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Ursula Jeans is a Actor British born on 5 may 1906 at Shimla (Inde)

Ursula Jeans

Ursula Jeans
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Birth name Ursula Jean McMinn
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 5 may 1906 at Shimla (Inde)
Death 21 april 1973 (at 66 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Ursula Jean McMinn (5 May 1906 – 21 April 1973) was an English film, stage and television actress.

Ursula Jeans was born in Simla, British India, to English parents, and brought up and educated in London. 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.

Ursula Jeans made her stage debut in London in 1922, 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. The cast included Gerald du Maurier, Ralph Nairn, Henry Daniell (before he went to Hollywood) and Henry Forbes-Robertson. She made her stage debut in New York in 1933. Her first marriage was to actor Robin Irvine (1931-1933). Her second marriage was to the actor Roger Livesey from 1937 until her death. (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. 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.

Biography

Sœur des acteurs Isabel Jeans (1891-1985) et Desmond Jeans (1903-1974), Ursula Jeans étudie dès sa prime jeunesse à Londres, notamment à la Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Très active au théâtre durant sa carrière, elle y débute en 1922 dans la capitale britannique, où elle joue souvent.

Parmi ses pièces notables représentées à Londres, mentionnons La Cerisaie d'Anton Tchekhov (1933-1934, avec Elsa Lanchester et Marius Goring), La Nuit des rois de William Shakespeare (1950, avec Peggy Ashcroft et Roger Livesey) et Un mari idéal d'Oscar Wilde (1966, avec Margaret Lockwood et Roger Livesey).

Elle joue également à Broadway (New York) dans deux pièces, la première en 1933 ; la seconde est Escapade de Roger MacDougall (1953, avec Brian Aherne et Carroll Baker).

Au cinéma, elle contribue à trente-trois films (majoritairement britanniques) dès la période du muet, à partir de 1922. Citons Cavalcade de Frank Lloyd (film américain, 1933, avec Diana Wynyard et Clive Brook), Le Mystère de la Section 8 de Victor Saville (1937, avec Vivien Leigh et Conrad Veidt), Les Briseurs de barrages de Michael Anderson (1955, avec Michael Redgrave et Colin Tapley), ou encore Aux frontières des Indes de J. Lee Thompson (1959, avec Kenneth More et Lauren Bacall).

En 1937, elle épouse en secondes noces Roger Livesey (1906-1976), mariage qui se termine avec la mort de l'actrice en 1973, à 66 ans, des suites d'un cancer. Si le couple se retrouve souvent au théâtre, il ne participe en revanche qu'à un seul film, Colonel Blimp de Michael Powell et Emeric Pressburger (1943, avec Deborah Kerr et Anton Walbrook).

Le dernier film d'Ursula Jeans est La Bataille de la Villa Fiorita de Delmer Daves (1965, avec Maureen O'Hara et Rossano Brazzi).

À la télévision britannique enfin, elle apparaît dans quatre téléfilms d'origine théâtrale, le premier diffusé en 1949 ; le dernier, réalisé par Alex Segal (coproduction américano-britannique) et diffusé en 1962, est une adaptation de la pièce Hedda Gabler d'Henrik Ibsen (avec Ingrid Bergman dans le rôle-titre et Michael Redgrave). S'ajoutent quatre séries entre 1963 et 1968.

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Filmography of Ursula Jeans (28 films)

