Just getting to the last of Upstairs Downstairs via Netflix and was wondering what happened to this amazing cast. Portrayed by Rachel Gurney, Lady Marjorie Helen Sybil Bellamy (ne Lady Marjorie Helen Sybil Talbot-Carey; 6 May 1860 or 12 July 1864 15 April 1912) is the wife of Richard Bellamy and the mother of James and Elizabeth. Video editing was expensive and so we had to blunder on, regardless of cock-ups. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. PBS. Portrayed by David Langton, Richard Pemberton Bellamy, Viscount Bellamy of Haversham (1853before 1936),[note 1] was the youngest son of the parson of Burnham Trenton in Norfolk, Charles Bellamy, and his wife Hannah. In June 1927, Frederick and Lady Dolly Hale start an affair, and Frederick resigns to start a new life in films and as an escort. There were long dialogue scenes always indoors. And 40 years after that, Julian Fellowes gave us the Grantham family in Downton Abbey (after his Oscar for the country-house whodunnit Gosford Park in 2002). She is married and has a daughter named Wilhelmina, who claims to be 'great, great friends' with Lady Prudence Fairfax's daughter, Agatha, even though they only just met the previous night. Upstairs, Downstairs - Full Cast & Crew 2011 -2022 5 Seasons PBS Drama Watchlist Where to Watch The intertwining lives of the wealthy Bellamy family and its servants in Edwardian England unfold. In 1995, while appearing in What The Butler Saw at the National Theatre, she began behaving erratically and was ultimately diagnosed as having acute manic depression. All Rights Reserved. In this new version she plays the part of Lady Agnes, the dowager head of the household. A new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936. When will Season Two (2) Air In the U.S.A? Towards the end of World War I the old lady insists on a private ambulance being used to bring her wounded grandson James back from France. When John Hawkesworth, our producer, came to rehearsals, he seldom mentioned the acting. The meet took five hours to film and the ruddy-faced locals were having no truck with the fake stirrup cup. In the episode I Dies From Love, Emily falls hopelessly in love with a footman named William from the household of Lady Bellamy's committee associate, Mrs. Van Groeben. THE Darling Buds of May was one of the biggest dramas ITV ever aired - and launched Catherine Zeta-Jones on the world asMariette, the eldest child of the sprawling Larkin family. (It was, incidentally, the BBCs leaden politicisation of the 2010-12 remake of Upstairs, Downstairs that wrecked it.). Blackmail for Lady Marjorie's affair later helps her chauffeur and Sarah in leaving service and purchasing their own business, a garage. Moray House 23/31 Great Titchfield Street London W1W 7PA. At about the same time, she starts an affair with James Bellamy and becomes pregnant, resulting in James's being sent to India. By this point, both Richard and Hazel have become extremely fond of Virginia and her two other children, Alice and William. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Mrs. Van Groeben is an acquaintance of Lady Marjorie, Lady Prudence and Lady Templeton who works with them on a domestic servants aid committee, but her snobbery and condescending attitude result in her being deeply disliked by all three women, especially Lady Templeton. She leaves Eaton Place without telling anyone and goes to live with her widowed mother in Banbury. 02649845). They spend several of their days off together, and Emily desperately wants to marry him. Overnight, they had to learn that ethnicity and sexual orientation were none of their business. She had a long career, but will always be remembered best as Mrs. Bridges,the cook at 165 Eaton Place (Oh Ruby!) Following the suicide of Emily, her first kitchen hand, Mrs. Bridges had a breakdown and kidnapped a child but with the help of the Bellamys she managed to escape punishment for it. Information given on-screen about the marital status of Mrs Bridges was contradictory. Diana's plans are thwarted and a divorce scandal looms; James offers to marry her but confesses that the war destroyed the man she once knew and that he cannot 'get on' with life, content instead to watch it go by. There were long dialogue scenes - always indoors. But because "Upstairs, Downstairs" aired on commercial-free PBS, Americans lost that vital dimension to the story. In August 2011, it was announced that