Mary Jean Heriot Powell (12 December 1907 – 1 April 2001), better known by her stage name Jean Anderson, was an English actress best remembered for her television roles as formidable matriarch Mary Hammond in the

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drama '' The Brothers'' (1972–1976) and as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook in the

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series '' Tenko'' (1982–1985). She also had a distinguished career on stage and appeared in 46 films.

Early life and stage

Anderson was born on 12 December 1907 in

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, Sussex to Scottish parents, and grew up in

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, Surrey. She trained at the

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from 1926–1928. Her first professional engagement was in ''Many Waters'' at the

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, in 1929 with her fellow RADA student

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. In 1934 she joined the Cambridge Festival Theatre, appearing in ''The Circle'' by Somerset Maugham and ''Yahoo'' by

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. In 1935 she played Lady Macbeth with The Seagull Players in Leeds. In 1936

's company from the

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, Dublin were appearing at the

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in London. Anderson joined them to appear in ''Ah, Wilderness!'' and stayed on for the rest of their season, including ''Carmilla'', ''The Moon in the Yellow River'', ''Youth’s the Season . . . ?'' and ''Yahoo''. When the company returned to Dublin she went with them and appeared regularly at the Gate Theatre for three years. Among many notable productions were ''As You Like It'', ''The Duchess of Malfi'', ''The Cherry Orchard'' and ''Doctor Faustus''. John Cowell wrote:

Jean Anderson, with her fascinating voice and medieval good looks, became a tower of strength in Longford Productions... As Longford’s first leading lady, she brought a new and fresh charm to every role. Her Rosalind in ''As You Like It'' caught the scent of the musk-rose in the hidden places of the Forest of Arden.

When Anderson returned to London in 1940 she joined the staff of the Players’ Theatre Club, which was a popular refuge from the war. When the director

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was called up for service, Anderson took over running the club and kept it going for the duration. Her acting career resumed after the war with ''1066 and All That'', ''Don Juan in Hell'', ''The Apple Cart'' and ''The Moon in the Yellow River'' with

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. At this point the focus of her work swung to television and film, but she continued to appear on stage in notable productions, such as Pirandello’s ''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' directed by

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, ''Hedda Gabler'', an all-star ''Uncle Vanya'' at Hampstead Theatre, and ''

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'' with

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and the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and also on Broadway. Her last stage work was in

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’s ''Harlequinade'' in 1988.

Television

Her first appearance on television was in ''Weep for the Cyclops'' on BBC in 1947. Other TV credits include: '' Police Surgeon'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

The Man in Room 17 ''The Man in Room 17'' is a British television series which ran for two series in the mid-1960s, then a follow up series The Fellows (Late of Room 17), produced by Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/pro ...

'', ''

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'', ''

Paul Temple Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge. Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private detective. With his wife Louise, affectionately known as 'Steve' in reference to her jo ...

'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Campion'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. She also played the role of the mother in ''

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'' in two separate BBC adaptations in 1951 and 1957. She reprised her role in the play ''The Moon in the Yellow River'' BBC 1953. Her last television work was in ''

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'' in 1998 on BBC.

Filmography

Films

* '' The Mark of Cain'' (1947) – Extra (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1948) – Dress Shop Assistant (uncredited) * ''Elizabeth of Ladymead'' (1948) * ''

The Romantic Age ''The Romantic Age'' is a 1949 British drama film directed by Edmond T. Gréville. The screenplay by Peggy Barwell and Edward Dryhurst is based on the French novel ''Lycee des jeunes filles'' by Serge Véber. The film was retitled ''Naughty A ...

'' (1949) – Miss Sankey (uncredited) * ''

Seven Days to Noon ''Seven Days to Noon'' (also known as ''Ultimatum'') is a 1950 British political thriller film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting and starring Barry Jones, Olive Sloane and André Morell. It was written by Frank Harvey and Roy Bou ...

'' (1950) – Mother at Railway Station (uncredited) * '' Out of True'' (1951) – Dr. Bell * '' The Franchise Affair'' (1951) – Miss Tuff * ''

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'' (1951) – Night Sister * ''

White Corridors ''White Corridors'' is a 1951 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Googie Withers, Godfrey Tearle, James Donald and Petula Clark. It was written by Jan Read and Jackson based on the 1944 novel ''Yeoman's Hospital'' by Helen ...

'' (1951) – Sister Gater * ''

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'' (1951) – Woman in Street (uncredited) * ''

The Brave Don't Cry ''The Brave Don't Cry'' is a 1952 British drama film directed by Philip Leacock and starring John Gregson, Meg Buchanan and John Rae. The film depicts the events of September 1950 at the Knockshinnoch Castle colliery in Scotland, where 129 m ...

