She was 100 years old: Glynnis Jones, seen in Mary Poppins and the doyenne of cinema, has left us

Glynnis Jones died on Thursday, January 4, at the age of 100, his agent Mitch Klemm announced. The Hollywood Reporter. Her most famous role internationally is Mrs. Winifred Banks, mother of Jane and Michael Banks, married to George W. Banks in the famous Disney movie Mary Poppins. She plays a quirky and loyal housewife as a suffragette demands the vote for women and gets her husband back on the ground when he’s kidnapped.

An actor as well as a singer, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Fred Zinemann’s Horizons Without Limits.

The star plays a mermaid!

Glynnis Jones began his career in 1938 at the age of 15 and quickly rose through the ranks. In 1946, he got his first major role This man is mine and achieved success with Frida (1947) and Miranda (1948), in which she played the mermaid! A surprising type of role, but one that he will return to She is crazy about men after years.

At that time, her image was very “glamorous” and became exotic in adventure films such as Moana, Daughter of the Tropics or The Wanderer of Islands. We will more easily remember her performance in Filles sans joie, a prison film released in the first half of the 1950s.

Mary Poppins, but not only that!

In addition to Mary Poppins, he will direct Chess for the King and The Rose and the Sword for Disney, two period films.

His career would never return to its initial success and he would then do a lot of TV work, notably in Batman where he played the super villain thief four times, but also Arabesque or La Croisière s’amuse.

In 1999, he played his final screen role in the comedy Superstar alongside Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell. At the age of 76, he announces that he is ending his career. He became a doyenne of cinema.