Ursula Jeans

Ursula Jeans

Born: May 5, 1906
Died: April 21, 1973
in Simla, Punjab, India
Ursula Jeans was an English film, stage, and television actress, married to the actor Roger Livesey, with whom she appeared in 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'.

Movies for Ursula Jeans...

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Title: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Character: Lady Anthea
Released: May 26, 1965
Type: Movie
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
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Boy With a Flute
Title: Boy With a Flute
Character: Dorothy Winters
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
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Hedda Gabler
Title: Hedda Gabler
Character: Miss Tesman
Released: December 28, 1962
Type: Movie
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple, However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.
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The Queen's Guards
Title: The Queen's Guards
Released: October 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
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The Green Helmet
Title: The Green Helmet
Character: Mrs. Rafferty
Released: April 20, 1961
Type: Movie
After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he gets a telegram from racing car tire manufacture Joseph Bartell. He wants Greg to test out his latest invention, a heat resistant car tire, in actual racing competition.
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North West Frontier
Title: North West Frontier
Character: Lady Windham
Released: October 13, 1959
Type: Movie
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.
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The Dam Busters
Title: The Dam Busters
Character: Mrs. Wallis
Released: May 16, 1955
Type: Movie
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
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The Night My Number Came Up
Title: The Night My Number Came Up
Character: Mrs Robertson
Released: March 22, 1955
Type: Movie
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
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The Weaker Sex
Title: The Weaker Sex
Character: Martha Dacre
Released: October 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
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The Woman in the Hall
Title: The Woman in the Hall
Character: Lorna Blake
Released: October 27, 1947
Type: Movie
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
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Gaiety George
Title: Gaiety George
Character: Isobel Forbes
Released: July 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
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Mr. Emmanuel
Title: Mr. Emmanuel
Character: Frau Heinkes
Released: August 2, 1944
Type: Movie
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Title: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Character: Frau von Kalteneck
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
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Over the Moon
Title: Over the Moon
Character: Millie
Released: October 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.
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Dark Journey
Title: Dark Journey
Character: Gertrude
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
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Storm in a Teacup
Title: Storm in a Teacup
Character: Lisbet Skirving
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
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The Man in the Mirror
Title: The Man in the Mirror
Character: Veronica
Released: October 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: Eileen Jackson
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
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I Lived with You
Title: I Lived with You
Character: Gladys Wallis
Released: June 13, 1933
Type: Movie
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
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On Thin Ice
Title: On Thin Ice
Character: Lady Violet
Released: February 22, 1933
Type: Movie
'Lady Violet and Harry Newman are engaged. Corry, a jealous rival, employs Mabell, a night-club dancer, to make love to Harry when drunk and demand money from Harry's father for letters she has written to the son.' (Kinematograph Weekly)
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Cavalcade
Title: Cavalcade
Character: Fanny Bridges
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
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The Barton Mystery
Title: The Barton Mystery
Character: Ethel Standish
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by Henry Edwards
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The Crooked Lady
Title: The Crooked Lady
Character: Joan Collinson
Released: March 16, 1932
Type: Movie
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
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Once bitten
Title: Once bitten
Character: Clare
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
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The Flying Fool
Title: The Flying Fool
Character: Morella Arlen
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....
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The Love Habit
Title: The Love Habit
Character: Rose Pom Pom
Released: January 16, 1931
Type: Movie
'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Passing of Mr. Quinn
Title: The Passing of Mr. Quinn
Character: Vera, the Maid
Released: July 31, 1928
Type: Movie
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Quinneys
Title: Quinneys
Character: Mabel Dredge
Released: December 1, 1927
Type: Movie
'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Fake
Title: The Fake
Character: Maid
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
'MP forces daughter to marry titled drug addict who dies when her lover tries to cure him.' (British Film Catalogue)