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Anna Lee

Acting

Born January 2, 1913 · Igtham, Kent, England, UK

Died May 14, 2004

Also known as Joan Boniface Winnifrith · The British Bombshell · Joanna Boniface Stafford

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]

Awards & recognition

  • Daytime Emmy Award
  • Member of the Order of the British Empire
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Filmography46 titles

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1962as Mrs. Bates

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962as Mrs. Prescott (uncredited)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962as Roberta Saunders

Combat!

as Sister Lescaut

The Sound of Music

1965as Sister Margaretta

Perry Mason

1957as Crystal Durham

Mission: Impossible

1966as Maria Malik

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947as Mrs. Fairley

Forever and a Day

1943as Cornelia Trimble-Pomfret

How Green Was My Valley

1941as Bronwyn

The Last Hurrah

1958as Gert Minihan

The Streets of San Francisco

1972

Daniel Boone

1964as Clara Merivale

The Horse Soldiers

1959as Mrs. Buford

Fort Apache

1948as Mrs. Emily Collingwood

Maverick

1957as Helene Ferguson

Hangmen Also Die!

1943as Masha Novotny

Mannix

1967

Family Affair

1966

Gunsmoke

1955as Amy Bassett

Lux Video Theatre

as Julia

My Three Sons

1960

The Crimson Kimono

1959as Mac

Peter Gunn

1958

Wagon Train

1957as Mrs. Allyris Craven

Bedlam

1946as Nell Bowen

Letter to Loretta

as Anne Tracy

Jack the Giant Killer

1962as Lady Constance

Shirley Temple's Storybook

as Fairy Godmother

7 Women

1965as Mrs. Russell

Two Rode Together

1961as Mrs. Malaprop

Gideon's Day

1958as Mrs. Kate Gideon

Flying Tigers

1942as Brooke Elliott

In Like Flint

1967as Elisabeth

The Man Who Changed His Mind

1936as Dr. Clare Wyatt

Seven Sinners

1940as Dorothy

For Those Who Think Young

1964as Laura Pruitt

One Step Beyond

1959as Helen Mason

Summer Storm

1944as Nadina Kalenin

The F.B.I.

1965as Eileen Crane

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

1964as Titanic Passenger in Lifeboat

Commandos Strike at Dawn

1942as Judith Bowen

Listen to Me

1989

King Solomon's Mines

1937as Kathleen 'Kathy' O'Brien

Beverly Hills Brats

1989as Gertie

Eleanor and Franklin

as Laura Delano