Harold Scott was a Shell Oil executive, and Barbara (Black) Scott was stationed there with the Womens Royal Naval Service. A new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936. The 51-year-old actress met movie legend Michael Douglas at a film festival in 1998 and the pair got engaged the following year and married in 2000. Ms. Pagett in the 10-part BBC adaptation of Tolstoys Anna Karenina (1977). Ms. Pagett in her final screen role, in the British mini-series Up Rising (2000). (It was, incidentally, the BBCs leaden politicisation of the 2010-12 remake of Upstairs, Downstairs that wrecked it.). According to Series One, they marry in 1909. The original version of Upstairs Downstairs ran for five seasons and 68 episodes, from 1971 until 1975. Each episode took ten days to rehearse, then two days in the studio to record. He is portrayed by Gordon Jackson, who won an Emmy (Supporting Actor, Single Performance, Comedy or Drama Series, for the episode "The Beastly Hun."). Simon Williams remembers his time on the hit 70s series. Besides, Ms. Pagett had learned what really mattered. Nicola spent her childhood abroad. is known as "Hudson" to the Bellamys, and as "Mr. Hudson" to the servants. An old . Lisa Faulkner as Helen Flynn (Series 1) BBC/Shutterstock/ITV Lisa's role in Spooks was. Portrayed by Yolande Turner. Despite this, Georgina and Lady Dolly remain friends, although Frederick leaves service. 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". At receptions and so forth, the upstairs cast members would be given champagne and ushered to the top table, while actors playing the servants were left looking for somewhere to hang their coats. In April 1912, Miss Roberts survives the sinking of the RMS Titanic while travelling to America with Lady Marjorie, who perishes. 50 years ago, in 1971, when they were casting the role of James Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs, I joined the queue of young actors. "Frederick Norton" redirects here. In the original series, Rose was always there as a shoulder to cry on for the rest of the staff, or as someone in whom to confide secrets, as Sarah did regarding her affair with James. 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. He alsokept up his role as Inspector Jack Frost in ITV's A Touch Of Frost until 2010 and took over from comedy hero Ronnie Barker in Still Open All Hours, which is still on air. Mrs. Bridges's bad conscience over the suicide is not assuaged until Sarah, an under-parlour maid who has worked for a carnival, leads a fake seance in which Sarah relays Emily's forgiveness to Mrs. Bridges. According to IMDb, his last credited TV role was in 2011, when he appeared in an episode of Doctors. She is not, however, referred to again in any way. He was the co-author of her memoir, but they divorced after its publication. Last edited on 27 February 2023, at 00:10, "List of Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series) characters", Learn how and when to remove this template message, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George. Upstairs/Downstairs is the eighth episode of the third season of the television series Daredevil. My old territory is under siege: actors of all sorts are now upwardly mobile, wafting effortlessly into palaces and drawing rooms. Doctors said she had manic depression, more often referred to now as bipolar disorder. is Lady Marjorie's long-time Lady's maid (or personal maid). The actors were jockeying to find the cameras while the actual hunt were after the fox in deadly earnest. There were so many historical amuse-bouches to be gobbled up along the way: the Great War; the sinking of the Titanic, the General Strike. She received glowing reviews for her performance as the doomed, adulterous title character. Experimenting with socialism and women's liberation without an understanding of the true costs of activism, she marries penniless and sexually ambiguous poet Lawrence Kirbridge. There were long dialogue scenes - always indoors. James is immediately attracted to her, and within two years they marry, after she initially declined his proposal, having been married before to a violent alcoholic named Patrick O'Connor. Now, 34 years . As Captain Bellamy, I became accustomed to the sobriquet cad. Many of her scenes were cut. See my Documentaries page for further description and a picture gallery. Why dont you get Faith Brook? Indeed she had to be persuaded to take the part of Lady Marjorie., a role which generated fan mail for Gurney until the end she passed away in 2001 at age 81. Fate brings Rose back to the home -- this time as housekeeper for the new owners, Sir Hallam and his wife, Lady Agnes; his mother, Lady Maud, soon arrives with manservant Mr. Singh. They soon start courting, and within a week, Rose agrees to go back to Australia