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
Complete Filmography
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
2002
as Self - Actress
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as "mommie dearest....
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
2000
as Self
Documentary about how the creative energies of Darryl F. Zanuck and John Ford combined to forge an enduring masterpiece despite the challenges of wart...
What Can I Do?
1993
An elderly woman in New York City has a group of dinner guests over to her apartment one evening, and describes the difficulties of her life and her f...
Beverly Hills Brats
1989
as Gertie
A rich young boy arranges to be kidnapped so he'll get more attention from his parents.
Listen to Me
1989
It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, a society girl, and a college professor with a dre...
The Night Rider
1979
as Lady Earl
"The Mark of Zorro" was updated for this pilot for a prospective series that tells of a New Orleans gentleman who turns masked rider to fight for law ...
The Beasts Are on the Streets
1978
as Mrs. Jackson
Panic grips a small community after a tanker truck crashes through a fence at a wild animal park, freeing dozens of dangerous beasts.
Legend of the Northwest
1978
Set during the old west, Bearheart the dog witnesses his master, an old mountain man being murdered by bandits. Forced into the wilderness to survive ...
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977
as Laura Delano
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
1973
as Judge Barbara Hanline
In this sequel, the daughters' anniversary present is the news that their widowed father is about to get remarried.
Oliver and the Artful Dodger
1972
as Mrs. Grunch / Mistress Deadly / Farmer's Wife / The Old Crone (voice)
An animated sequel to the story of "Oliver Twist". Oliver is adopted by Mr. Brownlow. When Mr. Brownlow dies, his will cannot be found so his nephew S...
In Like Flint
1967
as Elisabeth
Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minutes while golfing with the President. Flint finds t...
Picture Mommy Dead
1966
as Elsie Kornwald
Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a ne...
7 Women
1965
as Mrs. Russell
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
The Sound of Music
1965
as Sister Margaretta
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain wi...
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964
as Titanic Passenger in Lifeboat
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures ...
For Those Who Think Young
1964
as Laura Pruitt
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962
as Mrs. Bates
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Jack the Giant Killer
1962
as Lady Constance
The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help h...
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
as Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon ...
Two Rode Together
1961
as Mrs. Malaprop
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
The Big Night
1960
as Mrs. Turner
Big money means big crime in this noir drama following the exploits of Frankie (Randy Sparks), a young man who stumbles on a stash of cash and finds h...
Jet Over The Atlantic
1959
as Ursula Leverett
Director Byron Haskin's 1960 airplane-in jeopardy drama stars Guy Madison, Virginia Mayo, George Raft, Ilona Massey, Margaret Lindsay, George Macready...
The Crimson Kimono
1959
as Mac
Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.
This Earth Is Mine
1959
as Charlotte Rambeau
Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootlegger...
The Horse Soldiers
1959
as Mrs. Buford
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes insta...
The Last Hurrah
1958
as Gert Minihan
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Fr...
Gideon's Day
1958
as Mrs. Kate Gideon
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From t...
Prison Warden
1949
as Elisa Pennington Burnell
The new warden of a bad prison finds his biggest problem is his wife.
Fort Apache
1948
as Mrs. Emily Collingwood
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant,...
Best Man Wins
1948
as Nancy Smiley
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog ...
High Conquest
1947
as Marie Correl
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947
as Mrs. Fairley
A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.
G.I. War Brides
1946
as Linda Powell
Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. she loves. She assumes the identity of an E...
Bedlam
1946
as Nell Bowen
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they wer...
Summer Storm
1944
as Nadina Kalenin
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an...
Flesh and Fantasy
1943
as Rowena (segment 2)
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts...
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
as Masha Novotny
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprote...
Forever and a Day
1943
as Cornelia Trimble-Pomfret
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, ...
Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942
as Judith Bowen
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force a...
Flying Tigers
1942
as Brooke Elliott
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into Wor...
How Green Was My Valley
1941
as Bronwyn
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
My Life with Caroline
1941
as Caroline Mason
A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
Seven Sinners
1940
as Dorothy
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangste...
Return to Yesterday
1940
as Carol Sands
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Young Man's Fancy
1939
as Ada
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
The Four Just Men
1939
as Ann Lodge
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sa...
Non-Stop New York
1937
as Jennie Carr
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
King Solomon's Mines
1937
as Kathleen 'Kathy' O'Brien
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
O.H.M.S.
1937
as Sally Briggs
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie i...
The Man Who Changed His Mind
1936
as Dr. Clare Wyatt
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks lo...
First a Girl
1935
as Princess Mironoff
An aspiring singer quits her menial job and is talked into performing as a female impersonator by her friend. Her drag act makes her famous, which cau...
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
1935
as Vivian Tomkin
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
Heat Wave
1935
as Jane Allison
Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical South ...
The Camels Are Coming
1934
as Anita Rodgers
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help br...
Rolling in Money
1934
as Lady Eggleby
An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
Lucky Loser
1934
as Ursula Hamilton
Faces
1934
as Madeleine Pelham
'Suburban beautician almost elopes with rich client's husband.' (British Film Catalogue)
Mannequin
1933
as Babette
'Boxer leaves true love for society lady, but returns.' (British Film Catalogue)
The King's Cup
1933
'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
His Lordship
1932
as Scrub Girl Chorine (uncredited)
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperat...
Ebb Tide
1932
as (uncredited)
A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.