Jean Simmons
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 21.431 |
Birthday | 1929-01-31 |
Place of Birth | Crouch Hill, London, England, UK |
Also Known As | ジーン・シモンズ, Джин Симмонс, Jean Merilyn Simmons, |
1960
Spartacus
7.5/2146
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena,...
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Spartacus
1953
Angel Face
7.054/166
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
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Angel Face
1955
Guys and Dolls
6.6/227
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky...
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Guys and Dolls
1960
Elmer Gantry
7.254/173
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her a...
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Elmer Gantry
1948
Hamlet
7.379/257
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Sha...
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Hamlet
1995
How to Make an American Quilt
6.4/181
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits...
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How to Make an American Quilt
1954
The Egyptian
6.4/89
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new...
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The Egyptian
1960
The Grass Is Greener
6.3/127
Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionai...
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The Grass Is Greener
1958
The Big Country
7.6/348
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, a...
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The Big Country
1946
Great Expectations
7.265/334
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman....
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Great Expectations
1953
The Robe
6.8/238
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like h...
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The Robe
1954
Désirée
6.4/42
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-B...
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Désirée
1950
The Clouded Yellow
6.1/18
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas an...
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The Clouded Yellow
1953
Young Bess
5.9/17
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Je...
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Young Bess
1945
The Way to the Stars
5.826/23
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in...
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The Way to the Stars
1954
A Bullet Is Waiting
6/13
A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a str...
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A Bullet Is Waiting
1955
Footsteps in the Fog
6.974/39
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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Footsteps in the Fog
1947
Black Narcissus
7.5/477
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed...
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Black Narcissus
1967
Rough Night in Jericho
6.5/29
The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by tough-...
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Rough Night in Jericho
2009
Shadows in the Sun
4.6/9
A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another.
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Shadows in the Sun
1950
So Long at the Fair
6.722/36
Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the...
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So Long at the Fair
1952
Androcles and the Lion
5.8/15
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared...
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Androcles and the Lion
1983
Down at the Hydro
0/0
Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.
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Down at the Hydro
1947
Uncle Silas
5.8/16
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance...
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Uncle Silas
1969
The Happy Ending
6/23
The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality...
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The Happy Ending
1957
This Could Be the Night
5.636/11
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
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This Could Be the Night
1988
Going Undercover
2.5/3
Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt to protect her step-daughter Marigold during her trip to Den...
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Going Undercover
2000
On Cukor
0/0
Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends...
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On Cukor
1967
Divorce American Style
5.8/22
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
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Divorce American Style
1953
The Actress
6.2/15
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
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The Actress
1953
Affair with a Stranger
4.3/9
Depicts the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband.
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Affair with a Stranger
1958
Fun in the Big Country
0/0
Behind-the-scenes look during the filming of William Wyler's 1958 western, "The Big Country."
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Fun in the Big Country
1958
Home Before Dark
7.2/21
A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.
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Home Before Dark
1963
All the Way Home
6.5/8
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure t...
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All the Way Home
1957
Until They Sail
6.4/26
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
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Until They Sail
1954
She Couldn't Say No
5.625/16
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
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She Couldn't Say No
2003
Winter Solstice
6.714/7
When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend H...
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Winter Solstice
1950
Cage of Gold
6.6/9
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
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Cage of Gold
1959
This Earth Is Mine
6.1/7
Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootlegger...
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This Earth Is Mine
1949
Adam and Evelyne
6.6/7
A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
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Adam and Evelyne
1956
Hilda Crane
7.2/9
After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.
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Hilda Crane
1965
Life at the Top
6.2/14
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But hi...
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Life at the Top
1971
Say Hello to Yesterday
4.2/6
Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she me...
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Say Hello to Yesterday
1947
Hungry Hill
5.4/5
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
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Hungry Hill
1980
Dominique
5.2/23
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
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Dominique
1988
The Dawning
5.4/4
An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.
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The Dawning
1966
Mister Buddwing
5.9/13
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
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Mister Buddwing
2011
Discovering Hamlet
7/1
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great trag...
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Discovering Hamlet
1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
7.2/9
Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
1945
Meet Sexton Blake
5.5/1
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man kille...
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Meet Sexton Blake
1949
The Blue Lagoon
6/12
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island...
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The Blue Lagoon
1967
The Lady Is My Wife
0/0
After the Civil War ends, a rich horse rancher out West hires the Bannisters, a married Southern couple who lost everything in the war, to help run hi...
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The Lady Is My Wife
1990
Laker Girls
5/2
Three hopefuls — a college grad, a dance teacher from Watts, and an incognito heiress — vie for a spot on the Los Angeles Lakers cheerleading team.
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Laker Girls
1944
Give Us the Moon
6.2/3
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general...
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Give Us the Moon
1988
Inherit the Wind
8/6
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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Inherit the Wind
1968
Heidi
6.1/15
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heid...
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Heidi
1947
The Woman in the Hall
5.8/5
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses...
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The Woman in the Hall
1988
A Friendship in Vienna
6/2
Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympath...
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A Friendship in Vienna
1985
Midas Valley
0/0
Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitive world of computer electronics and the greed, pas...
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Midas Valley
1990
Sensibility and Sense
0/0
Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged over a book one of them wrote.
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Sensibility and Sense
1945
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
5.1/6
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status...
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
1971
Decisions! Decisions!
0/0
A salesman and a sexologist have misadventures with plot development determined by the votes of the studio audience.
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Decisions! Decisions!
2001
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
6.193/1461
Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the plane...
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
1981
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
4.3/3
Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960's novel shows the lives of three very different women who come to New York City to achieve...
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Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
1975
Mr. Sycamore
6/2
Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.
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Mr. Sycamore
1975
The Easter Promise
6/2
Addie and her friends are excited over the visit of a celebrity, a local woman who became a successful Broadway actress and has returned home for a sh...
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The Easter Promise
1995
Daisies in December
5.3/3
A seaside hotel for senior citizens is the setting for late-season love as costars Jean Simmons and Joss Ackland meet and make a match in this romanti...
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Daisies in December
1983
A Moment in Time
0/0
Colonel Hunt is a widower in his 60s. It is in search of health, not romance, that he books in for a week at the Elm Park Hydro and submits himself to...
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A Moment in Time
1985
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
6/1
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with hi...
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The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
1967
Soldier in Love
0/0
The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.
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Soldier in Love
1950
Trio
6.3/12
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
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Trio
1991
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
6.818/33
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', th...
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1944
Mr. Emmanuel
6.8/2
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr...
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Mr. Emmanuel
1998
Her Own Rules
5/2
Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or...
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Her Own Rules
1979
Beggarman, Thief
6/1
In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murde...
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Beggarman, Thief
1984
December Flower
0/0
Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings...
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December Flower
1945
Caesar and Cleopatra
6.1/56
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
1981
Golden Gate
0/0
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a ru...
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Golden Gate
1990
People Like Us
6/2
When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite's daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enab...
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People Like Us
1981
A Small Killing
8/1
A college professor is recruited by an undercover cop to pose as a bag lady to track down a drug connection following the brutal killing of a skid row...
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