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Jean Simmons

Oscar-winning actress Jean Merilyn Simmons was a graceful leading lady of British and American film for over six decades. Simmons was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to acting in 2003

English
Filmography

A Bullet Is Waiting

1954
as Cally Canham

Adam and Evalyn

1949
as Evelyne Wallace

Affair With A Stranger

1953
as Carolyn Parker

All the Way Home

1963
as Mary Follet

Androcles and the Lion

1952
as Lavinina

Angel Face

1952
as Diane Tremayne Jessup

Angel Falls

1993

Beggarman, Thief

1979
as Gretchen Jordache Burke

Black Narcissus

1947
as Kanchi

Cage of Gold

1950
as Judith Moray

Daisies in December

1995
as Katherine Palmer

Dark Shadows (1991)

1991

December Flower

1984
as Etta Marsh

Decisions! Decisions!

1971
as Phoebe Masterson

Divorce American Style

1967
as Nancy Downes

Désirée

1954
as Desiree Clary

Elmer Gantry

1960
as Sister Sharon Falconer

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

2001
as Council Member (voice)

Footsteps in the Fog

1955
as Lily Watkins

Give Us the Moon

1944
as Heidi

Going Undercover

1988
as Maxine de la Hunt

Great Expectations

1946
as Young Estella

Great Expectations (1989)

1989
as Miss Havisham

Great Expectations (1991)

1991
as Miss Havisham

Guys and Dolls

1955
as Sarah Brown

Hamlet

1948
as Ophelia - His Daughter

Heidi

1968
as Ms. Rottenmeier

Hilda Crane

1956
as Hilda Crane Burns

Home Before Dark

1958
as Charlotte Bronn

How to Make an American Quilt

1995
as Em

Hungry Hill

1947
as Jane Brodrick

Inherit the Wind

1988
as Lucy Brady

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

1981
as Helen Lawson

Kiss the Bride Goodbye

1945
as Molly Dodd

Laker Girls

1990
as Connie Harrison

Life at the Top

1965
as Susan Lampton

Meet Sexton Blake

1945
as Eva Watkins

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

1991
as Carrie-Louise Serrocold

Mister Buddwing

1966
as The Blonde

Mr. Emmanuel

1944
as Sally Cooper

Mr. Sycamore

1975
as Estelle Benbow

Mysteries of the Bible

1994
as Voice Of The Bible

North and South

1985
as Clarissa Main

One More Mountain

1994
as Sarah Keyes

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

1987
as Laura Robertson

Rough Night in Jericho

1967
as Molly Lang

Say Hello to Yesterday

1971
as Woman

Shadows In The Sun

2009
as Hannah

She Couldn't Say No

1953
as Corby Lane

So Long at the Fair

1950
as Vicky Barton

Soldier in Love

1967
as Sarah Churchill

Spartacus

1960
as Varinia

The Actress

1953
as Ruth Gordon Jones

The Big Country

1958
as Julie Maragon

The Blue Lagoon

1949
as Emmeline Foster

The Clouded Yellow

1950
as Sophie Malraux

The Dawning

1988

The Egyptian

1954
as Merit

The Grass Is Greener

1960
as Hattie Durant

The Happy Ending

1969
as Mary Wilson

The Robe

1953
as Diana

The Thorn Birds

1983
as Fiona "Fee" Cleary

The Way to the Stars

1945
as A Singer

The Woman in the Hall

1947
as Jay Blake

This Could Be the Night

1957
as Anne Leeds

This Earth Is Mine

1959
as Elizabeth Rambeau

Trio

1950
as Evie Bishop (segment Sanatorium)

Uncle Silas

1947
as Caroline Ruthyn

Until They Sail

1957
as Barbara Leslie Forbes

Winter Solstice

2003
as Countess Lucinda Rhives

Young Bess

1953
as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)

Producer

Movie The Fifth Element 1997

Guest Star

Episode In the Heat of the Night
Ches and the Grand Lady 		1994
Episode Hotel
Deceptions 		1983
Episode Hotel
Hearts and Minds 		1985
Episode Murder, She Wrote
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall (1) 		1989
Episode Murder, She Wrote
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall (2) 		1989
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985)
Pen Pal 		1988
Episode Hawaii Five-O
The Cop On The Cover 		1977
Episode Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Drumhead 		1991
Episode The Odd Couple
The Princess 		1972
Episode Miss Marple
They Do It with Mirrors 		1991