Jean Anderson
Biography
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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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Filmography
Endgame
2000
as Nell
Simon Magus
1999
as Roise
The Whipping Boy
1994
as Queen Mum
Diana: Her True Story
1993
as Lady Fermoy
Leon the Pig Farmer
1993
as Mrs Samuels
The Bogie Man
1992
as Mrs Napier
The Black Velvet Gown
1991
as Madame Gallmington
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Do Not Disturb
1991
as Lady Ann
O.M.
1990
as Lady Crewe
Survival of the Fittest
1990
as Molly Cowper
Circles Of Deceit
1990
as Dowager
Back Home
1989
as Grandmother Dickinson
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
1986
as Mrs Langton-Jones
Paris
1985
as Miss McLeod
Screamtime
1983
as Mildred Hurley
The Lady Vanishes
1979
as Baroness
Dear Parents
1973
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Father's Help
1971
as Mrs. Harrogate
The Road Builder
1971
as Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
Brotherly Love
1970
as Matron
Run a Crooked Mile
1969
as Sister Teresa
The Triumph of Death
1968
as Mrs. Redvale
Half a Sixpence
1967
as Lady Botting
The Silent Playground
1963
as Mrs. Lacey