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Jean Marsh is a Actor British born on 1 july 1934 at Stoke Newington (United-kingdom)
Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh, OBE (born 1 July 1934) is an English actress and writer. Marsh co-created and starred in the ITV series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–75), for which she won the 1975 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Rose Buck. She later reprised the role in the BBC's revival of the series (2010–12). Marsh also co-created the television series The House of Eliott in 1991. Her film appearances include Cleopatra (1963), Frenzy (1972), The Changeling (1980), Return to Oz (1985) and Willow (1988).
On 3 October 2011, the BBC announced that Marsh had suffered a minor stroke and would miss the beginning of the second series of Upstairs, Downstairs. She was ultimately able to appear in only two scenes over the series, and the series was subsequently cancelled.
Marsh was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
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Birth name Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 july 1934 (89 years) at Stoke Newington (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 july 1934 (89 years) at Stoke Newington (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Biography
Marsh was married to future Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee from 1955 until their divorce in 1960. She has had relationships with Albert Finney, Kenneth Haigh, and film director Michael Lindsay-Hogg.On 3 October 2011, the BBC announced that Marsh had suffered a minor stroke and would miss the beginning of the second series of Upstairs, Downstairs. She was ultimately able to appear in only two scenes over the series, and the series was subsequently cancelled.
Marsh was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
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, 1h23Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about television
Actors David Bradley, Brian Cox, Reece Shearsmith, Jamie Glover, Jessica Raine, Sacha Dhawan
Rating81%
In 1966, William Hartnell (David Bradley) is in his dressing room at the BBC. He insults a stagehand who calls him to the set, where the delay caused by his absence is noticed. Hartnell enters in costume, ready to film his last moments as the First Doctor and stands in front of the TARDIS console.
The Heavy (2010)
, 1h42Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Vinnie Jones, Christopher Lee, Stephen Rea, Shannyn Sossamon, Sadie Frost, Lee Ryan
Roles Mrs. Mason
Rating49%
The film is about rivalry and betrayal between two brothers. One is a candidate for Prime Minister and the other is a henchman for a businessman. When one is given the opportunity to take revenge against the other, he must come to terms with the truth and face a world where trust doesn't exist and loyalty is rare.
Monarch (2000)
, 1h29Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors T.P. McKenna, Jean Marsh, Peter Miles
Roles The Queens
Rating58%
Monarch unfolds around one night when the injured Henry VIII arrives at a manor house closed for the season. Henry is without the power of his throne. He is vulnerable to those around him and to his own mental issues. He had left England financially and morally bankrupt; his collection of enemies became his only constant. The film is set in just one night. In an interview John Walsh said “Often you can find out more about someone in a small time frame rather than you can if the two-hour film spans their whole life. Most bio-pics become little more than a montage of facts. If you confine a character to that time frame you can find out more about them.
, 2hDirected by Charles Beeson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Hermione Norris, Colin Buchanan, Leslie Phillips, Andy Serkis, Michael Byrne, Jean Marsh
Roles Thyrza Grey
Rating61%
The Ring (1996)
, 3hDirected by Armand Mastroianni
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Nastassja Kinski, Michael York, Rupert Penry-Jones, Carsten Norgaard, Tim DeKay, Jon Tenney
Rating71%
During World War II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with a German officer and they get married. When Berlin falls to the Russians, and her husband is killed, she flees to the United States, carrying her unborn child. All the while, she does not giving up hope that she will find her family, tied together by her mother's ring. At the end, the paint and ring of her mother lead the two siblings met again.
Fatherland (1994)
, 1h46Directed by Christopher Menaul
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Political films, Alternate history films
Actors Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Jean Marsh, Michael Kitchen, John Woodvine
Roles Anna von Hagen
Rating63%
In the prologue, the failure of the D-Day invasion forces the United States to withdraw from the war in Europe and Dwight D. Eisenhower to retire in disgrace. The US continues the Pacific war against Japan and wins. In Europe, Germany invades the United Kingdom, resulting in King George VI and the rest of the British Royal Family fleeing to Canada in exile with Edward VIII regaining the British throne. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill also goes into exile in Canada and lives there until his death in 1953.
