Mary Morris
Mary Morris
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 Acting
Most Rating 9.562
Birthday 1915-12-13
Place of Birth Fiji
Also Known As
'Pimpernel' Smith
1941

'Pimpernel' Smith

High Treason
1951

High Treason

Undercover
1943

Undercover

The Man from Morocco
1945

The Man from Morocco

The Thief of Bagdad
1940

The Thief of Bagdad

The Agitator
1945

The Agitator

The Spy in Black
1939

The Spy in Black

Victoria the Great
1937

Victoria the Great

Full Circle
1978

Full Circle

The Moon Over Soho
1985

The Moon Over Soho

The Life and Death of King John
1984

The Life and Death of King John

Major Barbara
1941

Major Barbara

Claws
1987

Claws

Prison Without Bars
1938

Prison Without Bars

Train of Events
1949

Train of Events

Richard II
1978

Richard II

Doctor Who: Kinda
1982

Doctor Who: Kinda

Sometime in August
1990

Sometime in August

Who Killed Jack Robins?
1940

Who Killed Jack Robins?