Ursula Jeans

Acting

Ursula Jeans

Born — Died

1906-05-05 — 1973-04-21

Place of birth

Simla, Punjab, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Ursula Jeans was an English film, stage, and television actress, married to the actor Roger Livesey, with whom she appeared in 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'.

Known for

Theatre 625 poster
7.2

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

Theatre 625

1964

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp poster
7.5

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

1943

The Dam Busters poster
6.9

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.

The Dam Busters

1955

Cavalcade poster
5.5

A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.

Cavalcade

1933

North West Frontier poster
6.8

In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.

North West Frontier

1959

Friday the Thirteenth poster
6.4

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.

Friday the Thirteenth

1933

Film credits

1960s · 5 titles

1950s · 3 titles

1940s · 5 titles

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp poster
7.5

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

1943

The Weaker Sex poster
6.7

A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.

The Weaker Sex

1948

The Woman in the Hall poster
6.3

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 Woman in the Hall

1947

Gaiety George poster
6.3

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.

Gaiety George

1946

Mr. Emmanuel poster
7.5

An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.

Mr. Emmanuel

1944

1930s · 13 titles

Cavalcade poster
5.5

A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.

Cavalcade

1933

Friday the Thirteenth poster
6.4

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.

Friday the Thirteenth

1933

Dark Journey poster
6.5

British double agent Madeleine Goddard meets and falls in love with German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I.

Dark Journey

1937

Storm in a Teacup poster
7.4

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

Storm in a Teacup

1937

Over the Moon poster
5.8

Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.

Over the Moon

1939

The Man in the Mirror poster
7.0

A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.

The Man in the Mirror

1936

I Lived with You poster
6.1

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.

I Lived with You

1933

No artwork available
7.0

British crime film directed by Henry Edwards

The Barton Mystery

1932

No artwork available
10.0

An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.

The Crooked Lady

1932

The Flying Fool poster
10.0

Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....

The Flying Fool

1931

The Love Habit poster
8.0

'Paris. Roué poses as secretary to flirt with employer's wife.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Love Habit

1931

No artwork available
10.0

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

Once bitten

1932

No artwork available
8.0

'Lady Violet and Harry Newman are engaged. Corry, a jealous rival, employs Mabell, a night-club dancer, to make love to Harry when drunk and demand money from Harry's father for letters she has written to the son.' (Kinematograph Weekly)

On Thin Ice

1933

Series credits