Anna Lee
Acting
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]
Born: January 2, 1913
Place of Birth: Igtham, Kent, England, UK
Known For
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
The Sound of Music
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Perry Mason
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Combat!
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Filmography
as Self - Actress
as Gertie
as Aunt Wilhelmina
as Lady Earl
as Mrs. Jackson
as Laura Delano
as Judge Barbara Hanline
as Mrs. Grunch / Mistress Deadly / Farmer's Wife / The Old Crone (voice)
as Elisabeth
as Elsie Kornwald
as Maria Malik
as Mrs. Russell
as Eileen Crane
as Susan Harper
as Sister Margaretta
as Clara Merivale
as Titanic Passenger in Lifeboat
as Laura Pruitt
as Mrs. Woodridge
as Mrs. Bates
as Sister Lescaut
as Roberta Saunders
as Lady Constance
as Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)
as Mrs. Frances Alland
as Mrs. Malaprop
as Mrs. Turner
as Ursula Leverett
as Mac
as Charlotte Rambeau
as Mrs. Buford
as Helen Mason
as Gert Minihan
as Mrs. Kate Gideon
as Fairy Godmother
as Helene Ferguson
as Crystal Durham
as Mrs. Allyris Craven
as Amy Bassett
as Anne Tracy
as Frances Lawrence
as Ann Hammond
as Elisa Pennington Burnell
as Mrs. Emily Collingwood
as Nancy Smiley
as Marie Correl
as Mrs. Fairley
as Linda Powell
as Nell Bowen
as Nadina Kalenin
as Rowena (segment 2)
as Masha Novotny
as Cornelia Trimble-Pomfret
as Judith Bowen
as Brooke Elliott
as Bronwyn
as Caroline Mason
as Dorothy
as Carol Sands
as Ada
as Ann Lodge
as Jennie Carr
as Kathleen 'Kathy' O'Brien
as Sally Briggs
as Dr. Clare Wyatt
as Princess Mironoff
as Vivian Tomkin
as Jane Allison
as Anita Rodgers
as Madeleine Pelham
as Babette
as Scrub Girl Chorine (uncredited)