Actor
Jean Anderson
December 12, 1907 · Eastbourne, Sussex, England
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.
Often works with
Laurence Naismith
3 titles together
A Night to Remember, Solomon and Sheba, The Three Lives of Thomasina
John Cairney
2 titles together
A Night to Remember, Lucky Jim
Kenneth Griffith
2 titles together
A Night to Remember, Lucky Jim
Patricia Routledge
2 titles together
Keeping Up Appearances, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Geoffrey Hughes
2 titles together
Keeping Up Appearances, Heartbeat
Derek Fowlds
2 titles together
Inspector Morse, Heartbeat
Full filmography · 90
Endgame
as Nell
2000
Simon Magus
as Roise
1999
The Whipping Boy
as Queen Mum
1994
Diana: Her True Story
as Lady Fermoy
1993
Leon the Pig Farmer
as Mrs Samuels
1993
The Bogie Man
as Mrs Napier
1992
The Black Velvet Gown
as Madame Gallmington
1991Do Not Disturb
as Lady Ann
1991
O.M.
as Lady Crewe
1990
Survival of the Fittest
as Molly Cowper
1990
Circles Of Deceit
as Dowager
1990
Back Home
as Grandmother Dickinson
1989