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Jean Kent
Actor
Born June 29, 1921Died November 30, 2013 (92 years)
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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 another sexually aggressive girl in Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) with Calvert and Granger. It was a big hit. Rank borrowed her to support Rex Harrison in The Rake's Progress (1945).
Kent continued to have success in films. Her favorite film was musical Trottie True (1949) where she played the lead.
Kent's film appearances grew less frequent from the mid 1950s onward. She had support roles in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) and Bonjour Tristesse (1958) and a good part in the horror film The Haunted Strangler (1959). She was in the comedy Please Turn Over (1959) and the thriller Beyond This Place (1959). She was one of several female stars in Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960) with George Sanders.
Kent was married to Austrian actor Josef Ramart from 1946 until his death in 1989, aged 70. They met on the set of Caravan. Actor Stewart Granger was the best man at their wedding. They appeared together in the films Caravan and Trottie True. Kent made her last public appearance in June 2011, when she was honoured by the British Film Institute on her 90th birthday.
Kent died in the West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds on 30 November 2013, following a fall at her home in Westhorpe. The coroner recorded a narrative verdict that Kent died from accidental injuries and that cardiac disease may have contributed to a fall.
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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 another sexually aggressive girl in Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) with Calvert and Granger. It was a big hit. Rank borrowed her to support Rex Harrison in The Rake's Progress (1945).
Kent continued to have success in films. Her favorite film was musical Trottie True (1949) where she played the lead.
Kent's film appearances grew less frequent from the mid 1950s onward. She had support roles in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) and Bonjour Tristesse (1958) and a good part in the horror film The Haunted Strangler (1959). She was in the comedy Please Turn Over (1959) and the thriller Beyond This Place (1959). She was one of several female stars in Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960) with George Sanders.
Kent was married to Austrian actor Josef Ramart from 1946 until his death in 1989, aged 70. They met on the set of Caravan. Actor Stewart Granger was the best man at their wedding. They appeared together in the films Caravan and Trottie True. Kent made her last public appearance in June 2011, when she was honoured by the British Film Institute on her 90th birthday.
Kent died in the West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds on 30 November 2013, following a fall at her home in Westhorpe. The coroner recorded a narrative verdict that Kent died from accidental injuries and that cardiac disease may have contributed to a fall.
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Filmography
| 1990 | Missing Persons · as Phillida Meadowhite |
| 1988 | After Henry (TV Series) · as Mrs Judd-Skeffington |
| 1986 | Lovejoy (TV Series) · as Madelene Gilbert |
| 1985 | Lytton's Diary (TV Series) · as Margot Shelley |
| 1976 | Shout at the Devil · as Mrs. Smythe |
| 1975 | Angels (TV Series) · as Miss Buckle |
| 1973 | Thriller (1973) (TV Series) · as Mrs. Garrick |
| 1971 | Doctor At Large (TV Series) · as Mrs. Bentinck |
| 1970 | A Family At War (TV Series) · as Dora Martin |
| 1969 | Up Pompeii (TV Series) · as Aphrodite |
| 1967 | Vanity Fair (TV Series) · as Mrs. O'dowd |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse (TV Series) · as Beatrice |
| 1965 | Public Eye (TV Series) · as Mrs Podmore |
| 1964 | Crossroads (1964) (TV Series) · as Jennifer Lamont |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play (TV Series) · as Mrs. Da Tanka |
| 1963 | Love Story (1963) (TV Series) · as Zoe Slater |
| 1962 | Steptoe and Son (TV Series) · as Daphne Goodlace |
| 1961 | Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) · as Aggie Plunkett |
| 1961 | Sir Francis Drake (TV Series) · as Queen Elizabeth I |
| 1960 | Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons · as Julienne |
| 1959 | Please Turn Over · as Janet Halliday |
| 1959 | No Hiding Place (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Web of Evidence · as Louise Burt |
| 1958 | The Haunted Strangler · as Cora Seth |
| 1958 | Bonjour Tristesse · as Mrs. Helen Lombard |
| 1957 | The Prince and the Showgirl · as Maisie Springfield |
| 1957 | Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) · as Gillian Blaine |
| 1956 | The Errol Flynn Theatre (TV Series) · as Henrietta |
| 1955 | ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Ariane |
| 1955 | ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Alicia Collins |
| 1955 | Shadow of Fear · as Florence Haddon |
| 1952 | The Big Frame · as Louise Parker |
| 1951 | The Browning Version · as Millie Crocker-Harris |
| 1950 | Five Angles on Murder · as Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice) |
| 1950 | The Taming of Dorothy · as Dorothy Pellegrini |
| 1950 | The Inheritance · as Elinor Cheviot |
| 1950 | Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast Member 'the Island Of Cipango' |
| 1949 | The Gay Lady · as Trottie True |
| 1948 | Sleeping Car to Trieste · as Valya |
| 1948 | Bond Street · as Ricki Merritt |
| 1948 | Good-Time Girl · as Gwen Rawlings |
| 1947 | The Loves of Joanna Godden · as Ellen Godden |
| 1947 | The Smugglers · as Lucy |
| 1946 | Carnival · as Irene Dale |
| 1946 | Caravan · as Rosal |
| 1946 | The Magic Bow · as Bianchi |
| 1945 | Notorious Gentleman · as Jill Duncan |
| 1945 | The Wicked Lady · as Jackson's Doxy |
| 1945 | Madonna of the Seven Moons · as Vittoria |
| 1945 | Waterloo Road · as Toni |
| 1944 | Two Thousand Women · as Bridie Johnson |
| 1944 | Champagne Charlie · as Dolly Bellwood |
| 1944 | Soldier, Sailor · as Cigarette Girl |
| 1944 | Man of Evil · as Lucy Beckett |
| 1944 | Bees in Paradise · as Jani |
| 1943 | Warn That Man · as Frances Lane |
| 1943 | Miss London Ltd. · as The Encyclopedia Girl |
| 1943 | It's That Man Again · as Kitty |
| 1940 | Hullo, Fame! · as Cast |