Cast: Jean Anderson
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jean Anderson. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Tenko (TV Series)
1981 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lavinia Warner · Jeremy Summers · David Askey · Pennant Roberts
Cast Ann Bell · Stephanie Cole · Stephanie Beacham · Louise Jameson
7.1
80 votes
7.1
80 votes
A Town Like Alice
1956 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jack Lee
Cast Virginia McKenna · Peter Finch · Kenji Takaki · Tran Van Khe
Plot In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to...
6.6
88 votes
6.6
88 votes
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (TV)
1987 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Davies
Cast Joan Hickson · Geraldine Alexander · John Moulder-Brown · Frederick Treves
Plot A young recently married woman, Gwenda Reed, comes back to England after living most of her life in New Zealand. While her husband, Giles, is out of the country she...
6.4
161 votes
6.4
161 votes
Rebecca (TV)
1997 · Movie · 190 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jim O'Brien
Cast Charles Dance · Diana Rigg · Geraldine James · Jean Anderson
Plot Rebecca is a classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter marries a woman half his age only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca,...
6.2
32 votes
6.2
32 votes
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1957 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Sidney Franklin
Cast Jennifer Jones · John Gielgud · Bill Travers · Virginia McKenna
Plot The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a classic movie, from 1957, starring Jennifer Jones as the poet Elizabeth Barrett. The move explores her relationship with her controlling father Edward Mounton-Barrett...
6.2
52 votes
6.2
52 votes
The Three Lives of Thomasina
1963 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Don Chaffey
Cast Patrick McGoohan · Susan Hampshire · Laurence Naismith · Jean Anderson
6.1
38 votes
6.1
38 votes
The Lady Vanishes
1979 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Page
Cast Angela Lansbury · Cybill Shepherd · Elliott Gould · Herbert Lom
Plot During a travel by train across the pre-Second World War Germany, the American heiress Amanda Kelly met sweet English nanny Miss Froy. She mysteriously disappeared and everyone in the train...
5.8
193 votes
5.8
193 votes
Country Dance
1970 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom
Direction J. Lee Thompson
Cast Peter O'Toole · Susannah York · Michael Craig · Harry Andrews
Plot In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm,...
5.8
48 votes
5.8
48 votes
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction John Guillermin
Cast Peter Sellers · Dany Robin · Margaret Leighton · John Fraser
Plot This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster:...
5.3
45 votes
5.3
45 votes
Leon the Pig Farmer
1992 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Vadim Jean · Gary Sinyor
Cast Mark Frankel · Janet Suzman · Brian Glover · Connie Booth
Plot Leon is a jewish estate agent who, during a routine check-up at an infertility clinic, discovers he has something in common with Captain Blighe of the Bounty. Yes, they were...
5.3
34 votes
5.3
34 votes
The Harpist
1999 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany
Direction Hansjörg Thurn
Cast Christien Anholt · Colin Baker · Jean Anderson · Barbara Murray
Plot An ordinary young man is enthralled by a beautiful harpist, who comes to play in his town. Taken over by her charms he becomes involved in her darker, twisted secrets.
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Dear Parents
1973 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy
Direction Enrico Maria Salerno
Cast Florinda Bolkan · Catherine Spaak · Maria Schneider · Tom Baker
Plot An Italian mother (Bolkan) who has not heard from her daughter (Schneider) in a long time travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted...
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The Railway Children (TV Series)
1951 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Dorothea Brooking
Cast Jean Anderson · Marian Chapman · Michael Croudson · Carole Lorimer
Plot TV Series (1951). 2 seasons. 12 episodes. First television series adaptation of the novel by E. Nesbit.
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Bond Street
1948 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Parry
Cast Jean Kent · Roland Young · Kathleen Harrison · Derek Farr
Plot A young British woman is getting married, and as she goes through her trousseau we see the stories behind four of the items that were bought on Bond Street in...
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The Pleasure Garden
1953 · Movie · 38 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Broughton
Cast Jean Anderson · Lindsay Anderson · Maxine Audley · Jill Bennett
Plot People quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.
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The Black Velvet Gown (TV)
1991 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Norman Stone
Cast Bob Peck · Janet McTeer · Geraldine Somerville · Brendan P. Healy
Plot In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift...
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Lease of Life
1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Frend
Cast Robert Donat · Kay Walsh · Denholm Elliott · Adrienne Corri
Plot The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
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Heart of a Child
1958 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Clive Donner
Cast Jean Anderson · Donald Pleasence · Richard Williams · Maureen Pryor
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The Kidnappers
1953 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Philip Leacock
Cast Jon Whiteley · Vincent Winter · Adrienne Corri · Theodore Bikel
Plot A Scotsman, Jim MacKenzie, living on a primitive homestead in Nova Scotia, is raising his two grandsons, Harry and Davy, following the death of their father in the Boer War....
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SOS Pacific
1959 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Guy Green
Cast Richard Attenborough · Pier Angeli · John Gregson · Eva Bartok
Plot A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness...
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