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Mary Morris

Mary Morris

Born: 1915-12-13 • Fiji

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).

Filmography
Sometime in August poster
Sometime in August
1990 • Mrs. Wan
Claws poster
Claws
1987 • Miss Browning-Browning
The Moon Over Soho poster
The Moon Over Soho
1985 • Frieda King
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The Life and Death of King John
1984 • Queen Elinor
Seaton’s Aunt poster
Seaton’s Aunt
1983 • Seaton’s Aunt
Doctor Who: Kinda poster
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982 • Panna
Richard II poster
Richard II
1978 • Duchess of Gloucester
Full Circle poster
Full Circle
1978 • Greta Braden
High Treason poster
High Treason
1951 • Anna Braun
Train of Events poster
Train of Events
1949 • Louise
The Man from Morocco poster
The Man from Morocco
1945 • Sarah Duboste
The Agitator poster
The Agitator
1945 • Lettie Shackleton
Undercover poster
Undercover
1943 • Anna Petrovitch
"Pimpernel" Smith poster
"Pimpernel" Smith
1941 • Ludmilla Koslowski
Major Barbara poster
Major Barbara
1941 • A Girl
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The Thief of Bagdad
1940 • Halima
No Image
Who Killed Jack Robins?
1940
The Spy in Black poster
The Spy in Black
1939 • Chauffeuse
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Prison Without Bars
1938 • Renee
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Victoria the Great
1937 • Duchess of Kent