Anna Lee

Personal Info

Birthday

January 2, 1913

Day of Death

2004-05-14

(91 years old)

Place of Birth

Igtham, Kent, England, UK

Also Known As

Joan Boniface Winnifrith

The British Bombshell

Joanna Boniface Stafford

Anna Lee

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]

Known For

Perry Mason

Maverick

Robert Montgomery Presents

Combat!

Wagon Train

Dr. Kildare

Daniel Boone

The F.B.I.

Filmography

2002
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
as Self - Actress
2000
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
as Self
1989
Beverly Hills Brats
as Gertie
1979
The Night Rider
as Lady Earl
1978
The Beasts Are on the Streets
as Mrs. Jackson
1977
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
as Laura Delano
1973
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
as Judge Barbara Hanline
1972
Oliver and the Artful Dodger
as Mrs. Grunch / Mistress Deadly / Farmer's Wife / The Old Crone (voice)
1967
In Like Flint
as Elisabeth
1966
Picture Mommy Dead
as Elsie Kornwald
1965
7 Women
as Mrs. Russell
The Sound of Music
as Sister Margaretta
1964
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
as Titanic Passenger in Lifeboat
For Those Who Think Young
as Laura Pruitt
1962
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Mrs. Bates
Jack the Giant Killer
as Lady Constance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)
1961
Two Rode Together
as Mrs. Malaprop
1960
The Big Night
as Mrs. Turner
1959
Jet Over The Atlantic
as Ursula Leverett
The Crimson Kimono
as Mac
This Earth Is Mine
as Charlotte Rambeau
The Horse Soldiers
as Mrs. Buford
1958
The Last Hurrah
as Gert Minihan
Gideon's Day
as Mrs. Kate Gideon
1949
Prison Warden
as Elisa Pennington Burnell
1948
Fort Apache
as Mrs. Emily Collingwood
Best Man Wins
as Nancy Smiley
1947
High Conquest
as Marie Correl
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
as Mrs. Fairley
1946
G.I. War Brides
as Linda Powell
Bedlam
as Nell Bowen
1944
Summer Storm
as Nadina Kalenin
1943
Flesh and Fantasy
as Rowena (segment 2)
Hangmen Also Die!
as Masha Novotny
Forever and a Day
as Cornelia Trimble-Pomfret
1942
Commandos Strike at Dawn
as Judith Bowen
Flying Tigers
as Brooke Elliott
1941
How Green Was My Valley
as Bronwyn
My Life with Caroline
as Caroline Mason
1940
Seven Sinners
as Dorothy
Return to Yesterday
as Carol Sands
1939
Young Man's Fancy
as Ada
The Four Just Men
as Ann Lodge
1937
Non-Stop New York
as Jennie Carr
King Solomon's Mines
as Kathleen 'Kathy' O'Brien
O.H.M.S.
as Sally Briggs
1936
The Man Who Changed His Mind
as Dr. Clare Wyatt
1935
First a Girl
as Princess Mironoff
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
as Vivian Tomkin
Heat Wave
as Jane Allison
1934
The Camels Are Coming
as Anita Rodgers
Rolling in Money
as Lady Eggleby
Lucky Loser
as Ursula Hamilton
Faces
as Madeleine Pelham
1933
Mannequin
as Babette
1932
His Lordship
as Scrub Girl Chorine (uncredited)
Ebb Tide
as (uncredited)