Acting

Anna Lee

1913-2004

Known for The Sound of Music, How Green Was My Valley, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?.

12 linked movie credits shown

Born01/02/1913

Died05/14/2004

AgeDied at 91

BirthplaceIgtham, Kent, England, UK

DepartmentActing

Also known asJoan Boniface Winnifrith, The British Bombshell, Joanna Boniface Stafford

Biography

Anna Lee, MBE (born Joan Boniface Winnifrith; 2 January 1913 – 14 May 2004) was a British actress. Lee married her first husband, the director Robert Stevenson, in 1933 and moved to Hollywood in 1939. She became a naturalised US citizen in 1945. In 1981, a car accident left her paralysed from the waist down. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]