Jean Anderson

For the cookbook author, see Jean Anderson (cookbook author).

Jean Anderson
Born	12 December 1907(1907-12-12) Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Died	1 April 2001(2001-04-01) (aged 93)

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.

Filmography

• 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)
• Madame Sousatzka (1988)
• Leon the Pig Farmer (1992)
• Rebecca (1997)
• Simon Magus (1999)

Personal life

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

External links

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