Mary Morris

Mary Morris

Born: December 13, 1915
Died: October 14, 1988
in Fiji
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).

Movies for Mary Morris...

Sometime in August
Title: Sometime in August
Character: Mrs. Wan
Released: February 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is resolved by an old woman and a cat.
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Title: Campion
Character: Caroline Faraday
Released: January 22, 1989
Type: TV
Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.
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Claws
Title: Claws
Character: Miss Browning-Browning
Released: October 4, 1987
Type: Movie
A tale of cat lovers, the social circle they inhabit and the power struggles between them.
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The Moon Over Soho
Title: The Moon Over Soho
Character: Frieda King
Released: August 18, 1985
Type: Movie
A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.
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Title: The Ray Bradbury Theater
Character: Matilda Hanks
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: TV
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.
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The Life and Death of King John
Title: The Life and Death of King John
Character: Queen Elinor
Released: November 24, 1984
Type: Movie
The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to plactate the French, but there are others who seek disputre his authority.
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Doctor Who: Kinda
Title: Doctor Who: Kinda
Character: Panna
Released: February 9, 1982
Type: Movie
The TARDIS lands on the idyllic jungle world of Deva Loka, which is being surveyed for possible Earth colonisation. Deva Loka is already home to a race of apparent savages, however: a mysterious people with strange powers which have mentally unbalanced the members of the expedition. To make matters worse, an ancient enemy of the natives known as the Mara is intent upon revenge, and latches onto Tegan's mind as its bridgehead to victory.
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Richard II
Title: Richard II
Character: Duchess of Gloucester
Released: December 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king - wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choise of chansellors, and detached from his country and its people. When he seizes the land of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, both the commoners and the barons decide that their king has gone too far...
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Character: Duchess of Gloucester
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Full Circle
Title: Full Circle
Character: Greta Braden
Released: February 9, 1978
Type: Movie
After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and moves into an old Victorian home in London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.
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Title: Anna Karenina
Released: September 25, 1977
Type: TV
Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.
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Title: Ballet Shoes
Character: Madame Fidolia
Released: October 5, 1975
Type: TV
Ballet Shoes is British television adaptation of Noel Streatfeild's novel Ballet Shoes first broadcast on BBC One in 1975. Adapted by John Wiles and directed by Timothy Combe, the series was aired in six parts on Sunday evenings. It was aired by PBS in the United States on 27 December 1976.
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Title: An Unofficial Rose
Released: December 28, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Boy Dominic
Character: Lady Bulman
Released: March 24, 1974
Type: TV
The adventures of a 12-year-old boy's struggles in Victorian Yorkshire, after his father, Captain Charles Bulman, is lost, presumed drowned off the coast of Africa.
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Title: The Prisoner
Character: Number Two
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: TV
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Panna
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
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Title: The Andromeda Breakthrough
Character: Madeleine Dawnay
Released: June 28, 1962
Type: TV
The Andromeda Breakthrough was a 1962 sequel to the popular BBC TV science fiction serial A for Andromeda, again written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot.
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Title: A for Andromeda
Character: Professor Madeleine Dawnay
Released: October 3, 1961
Type: TV
Set in 1970, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it provides instructions to build a powerful super-computer. Once built, this computer provokes argument between two of leading team members, Fleming and Dawnay, over the machine's real intentions as it provides further instructions to create a living organism, which Dawnay starts to develop. Later it appears to compel lab assistant Christine to commit suicide, and when the organism is fully developed, it appears in the exact form of Christine, and named Andromeda. But what is the purpose of this "creature" ...?
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Title: An Age of Kings
Released: April 28, 1960
Type: TV
A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II and Richard III.
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Title: Interpol Calling
Character: Ingrid Hoffman
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.
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High Treason
Title: High Treason
Character: Anna Braun
Released: November 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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Train of Events
Title: Train of Events
Character: Louise
Released: January 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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The Man from Morocco
Title: The Man from Morocco
Character: Sarah Duboste
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
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The Agitator
Title: The Agitator
Character: Lettie Shackleton
Released: January 24, 1945
Type: Movie
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
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Undercover
Title: Undercover
Character: Anna Petrovitch
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...
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'Pimpernel' Smith
Title: 'Pimpernel' Smith
Character: Ludmilla Koslowski
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
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Major Barbara
Title: Major Barbara
Character: A Girl
Released: May 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
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The Thief of Bagdad
Title: The Thief of Bagdad
Character: Halima
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
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Who Killed Jack Robins?
Title: Who Killed Jack Robins?
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Directed by Jirí Weiss
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The Spy in Black
Title: The Spy in Black
Character: Chauffeuse
Released: August 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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Prison Without Bars
Title: Prison Without Bars
Character: Renee
Released: September 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.
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Victoria the Great
Title: Victoria the Great
Character: Duchess of Kent
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.