, 1h24Directed by Gavin Millar
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Lionel Jeffries, Jean Marsh
Roles Miss Hunter
Rating66%
In 1955, William Smith (Jeremy Irons), a widower, lives with his nine-year-old son Danny (Samuel Irons) in a Vardo behind the filling station and garage where he works in the English countryside.
Willow (1988)
, 2h6Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Witches in film, Children's films
Actors Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh, Billy Barty, Patricia Hayes
Roles Queen Bavmorda
Rating71%
A prophecy states that a female child with a special birthmark will herald the downfall of the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda. Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women in her realm to prevent fulfilment of the prophecy. When the prophesied child is born, the mother begs the midwife to take her to safety. The midwife reluctantly accepts, and leaves Nockmaar castle unnoticed. The mother is executed, and the midwife is eventually found. Knowing she cannot escape, she sets the baby on a makeshift raft of grass and sends her down the river, hoping for fate to run its course. Bavmorda sends her daughter Sorsha and General Kael to find the baby so that the prophecy can never be fulfilled.
Return to Oz (1985)
, 1h53Directed by Walter Murch
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Le pays d'Oz, Witches in film, Children's films, Robot films
Actors Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Brian Henson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie, Seán Barrett
Roles Nurse Wilson / Mombi
Rating66%
In October 1899, six months after returning home from the Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale has become melancholic. Her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry take her to Dr. Worley, known for his electrotherapy treatments, and leave her under the care of Nurse Wilson. During a thunderstorm, the lab suffers a blackout and Dorothy is saved by a mysterious girl. They escape with Nurse Wilson in pursuit, and fall into a river. Dorothy clambers aboard a chicken coop, but the other girl appears to have vanished underwater.
Goliath Awaits (1981)
Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Mark Harmon, Kirk Cameron, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, John Carradine, Alex Cord
Roles Dr. Goldman
Rating65%
In 1939, the luxury British ocean liner Goliath, carrying 1,860 passengers, is hit by a torpedo fired by a German U-boat and sinks while on a trans-Atlantic crossing to the United States three days after the outbreak of World War II.
See China and Die (1981)
, 1h40Directed by Larry Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Esther Elizabeth Rolle, Kene Holliday, Frank Converse, Paul Dooley, Andrew Duggan, Laurence Luckinbill
Roles Sally Hackman
Rating65%
A maid who reads detective stories finds herself embroiled in a real life mystery involving her dead boss and a mysterious statue he brought back from China.
The Changeling (1980)
, 1h55Directed by Peter Medak
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos, Barry Morse, Jean Marsh
Roles Joanna Russell
Rating70%
John Russell (George C. Scott), a composer living in New York, New York, moves cross-country to Washington state following the deaths of his wife and daughter in a traffic accident while on a winter vacation in upstate New York. In suburban Seattle, John rents a large, old and eerie Victorian-era mansion and begins piecing his life back together.
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
, 2h15Directed by John Sturges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle
Roles Joanna Grey
Rating68%
The film begins with captured Second World War film footage of the rescue from Italy of Mussolini by German paratroopers.
Dark Places (1973)
, 1h31Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Actors Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin, Robert Hardy, Jean Marsh
Roles Victoria
Rating57%
Dr. Mandeville (Christopher Lee) and his sister Sarah (Joan Collins) try to locate two suitcases of money hidden on the large estate of one of his former patients by posing as heirs. Also at the estate is mentally unstable Andrew (Robert Hardy), who begins to have flashbacks to the murders committed by the previous owner Edward (Hardy as well).
Frenzy (1972)
, 1h56Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster, Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Roles Monica Barling
Rating73%
In London, a serial killer is raping women and strangling them with neckties. Most of the film takes place in Covent Garden, which at the time was still the wholesale fruit and vegetable market district. Fairly early in the film, the audience sees that fruit merchant Robert Rusk (Barry Foster) is in fact the murderer. However, circumstantial evidence has already built up around his friend Richard Blaney (Jon Finch).