Jean Kent

Personal Info

Birthday

June 29, 1921

Day of Death

2013-11-30

(92 years old)

Place of Birth

Brixton, London, England, UK

Also Known As

Joan Mildred Summerfield

Jean Carr

Joan Kent

Joan Summerfield

Peggy Summers

ジーン・ケント

Jean Kent

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Kent (29 June 1921 - 30 November 2013) was a British film actress. She signed to Gainsborough Pictures during the Second World War.

Kent's first good role in Two Thousand Women (1944), playing a stripper who is interned by the Germans. She was a Pacific Islander in Bees in Paradise (1944) with Arthur Askey and was the ingenue in a Tommy Trinder musical Champagne Charlie (1944). The turning point in her career came when she was given a dramatic part in the Gainsborough melodrama film Fanny by Gaslight (1944).

Known For

Thriller

Lovejoy

Public Eye

Sir Francis Drake

Up Pompeii!

Waterloo Road

Warn That Man

Shout at the Devil

Filmography

1990
Missing Persons
as Phillida Meadowhite
1989
Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
as Self
1988
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1976
Shout at the Devil
as Mrs. Smythe
1974
K Is for Killing
as Mrs. Garrick
1960
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
as Julienne
1959
Please Turn Over
as Janet Halliday
Web of Evidence
as Louise Burt
1958
Grip of the Strangler
as Cora Seth
Bonjour Tristesse
as Mrs. Helen Lombard
1957
The Prince and the Showgirl
as Maisie Springfield
1955
Before I Wake
as Florence Haddon
1952
The Big Frame
as Louise Parker
1951
The Browning Version
as Millie Crocker-Harris
1950
The Woman in Question
as Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
Her Favourite Husband
as Dorothy Pellegrini
The Reluctant Widow
as Elinor Cheviot
1949
Trottie True
as Trottie True
1948
Sleeping Car to Trieste
as Valya
Bond Street
as Ricki Merritt
Good-Time Girl
as Gwen Rawlings
1947
The Loves of Joanna Godden
as Ellen Godden
The Man Within
as Lucy
1946
Carnival
as Irene Dale
The Magic Bow
as Bianchi
Caravan
as Rosal
1945
The Rake's Progress
as Jill Duncan
The Wicked Lady
as Jackson's Doxy
Waterloo Road
as Toni
Madonna of the Seven Moons
as Vittoria
1944
Two Thousand Women
as Bridie Johnson
Champagne Charlie
as Dolly Bellwood
Soldier, Sailor
as Cigarette Girl
Fanny by Gaslight
as Lucy Beckett
Bees in Paradise
as Jani
1943
Warn That Man
as Frances Lane
Miss London Ltd.
as The Encyclopedia Girl
It's That Man Again
as Kitty