Mary Morris

Born: 1915-12-13

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).


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The Thief of Bagdad

as Halima
Released: 1940-12-25

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

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Full Circle

as Greta Braden
Released: 1978-02-09

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

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High Treason

as Anna Braun
Released: 1951-11-13

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

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'Pimpernel' Smith

as Ludmilla Koslowski
Released: 1941-07-26

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

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Major Barbara

as A Girl
Released: 1941-05-14

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

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The Spy in Black

as Chauffeuse
Released: 1939-08-03

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

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Richard II

as Duchess of Gloucester
Released: 1978-12-10

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

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Train of Events

as Louise
Released: 1949-01-18

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

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Undercover

as Anna Petrovitch
Released: 1943-07-26

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

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Victoria the Great

as Duchess of Kent
Released: 1937-09-01

The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with...

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Claws

as Miss Browning-Browning
Released: 1987-10-04

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

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The Man from Morocco

as Sarah Duboste
Released: 1945-04-17

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

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The Agitator

as Lettie Shackleton
Released: 1945-01-24

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

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Doctor Who: Kinda

as Panna
Released: 1982-02-09

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

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The Life and Death of King John

as Queen Elinor
Released: 1984-11-24

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

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The Moon Over Soho

as Frieda King
Released: 1985-08-18

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

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Prison Without Bars

as Renee
Released: 1938-09-20

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

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Sometime in August

as Mrs. Wan
Released: 1990-02-25

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

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Doctor Who

as Panna
First aired: 1963-11-23

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...

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The Philco Television Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1948-10-03

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...

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Thirty-Minute Theatre

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-10-07

Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television...

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BBC Television Shakespeare

as Duchess of Gloucester
First aired: 1978-12-03

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...

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The Ray Bradbury Theater

as Matilda Hanks
First aired: 1985-05-21

A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray...

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Campion

as Caroline Faraday
First aired: 1989-01-22

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written...

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An Age of Kings

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-04-28

A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over...

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The Prisoner

as Number Two
First aired: 1967-09-29

After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but...

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Interpol Calling

as Ingrid Hoffman
First aired: 1959-09-13

The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international...

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Anna Karenina

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-09-25

Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.

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Boy Dominic

as Lady Bulman
First aired: 1974-03-24

The adventures of a 12-year-old boy's struggles in Victorian Yorkshire, after his father,...

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A for Andromeda

as Professor Madeleine Dawnay
First aired: 1961-10-03

Set in 1970, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it...

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Ballet Shoes

as Madame Fidolia
First aired: 1975-10-05

Ballet Shoes is British television adaptation of Noel Streatfeild's novel Ballet Shoes first...

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