with him and become his wife, but hesitant and fearful, she changes her mind at the last minute. She was part of the original London cast of his Party Time (1991), about a cocktail-hour gathering of fashionable narcissists, chatting about island vacations and past love affairs while a violent conflict rages outside. After a brief period of harrumphing, people became oblivious to the anomalies: black could be white; male could be female get over it. Everywhere, theres new blood and there are new faces. Lady Dolly is the daughter of the Earl of Shelbourne and lives, in 1928, in Mayfair. She is a fellow feminist and Fabian Socialist who takes Elizabeth in when she runs away from her family after an altercation. She had gone completely noisettes, she wrote in Diamonds Behind My Eyes (1997), a memoir about her psychiatric crisis, but asked not to be described as mentally ill. It gets right up my nose.. Costume changes were done double-quick. She returns early in the following year after the factory is destroyed in the Silvertown explosion. In the first season, Elizabeth comes home from school in Germany, a changed girl-woman of 17. Angus Hudson (1856?) Moray House 23/31 Great Titchfield Street London W1W 7PA. 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. This conflict gives the viewer a rare view of the interior of her parents' middle-class home: one of the few domestic locations in the series other than the Bellamys' home. 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. The downstairs staff Upstairs If by chance you meet a Lower Servant, you should walk past, leaving them un-noticed. Lady Marjorie dies in 1912, a victim of the sinking of the RMSTitanic, while her lady's maid, Miss Roberts, survives. A new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936.A new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936.A new family and their servants live at the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in 1936. 24/02/2023 19:09. Nicola Pagett, left, with Jean Marsh in a scene from the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs. Ms. Pagett played Elizabeth Bellamy, the rebellious daughter of a wealthy couple. All four laid bare our class system for the world to marvel at. 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). Lady Marjorie continues to employ their under-parlour maid Sarah when she becomes pregnant and then miscarries the illegitimate child of James. She was 75. In 1880, he married the wealthy Lady Marjorie Talbot-Carey and became a Conservative MP. She quickly strikes up an unlikely friendship with head house parlourmaid, Rose. Despite that, she is often included in family celebrations and is considered family by the Bellamys and due to the fact that she is such a constant and familiar presence at 165 Eaton Place, she is well-liked and respected by the Bellamy servants. 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. See production, box office & company info, Breakfast: Episode dated 22 December 2010. In 1909 Arthur visits Richard, the two have a falling out and they never speak to each other again. Pam made kindly Florence 'Ma' Larkin her own in The Darling Buds Of May and went on to star in, well, just about everything. However, Lily sees Hudson as more of a father figure. On rare occasions, we went filming on location. Portrayed by Keith Barron, Sergeant Gregory Walter Wilmot (circa 1879 1916) is Rose's fianc. He works as the butler of Eaton Place, and is known for his conservative views. Lily is a quiet, hardworking and caring girl. It transfixed millions of viewers in the 1970s. Jenny Tomasin played dim-witted and downtrodden scullery maid Ruby Finch, replacing Emily, a maid who committed suicide. Mrs. Bridges quite savagely dresses Emily down about her affections for William. 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. 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. A favorite of the playwright Harold Pinter, she played Helen when he directed Jean Giraudouxs The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (1983). Company Credits In the first series episode "Why is Her Door Locked", Mrs Bridges mentions a husband who died fifteen years previously; and in the episode featuring a visit to the house by King Edward VII, Lady Marjorie states that their cook was not a French chef but "a temperamental widow from Bristol." Her mother and step-father die along with Lady Marjorie in the sinking of the RMSTitanic in 1912, after which she moves into 165 Eaton Place. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. In 1930 she goes with Mr and Mrs Hudson to work at their boarding house with hopes to inherit it after their deaths. 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. The intertwining lives of the wealthy Bellamy family and its servants in Edwardian England unfold in several editions of this . Kate Hudson, ne Bridges (1858sometime after 1931) was the cook at 165, Eaton Place throughout the whole series. 