Dame. However, Elizabeth and he later part company. A former child actor, he is best known for his work as the footman Edward on the 1970s television series Upstairs, Downstairs, as Billy, For the fictional television character, see David Langton (General Hospital)David Muir Langton (born Basil Muir Langton-Dodds; 16 April 1912 25 April 1994) was a British actor who is best, Eleanor Lucy V. Kendrick (born 8 June 1990) is an English actress best known for playing Anne Frank in the BBC's 2009 miniseries The Diary of Anne Frank, Ivy Morris in the first series of the 2010. Nicola Pagett Lady Elizabeth Kirbridge Poor Elizabeth, she had no luck at all with men and finally moved to America to seek happiness. She reads Goethe, talks politics incessantly, refuses an arranged marriage with a rich Scotsman, walks out on her debutante ball, rejects her parents conservatism and entertains ill-mannered socialist poets in the morning room. She appeared with Alec Guinness in A Voyage Round My Father (1971). After a brief period of harrumphing, people became oblivious to the anomalies: black could be white; male could be female get over it. Technical Specs, See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro, The Best 1920's English Dramas & Comedies, executive producer (66 episodes, 1971-1975), makeup supervisor (uncredited) (66 episodes, 1971-1975), graphics (uncredited) (65 episodes, 1971-1975), sound supervisor (uncredited) (65 episodes, 1971-1975), lighting director (uncredited) (66 episodes, 1971-1975), associate series creator (66 episodes, 1971-1975), production assistant (66 episodes, 1971-1975), secretary to producer (uncredited) (66 episodes, 1971-1975), production assistant (uncredited) (66 episodes, 1971-1975), stage manager (uncredited) (66 episodes, 1971-1975). Displeased, he later sent her into domestic service where she has risen through the ranks to her lady's maid position and remained to the present. Celebrate over 50 years of small-screen prestige by re-visiting some of the best dramatic series in TV history. Jean Marsh The co-creator of the series (with fellow actress Eileen Atkins), she played formidable parlourmaid Rose Buck. The Bellamys, Richard and Lady Marjorie, live there with their two grown children and about a half dozen servants, as the world of London aristocracy changes around them. In a 1985 revival of Pinters Old Times, she was the center of an emotional triangle in which her husband and her long-ago roommate compete to prove their love. But also, as The Telegraph quoted her as saying: Onstage for two hours, Im my own mistress. The show initially ran in the USA on Masterpiece Theatre in the early 1970s. Portrayed by Pauline Collins, Sarah Moffat (born July 1882, also known as Clmence Dumas, Clmence Moffat, and Sarah Delice) claims to be the daughter of Albert Moffat and Marianne Dumas and the great-granddaughter of Alexandre Dumas. Kate was still alive and well in 1931 (Rose wrote to 'Mrs Hudson' that year according to the second TV Times Upstairs Downstairs special). In Season 2, inconveniently pregnant by his publisher (from an assignation the husband had arranged), she goes home to her parents. Lily is a quiet, hardworking and caring girl. | By Simon Williams While on leave in London 1916, he seeks out Rose and they agree to marry when the war ends; later there is a brief mention that they will marry on his next leave in London. She is portrayed by Jean Marsh, who was nominated for an Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama series four times, winning once. The actress, now 72, also fronted gardening/crime drama Rosemary & Thyme alongside Felicity Kendall as the rather-too-perfectly namedLaura Thyme from 2003 to 2007. March 16, 2021 Nicola Pagett, the actress who played the rebellious and thoroughly spoiled Elizabeth Bellamy on the beloved British television series "Upstairs, Downstairs" and the title role. 5 Seasons. Her last role was on the London stage in the second cast of Stephen Sondheims A Little Night Music. Portrayed by Celia Bannerman, Diana, Marchioness of Newbury (ne Lady Diana Russell 1883-) is a childhood friend and love interest of James, but taking her mother's advice to 'marry well', weds his wealthy best friend Bunny instead. Nicola Pagett has suffered from manic depression, and chronicled her experiences with this in a 1998 book titled Diamonds Behind My Eyes. Rose says that, many times during her adult life, she wished she had never