the Toreadors
1953
Time Bomb
5.6/17
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation,...
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Time Bomb
1949
Naughty Arlette
5.1/5
Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations....
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Naughty Arlette
1991
The Black Velvet Gown
5.4/5
In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Mill...
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The Black Velvet Gown
1990
Survival of the Fittest
0/0
Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenience. Her mild-mannered son Geoffrey does his best to...
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Survival of the Fittest
1951
Out of True
6/1
A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete nervou...
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Out of True
1990
Circles Of Deceit
0/0
Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.
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Circles Of Deceit
1963
The Silent Playground
4.7/3
Police hunt for mental hospital out patient Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out barbiturates to children as sweets.
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The Silent Playground
1969
Run a Crooked Mile
8/2
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wa...
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Run a Crooked Mile
1970
Brotherly Love
5.9/4
Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.
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Brotherly Love
1990
O.M.
0/0
Drama based on the life of Owen Morgan Edwards, one of the main benefactors and campaigners for the Welsh language and Welsh culture in a period of ti...
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O.M.
1958
A Night to Remember
7.581/236
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspect...
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A Night to Remember
1989
Back Home
5/2
During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the spunky redhead returns to her native England. From...
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Back Home
1953
The Pleasure Garden
6/9
People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting...
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The Pleasure Garden
1971
Father's Help
0/0
A father who ditched his family life to be free and single again finds some unexpected guests left on his doorstep by his wife who has now done the sa...
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Father's Help
1956
Laughing in the Sunshine
0/0
Princess Caroline travels incognito to Stockholm and meets the Prince Birger, who also uses a fake name.
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