Mary Morris

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).

Known For

Ludmilla Koslowski

'Pimpernel' Smith

Mrs. Wan

Sometime in August

Anna Braun

High Treason

Anna Petrovitch

Undercover

Sarah Duboste

The Man from Morocco

Who Killed Jack Robins?

Halima

The Thief of Bagdad

Chauffeuse

The Spy in Black

Duchess of Kent

Victoria the Great

Lettie Shackleton

The Agitator

Greta Braden

Full Circle

Frieda King

The Moon Over Soho

Queen Elinor

The Life and Death of King John

A Girl

Major Barbara

Miss Browning-Browning

Claws

Renee

Prison Without Bars

Louise

Train of Events

Duchess of Gloucester

Richard II

Panna

Doctor Who: Kinda

Seaton’s Aunt

Seaton’s Aunt