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. Blackmail for Lady Marjorie's affair later helps her chauffeur and Sarah in leaving service and purchasing their own business, a garage. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. It is set in Edwardian London, and features the life of all who inhabited "165 Eaton Place." The "Upstairs" at this opulent residence consists of an aristocrat family. 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). | | Nothing more could have happened to me anyway, she told The Washington Post years later about her decision to leave the show. The maternal grandson of a Dorset baronet, he was educated at the University of Cambridge and married Elizabeth in June 1908 or 1909. In the name of diversity, audiences were herded towards gender and race blindness. Celebrate over 50 years of small-screen prestige by re-visiting some of the best dramatic series in TV history. 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. He returned to England with a middle class fianc, putting pressure on the underparlour maid to find another situation. He commits suicide after losing his fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. In 1927, while visiting Georgina, Lady Dolly meets Frederick, the Bellamy's footman, and they soon start an affair. Daisy was raised in a poor family in the London slums,[1] and she is especially sympathetic to the struggles of the working class. Thomas is a bright and resourceful man, looking for "scope" (every opportunity to better himself) and so learns everything he can about driving and fixing motor cars. 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. Fifty years on, Im proud to answer ancient groupies, Yes, its me Captain Bellamy.. A later exchange of letters clears up the alleged rumour that he already had a wife. Upstairs, Downstairs was originally an idea by two actress friends, Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, for a comedy called Behind the Green Baize Door. 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. By then Ms. Pagett had already begun her screen career, mostly by making guest appearances on British television series. Upstairs, Downstairs, The Old Curiosity Shop, Game of Thrones, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank, The 100 Best Jobs Homer Simpson Has Worked on The Simpsons, Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston (born 11 March 1963) is an English actress, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Illiterate and inexperienced, she is sent to Eaton Place by an agency for domestic servants. He saves Elizabeth from imprisonment by mentioning her family and connections to the police after she takes part in a suffragette attack on a government minister's London home. Lady Dolly is the daughter of the Earl of Shelbourne and lives, in 1928, in Mayfair. 1887), is the daughter of Richard and Lady Marjorie Bellamy and the sister of James. Sir Geoffrey was originally called Sir George Dillon in John Hawkesworth's novelisation of the show's scripts. She gives birth to a daughter, goes to jail with fellow suffragists, has an affair with an Armenian financier and tries running a hat shop before sailing away to New York, leaving others in the household to deal with Englands experience of World War I, the Spanish flu and the stock market crash. Eileen Atkins was not able to take part in the original series because of acting commitments in the West End at the time. When William cruelly drops Emily, Emily is so devastated that she hangs herself. When another maid, Emily, commits suicide after her suitor coldly rejected her, Mrs. Bridges felt guilt for constantly nagging and scolding Emily. Movie star Catherine's breakout role was as pretty Mariette, who married Charley in The Darling Buds Of May. In rooms you live in, warmth and feeling underfoot are more important. 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. 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. After Upstairs, Downstairs ended, Tomasin joined the cast of Midland based soap Crossroads playing waitress Florence Baker, who was close friends with the infamous Benny Hawkins. According to the narrative, Pearce does not like new-fangled motor cars, and returns to his previous position as head groom to Lady Wanborough tending to her stables. Kate was still alive and well in 1931 (Rose wrote to 'Mrs Hudson' that year according to the second TV Times Upstairs Downstairs special). As Nol Coward said, early TV was weekly rep in an iron lung (both now obsolete). She was the mother of Lady Marjorie and grandmother of James and Elizabeth Bellamy. She then begins a career as music hall entertainer Clmence