Mary Morris

Mary Morris

Personal information

Known for
Acting
Known credits
47
Gender
Female
Born
December 13, 1915
Died
October 14, 1988
Place of birth
Fiji

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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Doctor Who
Show
1963

Doctor Who

Show · 1963

The Thief of Bagdad
Movie
1940

The Thief of Bagdad

Movie · 1940

The Prisoner
Show
1967

The Prisoner

Show · 1967

Full Circle
Movie
1978

Full Circle

Movie · 1978

The Spy in Black
Movie
1939

The Spy in Black

Movie · 1939

The Ray Bradbury Theater
Show
1985

The Ray Bradbury Theater

Show · 1985