Jean Simmons

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Jean Simmons

Acting January 31, 1929

Crouch Hill, London, England, UK

Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain d…

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What's My Line?

What's My Line?

7.0 1950 TV Show
Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation

8.4 1987 TV Show
Spartacus

Spartacus

7.5 1960 Movie
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

6.2 2001 Movie
Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

7.5 1984 TV Show
Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards

7.0 1944 TV Show
Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O

7.2 1969 TV Show
Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus

7.5 1947 Movie
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

7.2 1985 TV Show
The Big Country

The Big Country

7.6 1958 Movie
The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple

7.8 1970 TV Show
American Playhouse

American Playhouse

6.6 1982 TV Show

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Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) was an English actress. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II – she was one of J. Arthur Rank's 'well-spoken young starlets' – followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2011
    Discovering Hamlet

    Movie Ophelia (archive footage)

  2. 2009
    Shadows in the Sun

    Movie Hannah

  3. 2003
    Winter Solstice

    Movie Countess Lucinda Rhives

  4. 2003
    Winter Solstice

    TV show

  5. 2001
    Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

    Movie Council Member (voice)

  6. 2000
    On Cukor

    Movie Narrator

  7. 1998
    Her Own Rules

    Movie Katherine Stratton

  8. 1995
    Daisies in December

    Movie Katherine Palmer

  9. 1995
    How to Make an American Quilt

    Movie Em

  10. 1994
    Mysteries of the Bible

    TV show

  11. 1993
    Angel Falls

    TV show Irene Larson

  12. 1991
    Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

    Movie Carrie-Louise Serrocold

  13. 1991
    Dark Shadows

    TV show Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins

  14. 1990
    People Like Us

    Movie Peach Prindible Bailey

  15. 1990
    Laker Girls

    Movie Connie Harrison

  16. 1990
    Sensibility and Sense

    Movie Older Elinor

More credits
  1. 1989
    Great Expectations

    TV show Miss Havisham

  2. 1988
    A Friendship in Vienna

    Movie Narrator (voice)

  3. 1988
    Going Undercover

    Movie Maxine de la Hunt

  4. 1988
    The Dawning

    Movie Aunt Mary

  5. 1988
    Inherit the Wind

    Movie Lucy Brady

  6. 1987
    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    TV show Admiral Nora Satie

  7. 1987
    Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

    Movie Laura Robertson

  8. 1985
    North and South

    TV show Clarissa Main

  9. 1985
    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    TV show Margaret Lowen

  10. 1985
    Midas Valley

    Movie Molly Hammond

  11. 1985
    The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio

    Movie Self

  12. 1984
    December Flower

    Movie Etta Marsh

  13. 1984
    Murder, She Wrote

    TV show Eudora McVeigh Shipton

  14. 1983
    Down at the Hydro

    Movie Diedre

  15. 1983
    The Thorn Birds

    TV show Fiona 'Fee' Cleary

  16. 1982
    Hotel

    TV show Milly Toland

  17. 1982
    All for Love

    TV show Deirdre Mackay

  18. 1982
    American Playhouse

    TV show Elinor

  19. 1981
    A Small Killing

    Movie Margaret Lawrence

  20. 1981
    Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981"

    Movie Helen Lawson

  21. 1981
    Golden Gate

    Movie Jane Kingsley

  22. 1980
    Dominique

    Movie Dominique Ballard

  23. 1979
    Beggarman, Thief

    TV show Gretchen Jordache Burke

  24. 1978
    The Dain Curse

    TV show Aaronia Haldorn