Desmond Jeans

{{Short description|British actor (1903–1974)}}

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| name = Desmond Jeans

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| birth_date = 14 November 1903

| birth_place = Simla, British India

| death_date = December 1974

| death_place = Halifax, West Yorkshire,
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| years_active = 1932–1957

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Desmond Jeans (14 November 1903 – December 1974) was a British actor.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/346502|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118051328/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/346502|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-18|title=Desmond Jeans|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/desmond-jeans-p209219|title=Desmond Jeans - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/1s3a/desmond-jeans|title=Desmond Jeans - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}

Biography

He was the brother of actresses Isabel and Ursula Jeans.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&dq=ursula+jeans+roger+livesey+memorial+plaque&pg=PA375|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|first=Scott|last=Wilson|date=16 September 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476625997|via=Google Books}} His wife, Margaret Livesey, was the sister of the actor Roger Livesey, who later married Ursula Jeans.{{cite web|url=http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Livesey/FamilyTree.html|title=The Livesey Family Tree|website=www.powell-pressburger.org}}{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/458411/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Livesey, Roger (1906-1976) Biography|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}

Selected filmography

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