noticed the cart. However, when an envious Mrs. Van Groeben tells William he cannot see Emily any more, William drops her, revealing that he never cared about her anyway; he tells his mistress "It was only a bit of fun". Baddeley was set to reprise the role of Mrs Bridges in a spin-off from Upstairs, Downstairs which would have focused on Mr Hudson, Ruby and her running a boarding house by the sea. Dominated by his spouse, he is happiest playing his expected role of a traditional English country squire, a duty described by his wife as "scratching the backs of pigs with a glazed look in his eye." Im sure wed all like to see Edward Fox pulling a pint in the Rovers Return or Penelope Keith milking a cow in Emmerdale. The 80-year-old actor carried on playing the wheeler-dealer long before and after the Darling Buds of May, with the legendary sitcom's increasingly aged cast continuing to churn out Christmas specials until 2003. Marsh and Atkins also co-created the hit series House of Eliott. He is best known for his roles in Upstairs, Downstairs and The Sandbaggers. In the episode I Dies from Love, set during the summer of 1907, the scullery maid, Emily, falls in love with William and the two spend most of their days off together. He is a somewhat reluctant member of Georgina Worsley and Lady Dolly's social group of 'wild young things'. She was 75. In addition to her daughter, a film and television production manager, Ms. Pagett is survived by a sister, Angela. Hazel dies in the Spanish flu pandemic days before World War I ends in 1918. Besides, Ms. Pagett had learned what really mattered. Upstairs, Downstairs. Portrayed by Jenny Tomasin, Ruby Finch (born 1892) is the scullery maid at Eaton Place. Portrayed by Brian Osborne, Mr Pearce (1872? Widowed by Lady Marjorie's death in 1912, he marries Virginia Hamilton, a war widow, in 1919, having been created Viscount Bellamy of Haversham and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1917. She preferred the stage, but she won praise for her work on television as the rebellious and thoroughly spoiled Elizabeth Bellamy, and later as Anna Karenina. After the inquest, Georgina states that she never wants to see Lady Dolly again. When Rose returns to Eaton Place as housekeeper she soon finds that in both 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' worlds lie a labyrinth of secrets, lies and scandal. In both incarnations, she was played by veteran actress Jean Marsh, who was also the series' co-creator along with Eileen Atkins (who played Maud, Lady Holland in the 2010 continuation of the series). As she told The Independent in 1992, her original ambition was to open in the West End and have men with cloaks take me out to dinner. But she soon discovered a bigger thrill. Costume changes were done double-quick. If they forgot a line, they simply went on silently moving their lips, confident that viewers all over the country would be thumping their tellies, cursing a technical fault. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Pop, Ma, Charley and Mariette in The Darling Buds of May back in 1992, Tax inspector Charley married Catherine Zeta-Jones' character Mariette, He fell in love while investigating the eccentric Larkin family, Philip Franks in Channel 5's David Jason, Britain's Favourite TV Star this week, Pam Ferris as Ma Larkin with a goat in The Darling Buds Of May, The actress at a British Film Institute screening in London in 2016, David as farmer Sidney 'Pop' Larkin in the ITV drama in 1992, The comedy legend at Cirque Du Soleil in London in January this year, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Mariette in the Kentish countryside with Charley, The movie star arriving at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles last year, Christina and Katherine Giles as the Larkin twins for a press shot in 1992, Chrissie is now health editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Abigail as Primrose in a press shot for the drama's second series in 1992, She is now an author and academic specialising in William Shakespeare, Catherine Zeta Jones David Jason and Pam Ferris star in The Darling Buds Of May, The Chase host Bradley Walsh taking over as Pop, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). downstairs definition: 1. to or on a lower floor of a building, especially the ground floor: 2. on a lower floor of a. Rose herself found no luck in love her finace Gregory died on the battlefield