Mary Morris
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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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.8714 |
| Birthday | 1915-12-13 |
| Place of Birth | Fiji |
| Also Known As |
1941
"Pimpernel" Smith
7.109/32
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1990
Sometime in August
8/1
Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is resolved by an old woman and a cat.
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Sometime in August
1951
High Treason
5.727/11
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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High Treason
1943
Undercover
6.063/8
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope...
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1945
The Man from Morocco
6/2
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the...
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The Man from Morocco
1940
Who Killed Jack Robins?
10/1
Directed by Jirí Weiss
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Who Killed Jack Robins?
1940
The Thief of Bagdad
7.123/306
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, a...
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The Thief of Bagdad
1939
The Spy in Black
6.402/66
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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The Spy in Black
1937
Victoria the Great
5.625/8
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Victoria the Great
1945
The Agitator
6.333/3
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The Agitator
1978
Full Circle
6.222/79
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1985
The Moon Over Soho
0/0
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1984
The Life and Death of King John
7.333/3
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1941
Major Barbara
6.75/26
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1987
Claws
0/0
A tale of cat lovers, the social circle they inhabit and the power struggles between them.
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1938
Prison Without Bars
7.5/2
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Prison Without Bars
1949
Train of Events
6.346/13
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Train of Events
1978
Richard II
8/3
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1982
Doctor Who: Kinda
7.5/4
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1983
Seaton’s Aunt
9/1
A young boy forced to live with his aunt after his parents die is convinced that she is old hag in league with the devil.
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1976
The House of Bernarda Alba
0/0
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