Jean Kent
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 29, 1921
- Died
- November 30, 2013 (aged 92)
- Birthplace
- Brixton, London, England, UK
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Kent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Missing Persons
Movie · as Phillida Meadowhite
Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
Movie · as Self
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
After Henry
TV · as Mrs Judd-Skeffington · 1 ep
Lovejoy
TV · as Madelene Gilbert · 1 ep
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
TV · 1 ep
Lytton's Diary
TV · as Margot Shelley · 1 ep
Time of My Life
TV · as Mrs Wordsworth · 2 eps
Tycoon
TV · as Mary Clark · 11 eps
Shout at the Devil
Movie · as Mrs. Smythe
K Is for Killing
Movie · as Mrs. Garrick
Thriller
TV · as Mrs. Garrick · 1 ep
Up Pompeii!
TV · as Aphrodite · 1 ep
ITV Playhouse
TV · as Beatrice · 1 ep
United!
TV · as Margie Stringer · 28 eps
Public Eye
TV · as Mrs Podmore · 1 ep
The Wednesday Play
TV · as Mrs. Da Tanka · 1 ep
Steptoe and Son
TV · as Daphne Goodlace · 1 ep
Sir Francis Drake
TV · as Queen Elizabeth I · 21 eps
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Movie · as Julienne
Please Turn Over
Movie · as Janet Halliday
Web of Evidence
Movie · as Louise Burt
No Hiding Place
TV · 2 eps
Bonjour Tristesse
Movie · as Mrs. Helen Lombard
Grip of the Strangler
Movie · as Cora Seth
The Prince and the Showgirl
Movie · as Maisie Springfield
Before I Wake
Movie · as Florence Haddon
The Big Frame
Movie · as Louise Parker
The Browning Version
Movie · as Millie Crocker-Harris
The Woman in Question
Movie · as Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot (voice)
The Reluctant Widow
Movie · as Elinor Cheviot
Her Favourite Husband
Movie · as Dorothy Pellegrini
Trottie True
Movie · as Trottie True
Good-Time Girl
Movie · as Gwen Rawlings
Bond Street
Movie · as Ricki Merritt
Sleeping Car to Trieste
Movie · as Valya
The Loves of Joanna Godden
Movie · as Ellen Godden
The Man Within
Movie · as Lucy
The Magic Bow
Movie · as Bianchi
Carnival
Movie · as Irene Dale
Caravan
Movie · as Rosal
The Rake's Progress
Movie · as Jill Duncan
The Wicked Lady
Movie · as Jackson's Doxy
Waterloo Road
Movie · as Toni
Madonna of the Seven Moons
Movie · as Vittoria
Champagne Charlie
Movie · as Dolly Bellwood
Fanny by Gaslight
Movie · as Lucy Beckett
Two Thousand Women
Movie · as Bridie Johnson
Bees in Paradise
Movie · as Jani
Soldier, Sailor
Movie · as Cigarette Girl
Warn That Man
Movie · as Frances Lane
It's That Man Again
Movie · as Kitty
Miss London Ltd.
Movie · as The Encyclopedia Girl