Mary Morris

Acting

Mary Morris

Born
Died
(aged 72)
Birthplace
Fiji
Credits
48 titles

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).

Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 48

YearTitleRole
1990 Sometime in August Film Mrs. Wan
1989 Campion TV Caroline Faraday (2 ep)
1987 Claws Film Miss Browning-Browning
1986 Sunday Premiere TV Miss Browning-Browning (1 ep)
1985 The Moon Over Soho Film Frieda King
1985 The Ray Bradbury Theater TV Matilda Hanks (1 ep)
1984 The Life and Death of King John Film Queen Elinor
1984 Diana TV Miss Westcott (2 ep)
1983 Seaton’s Aunt Film Seaton’s Aunt
1983 Shades of Darkness TV Seaton's Aunt (1 ep)
1982 Doctor Who: Kinda Film Panna
1978 Richard II Film Duchess of Gloucester
1978 The BBC Television Shakespeare TV Douchess of Gloucester (1 ep)
1978 Full Circle Film Mrs. Braden
1977 Anna Karenina TV (2 ep)
1977 The Velvet Glove TV Mary Baker Eddy (1 ep)
1976 The House of Bernarda Alba Film Bernarda
1975 Ballet Shoes TV Madame Fidolia (6 ep)
1975 Ten from the Twenties TV Aunt Tatty (1 ep)
1974 An Unofficial Rose TV (4 ep)
1974 Village Hall TV The Dame (1 ep)
1974 Boy Dominic TV Lady Bulman (13 ep)
1970 Wicked Women TV Madame Bonheur (1 ep)
1969 Plays of Today TV Scotch Ellen (1 ep)
1967 The Prisoner TV Number Two (1 ep)
1965 BBC Play of the Month TV Madame Pernelle (1 ep)
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre TV The Woman (1 ep)
1965 Londoners TV Sarah Ashton (1 ep)
1964 Theatre 625 TV Doktor von Zahnd, Agatha, Sister Leonora (1 ep)
1963 Doctor Who TV Panna (1 ep)
1963 The Spread of the Eagle TV Cleopatra (3 ep)
1962 The Andromeda Breakthrough TV Madeleine Dawnay (6 ep)
1961 A for Andromeda TV Professor Madeleine Dawnay (4 ep)
1960 An Age of Kings TV Margaret of Anjou (5 ep)
1959 Interpol Calling TV Ingrid Hoffman (1 ep)
1951 High Treason Film Anna Braun
1949 Train of Events Film Louise
1948 The Philco Television Playhouse TV (1 ep)
1945 The Man from Morocco Film Sarah Duboste
1945 The Agitator Film Lettie Shackleton
1943 Undercover Film Anna Petrovitch
1941 "Pimpernel" Smith Film Ludmilla Koslowski
1941 Major Barbara Film A Girl
1940 The Thief of Bagdad Film Halima
1940 Who Killed Jack Robins? Film
1939 The Spy in Black Film Chauffeuse
1938 Prison Without Bars Film Renee
1937 Victoria the Great Film Duchess of Kent
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