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Jean Marsh

Jean Marsh

Actor · 1934 – 2025 · Stoke Newington, London, England, UK

Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh (1 July 1934 – 13 April 2025) was an English actress and writer. Born in London, Jean Marsh became interested in show business while taking dancing and mime classes as therapy for a childhood illness. After attending a charm school and working as a model, she started acting in repertory and took voice lessons. Her repertory work was supplemented by a number of film appearances as a dancer. She then spent three years in America, appearing in Sir John Gielgud's Broadway production of "Much Ado About Nothing" and numerous TV shows, including an episode of "The Twilight Zone"(1959). Returning to London, she won roles on stage, film and TV. It was during this period that she appeared in "Doctor Who" (1963), first as Princess Joanna in "The Crusade" and then as Sara Kingdom in "The Daleks' Master Plan." In the early 1970s she co-created and starred in LWT's "Upstairs, Downstairs" (1971). Since then she has maintained a very busy career in the theatre, on TV - including a starring role in the US sitcom "9 to 5"(1982) and films such as Return to Oz (1985) and Willow (1988). She also co-created another successful series, "The House of Eliott" (1991).

Series24

  • TV7.5
  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV5.8

    Holby City

    1999 · 48 votes

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Love Boat

    1977 · 199 votes

  • TV7.9

    Doctor Who

    1963 · 722 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV4.4

    The One Show

    2006 · 31 votes

  • TV6.6

    Play for Today

    1970 · 10 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Dick Cavett Show

    1968 · 22 votes

  • TV7.2

    Hawaii Five-O

    1969 · 164 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Waltons

    1972 · 106 votes

  • TV7.4

    The Saint

    1962 · 136 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV7.2

    Tales from the Darkside

    1984 · 95 votes

  • TV6.6

    Trapper John, M.D.

    1979 · 23 votes

  • TV5.1

    The Paul O'Grady Show

    2004 · 12 votes

  • TV7.0

    Omnibus

    1952 · 4 votes

  • TV7.8

    Upstairs, Downstairs

    1971 · 32 votes

  • TV7.3

    Grantchester

    2014 · 151 votes

  • TV4.3

    Thirty-Minute Theatre

    1965 · 8 votes

  • TV7.7

    The Persuaders!

    1971 · 135 votes

  • TV7.3

    Danger Man

    1960 · 25 votes

  • TV7.7

    UFO

    1970 · 62 votes

Movies23

  • Movie7.0

    Willow

    1988 · 2.3K votes

  • Movie7.1

    Cleopatra

    1963 · 885 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Changeling

    1980 · 747 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Return to Oz

    1985 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie7.1

    Frenzy

    1972 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Eagle Has Landed

    1976 · 397 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Fatherland

    1994 · 143 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie5.5

    Dark Places

    1973 · 37 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Horsemasters

    1961 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.1
  • Movie6.9
  • Movie6.8
  • Movie6.1
  • Movie6.0
  • Movie6.7
  • Movie8.0

    See China and Die

    1981 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Jane Eyre

    1970 · 22 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Bejewelled

    1991 · 5 votes

  • Movie7.9
  • Movie6.6
  • Movie4.9

    The Heavy

    2010 · 49 votes

  • Movie