Mary Morris
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).
Known For
Credits
- 1990 · Sometime in August as Mrs. Wan
- 1989 · Campion as Caroline Faraday
- 1987 · Claws as Miss Browning-Browning
- 1985 · The Moon Over Soho as Frieda King
- 1985 · The Ray Bradbury Theater as Matilda Hanks
- 1984 · The Life and Death of King John as Queen Elinor
- 1983 · Seaton’s Aunt as Seaton’s Aunt
- 1982 · Doctor Who: Kinda as Panna
- 1978 · Richard II as Duchess of Gloucester
- 1978 · BBC Television Shakespeare as Duchess of Gloucester
- 1978 · Full Circle as Greta Braden
- 1977 · Anna Karenina as
- 1975 · Ballet Shoes as Madame Fidolia
- 1974 · An Unofficial Rose as
- 1974 · Boy Dominic as Lady Bulman
- 1967 · The Prisoner as Number Two
- 1965 · Thirty-Minute Theatre as
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Panna
- 1962 · The Andromeda Breakthrough as Madeleine Dawnay
- 1961 · A for Andromeda as Professor Madeleine Dawnay
- 1960 · An Age of Kings as
- 1959 · Interpol Calling as Ingrid Hoffman
- 1951 · High Treason as Anna Braun
- 1949 · Train of Events as Louise
- 1948 · The Philco Television Playhouse as
- 1945 · The Man from Morocco as Sarah Duboste
- 1945 · The Agitator as Lettie Shackleton
- 1943 · Undercover as Anna Petrovitch
- 1941 · 'Pimpernel' Smith as Ludmilla Koslowski
- 1941 · Major Barbara as A Girl
- 1940 · The Thief of Bagdad as Halima
- 1940 · Who Killed Jack Robins? as
- 1939 · The Spy in Black as Chauffeuse
- 1938 · Prison Without Bars as Renee
- 1937 · Victoria the Great as Duchess of Kent