and she lost all the money he left her in his will to Jamess investments in the stock market. He returned to England with a middle class fianc, putting pressure on the underparlour maid to find another situation. | Aug 29, 2021, 50 years after the first episode of Upstairs, Downstairs. Many of her scenes were cut. Kittyis now a doctor and lives in London with her husband James and their two daughters while Chrissie is global health editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and lives in Guildford with her husband Matt. She made her London stage debut in The Boston Summer in 1968. In the summer of 1906, she has an affair with a much younger man, Charles Victor Hammond, a captain in the Khyber Rifles and a friend of her son James. Winchmore briefly challenges Richard on his conservative view as opposed to her liberal/radical views and serves as Elizabeth's maid of honour at her wedding. Upstairs, Downstairs, Miss Jones And Son Christopher Beeny (born 7 July 1941) is an English actor. So, as our Christmas Eve present to you, heres what weve found . After Upstairs Downstairs her television work continued alongside her successful stage career, which included roles in J B Priestleys Dangerous Corner (1974) with Gerald Flood and Barbara Jefford, and Richard III (1989) in which she played the mother of Richard (Derek Jacobi). Thanks! Now the show, which beat Coronation Street in its prime, is returning with The Chase host Bradley Walsh taking over as Pop, the role David Jason made his own. She played a socialite in Scoop (1987), based on Evelyn Waughs novel; a mother-of-the-bride who fancies the father-of-the-groom in the series A Bit of a Do (1989); and a second-rate Liverpool stage actress in the film An Awfully Big Adventure (1989). However, in the summer of 1928, Lady Dolly, Georgina, Lord Stockbridge and three others take part in a scavenger hunt; Georgina drives them down to finish the hunt, and runs over and kills a man on his bicycle. ), whose first name is never revealed, is the coachman from 1903 until 1909, when he is replaced by the much-more resourceful and motivated Thomas Watkins. She was preceded by Doris, Nellie, and Emily. Mrs. Bridges quite savagely dresses Emily down about her affections for William. Rose says that the "Bellamys" gave her the silver teapot; she left service before 1936, yet mentions both of them, meaning Richard was dead by 1936 but alive when Rose left. How had the upper classes clung on for so long, with only a green baize door to protect them? you will spare them the shame of explaining their presence more.. In 1974, she tackled the work of three great playwrights (Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen) at once during a special Greenwich Theater season. Company Credits Marsh can be seen on the left in this photo. His first loyalty is to the Talbot-Careys, but he often proves helpful to the Bellamys as well. Known as "Roberts" upstairs and "Miss Roberts" downstairs, she is often fussy and suspicious of those around her, both upstairs and downstairs. Back in 1974, in the opening scene of the very first episode, we met Rose greeting a new job applicant for the household staff at the downstairs servants' entrance, of course. Not to be confused with. After the episode, she is mentioned only once more when Lady Marjorie states how much she had liked a dinner that Mrs. Bridges had made. Popular. Cast . Elizabeth fails to read her true situation, seeing the gift as loving support of her new-found equality: meanwhile, the businessman uses his new connections to court a Marchioness. Abigail has also been on the board of the British Shakespeare Association and was its chair from 2008 until 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Upstairs,_Downstairs_(1971_TV_series)_characters&oldid=1141820905, Richard Marson, "Inside UpDown The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs", Kaleidoscope Publishing, 2005, This page was last edited on 27 February 2023, at 00:10. Luckily, Julian Fellowes, the Mrs Beaton-cum-Nancy Mitford of our times, knew better than to trust Auntie with his Downton Abbey. She was portrayed by Angela Baddeley, who was nominated twice for an Emmy (Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress). Cast in a minor role as the accident-prone scullery maid, Ruby Finch, in the drama Upstairs Downstairs, Jenny Tomasin often stole the scene. Here, we catch up with the Larkin family's actors and