Portrait of Anna Lee

Anna Lee

Acting

Biography

Anna Lee, MBE (born Joan Boniface Winnifrith; 2 January 1913 – 14 May 2004) was a British actress. Lee married her first husband, the director Robert Stevenson, in 1933 and moved to Hollywood in 1939. She became a naturalised US citizen in 1945. In 1981, a car accident left her paralysed from the waist down. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Born: January 2, 1913

Place of Birth: Igtham, Kent, England, UK

Filmography

1989
1980
Scruples

as Aunt Wilhelmina

1979
The Night Rider

as Lady Earl

1976
Eleanor and Franklin

as Laura Delano

1972
Oliver and the Artful Dodger

as Mrs. Grunch / Mistress Deadly / Farmer's Wife / The Old Crone (voice)

1967
1967
In Like Flint

as Elisabeth

1966
Picture Mommy Dead

as Elsie Kornwald

1966
Mission: Impossible

as Maria Malik

1965
7 Women

as Mrs. Russell

1965
The F.B.I.

as Eileen Crane

1965
The F.B.I.

as Susan Harper

1965
The Sound of Music

as Sister Margaretta

1964
Daniel Boone

as Clara Merivale

1964
The Unsinkable Molly Brown

as Titanic Passenger in Lifeboat

1964
1963
Mr. Novak

as Mrs. Woodridge

1962
Combat!

as Sister Lescaut

1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Roberta Saunders

1962
Jack the Giant Killer

as Lady Constance

1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

as Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)

1961
Dr. Kildare

as Mrs. Frances Alland

1961
Two Rode Together

as Mrs. Malaprop

1960
The Big Night

as Mrs. Turner

1959
Jet Over The Atlantic

as Ursula Leverett

1959
This Earth Is Mine

as Charlotte Rambeau

1959
The Horse Soldiers

as Mrs. Buford

1959
One Step Beyond

as Helen Mason

1958
The Last Hurrah

as Gert Minihan

1958
Gideon's Day

as Mrs. Kate Gideon

1958
Shirley Temple's Storybook

as Fairy Godmother

1957
Maverick

as Helene Ferguson

1957
Perry Mason

as Crystal Durham

1957
Wagon Train

as Mrs. Allyris Craven

1955
Gunsmoke

as Amy Bassett

1953
Letter to Loretta

as Anne Tracy

1950
Robert Montgomery Presents

as Frances Lawrence

1950
1949
Prison Warden

as Elisa Pennington Burnell

1948
Fort Apache

as Mrs. Emily Collingwood

1948
Best Man Wins

as Nancy Smiley

1947
High Conquest

as Marie Correl

1947
1946
G.I. War Brides

as Linda Powell

1946
Bedlam

as Nell Bowen

1944
Summer Storm

as Nadina Kalenin

1943
Flesh and Fantasy

as Rowena (segment 2)

1943
Hangmen Also Die!

as Masha Novotny

1943
Forever and a Day

as Cornelia Trimble-Pomfret

1942
1942
Flying Tigers

as Brooke Elliott

1941
My Life with Caroline

as Caroline Mason

1940
Seven Sinners

as Dorothy

1940
Return to Yesterday

as Carol Sands

1939
The Four Just Men

as Ann Lodge

1937
Non-Stop New York

as Jennie Carr

1937
King Solomon's Mines

as Kathleen 'Kathy' O'Brien

1937
O.H.M.S.

as Sally Briggs

1936
1935
First a Girl

as Princess Mironoff

1935
Heat Wave

as Jane Allison

1934
The Camels Are Coming

as Anita Rodgers

1934
Faces

as Madeleine Pelham

1933
Mannequin

as Babette

1932
His Lordship

as Scrub Girl Chorine (uncredited)