Joan Boniface Winnifrith Net Worth

Joan Boniface Winnifrith Net Worth is
$1.1 Million

Joan Boniface Winnifrith Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

The daughter of a clergyman, Anna Lee was born Joan Boniface Winnifrith and encouraged to pursue an acting career by her father. After training at London's Royal Albert Hall, she took to the boards and later began appearing in English films, first as an extra, then working her way up to featured parts and finally earning the unofficial title "...

Full NameAnna Lee
Date Of BirthJanuary 2, 1913
Died2004-05-14
Place Of BirthIghtham, Kent, England, UK
Height5' 4" (1.63 m)
ProfessionActress, Soundtrack
SpouseRobert Stevenson (director)
ChildrenJeffrey Byron, , Steve Stafford,, John Stafford, Five in total, including
ParentsBertram Winnifrith
SiblingsJohn Winnifrith
MoviesThe Sound of Music, How Green Was My Valley, Fort Apache, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Horse Soldiers, Hangmen Also Die!, King Solomon's Mines, Flying Tigers, Bedlam, In Like Flint, The Crimson Kimono, Jack the Giant Killer, First a Girl, My Life with Caroline, Comm...
Star SignCapricorn
#Quote
1[on working with John Wayne in Seven Sinners (1940)] Marlene [Marlene Dietrich] didn't want a blonde in the picture--other than herself. So it was the first time I had to rinse [color] my hair. John Wayne was a lovely man, what I would call a typical American--very nice, very modest. His stature as a star never came up, although we worked together many times over the years. On our first encounter, we were engaged in conversation and he asked me if I was a Republican. Since I was new to this country, I thought he was asking if I was a publican, which is a person who keeps a publichouse for drinking beer. I told him I was not a publican, but that I did enjoy beer. [Laughs] That really confused him!
2I want to die with my boots on. English actors have a great reputation for longevity.
#Fact
1From 1990 to 1991, Ms. Lee's granddaughter, Erin Everly, was married to Axl Rose, of Guns N' Roses, briefly making Axl Rose Ms. Lee's "grandson-in-law." Ms. Everly was the inspiration for the Guns N' Roses song "Sweet Child O' Mine" and is the daughter of Ms. Lee's daughter Venetia Stevenson and Don Everly of The Everly Brothers.
2Her former General Hospital (1963) co-star, Jacklyn Zeman lived not too far from Jeanne Cooper, who was Lee's close friend.
3Metal band Dream Theater named the character of one of their songs after her.
4Close friend of Jeanne Cooper. Cooper got a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame several months after Lee.
5Anna Lee passed away on May 14, 2004. Just a couple of months afterwards, General Hospital (1963) aired a tribute to Lee by holding a memorial service for her character.
6During World War II, Lee performed with 'Jack Benny (I)' and others in USO tours entertaining troops in North Africa and Europe. Gen. George Patton awarded her a special medal for her efforts.
7Friends with: Jeanne Cooper, Ruth Warrick, Maureen O'Hara, George Gaynes, John Loder, John Ingle, John Beradino, John Ford, John Wayne, Rachel Ames, Stuart Damon, Ken Curtis, Constance Towers, Loretta Young, Claude Rains, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Robert Nathan, Robert Conrad, Boris Karloff, Roddy McDowall, Walter Brennan, Richard Haydn, Donald Crisp and Patric Knowles.
8A political conservative.
9Acting mentor and friends of Leslie Charleson, Anthony Geary and Jacklyn Zeman.
10Best remembered by the public for her starring role as Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital (1963).
11Anna Lee played opposite a character named Allan Quartermain, in King Solomon's Mines (1937), then 46 years later played a character named Lila Quartermaine in TV soap General Hospital (1963) who had a son Alan Quartermaine.
12Was good friends with Maureen O'Hara and Roddy McDowall.
13Had three sons from her second marriage: John, Steven and Timothy. John passed away in 1986.
14Dubbed the voice of Patricia Morison who was playing the writer George Sand in the movie Song Without End (1960) because Harry Cohn wanted the character to have harsher vocal tones.
15In the film Bedlam (1946), Anna darkened her hair so that audiences would take her more seriously and kept it dark for much of the next few years. One of her costumes was worn by Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939).
16Had two daughters with first husband Robert Stevenson. Following their divorce in 1944, Anna was given custody of younger daughter Caroline, but Venetia chose to live with her father. Anna was estranged from her daughter for 15 years. They reunited after appearing together in the films Jet Over the Atlantic (1959) and The Big Night (1960).
17During WWII, she volunteered for overseas duty with the U.S.O. entertaining Allied troops in North Africa, Iran, and Sicily.
18Comedian Jack Hulbert served as Best Man at her first wedding, and Alfred Hitchcock gave her way at her second.
19Initially studied with Elsie Fogarty at the Royal Albert Central School Hall in London. Later toured with the London Repertory Theatre where she earned the title "The British Bombshell."
20The blue-eyed blonde was occasionally a brunette in films. In Seven Sinners (1940), she wore her hair darker because star Marlene Dietrich insisted on no competing blondes in her pictures.
21One of three children born to an Anglican clergyman at St. Peters Church in Ightham, Kent, her godmother was legendary actress Sybil Thorndike.
22Grandmother of Erin Everly and Evan Stafford.
23Amber Tamblyn originally portrayed the adopted granddaughter of Lee's character on General Hospital (1963). In the 1950s (long before Tamblyn's birth), Tamblyn's father, Russ Tamblyn, was married to Lee's daughter Venetia Stevenson.
24Died just a week before she was to have received a daytime Emmy award for "lifetime achievement." Her actor son, Jeffrey Byron, accepted on her behalf at the New York ceremony.
25Was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident, and acted in a wheelchair for more than two decades.
26She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January 1993 for her services to film and television industry.
27She was awarded M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1982 for her services to drama.
28Goddaughter of Dame Sybil Thorndike and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
29Mother of actress Venetia Stevenson, Jeffrey Byron and Steve Stafford.

