Rona Anderson

She appeared in the films Scrooge and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and on TV in Dr Finlay's Casebook and Dixon of Dock Green.

[1] In 1951, she married fellow actor Gordon Jackson, with whom she had appeared in Floodtide (1949)[2] and remained with him until his death from bone cancer on 15 January 1990.

In 1981, she played Frances Shand Kydd in the Ray Cooney comedy, Her Royal Highness at the Palace Theatre, London starring Marc Sinden.

[1] Rona Anderson's first major film was the drama Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) directed by John Paddy Carstairs.

Anderson later appeared in an episode of the long-running crime series The Professionals entitled Cry Wolf, in which her husband, Gordon Jackson, played George Cowley.

[5] Of her numerous roles in British B films in the 1950s, the film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane wrote: "She was essentially crisp and wholesome, in her open Scots prettiness and brought a proper spirited resourcefulness to these assorted plucky heroines, making them a good deal more endearing and credible than the screenplays deserved.

Rona Anderson posing with leading members of the New Zealand cricket team