Ursula Jeans
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Born |
Simla, British India | 5 May 1906
Died |
21 April 1973 66) London, England, UK | (aged
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1922–1968 |
Spouse(s) |
Robin Irvine (1931–1933; his death) Roger Livesey (1937–1973; her death) |
Ursula Jeans (born 5 May 1906 – 21 April 1973) was an English film, stage, and television actress.[1][2]
Biography
Ursula Jeans was born in Simla, British India, to English parents, and brought up and educated in London.[3] She was the youngest of three siblings. Her brother Desmond Jeans was a boxer and actor, and her elder sister, Isabel, was also an actress.[4]
Ursula Jeans made her stage debut in London in 1922,[5] before joining the cast of the London production of The Play's the Thing, an adaptation of Ferenc Molnár's play, The Play at the Castle by P. G. Wodehouse.[6] The cast included Gerald du Maurier, Ralph Nairn, Henry Daniell (before he went to Hollywood), and Henry Forbes-Robertson.[7]
She made her stage debut in New York in 1933.[8] Her first marriage was to actor Robin Irvine (1931–1933). Her second marriage was to actor Roger Livesey from 1937 until her death.[9] (Livesey's sister Maggie was already married to Desmond Jeans.) She appeared in one film with her husband, 1943's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.[10] She entertained troops with ENSA during World War II, sometimes working with her husband. After the war, she continued acting, including a stage tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1956–1958.
Last years and death
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She continued to act into the 1970s and died of cancer in 1973, aged 66, some 18 months after her diagnosis.[9] She shares a memorial plaque with her husband Roger in the actors' church St Paul's, Covent Garden.
Filmography
- A Gipsy Cavalier (1922)
- The Virgin Queen (1923)
- The Fake (1927)
- Quinneys (1927)
- The Passing of Mr. Quin (1928)
- S.O.S. (1928)
- The Flying Fool (1931)
- The Love Habit (1931)
- The Crooked Lady (1932)
- Once Bitten (1932)
- The Barton Mystery (1932)
- Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
- I Lived with You (1933)
- On Thin Ice (1933)
- Cavalcade (1933)
- The Man in the Mirror (1936)
- Dark Journey (1937)
- Storm in a Teacup (1937)
- Over the Moon (1939)
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
- Mr. Emmanuel (1944)
- Gaiety George (1946)
- The Woman in the Hall (1947)
- The Weaker Sex (1948)
- The Dam Busters (1955)
- The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
- North West Frontier (1959)
- The Green Helmet (1961)
- The Queen's Guards (1961)
- The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
References
- ↑ "Ursula Jeans".
- ↑ "Ursula Jeans - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ↑ "Ursula Jeans - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ↑ Wilson, Scott (16 September 2016). "Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed". McFarland – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Ursula Jeans - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ↑ "UoB CALMVIEW2: Overview". calmview.bham.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Occasional Performers in Plum's Plays". Wooster Sauce/By the Way. 59: 1. March 2015.
- ↑ League, The Broadway. "Ursula Jeans – Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
- 1 2 https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/25/archives/ursula-jeans-dies-british-actress-66.html
- ↑ "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.