Mary Morris

Mary Morris

  • Birthday: 1915-12-13
  • Deathday: 1988-10-14
  • Place of birth: Fiji

Biography

From Wikipedia Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a British actress Morris made her stage debut in Lysistrata at the Gate Theatre, London, in 1935. In 1943, she played Anna Petrovitch in the Ealing war movie Undercover as the wife of a Serbian guerrilla leader, and appeared in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. On television, she played Professor Madeleine Dawnay in the science-fiction television drama A for Andromeda (and its sequel, The Andromeda Breakthrough), and Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (as part of the BBC's adaptation of Shakespeare's Roman plays, The Spread of the Eagle, 1963). As a Number Two in The Prisoner episode "Dance of the Dead" she dressed as Peter Pan during a masquerade ball. After a 25-year absence she reappeared in films as the mother of the murdered boy in the 1977 horror film Full Circle. She also appeared on television in Doctor Who in the story Kinda (1982), playing the pivotal role of the shaman Panna opposite Peter Davison.[citation needed] Other television appearances included the Countess Vronsky in the BBC's Anna Karenina (1977), the macabre, ancient relative in the Walter de la Mare story, Seaton's Aunt (1983) in Granada Television's Shades of Darkness series and the formidable matriarch in Police at the Funeral, an adaptation of one of Margery Allingham's Albert Campion stories for the BBC's Campion (1989).

Filmography

The Agitator

1945

As Lettie Shackleton

The Moon Over Soho

1985

As Frieda King

The Life and Death of King John

1984

As Queen Elinor

'Pimpernel' Smith

1941

As Ludmilla Koslowski

The Man from Morocco

1945

As Sarah Duboste

Claws

1987

As Miss Browning-Browning

Prison Without Bars

1938

As Renee

High Treason

1951

As Anna Braun

Undercover

1943

As Anna Petrovitch

Victoria the Great

1937

As Duchess of Kent

Sometime in August

1990

As Mrs. Wan

Richard II

1978

As Duchess of Gloucester

The Thief of Bagdad

1940

As Halima

Doctor Who: Kinda

1982

As Panna

The Spy in Black

1939

As Chauffeuse

Full Circle

1978

As Greta Braden

Major Barbara

1941

As A Girl

Train of Events

1949

As Louise

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