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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
Solomon and Sheba
as Takyan
A Night to Remember
as Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
Diana: Her True Story
as Lady Fermoy
The Whipping Boy
as Queen Mum
The Lady Vanishes
as Baroness
A Town Like Alice
as Miss Horsefall
Half a Sixpence
as Lady Botting
The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Mrs. MacKenzie
Lease of Life
as Miss Calthorp
Simon Magus
as Roise
