Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 – January 22, 2010) 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.
Jean Simmons Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jean Simmons |
| Also Know | Jean Merilyn Simmons, |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Crouch Hill, London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1929-01-31 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 80 |
| Deathday | 2010-01-22 |
Jean Simmons Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Egyptian | Merit | 1954-08-25 | In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new … |
| The Clouded Yellow | Sophie Malraux | 1950-11-21 | After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas an… |
| Young Bess | Young Bess (Queen Elizabeth I) | 1953-05-29 | The mother died under the executioner’s axe; the daughter rose to become England’s greatest monarch — the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Je… |
| Shadows in the Sun | Hannah | 2009-06-15 | A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another…. |
| So Long at the Fair | Vicky Barton | 1950-03-28 | Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up … |
| Uncle Silas | Caroline Ruthyn | 1947-10-08 | Following her father’s death, a teenaged heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and scheming to murder his niece for her vast inheritan… |
| The Happy Ending | Mary Wilson | 1969-12-21 | The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality… |
| This Could Be the Night | Anne Leeds | 1957-05-14 | To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub…. |
| Affair with a Stranger | Carolyn Parker | 1953-06-20 | Director Roy Rowland’s 1953 drama, depicting the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband, stars Victor Mature, Jean Simmon… |
| Home Before Dark | Charlotte Bronn | 1958-11-16 | A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital…. |
| All the Way Home | Mary Follet | 1963-10-17 | In the early 1900’s Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father’s sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure t… |
| Until They Sail | Barbara Leslie Forbes | 1957-10-08 | Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII…. |
| Hilda Crane | Hilda Crane Burns | 1956-05-08 | After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew…. |
| Cage of Gold | Judith Moray | 1950-09-21 | A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing command… |
| Say Hello to Yesterday | Woman | 1971-01-14 | Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she me… |
| The Blue Lagoon | Emmeline Foster | 1949-03-01 | In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island… |
| Decisions! Decisions! | Phoebe Masterson | 1971-09-11 | A precedent-setting comedy-drama special in which a salesman (Bob Newhart) and a sexologist (Jill St. John) have misadventures with plot development d… |
| Daisies in December | Katherine Palmer | 1995-12-03 | A seaside hotel for senior citizens is the setting for late-season love as costars Jean Simmons and Joss Ackland meet and make a match in this romanti… |
| Soldier in Love | Sarah Jennings | 1967-04-26 | The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne…. |
| Trio | Evie Bishop (segment Sanatorium) | 1950-10-10 | W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles…. |
| Beggarman, Thief | Gretchen Jordache Burke | 1979-11-26 | Sequel to “Rich Man, Poor Man” with more characters branching off from the Jordache family…. |
| Golden Gate | Jane Kingsley | 1981-09-25 | A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing patriarch’s son and a rut… |
| A Small Killing | 1981-11-24 | A policeman masquerades as a homeless alcoholic and teams up with a bag lady, who is really a college professor, to bring a drug lord’s assassin to ju… | |
| Down at the Hydro | Diedre | 1982-11-11 | Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love…. |
| Fun in the Big Country | Self (narrator) | 1958-01-01 | Behind-the-scenes look during the filming of William Wyler’s 1958 western, “The Big Country.”… |
| Angel Face | Diane Tremayne Jessup | 1953-01-02 | An ambulance driver gets involved with a rich girl that might have a darker side…. |
| Guys and Dolls | Sarah Brown | 1955-12-23 | Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky … |
| Elmer Gantry | Sister Sharon Falconer | 1960-07-07 | When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her a… |
| Hamlet | Ophelia – His Daughter | 1948-12-10 | Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of S… |
| The Big Country | Julie Maragon | 1958-09-30 | Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach … |
| The Robe | Diana | 1953-09-16 | Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus’ homespun robe afte… |
| Désirée | Desiree Clary | 1954-11-16 | In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-B… |
| A Bullet Is Waiting | Cally Canham | 1954-09-04 | A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a str… |
| Footsteps in the Fog | Lily Watkins | 1955-09-14 | A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid that discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife…. |
| Androcles and the Lion | Lavinina | 1952-12-01 | George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is … |
| Going Undercover | Maxine de la Hunt | 1988-06-17 | Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) to protect her step-daughter M… |
