Jean Simmons

Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE 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.

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Known For

Murder, She Wrote

1984 • as Eudora McVeigh Shipton

The Danny Kaye Show

1963 • as Self

Star Trek: The Next Generation

1987 • as Admiral Nora Satie

Bambi-Verleihung

1948 • as Self (archive footage)

What's My Line?

1950 • as Self - Mystery Guest

Golden Globe Awards

1944 • as Self - Nominee

Filmography

2011

Discovering Hamlet

as Ophelia (archive footage)

Movie - Released: 11/1/2011

2009

Shadows in the Sun

as Hannah

Movie - Released: 6/15/2009

2003

Winter Solstice

as Countess Lucinda Rhives

Movie - Released: 12/25/2003

Winter Solstice

TV - Released: 12/25/2003

2001

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

as Council Member (voice)

Movie - Released: 7/2/2001

2000

On Cukor

as Narrator

Movie - Released: 11/22/2000

1998

Movie

Her Own Rules

as Katherine Stratton

Movie - Released: 10/13/1998

1995

How to Make an American Quilt

as Em

Movie - Released: 10/6/1995

Daisies in December

as Katherine Palmer

Movie - Released: 12/3/1995

1994

Mysteries of the Bible

TV - Released: 3/25/1994

1993

Angel Falls

as Irene Larson

TV - Released: 8/26/1993

1991

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

as Carrie-Louise Serrocold

Movie - Released: 12/29/1991

Dark Shadows

as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard / Naomi Collins

TV - Released: 1/13/1991

Great Expectations

as Miss Havisham

TV - Released: 6/21/1991

1990

Laker Girls

as Connie Harrison

Movie - Released: 4/3/1990

Sensibility and Sense

as Older Elinor

Movie - Released: 1/24/1990

People Like Us

as Peach Prindible Bailey

Movie - Released: 5/13/1990

1988

Going Undercover

as Maxine de la Hunt

Movie - Released: 6/17/1988

The Dawning

as Aunt Mary

Movie - Released: 6/8/1988

Inherit the Wind

as Lucy Brady

Movie - Released: 3/20/1988

A Friendship in Vienna

as Narrator (voice)

Movie - Released: 8/27/1988

1987

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

as Laura Robertson

Movie - Released: 2/23/1987

Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Admiral Nora Satie

TV - Released: 9/28/1987

1985

Midas Valley

as Molly Hammond

Movie - Released: 6/27/1985

Movie

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

as Self

Movie - Released: 1/1/1985

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Margaret Lowen

TV - Released: 9/29/1985

North and South

as Clarissa Main

TV - Released: 11/3/1985

1984

December Flower

as Etta Marsh

Movie - Released: 12/23/1984

Murder, She Wrote

as Eudora McVeigh Shipton

TV - Released: 9/30/1984

1983

Down at the Hydro

as Diedre

Movie - Released: 9/4/1983

A Moment in Time

as Deidre Mackay

Movie - Released: 1/1/1983

The Thorn Birds

as Fiona 'Fee' Cleary

TV - Released: 3/27/1983

The Thorn Birds

as Fee Cleary

TV - Released: 3/27/1983

1982

Hotel

TV - Released: 8/21/1982

Hotel

as Jessica Daniels

TV - Released: 8/21/1982

1981

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

as Helen Lawson

Movie - Released: 10/19/1981

Golden Gate

as Jane Kingsley

Movie - Released: 9/25/1981

A Small Killing

as Margaret Lawrence

Movie - Released: 11/24/1981

1980

Dominique

as Dominique Ballard

Movie - Released: 3/6/1980

1979

Beggarman, Thief

as Gretchen Jordache Burke

Movie - Released: 11/26/1979

1978

The Dain Curse

as Aaronia Haldorn

TV - Released: 5/22/1978

1975

Mr. Sycamore

as Estelle Benbow

Movie - Released: 12/12/1975

The Easter Promise

as Constance Payne

Movie - Released: 3/26/1975

1971

Say Hello to Yesterday

as Woman

Movie - Released: 1/14/1971

Decisions! Decisions!

