Mary Morris

Mary Morris

1915-12-13

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).

Also appears in

Full Circle

Full Circle

6.1

The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad

7.1

Richard II

Richard II

7.5

The Life and Death of King John

The Life and Death of King John

7.0

Major Barbara

Major Barbara

6.6

’Pimpernel’ Smith

’Pimpernel’ Smith

7.1

The Man from Morocco

The Man from Morocco

5.0

The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black

6.3

High Treason

High Treason

5.2

The Agitator

The Agitator

6.0

Train of Events

Train of Events

6.0

Victoria the Great

Victoria the Great

5.3

Sometime in August

Sometime in August

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Undercover

Undercover

5.9

Claws

Claws

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Prison Without Bars

Prison Without Bars

6.0

The Moon Over Soho

The Moon Over Soho

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Who Killed Jack Robins?

Who Killed Jack Robins?

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