Mary Morris

Known for ActingBorn 1915-12-13Died 1988-10-14Fiji

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Who Killed Jack Robins?

Seaton’s Aunt

Sometime in August

Richard II

Ballet Shoes

Boy Dominic

Doctor Who

Shades of Darkness

The Prisoner

Doctor Who: Kinda

The Life and Death of King John

Prison Without Bars

Interpol Calling

Theatre 625

Anna Karenina

The Ray Bradbury Theater

"Pimpernel" Smith

The Thief of Bagdad

Diana

Major Barbara

The Andromeda Breakthrough

The Philco Television Playhouse

Campion

Full Circle

The Spy in Black

The Agitator

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Train of Events

Undercover

The Man from Morocco

High Treason

A for Andromeda

Victoria the Great

BBC Play of the Month

An Age of Kings

Claws

The Moon Over Soho

The Velvet Glove

The House of Bernarda Alba

Ten from the Twenties

An Unofficial Rose

Plays of Today

Londoners

The Spread of the Eagle