Personal Info
Jean Anderson
Acting
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 Te…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Endgame
as Nell
Simon Magus
as Roise
The Whipping Boy
as Queen Mum
Leon the Pig Farmer
as Mrs Samuels
Diana: Her True Story
as Lady Fermoy
The Bogie Man
as Mrs Napier
The Black Velvet Gown
as Madame Gallmington
Do Not Disturb
as Lady Ann
Circles Of Deceit
as Dowager
Survival of the Fittest
as Molly Cowper
TV Shows
Rebecca
as Grandma · 2 ep.
Keeping Mum
as Norma · 1 ep.
The Uninvited
4 ep.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Alice Marsden · 1 ep.
Moonacre
as Miss Heliotrope · 6 ep.
Doctor Finlay
as Mrs. Stirling · 2 ep.
Heartbeat
as Victoria Wainwright · 1 ep.
The House of Eliott
as Mrs. Spenser-Ewell · 1 ep.
G.B.H.
as Dr Goldup · 7 ep.
Keeping Up Appearances
as Mrs. Fortescue · 1 ep.