Mary Morris
Acting

Mary Morris

Born 1915-12-13 · Fiji · Died 1988-10-14

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).

Known for

The Thief of Bagdad★ 7.1
The Thief of Bagdad
1940
The Spy in Black★ 6.4
The Spy in Black
1939
Train of Events★ 6
Train of Events
1949
Full Circle★ 6.2
Full Circle
1978
'Pimpernel' Smith★ 7.2
'Pimpernel' Smith
1941
The Life and Death of King John★ 7
The Life and Death of King John
1984
High Treason★ 5.2
High Treason
1951
Major Barbara★ 6.6
Major Barbara
1941
The Man from Morocco★ 5
The Man from Morocco
1945
Undercover★ 5.9
Undercover
1943
Victoria the Great★ 5.2
Victoria the Great
1937
Sometime in August
Sometime in August
1990
Prison Without Bars★ 6
Prison Without Bars
1938
Ballet Shoes
Ballet Shoes
1976
The Agitator★ 6
The Agitator
1945
Claws
Claws
1987
Richard II★ 7.5
Richard II
1978
Doctor Who: Kinda★ 7.5
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982