'' (1952) – Mrs. Sloan * ''

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'' (1953) – Matron (uncredited) * '' Street Corner'' (1953) – Miss Haversham – Store Detective * ''

Johnny on the Run ''Johnny on the Run'' is a 1953 adventure film directed by Lewis Gilbert. It was produced by the Children's Film Foundation It includes documentary footage of streets in the south side of Edinburgh in the early 1950s and of rural Perthshire. P ...

'' (1953) – Mrs. MacIntyre * ''

The Kidnappers ''The Kidnappers'' (US: ''The Little Kidnappers'') is a 1953 British film, directed by Philip Leacock and written by Neil Paterson. The movie was financed by the Rank Organisation. According to producer Frank Godwin, J. Arthur Rank, chair ...

'' (1953) – Grandma MacKenzie * '' The Pleasure Garden'' (1953) – Aunt Minerva * ''

The Weak and the Wicked ''The Weak and the Wicked'' (U.S. title: ''Young and Willing'') is a 1954 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Glynis Johns and Diana Dors. It was written by Anne Burnaby, Thompson and Joan Henry, based on the 1952 au ...

'' (1954) – Policewoman in Court (uncredited) * ''

Lease of Life ''Lease of Life'' is a 1954 British drama film directed by Charles Frend and starring Robert Donat, Kay Walsh, Adrienne Corri and Denholm Elliott. It was made by Ealing Studios.The film was designed as a star vehicle for Donat in his return t ...

'' (1954) – Miss Calthorp * ''

Laughing in the Sunshine ''Laughing in the Sunshine'' (Swedish: ''Ett kungligt äventyr'') is a 1956 British-Swedish romance film directed by Daniel Birt and starring Jane Hylton, Bengt Logardt and Adolf Jahr. It was Birt's final film. It is sometimes alternatively descr ...

'' (1956) – Diana Masefield * '' The Secret Tent'' (1956) – Mrs. Martyn * ''

A Town Like Alice ''A Town Like Alice'' (United States title: ''The Legacy'') is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner ...

'' (1956) – Miss Horsefall * ''

The Barretts of Wimpole Street ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' is a 1930 play by the Dutch/English dramatist Rudolf Besier, based on the romance between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, and her domineering father's unwillingness to allow them to marry. Presented f ...

'' (1957) – Wilson * ''

Lucky Jim ''Lucky Jim'' is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz Ltd, Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the academic and romantic tribulations ...

'' (1957) – Mrs. Welch * ''

Robbery Under Arms ''Robbery Under Arms'' is a bushranger novel by Thomas Alexander Browne, published under his pen name Rolf Boldrewood. It was first published in serialised form by ''The Sydney Mail'' between July 1882 and August 1883, then in three volumes in ...

'' (1957) – Ma Marston * ''

Heart of a Child ''Heart of a Child'' is a 1958 British second feature ('B') drama film directed by Clive Donner and starring Jean Anderson and Donald Pleasence. It was adapted by Leigh Vance from the 1940 novel of the same title by Phyllis Bottome. Plot Duri ...

'' (1958) – Maria * '' A Night to Remember'' (1958) – Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited) * ''

SOS Pacific ''SOS Pacific'' is a 1959 British adventure drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Eva Bartok and Eddie Constantine. The film was shot in black and white, but later underwent colourisatio ...

'' (1959) – Miss Shaw * ''

Solomon and Sheba ''Solomon and Sheba'' is a 1959 American Biblical epic historical drama film directed by King Vidor, shot in Technirama (color by Technicolor), and distributed by United Artists. The film dramatizes events described in the tenth chapter of Fir ...

'' (1959) – Takyan * '' Spare the Rod'' (1961) – Mrs. Pond * ''Little Girls Never Cry'' (1962) – Aunt Kate * '' Waltz of the Toreadors'' (1962) – Agnes * ''

The Inspector ''The Inspector'' is an American series of 34 theatrical cartoon shorts produced between 1965 and 1969 by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and released through United Artists. The cartoons are dedicated to an animated version of Inspector Clousea ...

'' (1962) – Mrs. Jongman * ''

The Three Lives of Thomasina ''The Three Lives of Thomasina'' is a 1963 fantasy film directed by Don Chaffey about a cat's influence on a family. Patrick McGoohan and Susan Hampshire star alongside child actors Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber. Based on Paul Gallico's 195 ...

'' (1963) – Mrs. MacKenzie * ''

The Silent Playground ''The Silent Playground'' is a 1963 British thriller film written and directed by Stanley Goulder and starring Bernard Archard, Jean Anderson and Roland Curram. Plot In Greenwich, London, just before Christmas, Mavis Nugent, a young widow, drops ...