Actress

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Ford Theatre Hour1950-1951TV SeriesAgnes / Miriam
Lux Video Theatre1951TV SeriesJulia
Somerset Maugham TV Theatre1950TV Series
The Clock1950TV Series
Prison Warden1949Elisa Pennington Burnell
Best Man Wins1948Nancy Smiley
Fort Apache1948Mrs. Emily Collingwood
High Conquest1947Marie Correl
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir1947Mrs. Miles Fairley
G.I. War Brides1946Linda Powell
Bedlam1946Nell Bowen
Summer Storm1944Nadena Kalenin
Hangmen Also Die!1943Masha Novotny
Flesh and Fantasy1943Rowena (Episode 2)
Forever and a Day1943Cornelia Trimble-Pomfret
Commandos Strike at Dawn1942Judith Bowen
Flying Tigers1942Brooke Elliott
How Green Was My Valley1941Bronwyn
My Life with Caroline1941Caroline
Seven Sinners1940Dorothy
Return to Yesterday1940Carol Sands
Young Man's Fancy1939Miss Ada
The Secret Four1939Ann Lodge
Non-Stop New York1937Jennie Carr
King Solomon's Mines1937Kathleen 'Kathy' O'Brien
You're in the Army Now1937Sally Briggs
The Man Who Lived Again1936Dr. Clare Wyatt
First a Girl1935Princess Miranoff
The Passing of the Third Floor Back1935Vivian
Heat Wave1935Jane Allison
The Camels Are Coming1934Anita Rodgers
Lucky Loser1934Ursula Hamilton
Rolling in Money1934Lady Eggleby
Faces1934Madeleine Pelham
Mannequin1933Babette
Chelsea Life1933Hon. Muriel Maxton
The Bermondsey Kid1933
Mayfair Girl1933Bit Role (uncredited)
Yes, Mr. Brown1933uncredited
The King's Cup1933Minor Role (uncredited)
His Lordship1932Scrub Girl Chorine (uncredited)
Say It with Music1932
Ebb Tide1932uncredited
General Hospital1981-2003TV SeriesLila Quartermaine
Port Charles1997TV SeriesLila Quartermaine (1997-2003)
What Can I Do?1994Elderly Woman
Beverly Hills Brats1989Gertie
Listen to Me1989Garson's Grandmother
Beyond the Next Mountain1987Governor's Wife
The Right Hand Man1987Worn woman
Glitter1985TV Series
Scruples1980TV Mini-SeriesAunt Wilhelmina
B.J. and the Bear1979TV SeriesLaura
The Night Rider1979TV MovieLady Earl
Legend of the Northwest1978
The Beasts Are on the Streets1978TV MovieMrs. Jackson
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years1977TV MovieLaura Delano
Eleanor and Franklin1976TV SeriesLaura Delano
Mannix1968-1974TV SeriesMrs. Dabney / Mrs. Harriman
The F.B.I.1973TV SeriesSusan Harper / Eileen Crane
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary1973TV MovieJudge Barbara Hanline
The Streets of San Francisco1973TV SeriesMrs. Claridge
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law1973TV SeriesMrs. Wilma Rowland
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie1972TV SeriesMrs. Grunch / Mistress Dreadly / Farmer's Wife / ...
The Bold Ones: The Senator1970TV SeriesFrances Mallon
Mission: Impossible1970TV SeriesMaria Malik
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town1969TV Series
The Outcasts1969TV SeriesAmelia
Star!1968Hostess (uncredited)
Gunsmoke1967TV SeriesAmy Bassett
The Felony Squad1967TV SeriesMartha Lindley
Family Affair1967TV SeriesLorna Frasier
In Like Flint1967Elisabeth
Picture Mommy Dead1966Elsie Kornwald
My Three Sons1966TV SeriesLouise Allen
7 Women1966Mrs. Russell - Mission Staff
Daniel Boone1965TV SeriesClara Merivale
The Sound of Music1965Sister Margaretta
Mr. Novak1965TV SeriesMrs. Woodridge
Combat!1965TV SeriesSister Lescaut
The Unsinkable Molly Brown1964Titanic Passenger in Lifeboat (uncredited)
For Those Who Think Young1964Laura Pruitt
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1964TV SeriesPaula Kirsch
The Movie Maker1964TV Movie
The Prize1963American Reporter (uncredited)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1963TV SeriesRoberta Saunders
Dr. Kildare1963TV SeriesMrs. Frances Alland
McHale's Navy1962TV SeriesPamela Parfrey
Mutiny on the Bounty1962Minor Role (uncredited)
Perry Mason1962TV SeriesCrystal Durham
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962Mrs. Bates
Jack the Giant Killer1962Lady Constance
Checkmate1962TV SeriesLouise Haley
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962Mrs. Prescott - Widow in Stage Holdup (uncredited)
77 Sunset Strip1962TV SeriesLela Franklin
Two Rode Together1961Mrs. Malaprop
Lock Up1960-1961TV SeriesHelen Carter / Mrs. Mitchell
Maverick1961TV SeriesHelene Ferguson
Hawaiian Eye1959-1960TV SeriesHolly Morrison / Donna Lane
Wagon Train1960TV SeriesMrs. Allyris Craven
The Barbara Stanwyck Show1960TV Series
The Loretta Young Show1959-1960TV SeriesAnne Tracy
The Big Night1960Mrs. Turner
One Step Beyond1960TV SeriesHelen Mason
Jet Over the Atlantic1959Ursula Leverett
The Crimson Kimono1959Mac
This Earth Is Mine1959Charlotte Rambeau
The Horse Soldiers1959Mrs. Buford
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen1959TV Series
Peter Gunn1958TV SeriesSister Thomas Aquinas
The Last Hurrah1958Gert Minihan
Studio One in Hollywood1951-1958TV SeriesAnita Derr
Shirley Temple's Storybook1958TV SeriesFairy Godmother
Gideon of Scotland Yard1958Mrs. Gideon
The Charles Farrell Show1956TV SeriesDoris Mayfield
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse1955TV Series
General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein1954TV MovieGeneral Foods Commercial Spokeswoman
Armstrong Circle Theatre1954TV Series
Kraft Theatre1950-1952TV Series
A Date with Judy1952TV SeriesDora Foster (1951-1952)
Robert Montgomery Presents1950-1952TV SeriesAnn Hammond / Frances Lawrence
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse1952TV SeriesPrincess Henriette
The Web1950-1951TV Series

