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 in the 1970s BBC drama The Brothers as hard-faced matriarch Mary Hammond, and the 1980s Second World War series Tenko as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook.
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 and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.
Film roles include: The Kidnappers, A Town Like Alice, Lucky Jim, Robbery Under Arms, Solomon and Sheba, Waltz of the Toreadors, The Night Digger, The Lady Vanishes, Screamtime and Leon the Pig Farmer.
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