actresses 30 years after the show first delighted audiences on ITV in the early 90s. When three months later Elizabeth seeks an annulment, the affair and a surprise pregnancy come to light, and to avoid scandal Lawrence is given an allowance and sent abroad, to return only for the sake of appearances at the baby's christening, where he accepts paternity. Forty years later, Upstairs, Downstairs followed suit with the Bellamy family. Upstairs/Downstairs is the eighth episode of the third season of the television series Daredevil. Official Sites Upstairs, Downstairs cast list, including photos of the actors when available. I need to buy this series in DVD. We filmed Upstairs, Downstairs in the studio - ironically all on one level; we had to fake the stairs, which went nowhere. Portrayed by Madeleine Cannon, Lady Dorothy "Dolly" Beatrice Louisa Hale is one of Georgina's closest friends and a fellow "Bright Young Thing". In the revival series, Upstairs, Downstairs (2010), in 1936, Rose is running her own domestic service agency but is persuaded to return to 165 Eaton Place and serve as housekeeper for its new household. There were plenty of poignant counterpoints for the camera: clog to satin slipper; tankard to crystal glass, Woodbine to cheroot etc. He uses her to further his career and contacts, and gives Elizabeth a hat shop in Mayfair's Brook Street, and successfully manages the stocks she inherited from a recently deceased great-aunt. Kitty and Chrissie played Zinnia and Petunia Larkin in all three series of The Darling Buds after answering an advert for "10-year-old black-haired Kentish twins". 1887), is the daughter of Richard and Lady Marjorie Bellamy and the sister of James. When William cruelly drops Emily, Emily is so devastated that she hangs herself. Her final screen role was in Up Rising (2000), a mini-series about a retired couple in a village of oddballs. Learn more. According to Series One, they marry in 1909. The intertwining lives of the wealthy Bellamy family and its servants in Edwardian England unfold in several editions of this 1970s series, perhaps the most popular and praised to ever air on PBS's 'Masterpiece Theatre.' He was the co-author of her memoir, but they divorced after its publication. At Christmas 1913 she gives Georgina a diamond filigree necklace that has been in the family for four generations. When both paintings are exhibited together as "The Mistress" and "The Maids", Sarah and Rose, whom Scone has painted from Sarah's descriptions, are nearly dismissed, but Scone persuades Richard to keep them on. She had a brother, Charlie, who died young, and a sister named Sophia. Ms. Pagett remained busy onscreen, most notably in Anna Karenina (1977), a lush 10-part, eight-hour BBC production of Leo Tolstoys novel. In April 1912, Miss Roberts survives the sinking of the RMS Titanic while travelling to America with Lady Marjorie, who perishes. She was the mother of Lady Marjorie and grandmother of James and Elizabeth Bellamy. You can also rent or buy it. Set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey, the drama explores the lives and loves of the main characters through tragedy, world war and social upheavals. She later appeared in Frankenstein: The True Story (1973), a television movie whose co-writer was Christopher Isherwood. If Id learned anything at Harrow, it was how to put on a wing collar and be bloody-minded with servants itd be a shoo-in, surely. We had none of Downtons snappy exchanges or panoramic long shots. Portrayed by Anthony Andrews, Lord Robert Charles Algernon St. John Stockbridge, Marquess of Stockbridge (born 1901) is the son of the Duke and Duchess of Buckminster. I have always loved it immensely. Nothing more could have happened to me anyway, she told The Washington Post years later about her decision to leave the show. She was 81. Nol Coward set the retro ball rolling in 1931 with his play Cavalcade, which followed the Marryot family and their servants through the early years of the 20th century. Portrayed by Raymond Huntley, Sir Geoffrey Dillon (born 1838) is the Talbot-Carey family solicitor, as well as the Bellamy family solicitor and a personal friend of Richard and Lady Marjorie. [note 2] Their marriage soon falls apart as Lawrence is not only an unrealistic romantic, but is also uninterested in sex (at least with women; there is the strong suggestion that he is in fact homosexual, such as the all-male parties held at the