Dumas/Sarah Delice, known for saucy songs like "What Are We Going to Do with Uncle Arthur?" During the war years she also works as a conductress. Since the series ended, Marsh has maintained a very busy career in the theatre and 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). Some members of the former "Upstairs, Downstairs" cast, from left: Jean Marsh (the original. BTW, the actress who played the cook in the film, Angela Baddeley, she advised them what they did and didn't do in the 1900's because she grew up in the 1900's so she was very instrumental to them. The class divide between James and Hazel causes early conflicts with Hazel's parents, the Bellamys' staff and in the marriage. In later life she outwardly appears to be a tyrannical and harsh battle-axe, particularly to the awkward scullery-maid, Ruby, but she is a kind and affectionate woman and regards Ruby as the daughter she never had. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. We didnt have the luxury of retakes. 1974. She is a very kind, if awkward, girl who is frequently scolded by Mrs Bridges. Edward is a high-spirited, honest and happy person and the source of happy banter, but suffers from severe shell shock after returning from the front. But also, as The Telegraph quoted her as saying: Onstage for two hours, Im my own mistress. Cast . The event occurs at a soiree in the Kirbridge home, but it does little to improve their marriage. There were plenty of poignant counterpoints for the camera: clog to satin slipper; tankard to crystal glass, Woodbine to cheroot etc. Upstairs Downstairs, which followed the lives of the Bellamy family and their servants in the first 30 years of the last century, was a hit from the moment it first aired in 1971, running for. 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. She was preceded by Doris, Nellie, and Emily. When will Season Two (2) Air In the U.S.A? They spend several of their days off together, and Emily desperately wants to marry him. 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. Ms. Pagett married the actor turned writer Graham Swannell in 1975. They had two children, James and Elizabeth. He and Georgina fall in love, but his parents insist that he be sent on a long trip around the world without her before they will give him their permission to marry, which they do in the summer of 1930. Sweaty, panic-stricken actors did battle with corsets and collar studs in the half-dark between scenes. 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). Inappropriate liaisons were de rigueur for the Sunday-evening treat, with four-poster beds begging to be rumpled and pantries primed for hanky-panky. Eager to marry Elizabeth off, the Bellamys are relieved when she falls in love with a young German baron--until they make a shocking discovery. Upstairs, Downstairs. Subsequent series refer to an aging husband named Archie who dies off screen leaving her a widow; she attends Elizabeth's 1909 wedding with Agatha (her only appearance during the entire run, but with no dialogue). In Season 2, inconveniently pregnant by his publisher (from an assignation the husband had arranged), she goes home to her parents. Cedric 'Charley' Charlton (Philip Franks) 14 Tax inspector. Two months later, Sarah, upset by James's half-hearted affections, leaves Eaton Place. She meets Richard when she asks for help to establish a fund for the children of naval officers killed in battle, and they initially dislike each other. She is completely lost without William, and when he cruelly ignores her on his next visit to the house and returns her love letter unopened, Emily is so distraught that she commits suicide. The series consists of 68 hour-long episodes that aired in Great Britain on ITV from 1971 to 1975 and in the United States as part of Masterpiece Theatre on PBS from 1974 to 1977. This list includes all of the Upstairs, Downstairs main actors and actresses, so if they are an integral part of the show you'll find them below. Goodwill to all men. Upstairs, Downstairs is a classic. Kind-hearted and loyal but slightly nave, she is the head house parlourmaid at Eaton Place from 1903 to 1919 (including a short stint as Elizabeth Kirbridge's lady's maid and between maid in Greenwich), and Virginia Bellamy's lady's maid from 1919 to 1930. Her husband also had a brother and at least one nephew, who succeeded Hugo as Earl of Southwold in 1912 when he and his sister Lady Marjorie died in the sinking of the RMSTitanic. It ran for 68 episodes divided into five series on ITV from 1971 to 1975.. Set in a large townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in Belgravia in central London, the series depicts the servants"downstairs"and their masters, the family"upstairs"between the years 1903 and 1930, and . The show initially ran in the USA on Masterpiece Theatre