Ann Bell

Ann Bell (born 29 April 1940) is a British actress, best known for playing war internee Marion Jefferson in the BBC World War II drama series Tenko during the early 1980s. She was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, daughter of John Forrest Bell and Marjorie (née Byrom) Bell, and educated at Birkenhead High School. She was married to character actor Robert Lang from 1971 until his death in 2004. She has two children.

She also played the title role in the 1963 BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre in addition to many guest roles on television, including The Avengers, the lost Nigel Kneale play "The Road", The Sentimental Agent, The Saint, Danger Man, The Baron, Mystery and Imagination, The Troubleshooters, Callan, Journey to the Unknown, Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) (in the 1968 episode "The Sign of Four"), Department S, The Lost Boys, Enemy at the Door, Shoestring, Tumbledown, Blackeyes, Inspector Morse, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Casualty, Heartbeat, Holby City, The Forsyte Saga (2002 miniseries), The Bill and Waking the Dead.

In 1968 she appeared in "The Company of Five", an ITV anthology of six weekly plays starring the same five actors that included the Dennis Potter play Shaggy Dog.

Filmography

• Stopover Forever (1964)
• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
• The Witches (1966)
• To Sir, with Love (1967)
• The Shuttered Room (1967)
• The Reckoning (1969)
• The Statue (1971)
• Champions (1983)
• When Saturday Comes (1996)
• The Land Girls (1998)
• Up at the Villa (2000)
• The Last Hangman (2005)

External links

• Ann Bell at the Internet Movie Database
• Photo from 1963 BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre