Mary Morris

Born in December 13th, 1915

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Mary Morris Biography

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).

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Mary Morris Movies

Full Circle Poster
September 11, 1981
The Agitator Poster
August 18, 1949
Pimpernel Smith Poster
February 12, 1942
Major Barbara Poster
May 14, 1941
The Thief of Bagdad Poster
October 14, 1940
The Spy in Black Poster
October 5, 1939

Mary Morris TV Shows

Doctor Who Poster
November 23, 1963
The Prisoner Poster
September 29, 1967
Campion Poster
January 22, 1989
Thirty-Minute Theatre Poster
October 7, 1965
Anna Karenina Poster
September 25, 1977

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