Actor info
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Name :
Anna Lee
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Born :
January 2, 1913 in Igtham, Kent, England, UK (91 years at death)
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Died :
May 14, 2004
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Female
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Film career :
62 films (1932–2002)
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Also known as :
Joan Boniface Winnifrith, The British Bombshell, Joanna Boniface Stafford
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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]
Notable films
- The Sound of Music (1965) as Sister Margaretta
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) as Mrs. Prescott (uncredited)
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) as Mrs. Bates
- The Horse Soldiers (1959) as Mrs. Buford
- Fort Apache (1948) as Mrs. Emily Collingwood
