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name: "Isabel Jeans"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 September 1891"
died: "4 September 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T03:15:49.395962+00:00"
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# Isabel Jeans

Actor. Born 15 September 1891 in London, England, UK. Died 4 September 1985.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 September 1891, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 4 September 1985
- **Active:** 1941–1958
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Jeans, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633338, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419978/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/100781

## Biography

Isabel Jeans was an English stage and film actress. She began her career on the London stage around 1908 at the invitation of Herbert Beerbohm Tree and appeared in early Broadway productions including A Midsummer Night's Dream.

She played leading roles in two Alfred Hitchcock silent films, Downhill (1927) and Easy Virtue (1928). Later work included Mrs. Newsham in Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) and Aunt Alicia in Gigi (1958). On stage she played Lady Bracknell in a 1968 production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Jeans' siblings included the actress Ursula Jeans. She was married first to the actor Claude Rains and later to the playwright Gilbert Wakefield.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Suspicion* (1941), Fi1m 72, as Mrs. Newsham — [page](https://film.one/film/suspicion.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lord Peter Wimsey* (1972), series, as Dowager Duchess
- *The Magic Christian* (1969), as Dame Agnes Grand
- *Heavens Above!* (1963), as Lady Despard
- *Victoria Regina* (1961), as Mistress of the Robes
- *A Breath of Scandal* (1960), as Princess Eugénie
- *Gigi* (1958), as Aunt Alicia
- *It Happened in Rome* (1957), as Cynthia
- *Elizabeth of Ladymead* (1948), as Mother in 1903
- *Great Day* (1945), as Lady Mott
- *Banana Ridge* (1942), as Sue Long
- *Suspicion* (1941), as Mrs. Newsham — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/suspicion.md)
- *Man About Town* (1939), as Mme. Dubois
- *Good Girls Go to Paris* (1939), as Caroline Brand
- *Breakdowns of 1938* (1938), as Paula (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Hard to Get* (1938), as Mrs. Henny Richards
- *Garden of the Moon* (1938), as Mrs. Lornay
- *Youth Takes a Fling* (1938), as Mrs. Merrivale
- *Secrets of an Actress* (1938), as Miss Marian Plantagenet
- *Fools for Scandal* (1938), as Lady Paula Malverton
- *Tovarich* (1937), as Fermonde Dupont
- *The Crouching Beast* (1935), as The Pellegrini
- *The Dictator* (1935), as Von Eyben
- *Rolling in Money* (1934), as Duchess of Braceborough
- *Sally Bishop* (1932), as Dolly Durlacher
- *The Return of the Rat* (1929), as Zélia de Chaumet Boucheron
- *Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant* (1928), as Pauline Alexander
- *Easy Virtue* (1928), as Larita Filton
- *Downhill* (1927), as Julia
- *The Triumph of the Rat* (1926), as Zelie
- *Windsor Castle* (1926), Actor
- *The Rat* (1925), as Zelie de Chaumet

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