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Sound of Music1965performer: "Maria" 1959 - uncredited

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Sound of Music: From Fact to Phenomenon1994Video documentary sincere appreciation

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star2002TV Movie documentaryHerself - Actress
Backstory2000TV Series documentaryHerself - Actress
Biography1993-2000TV Series documentaryHerself
The Sound of Music: From Fact to Phenomenon1994Video documentaryHerself
The 8th Annual American Cinema Awards1991TV SpecialHerself
7th Annual American Cinema Awards1990TV SpecialHerself
4th Annual Soap Opera Digest Awards1988TV SpecialHerself
The 3th Annual American Cinema Awards1986TV SpecialHerself
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan1985TV SpecialHerself
It's News to Me1952TV SeriesHerself - Panelist

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
General Hospital2016TV SeriesLila Quartermaine
The 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards2004TV SpecialHerself
Biography1995TV Series documentaryActress 'How Green Was My Valley'
John Ford1993TV Movie documentaryBronwyn [in "How Green Was My Valley"] (uncredited)

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2004Lifetime Achievement AwardDaytime Emmy AwardsAnna Lee died one week before the ceremony. Her son Jeffrey Byron
1993Star on the Walk of FameWalk of FameMotion PictureOn 7 January 1993. At 6777 Hollywood Blvd.
1988Soap Opera Digest AwardSoap Opera Digest AwardsOutstanding Actress in a Supporting Role: DaytimeGeneral Hospital (1963)
1984SoapySoapy AwardsFavorite Actress in a Mature RoleGeneral Hospital (1963)
1983SoapySoapy AwardsFavorite Woman in a Mature RoleGeneral Hospital (1963)

Known for movies

Source
IMDB Wikipedia

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