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

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

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.

Not rated

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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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Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

Heart of a Child

1958 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

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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...

Not rated

Not rated