Anna Lee
Date of birth: 1913-01-02
Place of birth: Igtham, Kent, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Joan Boniface Winnifrith, The British Bombshell, Joanna Boniface Stafford
Biography
Anna Lee, MBE (born Joan Boniface Winnifrith; 2 January 1913 – 14 May 2004) was a British actress. Lee married her first husband, the director Robert Stevenson, in 1933 and moved to Hollywood in 1939. She became a naturalised US citizen in 1945. In 1981, a car accident left her paralysed from the waist down. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Movie Credits
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962-10-31
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood
Mannequin
1933-12-06
'Boxer leaves true love for society lady, but returns.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Man Who Changed His Mind
1936-09-11
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul.
Hangmen Also Die!
1943-04-15
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assass
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947-05-25
A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former ow
Bedlam
1946-05-10
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy w
In Like Flint
1967-03-15
Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minut
Jack the Giant Killer
1962-05-18
The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to ab
The Crimson Kimono
1959-10-21
Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district
Seven Sinners
1940-10-25
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale
Flying Tigers
1942-10-08
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the
How Green Was My Valley
1941-10-28
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn
The Sound of Music
1965-03-29
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess
Fort Apache
1948-05-21
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military hon
King Solomon's Mines
1937-06-17
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing f
Gideon's Day
1958-03-25
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-vi
7 Women
1965-12-11
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord c
My Life with Caroline
1941-08-01
A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
Summer Storm
1944-07-14
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks he
The Last Hurrah
1958-12-31
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo
Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942-12-30
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes
For Those Who Think Young
1964-06-01
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a loc
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
1935-09-01
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a
Jet Over The Atlantic
1959-11-04
Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raf
Flesh and Fantasy
1943-10-29
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New O
Faces
1934-01-27
'Suburban beautician almost elopes with rich client's husband.' (British Film Catalogue)
First a Girl
1935-11-07
An aspiring singer quits her menial job and is talked into performing as a female impersonator by he
Legend of the Northwest
1978-01-01
Set during the old west, Bearheart the dog witnesses his master, an old mountain man being murdered
O.H.M.S.
1937-01-01
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom
Prison Warden
1949-10-29
The new warden of a bad prison finds his biggest problem is his wife.
The Four Just Men
1939-06-01
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of th
Non-Stop New York
1937-09-13
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from L
Return to Yesterday
1940-03-09
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre
The Horse Soldiers
1959-06-11
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center.
The Big Night
1960-02-17
Frankie stumbles on a stash of cash and finds himself way in over his head during the course of one
Young Man's Fancy
1939-07-31
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
2002-08-01
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great
The Camels Are Coming
1934-10-08
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smuggler
The Night Rider
1979-05-11
"The Mark of Zorro" was updated for this pilot for a prospective series that tells of a New Orleans
Two Rode Together
1961-05-24
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Picture Mommy Dead
1966-11-02
Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over
Heat Wave
1935-05-30
Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures
G.I. War Brides
1946-08-12
Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join th
Listen to Me
1989-05-05
It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son,
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962-04-13
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a sma
Best Man Wins
1948-05-06
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with e
Forever and a Day
1943-01-21
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964-06-11
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she s
Ebb Tide
1932-02-16
A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his f
The Beasts Are on the Streets
1978-05-18
Panic grips a small community after a tanker truck crashes through a fence at a wild animal park, fr
His Lordship
1932-06-02
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the
Beverly Hills Brats
1989-10-06
A rich young boy arranges to be kidnapped so he'll get more attention from his parents.
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
1973-11-07
In this sequel, the daughters' anniversary present is the news that their widowed father is about to
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977-03-13
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
What Can I Do?
1993-01-01
An elderly woman in New York City has a group of dinner guests over to her apartment one evening, an
This Earth Is Mine
1959-07-08
Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide wheth
High Conquest
1947-06-21
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
2000-10-14
Documentary about how the creative energies of Darryl F. Zanuck and John Ford combined to forge an e
The King's Cup
1933-02-02
'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British
Lucky Loser
1934-03-01
Rolling in Money
1934-08-20
An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barbe
Oliver and the Artful Dodger
1972-10-21
An animated sequel to the story of "Oliver Twist". Oliver is adopted by Mr. Brownlow. When Mr. Brown