Jean Anderson
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.
Born: 12 December 1907 • Died: 01 April 2001
Played In
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
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
Casualty
Jessie Baine
Paris
Miss McLeod
Screen Two
Dowager
Screamtime
Mildred Hurley
Q.E.D.
Tenko
Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
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
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ada Grey
BBC Play of the Month
Miss Ramsden
Thursday Theatre
Monica Pleydon MP
The Wednesday Play
Mrs. Grant
The Silent Playground
Mrs. Lacey
The Three Lives of Thomasina
Mrs. MacKenzie
Lorna Doone
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Lady Mary McDowell
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Mrs. Gordon
The Inspector
Mrs. Jongman
Wuthering Heights
Ellen
Waltz of the Toreadors
Agnes
Spare the Rod
Mrs. Pond
Maigret
Madame Gallet
The Odd Man
Miss Twilight
Armchair Mystery Theatre
Meg
Solomon and Sheba
Takyan
SOS Pacific
Miss Shaw
No Hiding Place
Interpol Calling
Nun
A Night to Remember
Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
Heart of a Child
Maria
Lucky Jim
Mrs. Welch
Robbery Under Arms
Ma Marston
Armchair Theatre
Mrs. Bell
Armchair Theatre
Nanny
Armchair Theatre
Mrs. Harrogate
A Town Like Alice
Miss Horsefall
Laughing in the Sunshine
This Is Your Life
Self
Lease of Life
Miss Calthorp
The Weak and the Wicked
Policewoman in Court
The Kidnappers
Grandma MacKenzie
The Pleasure Garden
Aunt Minerva
Johnny on the Run
Mrs. MacIntyre
Street Corner
Miss Haversham - Store Detective
Time Bomb
The Brave Don't Cry
Mrs. Sloan
High Treason
Woman in street (uncredited)
Life in Her Hands
Night Sister
The Franchise Affair
Miss Tuff
The Railway Children
White Corridors
Sister Gater
Out of True
Dr. Bell
The Romantic Age
Miss Sankey
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Bond Street
Dress Shop Assistant