Desmond Jeans (14 November 1903 – December 1974) was a British actor.

Biography

He was the brother of actresses

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and

Ursula Jeans Ursula Jean McMinn (5 May 1906 – 21 April 1973), better known as Ursula Jeans, was an English film, stage, and television actress. Biography Jeans was born in Simla, British India, to English parents, and brought up and educated in London. S ...

. His wife, Margaret Livesey, was the sister of the actor

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, who later married Ursula Jeans.

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1932) * '' Diamond Cut Diamond'' (1932) * ''

The Girl from Maxim's ''The Girl from Maxim's'' is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Frances Day, Leslie Henson, Lady Tree and Stanley Holloway. It was an adaptation of the 1899 play '' La Dame de chez Maxim'' by Georges F ...

'' (1933) * '' Colonel Blood'' (1934) * ''

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'' (1935) * ''

The Six Men ''The Six Men'' is a 1951 British crime film directed by Michael Law and starring Harold Warrender, Olga Edwardes and Peter Bull. It was made by the independent Vandyke Productions at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. It also used location ...

'' (1951)

References

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* * 1903 births 1974 deaths British male stage actors British male film actors 20th-century British male actors British people in colonial India {{UK-film-actor-stub