Jessica Tandy Jessica Tandy Jessica Tandy (born Jessie Alice Tandy; 7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English stage and film actress best known for her Academy Award winning performance in the film "Driving Miss Daisy". Tandy appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV. Born in London to Jessie Helen Horspool and commercial traveller Harry Tandy, she was only 18 when she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927. During the 1930s, she appeared in a large number of plays in London's West End, playing roles such as
Oscar Schlitter it every other year between 1933 and 1939, alternating with , the former boss of Disconto-Gesellschaft. Schlitter's paternal ancestors came from Schlitters in the west of the Tyrol, but the family successfully relocated further north as protestant refugees. In 1904 Oscar Schlitter married Anna Bandhauer, the daughter of Otto Bandhauer, Director of the Essen-based West German Insurance and Investment Bank (""Westdeutsche Versicherungs-Aktienbank""). Their son was Oskar Hermann Artur Schlitter who in 1932 married the film actress and former Miss Germany, Daisy D'ora, joined the Nazi Party in 1934 and spent the twelve Nazi years working in a succession of important