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
The Sound of Music
(1965)
Sister Margaretta
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962)
Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
(1962)
Mrs. Bates
Hangmen Also Die!
(1943)
Masha Novotny
Fort Apache
(1948)
Mrs. Emily Collingwood
How Green Was My Valley
(1941)
Bronwyn
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
(1964)
Titanic Passenger in Lifeboat
The Last Hurrah
(1958)
Gert Minihan
The Horse Soldiers
(1959)
Mrs. Buford
Two Rode Together
(1961)
Mrs. Malaprop
Flying Tigers
(1942)
Brooke Elliott
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
(1947)
Mrs. Fairley
Jack the Giant Killer
(1962)
Lady Constance
Bedlam
(1946)
Nell Bowen
7 Women
(1966)
Mrs. Russell
Full Filmography
Acting
Ebb Tide
(1932)
(uncredited)
His Lordship
(1932)
Scrub Girl Chorine (uncredited)
Mannequin
(1933)
Babette
Faces
(1934)
Madeleine Pelham
The Camels Are Coming
(1934)
Anita Rodgers
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
(1935)
Vivian Tomkin
Heat Wave
(1935)
Jane Allison
First a Girl
(1935)
Princess Mironoff
The Man Who Changed His Mind
(1936)
Dr. Clare Wyatt
Non-Stop New York
(1937)
Jennie Carr
O.H.M.S.
(1937)
Sally Briggs
King Solomon's Mines
(1937)
Kathleen 'Kathy' O'Brien
Young Man's Fancy
(1939)
Ada
The Four Just Men
(1939)
Ann Lodge
Seven Sinners
(1940)
Dorothy
Return to Yesterday
(1940)
Carol Sands
How Green Was My Valley
(1941)
Bronwyn
My Life with Caroline
(1941)
Caroline Mason
Flying Tigers
(1942)
Brooke Elliott
Commandos Strike at Dawn
(1942)
Judith Bowen
Hangmen Also Die!
(1943)
Masha Novotny
Forever and a Day
(1943)
Cornelia Trimble-Pomfret
Flesh and Fantasy
(1943)
Rowena (segment 2)
Summer Storm
(1944)
Nadina Kalenin
G.I. War Brides
(1946)
Linda Powell
Bedlam
(1946)
Nell Bowen
High Conquest
(1947)
Marie Correl
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
(1947)
Mrs. Fairley
Best Man Wins
(1948)
Nancy Smiley
Fort Apache
(1948)
Mrs. Emily Collingwood
Prison Warden
(1949)
Elisa Pennington Burnell
The Last Hurrah
(1958)
Gert Minihan
Gideon's Day
(1958)
Mrs. Kate Gideon
Jet Over The Atlantic
(1959)
Ursula Leverett
The Crimson Kimono
(1959)
Mac
This Earth Is Mine
(1959)
Charlotte Rambeau
The Horse Soldiers
(1959)
Mrs. Buford
The Big Night
(1960)
Mrs. Turner
Two Rode Together
(1961)
Mrs. Malaprop
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962)
Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)
Jack the Giant Killer
(1962)
Lady Constance
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
(1962)
Mrs. Bates
For Those Who Think Young
(1964)
Laura Pruitt
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
(1964)
Titanic Passenger in Lifeboat
The Sound of Music
(1965)
Sister Margaretta
Picture Mommy Dead
(1966)
Elsie Kornwald
7 Women
(1966)
Mrs. Russell
In Like Flint
(1967)
Elisabeth
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary
(1973)
Judge Barbara Hanline
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
(1977)
Laura Delano
The Beasts Are on the Streets
(1978)
Mrs. Jackson
Legend of the Northwest
(1978)
The Night Rider
(1979)
Lady Earl
Beverly Hills Brats
(1989)
Gertie
Listen to Me
(1989)
What Can I Do?
(1993)
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
(2000)
Self
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
(2002)
Self - Actress