Jean Anderson
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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 .
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
Heartbeat
Victoria Wainwright
Casualty
Rosie Collier
Casualty
Jessie Baine
This Is Your Life
Self
Inspector Morse
Lady Hinksey
BBC Play of the Month
Miss Ramsden
The Wednesday Play
Mrs. Grant
High Treason
Woman in street (uncredited)
Simon Magus
Roise
Maigret
Madame Gallet
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Lady Mary McDowell
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Mrs. Gordon
No Hiding Place
Keeping Up Appearances
Mrs. Fortescue
The Romantic Age
Miss Sankey
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Alice Marsden
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Time Bomb
Circles Of Deceit
Dowager
Endgame
Nell
White Corridors
Sister Gater
Wuthering Heights
Ellen
Street Corner
Miss Haversham - Store Detective
Survival of the Fittest
Molly Cowper
Interpol Calling
Nun
Solomon and Sheba
Takyan
Robbery Under Arms
Ma Marston
Bond Street
Dress Shop Assistant
Laughing in the Sunshine
Lucky Jim
Mrs. Welch
The House of Eliott
Mrs. Spenser-Ewell
The Lady Vanishes
Baroness
Tenko
Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
Waltz of the Toreadors
Agnes
Lease of Life
Miss Calthorp
Screamtime
Mildred Hurley
Brotherly Love
Matron
Half a Sixpence
Lady Botting
Paris
Miss McLeod
Back Home
Grandmother Dickinson
Campion
Belle Lafcadio
The Brothers
The Whipping Boy
Queen Mum
Doctor Finlay
Mrs. Stirling
The Odd Man
Miss Twilight
G.B.H.
Dr Goldup
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Mrs. Fane
Rebecca
Grandma
Codename
Penelope Blanshard
A Night to Remember
Stuffy Lady in Lifeboat (uncredited)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ada Grey
Do Not Disturb
Lady Ann
Q.E.D.
The Pleasure Garden
Aunt Minerva
The Uninvited
Moonacre
Miss Heliotrope
Little Women
Aunt Josephine March
Leon the Pig Farmer
Mrs Samuels
Late Night Horror
Mrs. Redvale
Run a Crooked Mile
Sister Teresa
A Town Like Alice
Miss Horsefall
The Three Lives of Thomasina
Mrs. MacKenzie
Keeping Mum
Norma
The Black Velvet Gown
Madame Gallmington
Spare the Rod
Mrs. Pond
The Road Builder
Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
SOS Pacific
Miss Shaw
The Railway Children
The Kidnappers
Grandma MacKenzie
Life in Her Hands
Night Sister
Fathers and Sons
Lorna Doone
The Inspector
Mrs. Jongman
The Franchise Affair
Miss Tuff
Dear Parents
The Weak and the Wicked
Policewoman in Court
Scoop
Great Aunt Anne
The Bogie Man
Mrs Napier
Johnny on the Run
Mrs. MacIntyre
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
Mrs Langton-Jones
The Brave Don't Cry
Mrs. Sloan
The Silent Playground
Mrs. Lacey
Diana: Her True Story
Lady Fermoy
Out of True
Dr. Bell
Father's Help
Mrs. Harrogate
Heart of a Child
Maria
O.M.
Lady Crewe