Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 2, 1913
Place of Birth
Igtham, Kent, England, UK
Also Known As
- Joan Boniface Winnifrith
- The British Bombshell
- Joanna Boniface Stafford
Anna Lee
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]
Known For - Movies
The Sound of Music
as Sister Margaretta
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)
Fort Apache
as Mrs. Emily Collingwood
The Horse Soldiers
as Mrs. Buford
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Mrs. Bates
The Last Hurrah
as Gert Minihan
How Green Was My Valley
as Bronwyn
Listen to Me
In Like Flint
as Elisabeth
Bedlam
as Nell Bowen
Known For - TV Shows
Perry Mason
as Crystal Durham
Wagon Train
as Mrs. Allyris Craven
Mission: Impossible
as Maria Malik
Mannix
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Roberta Saunders
Combat!
as Sister Lescaut
Maverick
as Helene Ferguson
The F.B.I.
as Eileen Crane
The F.B.I.
as Susan Harper
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Frances Lawrence