Anna Lee

Acting · Born 1913-01-02 in Igtham, Kent, England, UK

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]

Filmography

• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Mrs. Bates
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Mrs. Fairley
• How Green Was My Valley as Bronwyn
• The Sound of Music as Sister Margaretta
• Fort Apache as Mrs. Emily Collingwood
• The Horse Soldiers as Mrs. Buford
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)
• The Man Who Changed His Mind as Dr. Clare Wyatt
• Hangmen Also Die! as Masha Novotny
• Bedlam as Nell Bowen

TV

• Combat! as Sister Lescaut
• Perry Mason as Crystal Durham
• Family Affair
• 77 Sunset Strip
• B. J. and the Bear
• My Three Sons
• The F.B.I. as Eileen Crane
• The Streets of San Francisco
• Mannix
• Gunsmoke as Amy Bassett