Mary Morris

Actor

Mary Morris

Born December 13, 1915 in FijiDied October 14, 198821 films

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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 posterFirst watchThe Thief of Bagdad19407.1as HalimaA supporting role in one of the best-rated films of their career.When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful…View film

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Filmography

21 films as actor
  1. 1990Sometime in AugustMrs. Wan
  2. 1987ClawsMiss Browning-Browning
  3. 1985The Moon Over SohoFrieda King
  4. 1984The Life and Death of King JohnQueen Elinor
  5. 1983Seaton’s AuntSeaton’s Aunt
  6. 1982Doctor Who: KindaPanna
  7. 1978Richard IIDuchess of Gloucester
  8. 1978Full CircleGreta Braden
  9. 1976The House of Bernarda AlbaBernarda
  10. 1951High TreasonAnna Braun
  11. 1949Train of EventsLouise
  12. 1945The Man from MoroccoSarah Duboste
  13. 1945The AgitatorLettie Shackleton
  14. 1943UndercoverAnna Petrovitch
  15. 1941"Pimpernel" SmithLudmilla Koslowski
  16. 1941Major BarbaraA Girl
  17. 1940The Thief of BagdadHalima
  18. 1940Who Killed Jack Robins?
  19. 1939The Spy in BlackChauffeuse
  20. 1938Prison Without BarsRenee
  21. 1937Victoria the GreatDuchess of Kent
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