Jean Anderson

For the cookbook author, see Jean Anderson (cookbook author). For the obstetrician and gynaecologist, see Jean R. Anderson.

Jean Anderson
Born	(1907-12-12)12 December 1907 Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Died	Edenhall, Cumbria, England
Years active	1947–2000

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 BBC drama The Brothers (1972-76) and as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook in the Second World War series Tenko (1982-84).

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, Campion, Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. She also played the role of the Mother in The Railway Children in two separate BBC adaptations in 1951 and 1957.

She continued acting into her nineties, dying in April 2001 at the age of 93.

Filmography

• The Mark of Cain (1947)
• Bond Street (1948)
• The Romantic Age (1949)
• Seven Days to Noon (1950)
• Out of True (1951)
• The Franchise Affair (1951)
• White Corridors (1951)
• High Treason (1951)
• The Brave Don't Cry (1952)
• The Pleasure Garden (1953)
• Time Bomb (1953)
• Street Corner (1953)
• Johnny on the Run (1953)
• The Kidnappers (1953)
• The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
• Lease of Life (1954)
• The Secret Tent (1956)
• A Town Like Alice (1956)
• Lucky Jim (1957)

• The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
• Robbery Under Arms (1957)
• Heart of a Child (1958)
• A Night to Remember (1958)
• Solomon and Sheba (1959)
• SOS Pacific (1959)
• Spare the Rod (1961)
• Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
• The Inspector (1962)
• The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964)
• Half a Sixpence (1967)
• Country Dance (1970)
• The Night Digger (1971)
• The Lady Vanishes (1979)
• Screamtime (1983)
• Madame Sousatzka (1988)
• Leon the Pig Farmer (1992)
• Simon Magus (1999)

Personal life

For many years she lived in the village of Edenhall near Penrith, Cumbria.

External links

• Jean Anderson at Find a Grave
• Jean Anderson at the Internet Movie Database
• Jean Anderson at the Internet Broadway Database