as Phoebe Masterson

Movie - Released: 9/11/1971

1970

The Odd Couple

as Princess

TV - Released: 9/24/1970

1969

The Happy Ending

as Mary Wilson

Movie - Released: 12/21/1969

1968

Heidi

as Frl. Rottenmeier

Movie - Released: 11/1/1968

Hawaii Five-O

as Terri O'Brien

TV - Released: 9/20/1968

1967

Rough Night in Jericho

as Molly Lang

Movie - Released: 8/1/1967

Divorce American Style

as Nancy Downes

Movie - Released: 6/21/1967

Soldier in Love

as Sarah Jennings

Movie - Released: 4/26/1967

1966

Mister Buddwing

as The Blonde

Movie - Released: 7/15/1966

1965

Life at the Top

as Susan Lampton

Movie - Released: 12/14/1965

1963

All the Way Home

as Mary Follet

Movie - Released: 10/17/1963

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

as Ruth Bannister

TV - Released: 10/4/1963

The Danny Kaye Show

as Self

TV - Released: 9/25/1963

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

as Suzy

TV - Released: 10/4/1963

1960

Spartacus

as Varinia

Movie - Released: 10/13/1960

Elmer Gantry

as Sister Sharon Falconer

Movie - Released: 7/7/1960

The Grass Is Greener

as Hattie Durant

Movie - Released: 12/23/1960

1959

This Earth Is Mine

as Elizabeth Rambeau

Movie - Released: 7/8/1959

1958

The Big Country

as Julie Maragon

Movie - Released: 9/30/1958

Fun in the Big Country

as Self (narrator)

Movie - Released: 1/1/1958

Home Before Dark

as Charlotte Bronn

Movie - Released: 11/16/1958

1957

This Could Be the Night

as Anne Leeds

Movie - Released: 5/14/1957

Until They Sail

as Barbara Leslie Forbes

Movie - Released: 10/8/1957

1956

Hilda Crane

as Hilda Crane Burns

Movie - Released: 5/8/1956

1955

Guys and Dolls

as Sarah Brown

Movie - Released: 12/23/1955

Footsteps in the Fog

as Lily Watkins

Movie - Released: 9/14/1955

1954

The Egyptian

as Merit

Movie - Released: 8/25/1954

Désirée

as Desiree Clary

Movie - Released: 11/16/1954

A Bullet Is Waiting

as Cally Canham

Movie - Released: 9/4/1954

She Couldn't Say No

as Corby Lane (Corby Johnson)

Movie - Released: 2/15/1954

1953

Angel Face

as Diane Tremayne Jessup

Movie - Released: 1/2/1953

The Robe

as Diana

Movie - Released: 9/16/1953

Young Bess

as Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I)

Movie - Released: 5/29/1953

The Actress

as Ruth Gordon Jones

Movie - Released: 9/25/1953

Affair with a Stranger

as Carolyn Parker

Movie - Released: 6/20/1953

The Oscars

as Self

TV - Released: 3/19/1953

1952

Androcles and the Lion

as Lavinina

Movie - Released: 12/1/1952

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Sarah

TV - Released: 12/24/1951

1950

The Clouded Yellow

as Sophie Malraux

Movie - Released: 11/21/1950

So Long at the Fair

as Vicky Barton

Movie - Released: 5/31/1950

Cage of Gold

as Judith

Movie - Released: 10/23/1950

Trio

as Evie Bishop (segment Sanatorium)

Movie - Released: 10/10/1950

What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

TV - Released: 2/2/1950

1949

Adam and Evelyne

as Evelyne Wallace

Movie - Released: 5/31/1949

The Blue Lagoon

as Emmeline Foster

Movie - Released: 3/1/1949

1948

Hamlet

as Ophelia

Movie - Released: 12/10/1948

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

TV - Released: 6/20/1948

Bambi-Verleihung

as Self (archive footage)

TV - Released: 1/1/1948

1947

Black Narcissus

as Kanchi

Movie - Released: 5/26/1947

Uncle Silas

as Caroline Ruthyn

Movie - Released: 10/8/1947

Hungry Hill

as Jane Brodrick

Movie - Released: 1/7/1947

The Woman in the Hall

as Jay Blake

Movie - Released: 10/27/1947

1946

Great Expectations

as Young Estella

Movie - Released: 12/26/1946

1945

The Way to the Stars

as A Singer

Movie - Released: 6/16/1945

Meet Sexton Blake

as Eva Watkins

Movie - Released: 2/5/1945

Kiss the Bride Goodbye

as Molly Dodd

Movie - Released: 1/28/1945

Caesar and Cleopatra

as Harpist (uncredited)

Movie - Released: 12/11/1945

1944

Give Us the Moon

as Heidi

Movie - Released: 7/31/1944

Mr. Emmanuel

as Sally Cooper

Movie - Released: 8/2/1944

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV - Released: 1/20/1944

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

TV - Released: 1/20/1944