Jean Kent
Acting
Born June 29, 1921 · Brixton, London, England, UK
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 Gainsborou…
Known For · 40 titles
The Wednesday Play
ITV Playhouse
No Hiding Place
Lovejoy
Public Eye
United!
Thriller
Steptoe and Son
Sir Francis Drake
After Henry
Up Pompeii!
Lytton's Diary
Tycoon
The Prince and the Showgirl
Web of Evidence
Bonjour Tristesse
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
Shout at the Devil
Fanny by Gaslight
Madonna of the Seven Moons
Soldier, Sailor
Bees in Paradise
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Grip of the Strangler
Good-Time Girl
The Woman in Question
The Browning Version
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Two Thousand Women
The Rake's Progress
Champagne Charlie
The Man Within
The Wicked Lady
It's That Man Again
Warn That Man
Her Favourite Husband
The Loves of Joanna Godden
Sleeping Car to Trieste
Caravan
K Is for Killing