| The Actress | Ruth Gordon Jones | 1953-09-25 | The true story of Ruth Gordon’s early struggles on the road to stage stardom…. |
| She Couldn’t Say No | Corby Lane (Corby Johnson) | 1954-02-15 | An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town…. |
| This Earth Is Mine | Elizabeth Rambeau | 1959-07-08 | Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootlegger… |
| Adam and Evelyne | Evelyne Wallace | 1949-05-31 | The father of a girl in an orphanage, who doesn’t remember him, has been writing to her with tales of his success in business. Actually, he is imperso… |
| Life at the Top | Susan Lampton | 1965-12-14 | Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But hi… |
| Dominique | Dominique Ballard | 1979-01-01 | The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death…. |
| Mister Buddwing | The Blonde | 1966-07-15 | An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is…. |
| The Woman in the Hall | Jay Blake | 1947-10-27 | Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money – visiting the houses… |
| Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors | Carrie-Louise Serrocold | 1991-12-29 | At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit ‘Stonygates’, th… |
| Spartacus | Varinia | 1960-10-13 | The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena,… |
| Rough Night in Jericho | Molly Lang | 1967-08-01 | The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn’t control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by tough-… |
| The Dawning | 1988-06-08 | A young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that features an excellent cast. N… | |
| Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love | Laura Robertson | 1987-02-23 | Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge…. |
| Mr. Sycamore | Estelle Benbow | 1975-12-12 | Jason Robards is a man who decides he’d rather be a tree…. |
| December Flower | Etta Marsh | 1984-12-23 | Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta’s struggle to restore her aunt’s dignity and cheer brings … |
| The Grass Is Greener | Hattie Durant | 1960-12-23 | Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionai… |
| Great Expectations | Young Estella | 1946-12-26 | In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman…. |
| Divorce American Style | Nancy Downes | 1967-06-21 | After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce…. |
| Heidi | Frl. Rottenmeier | 1968-11-17 | Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heid… |
| The Easter Promise | Constance Payne | 1975-03-26 | Addie and her friends are excited over the visit of a celebrity, a local woman who became a successful Broadway actress and has returned home for a sh… |
| How to Make an American Quilt | Em | 1995-10-06 | Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits… |
| Give Us the Moon | Heidi | 1944-07-31 | Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general … |
| Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of The Dolls | Helen Lawson | 1981-10-19 | Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960’s novel shows the lives of three very different women who come to New York City to achieve … |
| Black Narcissus | Kanchi | 1947-05-26 | A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed… |
| Her Own Rules | Katherine Stratton | 1998-01-01 | Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or … |
| Winter Solstice | Countess Lucinda Rhives | 2003-12-25 | When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend H… |
| Hungry Hill | Jane Brodrick | 1947-01-07 | Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune…. |
| Kiss the Bride Goodbye | Molly Dodd | 1945-01-28 | Working-class girl Joan Dodd’s plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter’s social status… |
| People Like Us | Peach Prindible Bailey | 1990-05-13 | When a wealthy scriptwriter and socialite’s daughter is murdered, he feels let down by the courts, and so decides to use his powerful position to enab… |
| Inherit the Wind | Lucy Brady | 1988-03-20 | Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution…. |
| Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Council Member (voice) | 2001-07-02 | Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the plane… |
| Midas Valley | Molly Hammond | 1985-06-27 | Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitive world of computer electronics and the greed, pas… |
| The Way to the Stars | A Singer | 1945-06-16 | Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in… |
| A Friendship in Vienna | Narrator (voice) | 1988-08-27 | Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympath… |
| Mr. Emmanuel | Sally Cooper | 1944-08-02 | An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr… |
| The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films – British Cinema’s Legendary Studio | Herself – Interviewee | 1985-01-01 | Documentary – After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain’s first and only movie mogul with hi… |
| Discovering Hamlet | Ophelia (Archival Footage) | 2011-11-01 | Journey into “Hamlet”-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare’s great trag… |
| Meet Sexton Blake | Eva Watkins | 1945-02-05 | The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man kille… |
| Caesar and Cleopatra | Harpist (uncredited) | 1945-12-11 | The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play…. |
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