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Born:
1915-12-13

Birthplace:
Fiji

Credits:
41 Total Roles

Mary Morris

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Biography

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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).

Known For

Full Filmography

Year Title Role
1990 Sometime in August MOVIE Mrs. Wan
1989 Campion TV Caroline Faraday
1987 Claws MOVIE Miss Browning-Browning
1985 The Moon Over Soho MOVIE Frieda King
1985 The Ray Bradbury Theater TV Matilda Hanks
1984 The Life and Death of King John MOVIE Queen Elinor
1984 Diana TV Miss Westcott
1983 Seaton’s Aunt MOVIE Seaton’s Aunt
1982 Doctor Who: Kinda MOVIE Panna
1978 Richard II MOVIE Duchess of Gloucester

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