Jean Anderson
Known for ActingBorn 1907-12-12 — died 2001-04-01Eastbourne, Sussex, England
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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 .
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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.
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Known for
A Night to Remember
1958 · as Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
Solomon and Sheba
1959 · as Takyan
The Lady Vanishes
1979 · as Baroness
Brotherly Love
1970 · as Matron
SOS Pacific
1959 · as Miss Shaw
The Whipping Boy
1994 · as Queen Mum
Back Home
1989 · as Grandmother Dickinson
Dear Parents
1973
The Road Builder
1971 · as Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
Lucky Jim
1957 · as Mrs. Welch
Do Not Disturb
1991 · as Lady Ann
The Inspector
1962 · as Mrs. Jongman
Half a Sixpence
1967 · as Lady Botting
Simon Magus
1999 · as Roise
A Town Like Alice
1956 · as Miss Horsefall
The Three Lives of Thomasina
1963 · as Mrs. MacKenzie
Heart of a Child
1958 · as Maria
The Bogie Man
1992 · as Mrs Napier