'' (1963) – Mrs. Lacey * '' Half a Sixpence'' (1967) – Lady Botting * ''

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'' (1970) – Matron * ''

The Night Digger ''The Road Builder'' (U.S. title: ''The Night Digger'') is a 1971 British thriller film directed by Alastair Reid and starring Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown and Nicholas Clay. The screenplay was by Roald Dahl based on the novel ''Nest in a Fall ...

'' (1971) – Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey * '' Dear Parents'' (1973) * ''

The Lady Vanishes ''The Lady Vanishes'' is a 1938 British Mystery film, mystery Thriller (genre), thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1936 novel '' ...

'' (1979) – Baroness * ''

Screamtime ''Screamtime'' is a 1983 British-American horror anthology film directed by Michael Armstrong and Stanley A. Long (dually credited as Al Beresford), written by Armstrong, and starring Jean Anderson, Robin Bailey, Dora Bryan, Ann Lynn, Yvonne Nich ...

'' (1983) – Mildred * ''

Madame Sousatzka ''Madame Sousatzka'' is a 1988 drama film directed by John Schlesinger, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the 1962 novel of the same name by Bernice Rubens. __TOC__ Plot Indian immigrant Sushila Sen (Shabana Azmi) ...

'' (1988) – Lady with Removal Men * ''

Leon the Pig Farmer ''Leon the Pig Farmer'' is a 1992 British comedy about a Jewish estate agent in London who discovers that thanks to an artificial insemination mishap, his real father owns a pig farm in Yorkshire. It was directed by Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor, a ...

'' (1992) – Mrs. Samuels * ''

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'' (1999) – Roise * '' The Harpist'' (1999) – Mrs. Merz * '' Endgame'' (2000) – Nell Her last role was in

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’s film of Samuel Beckett’s '' Endgame'', shot in

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just a few months before her death.

Television

* ''Weep for the Cyclops'' (1947) – Rebecca Dingley * ''The Governess'' (1948) – Kate * ''Charles and Kate'' (1949) – Mrs. Bracebridge * ''

'' (1951) – Mother (12 episodes) * ''The Fifty Mark'' (1951) – Aunt Stella * '' A Tomb with a View'' (1951) – Miss Heron * ''BBC Sunday Night Theatre'' (1952-9) – Various (8 episodes) * ''Joey's Burglar'' (1953) – Mrs. Spencer * ''Shadow and Substance'' (1953) – Miss Jemima Cooney * ''Dear Randolph'' (1953) – Hilda Randolph * '' Douglas Faibanks Presents'' (1954-6) – Various (2 episodes) * ''The Messenger'' (1955) – Elizabeth * ''Remember Jane'' (1955) – Miss Temple * ''ITV Play of the Week'' (1956-62) – Various (5 episodes) * ''The Railway Children'' (1957) – Mother (8 episodes) * ''The Survivors'' (1957) – Jane Decker * ''The Kentish Robin'' (1957) –

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* ''Dona Clariñes'' (1957) – Dona Clariñes * ''

African Patrol ''African Patrol'' is a 39-episode syndicated adventure television series created, directed and produced by George Breakston in conjunction with Jack J. Gross and Philip N. Krasne. It was filmed on location in Kenya for a period of 15 mon ...

'' (1958) – Linda Newton (1 episode) * ''Uncertain Mercy'' (1958) – Miss Watson * ''

Boyd Q.C. ''Boyd Q.C.'' is a British legal television programme transmitted from December 1956 to September 1964 by the ITV franchise holder Associated-Rediffusion. It focused around a barrister in a London courtroom and the cases in which he was involved ...

'' (1959) – TBC (1 episode) * ''

No Hiding Place ''No Hiding Place'' is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV (TV network), ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series ''Murder Bag'' ...

'' (1959) – Mrs. Evesham (1 episode) * ''

Interpol Calling ''Interpol Calling'' is a British television crime drama series produced by Rank Organisation and Jack Wrather, Jack Wrather Productions for ITC Entertainment. The programme, which ran for one series of 39 half-hour monochrome episodes 1959–19 ...

'' (1959) – Nun (1 episode) * ''Saturday Playhouse'' (1959-60) – Various (2 episodes) * ''The Vise'' (1959) – Marion (1 episode) * ''A Chance to Live'' (1960) – Winnie Thorpe * ''

Armchair Mystery Theatre ''Armchair Mystery Theatre'' is a 60-minute UK television anthology mystery series. Thirty-four episodes aired from 1960–1965. It was hosted by Donald Pleasence and produced by Leonard White. It was a spin-off from the successful '' Armchai ...