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Actress

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, 1h51
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Maureen O'Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Richard Todd, Olivia Hussey, Phyllis Calvert, Martin Stephens
Roles Lady Anthea
Rating58% 2.903552.903552.903552.903552.90355
In Italy, two children, Michael (Martin Stephens) and Debbie (Elizabeth Dear), are aware that their mother, Moira (Maureen O'Hara) has left them for a lover, a famous Italian composer and they are staying at the Villa Fiorita. Michael convinces Debbie to run away to the Villa to fetch their mother, and forces her to sell her prized pony to afford the journey. They arrive, and the lover, Lorenzo (Rossano Brazzi) calls their father to inform him that the children have run away and that he will be sending them home. However, Michael falls ill and Lorenzo allows them both to stay. Debbie joins forces with Donna, the daughter of their mother's lover, to manipulate Moira into returning to Britain. A hunger strike by the girls ensues which fails and culminates in Moira slapping Debbie and Lorenzo spanking Donna. Lorenzo finally decides to send the children home but Michael and Donna attempt to run away on a sailboat during a storm. After the two nearly drown, Moira and Lorenzo agree that they have lost the battle, and a heartbroken Moira returns to England with her children.
The Queen's Guards, 1h50
Directed by Michael Powell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Actors Daniel Massey, Raymond Massey, Robert Stephens, Ursula Jeans, Elizabeth Shepherd, Duncan Lamont
Roles Mrs. Fellowes
Rating58% 2.9056252.9056252.9056252.9056252.905625
The film tells the story of John Fellowes (Daniel Massey), an officer in the Grenadier Guards as he prepares for the Trooping the Colour ceremony. John is the son of retired guardsman Capt. Fellowes (Raymond Massey) and Mrs. Fellowes (Ursula Jeans). John's older brother was also a Guards officer, but he was killed in action and John feels he is being forced to follow in his brother's footsteps.
North West Frontier, 2h9
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films
Actors Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White, I. S. Johar, Ian Hunter
Roles Lady Windham
Rating70% 3.544543.544543.544543.544543.54454
North West Frontier, British India, 1905: a Hindu maharajah asks British Army Captain Scott (Kenneth More) to take his son, Prince Kishan, to the safety of the Governor's Residence in Haserabad because a Muslim uprising has begun in his province. Accompanying them is a widow, Mrs Wyatt (Lauren Bacall), the prince's American nanny/governess. Soon after they leave, the rebels storm the palace and kill the maharajah.
The Dam Busters, 2h4
Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Documentary, Action, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney, Patrick Barr, Raymond Huntley
Roles Mrs. Wallis
Rating73% 3.695723.695723.695723.695723.69572
In the early years of the Second World War, aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis is struggling to develop a means of attacking Germany's dams in the hope of crippling German heavy industry. Working for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, as well as doing his own job at Vickers, he works feverishly to make practical his theory of a bouncing bomb which would skip over the water to avoid protective torpedo nets. When it came into contact with the dam, it would sink before exploding, making it much more destructive. Wallis calculates that the aircraft will have to fly extremely low (150 feet (46 m)) to enable the bombs to skip over the water correctly, but when he takes his conclusions to the Ministry, he is told that lack of production capacity means they cannot go ahead with his proposals.
The Night My Number Came Up, 1h34
Directed by Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott, Ursula Jeans, Ralph Truman
Roles Mrs Robertson
Rating69% 3.4937953.4937953.4937953.4937953.493795
A senior Royal Air Force officer (Michael Redgrave) is at a dinner party in Hong Kong at which one of those present, (Michael Hordern), talks about a dream he had in which the Air Force Officer and a group of 12 companions are flying from Bangkok in a Dakota which crashes on a rocky shore. The Air Marshal is due to fly to Tokyo the following day, but is not disturbed because many of the details differ from his planned voyage, including using a different kind of aircraft, a Consolidated Liberator.
The Weaker Sex, 1h24
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Digby Wolfe, Lana Morris, Bill Owen, Derek Bond
Roles Martha Dacre
Rating64% 3.2356253.2356253.2356253.2356253.235625
Life on the British home front during World War II. Widowed Martha Dacre tries to keep house and home together during the run up to the D-Day landings. With lodgers to contend with, two daughters, and her son away in the Navy, she has chosen to stay at home as a housewife. But when her son's ship is damaged during the landings, she experiences regrets about not taking a more active role in the war.
The Woman in the Hall, 1h33
Directed by Jack Lee
Genres Drama
Actors Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons, Cecil Parker, Martin Walker, Susan Hampshire, Edward Underdown
Roles Lorna Blake
Rating64% 3.227443.227443.227443.227443.22744
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 2h43
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver, Ursula Jeans, Patrick Macnee
Roles Frau von Kalteneck
Rating79% 3.995533.995533.995533.995533.99553
Major-General Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) is a senior commander in the Home Guard during the Second World War. Before a training exercise, he is captured in a Turkish bath by soldiers led by Lieutenant "Spud" Wilson, who has struck pre-emptively. He ignores Candy's outraged protests that "War starts at midnight!" They scuffle and fall into a bathing pool.
Over the Moon, 1h25
Directed by William K. Howard, Thornton Freeland
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Robert Douglas, Louis Borel, Carl Jaffe
Roles Millie
Rating55% 2.7614352.7614352.7614352.7614352.761435
Jane Benson (Merle Oberon) is a lowly Yorkshire girl who lives simply, caring for her elderly, ailing uncle and not wishing for anything more. She does take a fancy, however, to the local doctor, Freddie Jarvis (Rex Harrison), and she persuades him to marry her. Soon she finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds.
Storm in a Teacup, 1h27
Directed by Victor Saville, Ian Dalrymple
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood, Ursula Jeans, Gus McNaughton
Roles Lisbet Skirving
Rating65% 3.2551853.2551853.2551853.2551853.255185
Un politicien local en Ecosse tente de briser le journaliste qui a écrit une histoire négative à son sujet et qui est également amoureux de sa fille.
Dark Journey, 1h17
Directed by Victor Saville, Alexander Korda
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Adventure, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Austin Trevor, Anthony Bushell, Cecil Parker
Roles Gertrude
Rating62% 3.100673.100673.100673.100673.10067
In the spring of 1918, a German U-boat stops a Dutch freighter on its way to Stockholm, Sweden during the final year of World War I. The Germans board the ship, identify one man as a Belgian spy, and take him prisoner. One of the passengers questioned is an attractive Swiss dress shop owner named Madeleine Goddard (Vivien Leigh) who is returning to Stockholm from a business trip to Paris, where she purchased dresses for her boutique. After returning to Stockholm, Madeleine, who is a German spy, meets with her contacts and provides information on Allied troop movements she acquired in Paris. The information is cleverly concealed in the gowns she purchased. While the Germans believe that she is one of their top spies, Madeleine is in fact a French double agent working to uncover the identity of the new German secret service leader in Stockholm.