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Jean Simmons - Filmography

Film actress, born in London, UK. She made her first film appearance in Give Up The Moon (1942), and had minor parts in a number of British films before going to Hollywood in 1950, where she became a leading star of the following decade. Her films include The Robe (1953), Guys and Dolls (1955), The Big Country (1958), Spartacus (1960), and How to Make an American Quilt (1995). During the 1980s she appeared in several television productions, including The Thorn Birds (1983) and Great Expectations (1989).

Jean Simmons
Robert Mitchum and Simmons in Angel Face
Born 31 January 1929
Crouch Hill, London, England

Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (born January 31, 1929 in Crouch Hill, London) is an Oscar-nominated English actress. Among her best-known leading roles are Guys and Dolls (1955), Elmer Gantry (directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks) and Spartacus, and The Happy Ending, again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination. (one daughter Kate Brooks)

Filmography

Sports Day (1944) Give Us the Moon (1944) Mr. Emmanuel (1944) Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945) Meet Sexton Blake (1945) The Way to the Stars (1945) Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) Great Expectations (1946) The Woman in the Hall (1947) Uncle Silas (1947) Black Narcissus (1947) Hungry Hill (1947) Hamlet (1948) The Blue Lagoon (1949) Adam and Evelyne (1949) So Long at the Fair (1950) Cage of Gold (1950) Trio (1950) The Clouded Yellow (1951) Angel Face (1952) Androcles and the Lion (1952) Young Bess (1953) Affair with a Stranger (1953) The Robe (1953) The Actress (1953) She Couldn't Say No (1954) Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) The Egyptian (1954) A Bullet Is Waiting (1954) Desirée (1954) Footsteps in the Fog (1955) Guys and Dolls (1955) Hilda Crane (1956) This Could Be the Night (1957) Until They Sail (1957) The Big Country (1958) Home Before Dark (1958) This Earth Is Mine (1959) Elmer Gantry (1960) Spartacus (1960) The Grass Is Greener (1960) All the Way Home (1963) Life at the Top (1965) Mister Buddwing (1966) Divorce American Style (1967) Rough Night in Jericho (1967) The Happy Ending (1969) Say Hello to Yesterday (1971) Mr. Sycamore (1975) Dominique (1978) The Dawning (1988) Going Undercover (1988) Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991) They do it with Mirrors (1991) How to Make an American Quilt (1995) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) (voice) Jean Simmons: Rose of England (2004) (documentary) Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro) (2004) (voice) Through the Moebius Strip (2005) (voice) (currently in post-production)

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