Mary Morris
Biography
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Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a British actress
Morris made her stage debut in Lysistrata at the Gate Theatre, London, in 1935. In 1943, she played Anna Petrovitch in the Ealing war movie Undercover as the wife of a Serbian guerrilla leader, and appeared in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. On television, she played Professor Madeleine Dawnay in the science-fiction television drama A for Andromeda (and its sequel, The Andromeda Breakthrough), and Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (as part of the BBC's adaptation of Shakespeare's Roman plays, The Spread of the Eagle, 1963).
As a Number Two in The Prisoner episode "Dance of the Dead" she dressed as Peter Pan during a masquerade ball. After a 25-year absence she reappeared in films as the mother of the murdered boy in the 1977 horror film Full Circle. She also appeared on television in Doctor Who in the story Kinda (1982), playing the pivotal role of the shaman Panna opposite Peter Davison.[citation needed]
Other television appearances included the Countess Vronsky in the BBC's Anna Karenina (1977), the macabre, ancient relative in the Walter de la Mare story, Seaton's Aunt (1983) in Granada Television's Shades of Darkness series and the formidable matriarch in Police at the Funeral, an adaptation of one of Margery Allingham's Albert Campion stories for the BBC's Campion (1989).
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- Doctor Who (1963) as Panna
- The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Madame Pernelle
- Theatre 625 (1964) as Doktor von Zahnd
- Theatre 625 (1964) as Agatha
- Theatre 625 (1964) as Sister Leonora
- The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985) as Matilda Hanks
- The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978) as Douchess of Gloucester
- The Prisoner (1967) as Number Two
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as The Woman
- Interpol Calling (1959) as Ingrid Hoffman
- Diana (1984) as Miss Westcott
- Campion (1989) as Caroline Faraday
- An Age of Kings (1960)
- An Age of Kings (1960) as Margaret of Anjou
- Londoners (1965) as Sarah Ashton
- Anna Karenina (1977)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940) as Halima
- A for Andromeda (1961) as Professor Madeleine Dawnay
- Shades of Darkness (1983) as Seaton's Aunt
- The Spread of the Eagle (1963) as Cleopatra
- Boy Dominic (1974) as Lady Bulman
- Ballet Shoes (1975) as Madame Fidolia
- Plays of Today (1969) as Scotch Ellen