newlyweds' house, and the rather charged relationship Lawrence has with his manservant). They took us to Rutland to film a fox-hunting sequence where we actors were scattered among participants in the real hunt like tofu in the boeuf bourguignon. The show was revived in 2010, picking up some six years after the end of the original with . He served gallantly in the Great War up to 1917 when he was promoted to be an aide-de-camp and taken out of the frontline. Despite this, Georgina and Lady Dolly remain friends, although Frederick leaves service. Doctors said she had manic depression, more often referred to now as bipolar disorder. Daisy Barnes (ne Daisy Peel) (born 11 May 1895) is the under house parlour maid from 1913 to 1918, and the head house parlour maid from 1919 to 1930, when she goes with Edward to work for Lord and Lady Stockbridge. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. From left to right: Christopher Beeny (Edward), Jacqueline Tong (Daisy), Simon Williams (James), Pauline Collins (Sarah), John Alderton (Thomas), Jean Marsh (Rose/co-creator), Meg Wynn Owen (Hazel), Lesley-Anne Down (Georgina) and Jenny Tomasin (Ruby). To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Jenny Tomasin played dim-witted and downtrodden scullery maid Ruby Finch, replacing Emily, a maid who committed suicide. She is informally called "Pru", and James calls her Aunt Pru, although she is not related to the Bellamys. Upstairs Downstairs TV Series 2010-2012 TV-PG 1 h IMDb RATING 7.4 /10 6.4K YOUR RATING Rate POPULARITY 2,864 129 Play trailer 1:48 11 Videos 51 Photos Drama A new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936. By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. The icing on the cake was Edward VII coming to dinner, in a 1972 episode, Guest of Honour, putting the family and staff in a dither and boosting US sales. Angus Hudson (1856?) After the war, and following a short period in which he and Daisy leave service, he becomes chauffeur and under butler to the Bellamys, and in 1930 he becomes butler to Lord and Lady Stockbridge. The cast gathered in May 1977 (a whole 16 months after the last episode aired in the UK) to celebrate the screening of the final episode on PBS. By Joe Reid Sep 15, 2016. Portrayed by Yolande Turner. 6. By 1912, she is known as 'stone deaf and not very good company' dying in 1921 and leaving James 1,000, some of which he used to buy an aeroplane. In the first season, Elizabeth comes home from school in Germany, a changed girl-woman of 17. Lady Marjorie dies in 1912, a victim of the sinking of the RMSTitanic, while her lady's maid, Miss Roberts, survives. 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Phillip, now 64, was recently seen singing David Jason's praises in a Channel 5 documentary about him. We had none of Downton 's snappy exchanges or panoramic long shots. At a weekend hunting party at Somerby Park in 1913, Diana, jealous and contemptuous of James' middle-class wife Hazel, secretly switches horses on her, nearly causing a disastrous accident. Back-stage group photo from the 50-years BAFTA celebration event from October 2007. to guest on a forthcoming Season Four episode of, What Christmas Is In Country Places by Charles Dickens, Louisa Cornell By the late 18th century, a new species of rat had invaded England. more. Lisa Faulkner as Helen Flynn (Series 1) BBC/Shutterstock/ITV Lisa's role in Spooks was. A former child actor, he is best known for his work as the footman Edward on the 1970s television series Upstairs, Downstairs, as Billy .more David Langton Upstairs, Downstairs, Compact In 1927, while visiting Georgina, Lady Dolly meets Frederick, the Bellamy's footman, and they soon start an affair. Customers also watched. then this list will help you answer those questions. Lady Marjorie continues to employ their under-parlour maid Sarah when she becomes pregnant and then miscarries the illegitimate child of James. Ruby first comes to Eaton Place in 1908 or 1909, just after Elizabeth's marriage to Lawrence, but leaves in 1915 to become a munitionette at Silvertown. Portrayed by John Alderton, Thomas David Watkins (born circa 1876) grew up in Wales. Downton Abbey is released on 13th September, 2023 Oldie Publications Ltd. (Company No. Her performance as the doomed, adulterous title character earned glowing reviews. On live television, old actors quickly learned how to cope. 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