Jean Anderson
Acting
Born: 1907-12-12 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England
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
Casualty
Rosie Collier
Casualty
Jessie Baine
This Is Your Life
Self
BBC Play of the Month
Miss Ramsden
Heartbeat
Victoria Wainwright
Screen Two
Dowager
The Wednesday Play
Mrs. Grant
Keeping Up Appearances
Mrs. Fortescue
Inspector Morse
Lady Hinksey
Maigret
Madame Gallet
No Hiding Place
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Lady Mary McDowell
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Mrs. Gordon
The House of Eliott
Mrs. Spenser-Ewell
Screen One
Molly Cowper
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Alice Marsden
Tenko
Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
Interpol Calling
Nun
The Odd Man
Miss Twilight
G.B.H.
Dr Goldup
The Brothers
Mary Hammond
Doctor Finlay
Mrs. Stirling
Campion
Belle Lafcadio
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ada Grey
Solomon and Sheba
Takyan
A Night to Remember
Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
Wicked Women
Mrs. Wallace
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Mrs. Fane
Little Women
Aunt Josephine March
Rebecca
Grandma
Brotherly Love
Matron
The Uninvited
Q.E.D.
Lady Euphemia Martin
Late Night Horror
Mrs. Redvale
Back Home
Grandmother Dickinson
The Lady Vanishes
Baroness