Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 12, 1907
Died
Apr 01, 2001
Place of Birth
Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Credits
94 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Endgame
Nell
Simon Magus
Roise
The Uninvited
Keeping Mum
Norma
Rebecca
Grandma
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Alice Marsden
The Whipping Boy
Queen Mum
Moonacre
Miss Heliotrope
Doctor Finlay
Mrs. Stirling
Diana: Her True Story
Lady Fermoy
Leon the Pig Farmer
Mrs Samuels
The Bogie Man
Mrs Napier
Heartbeat
Victoria Wainwright
The House of Eliott
Mrs. Spenser-Ewell
G.B.H.
Dr Goldup
The Black Velvet Gown
Madame Gallmington
Tonight at 8.30
Aunt Martha
Do Not Disturb
Lady Ann
O.M.
Lady Crewe
Keeping Up Appearances
Mrs. Fortescue
Survival of the Fittest
Molly Cowper
Circles Of Deceit
Dowager
Screen One
Molly Cowper
Back Home
Grandmother Dickinson
Campion
Belle Lafcadio
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Mrs. Fane
Inspector Morse
Lady Hinksey
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
Mrs Langton-Jones
Casualty
Rosie Collier
Paris
Miss McLeod
Screen Two
Dowager
Screamtime
Mildred Hurley
Q.E.D.
Lady Euphemia Martin
Tenko
Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
A Chance to Sit Down
Dolly
The Lady Vanishes
Baroness
Dear Parents
Scoop
Great Aunt Anne
The Brothers
Mary Hammond
Father's Help
Mrs. Harrogate
Fathers and Sons
Princess Natasha
The Road Builder
Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
Little Women
Aunt Josephine March
Codename
Penelope Blanshard
Brotherly Love
Matron
Run a Crooked Mile
Sister Teresa
The Triumph of Death
Mrs. Redvale
Late Night Horror
Mrs. Redvale
Half a Sixpence
Lady Botting
St. Ives
Miss Gilchrist