in the early 1970s. Catching the series now, it's just as entertaining and rather enlightening to see exactly how much this series influenced . But because "Upstairs, Downstairs" aired on commercial-free PBS, Americans lost that vital dimension to the story. At about the same time, she starts an affair with James Bellamy and becomes pregnant, resulting in James's being sent to India. I like looking into the eyes of someone whose work I respect, she said, and seeing them look back as if to say, I think you can do it, too., Nicola Pagett, Upstairs, Downstairs Actress, Dies at 75, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/arts/television/nicola-pagett-dead.html. She can be gossipy and frivolous, but she remains a close and trusted family friend until the end of the complete series. 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. Drama. Luckily, Julian Fellowes, the Mrs Beaton-cum-Nancy Mitford of our times, knew better than to trust Auntie with his Downton Abbey. Primrose actress Abigail went from HE Bates - the author of the Darling Buds books - to William Shakespeare. Unwilling to accept marital responsibilities and unable to consummate the marriage, he encourages his publisher to seduce Elizabeth instead. Elizabeth tries to have the marriage annulled, but becomes pregnant by Lawrence Kirbridge's publisher, through a cold-blooded arrangement between Lawrence and the publisher to seduce her. downstairs definition: 1. to or on a lower floor of a building, especially the ground floor: 2. on a lower floor of a. 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When Mrs. Van Groeben discovers the relationship, she becomes jealous and forbids William from ever having any more to do with Emily, and bribes him with a new uniform and a promotion. It was a perfect format for drama. 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. Here, we catch up with the Larkin family'sactors and actresses 30 years after the show first delighted audiences on ITV in the early90s. In June 1909, he becomes manservant and later chauffeur to Lawrence and Elizabeth Kirbridge, and friends with Rose. She makes her first appearance in Series 1, episode 5 "A Suitable Marriage". Today, with our huge plasma screens, its totally like the movies. 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Hazel is particularly close to Richard, Georgina and Rose, but Hudson never truly accepts her, a middle class woman, as mistress of the house. After losing his fianc, he leaves the military for a position with an investment firm prior to meeting Hazel Forrest, whom he marries. Portrayed by Donald Burton, Julius Karekin (born 1875) is a wealthy social climber and a very knowledgeable and talented stockbroker of Armenian descent, who has an affair with the recently separated Elizabeth Kirbridge. Marsh will again play Rose in the new version of U/D, but this time her position in the household will be housekeeper. James takes up with Sarah, now a music-hall sensation. 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. Upstairs, Downstairs, 1971-75, as the infamous James Bellamy Credit: Alamy Like a trailer for a lousy film, the programme only shows the highlights of one's life - there's no reference to the. 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. Some people call it typecasting; I saw it as a niche market. As a young man he won a scholarship to Cambridge University, where he excelled. When Diana returns to him, he takes her back without a qualm, but the couple remain childless. She was the ferocious Miss Trunchbull in 1996's Matlida, mean Aunt Marge in Harry Potter, and even had a scene-stealing role in Gavin & Stacey as Smithy's idle mum Cath. Women formerly known as housewives would berate me roundly and then ask for an autograph. Ray Romano (Ray Barone), Patricia Heaton (Debra Barone), Brad Garrett (Robert Barone), Doris . Portrayed by Ian Ogilvy, socialist poet Lawrence Arthur Kirbridge (born 1879) is Elizabeth Wallace's first husband. You can various bits of trivia about these Upstairs, Downstairs stars, such as where the actor was born and what their year of birth is. A British sheep farmer living in Australia, he has socialist views. In a curious example of life imitating art, the actors found that their fictional status influenced the treatment they received in the real world. Customers also watched. Portrayed by Simon Williams, Major The Honourable James Rupert Bellamy MC (1881 October 1929) is the son of Richard and Lady Marjorie Bellamy and the brother of Elizabeth. Jeffrey, who has been married to actor wife Judy Buxton, joined Paul and Su Pollard in the Upstairs Downstairs-inspired sitcom You Rang M'Lord. Was not able to take part in the studio to record Elizabeth instead Cambridge University where. 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