Jean Simmons
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
Spartacus
1960
Angel Face
1953
Guys and Dolls
1955
Elmer Gantry
1960
Hamlet
1948
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
The Egyptian
1954
The Grass Is Greener
1960
The Big Country
1958
Great Expectations
1946
The Robe
1953
Désirée
1954
The Clouded Yellow
1950
Young Bess
1953
The Way to the Stars
1945
A Bullet Is Waiting
1954
Footsteps in the Fog
1955
Black Narcissus
1947
Rough Night in Jericho
1967
Shadows in the Sun
2009
So Long at the Fair
1950
Androcles and the Lion
1952
Down at the Hydro
1983
Uncle Silas
1947
The Happy Ending
1969
This Could Be the Night
1957
Going Undercover
1988
On Cukor
2000
Divorce American Style
1967
The Actress
1953
Affair with a Stranger
1953
Fun in the Big Country
1958
Home Before Dark
1958
All the Way Home
1963
Until They Sail
1957
She Couldn't Say No
1954
Winter Solstice
2003
Cage of Gold
1950
This Earth Is Mine
1959
Adam and Evelyne
1949
Hilda Crane
1956
Life at the Top
1965
Say Hello to Yesterday
1971
Hungry Hill
1947
Dominique
1980
The Dawning
1988
Mister Buddwing
1966
Discovering Hamlet
2011
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love
1987
Meet Sexton Blake
1945
The Blue Lagoon
1949
Laker Girls
1990
Give Us the Moon
1944
Inherit the Wind
1988
Heidi
1968
The Woman in the Hall
1947
A Friendship in Vienna
1988
Midas Valley
1985
Sensibility and Sense
1990
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
1945
Decisions! Decisions!
1971
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2001
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
1981
Mr. Sycamore
1975
The Easter Promise
1975
Daisies in December
1995
A Moment in Time
1983
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
1985
Soldier in Love
1967
Trio
1950
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991
Mr. Emmanuel
1944
Her Own Rules
1998
Beggarman, Thief
1979
December Flower
1984
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
Golden Gate
1981
People Like Us
1990
A Small Killing
1981
Sports Day
1944
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
The Odd Couple
1970
Hawaii Five-O
1968
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
Hotel
1982
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Mysteries of the Bible
1994
Dark Shadows
1991
Angel Falls
1993
The Oscars
1953
The Thorn Birds
1983
North and South
1985
The Thorn Birds
1983
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Dain Curse
1978
Winter Solstice
2003
Great Expectations
1989
Bambi
1948
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
What's My Line?
1950
Hotel
1982
The Danny Kaye Show
1963
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
MGM Parade
1955
Beggarman, Thief
1979