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Mary Morris

Date of birth: 1915-12-13

Place of birth: Fiji

Known for: Acting

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Mary Morris

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).

Movie Credits

"Pimpernel" Smith
3.6

"Pimpernel" Smith

1941-07-28

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology st

Sometime in August
0

Sometime in August

1990-02-25

Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation i

High Treason
2.6

High Treason

1951-11-13

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.

Undercover
2.9

Undercover

1943-07-26

Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activi

The Man from Morocco
2.5

The Man from Morocco

1945-04-17

With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Bri

Who Killed Jack Robins?
0

Who Killed Jack Robins?

1940-01-01

Directed by Jirí Weiss

The Thief of Bagdad
3.5

The Thief of Bagdad

1940-02-19

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with th

The Spy in Black
3.2

The Spy in Black

1939-08-03

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Victoria the Great
2.7

Victoria the Great

1937-09-01

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her mar

Full Circle
3.1

Full Circle

1978-02-09

After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and mov

The Agitator
3

The Agitator

1945-01-24

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mar

The Moon Over Soho
0

The Moon Over Soho

1985-08-18

A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his

The Life and Death of King John
3.5

The Life and Death of King John

1984-11-24

The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Ar

Major Barbara
3.4

Major Barbara

1941-05-14

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels

Claws
0

Claws

1987-10-04

A tale of cat lovers, the social circle they inhabit and the power struggles between them.

Prison Without Bars
3

Prison Without Bars

1938-09-20

Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all

Train of Events
3.1

Train of Events

1949-01-18

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how

Richard II
3.8

Richard II

1978-12-10

Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is th

Doctor Who: Kinda
3.8

Doctor Who: Kinda

1982-02-09

The TARDIS lands on the idyllic jungle world of Deva Loka, which is being surveyed for possible Eart

Seaton’s Aunt
0

Seaton’s Aunt

1983-07-01

A young boy forced to live with his aunt after his parents die is convinced that she is old hag in l