'' (1960) – Meg * ''BBC Sunday Night Play'' (1960-2) – Various (2 episodes) * ''The Knight Errant Limited'' (1960) – Mrs. Smith (1 episode) * ''Someone to Talk To'' (1960) – Jessie Truscott * '' Police Surgeon'' (1960) – Miss Pears (2 episodes) * ''Armchair Theatre'' (1961-71) – Various (3 episodes) * ''

'' (1960) – Madame Gallet (1 episode) * ''Somerset Maughan Hour'' (1961) – Mrs. Hannay (1 episode) * ''Doctor Knock'' (1961) – Madama Pons (1 episode) * '' Ghost Squad'' (1961) – Tante Marie (1 episode) * ''Suspense'' (1962) – Miss Reid (1 episode) * ''

Wuthering Heights ''Wuthering Heights'' is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the ...

'' (1962) – Ellen * ''The Odd Man'' (1963) – Miss Twilight (1 episode) * ''

Moonstrike ''Moonstrike'' is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1963. The series was an anthology programme: a collection of self-contained stories about acts of resistance in occupied Europe during the Second World War. Producer Gerard Gl ...

'' (1963) – Madame (1 episode) * ''

The Third Man ''The Third Man'' is a 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt, Orson Welles as Harry Lime and Trevor Howard as Major Calloway. Set in post-Worl ...

'' (1963) – Lady Fiona (1 episode) * ''

Lorna Doone ''Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor'' is a novel by R. D. Blackmore, first published in three volumes in London in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particu ...

'' (1963) – Miss Ridd (11 episodes) * ''

Smuggler's Bay ''Smuggler's Bay'' is a British period television drama series which aired on BBC One in 6 episodes in 1964. It is an adaptation of the 1898 adventure novel '' Moonfleet'' by J. Meade Falkner.''Radio Times, Volume 171''. No recordings of this pr ...

'' (1964) – Aunt Jane (2 episodes) * ''Thursday Theatre'' (1964) – Monica Pleydon MP (1 episode) * ''

Dr. Finlay's Casebook ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook'' is a television drama series that was produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novella ''Country Doctor'', the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fiction ...

'' (1964-7) – Various (4 episodes) * ''

The Wednesday Play ''The Wednesday Play'' is an anthology series of United Kingdom, British television plays which ran on BBC One, BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually original works written for television, although dramatic ...

'' (1964) – Miss Grant (1 episode) * ''The Sullavan Brothers'' (1964) – Mrs. Lamorbey (1 episode) * ''Alexander Graham Bell'' (1965) – Jeannie MacEwan (3 episodes) * ''Jury Room'' (1965) – Miss Jenkins (1 episode) * ''Buddenbrooks'' (1965) – Frau Consul (6 episodes) * ''

Jackanory ''Jackanory'' was a BBC children's television series which was originally broadcast between 1965 and 1996. It was designed to stimulate an interest in Reading (activity), reading. The programme was first transmitted on 13 December 1965, and the ...

'' (1966) – Storyteller (6 episodes) * ''The Heart of Midlothian'' (1966) – Meg Merdockson * ''

This Man Craig ''This Man Craig'' is a TV drama series produced by BBC Scotland and screened over 52 episodes in 1966 and 1967. It was set in a secondary school in the fictional Scottish town of Strathaird. Episodes were filmed at Glasgow’s Bellahouston Acad ...

'' (1966) – Miss Dougall (2 episodes) * ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'' (1967) – Ada Grey (1 episode) * ''Look and Read'' (1967) – Miss Brown (6 episodes) * ''St. Ives'' (1967) – Miss Gilchrist (4 episodes) * ''

Late Night Horror ''Late Night Horror'' is a BBC horror series shown in 1968 over six 25-minute episodes. An anthology of short horror stories, ''Late Night Horror'' was cancelled after six episodes due to complaints from viewers, and the majority of the series i ...

'' (1968) – Mrs. Revdale (1 episode) * ''BBC Play of the Month'' (1968) – Miss Ramsden (1 episode) * ''

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ''The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'' is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phe ...

'' (1968) – Mrs. Maxwell (2 episodes) * ''Run a Crooked Mile'' (1969) – Sister Teresa * ''

'' (1970) – Lady Grizel (1 episode) * ''Wicked Women'' (1970) – Mrs. Wallace (1 episode) * ''Kate'' (1970) – Pamela Stanton (1 episode) * ''

'' (1970) – Marthe (1 episode) * ''

'' (1970) – Penelope Blanchard (1 episode) * '' Bachelor Father'' (1970) – Mrs. Jenkins (1 episode) * ''

Little Women ''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters— Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details th ...

