Jean Kent

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1921-06-29 (92 years old)

Deathday

2013-11-30

Place of Birth

Brixton, London, England, UK

Jean Kent

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean Kent (29 June 1921 - 30 November 2013) was a British film actress. She signed to Gainsborough Pictures during the Second World War. Kent's first good role in Two Thousand Women (1944), playing a stripper who is interned by the Germans. She was a Pacific Islander in Bees in Paradise (1944) with Arthur Askey and was the ingenue in a Tommy Trinder musical Champagne Charlie (1944). The turning point in her career came when she was given a dramatic part in the Gainsborough melodrama film Fanny by Gaslight (1944). The movie established Kent as Gainsborough's backup to Margaret Lockwood. Kent played ano...

Acting

1958

Bonjour Tristesse

as Mrs. Helen Lombard

1957

The Prince and the Showgirl

as Maisie Springfield

1950

The Woman in Question

as Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)

1990

Missing Persons

as Phillida Meadowhite

1944

Champagne Charlie

as Dolly Bellwood

1952

The Big Frame

as Louise Parker

1951

The Browning Version

as Millie Crocker-Harris

1959

Please Turn Over

as Janet Halliday

1955

Before I Wake

as Florence Haddon

1948

Good-Time Girl

as Gwen Rawlings

1958

1944

Fanny by Gaslight

as Lucy Beckett

1959

Web of Evidence

as Louise Burt

1945

The Rake's Progress

as Jill Duncan

1946

The Magic Bow

as Bianchi

1948

Bond Street

as Ricki Merritt

1946

Carnival

as Irene Dale

1947

1976

Shout at the Devil

as Mrs. Smythe

1949

Trottie True

as Trottie True

1946

Caravan

as Rosal

1950

The Reluctant Widow

as Elinor Cheviot

1945

The Wicked Lady

as Jackson's Doxy

1943

Warn That Man

as Frances Lane

1947

1950

Her Favourite Husband

as Dorothy Pellegrini

1944

Two Thousand Women

as Bridie Johnson

1944

1945

1988

1943

Miss London Ltd.

as The Encyclopedia Girl

1944

Soldier, Sailor

as Cigarette Girl

1974

K is for Killing

as Mrs. Garrick

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