About
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...
Known for
The Wednesday PlaySeries • 1964
ITV PlayhouseSeries • 1967
No Hiding PlaceSeries • 1959
ThrillerSeries • 1973
LovejoySeries • 1986
Public EyeSeries • 1965
Steptoe and SonSeries • 1962
Sir Francis DrakeSeries • 1961
Up Pompeii!Series • 1969
Shout at the DevilMovie • 1976
The Prince and the ShowgirlMovie • 1957
Bonjour TristesseMovie • 1958
The Browning VersionMovie • 1951
The Woman in QuestionMovie • 1950
Grip of the StranglerMovie • 1958
The Wicked LadyMovie • 1945
Waterloo RoadMovie • 1945