'' (1970) – Aunt March (7 episodes) * ''Fathers and Sons'' (1971) – Princess Natasha (2 episodes) * ''Alberte'' (1972) – Mrs. Digby (1 episode) * ''

The Adventures of Black Beauty ''The Adventures of Black Beauty'' is a British adventure family television series produced by London Weekend Television and shown by ITV in the United Kingdom between 1972 and 1974. It was distributed internationally by London Weekend Interna ...

'' (1972) – The Hon. Mrs. Jameson (1 episode) * ''Scoop'' (1972) – Great Aunt Anne (2 episodes) * '' The Brothers'' (1972-6) – Mary Hammond (92 episodes) * ''Late Call'' (1975) – Voice #1 (1 episode) * ''

'' (1975) – Mrs. Douglas (1 episode) * ''The ITV Play'' (1980) – Charlotte Ardsley (1 episode) * ''Love Story: A Chance to Sit Down'' (1981) – Dolly (3 episodes) * ''

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'' (1982) – Aunt Effie, Lady Euphimia Martin (1 episode) * '' Tenko'' (1982-4) – Joceyln Holbrook (20 episodes) * ''Tears Before Bedtime'' (1982) – Jean (1 episode) * ''Summer Season'' (1985) – Mrs. Mcleod (1 episode) * ''The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams'' (1986) – Mrs. Langton-Jones * ''

'' (1987) – Mrs. Fane (1 episode) * '' Campion'' (1989) – Belle Lafcadio (2 episodes) * ''Back Home'' (1989) – Grandmother Dickinson * ''

Screen One ''Screen One'' is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and distributed by BBC Worldwide, that was transmitted on BBC One from 1989 to 1998. A total of six series were broadcast, incorporating sixty individual films, s ...

'' (1990) – Molly Cowper (1 episode) * ''

Screen Two ''Screen Two'' is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1985 to 1998 (not to be confused with a run of films shown on BBC2 under the billing ''Screen 2'' between April 1977 and March 1978 ...

'' (1990-1) – Various (2 episodes) * ''

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'' (1990-6) – Various (2 episodes) * ''

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'' (1991) – Madame Gulmington * '' Tonight at 8:30'' (1991) – Aunt Martha (1 episode) * '' G.B.H.'' (1991) – Dr. Goldup (3 episodes) * ''

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'' (1991) – Mrs. Spenser-Ewell (1 episode) * ''

'' (1991) – Mrs. Fortescue (1 episode) * ''Trainer'' (1991) – Harriet May (1 episode) * ''

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'' (1992) – Victoria Wainwright (1 episode) * ''The Bogie Man'' (1992) – Mrs. Napier * ''

'' (1993) – Lady Hinksey (1 episode) * '' Diana: Her True Story'' (1993) – Lady Femoy * ''

'' (1993) – Mrs. Monteith (1 episode) * ''Moonacre'' (1994) – Mrs. Heliotrope (6 episodes) * ''

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'' (1994) – Queen Mum * '' Second Thoughts'' (1994) – Hermoine (1 episode) * ''

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'' (1994) – Aunt Edith Cranberry (1 episode) * ''

Doctor Finlay ''Doctor Finlay'' is a British television series based on A. J. Cronin's stories about the fictional medical hero, Dr. Finlay. It was first broadcast on 5 March 1993 on ITV. It is a follow-up to ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook'', the successful BBC ...

'' (1995-6) – Mrs. Stirling (2 episodes) * ''Family Money'' (1997) – Dolores (1 episode) * ''

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'' (1997) – Grandma (1 episode) * '' The Uninvited'' (1997) – Elizabeth Madigan (1 episode) * ''

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'' (1997) – Lady Alice Hurleston (2 episodes) * ''

'' (1998) – Alice Marsden (1 episode) * ''

'' (1998) – Norma (1 episode)

Personal life and death

In 1934 she married Peter Powell, who directed her in many plays over the years. They divorced in 1949. They had a daughter, Aude, who became an agent. She had a London home in Barnes, and in her later years moved to Eden Valley in the north-west of England near her daughter. Her interests were collecting porcelain figurines and horse racing. She was the subject of '' This Is Your Life'' in 1985 when she was surprised by

Eamonn Andrews Eamonn Andrews, (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987) was an Irish radio and television presenter, employed primarily in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s. From 1960 to 1964 he chaired the Radio Éireann Authority (now the RTÉ ...

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References

External links

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British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Jean Actresses from Eastbourne 1907 births 2001 deaths English film actresses English people of Scottish descent English television actresses 20th-century English actresses