Jean MarshFilmography

Monarch

Actors: T.P. McKenna, Jean Marsh, James Coombes, George Staines

Synopsis: A commoner has an unusual run-in with the King of England in this offbeat historical drama. In 1547, Thorn (James Coombes) is employed as a servant and caretaker by a wealthy British landowner who has put Thorn in charge of his mansion while he's away for the winter. One night, Thorn is terrified Read More

The Pale Horse

Actors: Colin Buchanan, Jayne Ashbourne, Hermione Norris, Leslie Phillips, Michael Byrne

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's super sleuth Mark Easterbrook gets involved with a trio of contemporary witches while looking into the death of a priest. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Glorious Romantics

Synopsis: This film presents the story of the triumvirate of British friends and poets Byron, Shelley, and Keats. The three men were major literary figures of the Romantic Movement of the early 19th century. British actress Jean Marsh hosts a group of actors who play the three poets, as well as other people Read More

Fatherland

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Jean Marsh, Peter Vaughan, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: What if Germany had won WW II and successfully taken over Europe? Based on a novel by Robert Harris, this compelling drama is set in just such a world, 30 years after the Germans defeated the Allies at Normandy on D-Day. By this time, the country is known as Germania and since the war it has been Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder in White

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is back in London, there to attend the opening night of a play based on one of her novel's. The play's producer (Robin Sachs) has a reputation for ruthlessness and duplicity, so it really surprises no one when he is murdered. Nor can anyone be surprised when Jessica Read More

Adam Bede

Actors: Patsy Kensit, James Wilby, Iain Glen, Susannah Harker

Synopsis: Written by George Eliot (of Silas Marner fame), the 1859 novel Adam Bede trenchantly addresses the issues of ingrained social prejudices. Played in this British TV adaptation by Iain Glen, the titular Adam Bede is a humble carpenter, enamored of the beautiful but shallow Hetty Sorel (Patsy Read More

Bejewelled

Actors: Dirk Benedict, Aeryk Egan, Emma Samms

Synopsis: The made-for-cable Bejewelled stars Emma Samms as a museum curator. Entrusted with collection of valuable jewels, she heads to London. Here she is obligated to fend off any number of potential thieves. It is also up to her to determine whom she can trust and whom she can not. Dennis Lawson, Jade Read More

House of Eliott [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Synopsis: The British producers of the internationally popular Upstairs, Downstairs were responsible for The House of Eliott. Set in the 1920s and 1930s, this series opened with a two-hour installment; all subsequent episodes ran 60 minutes. Two sisters, Beatrice (Stella Gonet) and Evangeline (Louise Lombard Read More

Doctor Who: Battlefield, Episode 4

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Nicholas Courtney, Ling Tai, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "Battlefield," the ages-old battle for possession of the Sword Excalibur continues to rage on -- this time with dangerously high-tech weapons -- in the England of the 1990s. According to the scenario at hand, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) is Merlin and Ace (Sophie Aldred Read More

Act of Will

Actors: Peter Coyote, Elizabeth Hurley, Jean Marsh, Victoria Tennant

Synopsis: Made for British television, Act of Will focuses on three generations of women in a proud, indomitable family. Australian-born director Don Sharp brings to his soap-opera material the same energy and vitality that he'd previously lavished on such theatrical features as Kiss of the Vampire (1963) Read More

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Synopsis: In this loose adaptation of Mark Twain's biting satire, a hip little girl from the 1980s somehow ends up in medieval England and there has many magical adventures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Doctor Who: Battlefield, Episode 2

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Nicholas Courtney, Marcus Gilbert, Ling Tai

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "Battlefield," the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) discovers that the long-ago battle between King Arthur and Mordred of possession of the sword Excalibur has spilled over into the 20th century. A group of warriors from another dimension insist that the Doctor Read More

Doctor Who: Battlefield, Episode 3

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Nicholas Courtney, James Ellis, Marcus Gilbert

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "Battlefield," the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), armed with the powers of Merlin, squares off against the minions of Mordred (Christopher Bowen) on the same battlefield where the battle for possession of the sword Excalibur was fought centuries before. Read More

Doctor Who: Battlefield, Episode 1

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Nicholas Courtney, Angela Douglas, Robert Jezek

Synopsis: With episode one of the four-part "Battlefield," Doctor Who launched its 26th (and thus far final) season. The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) travel to the England of the not-too-distant future, arriving on the battlefield where King Arthur once battled Mordred over possession of Read More

Danny, the Champion of the World

Actors: Robbie Coltrane, Cyril Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: Danny, the Champion of the World is set in rural England. Nasty country squire Robbie Coltrane, who owns half the land, covets the other half. His principal opponents are a father-and-son team of farmers. The warm relationship between the two "good guys" hardly needs to be forced, since the roles Read More

Willow

Actors: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Patricia Hayes, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: Though Willow was one of director Ron Howard's few box-office disappointments, it definitely deserves a second look. At once an epic celebration and a gentle spoof of the sword-and-sorcery genre, the film concerns the efforts by little person Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) to protect a sacred Read More

Return to Oz

Actors: Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Fairuza Balk, Piper Laurie, Matt Clark

Synopsis: This '80s follow-up to The Wizard of Oz is based upon two of L. Frank Baum's later Oz books. In Return to Oz (a version that may be a bit too scary for young children), Auntie Em sends Dorothy to a sanitarium where hopefully she will clear her head from all of the "Oz nonsense." This Read More

Corsican Brothers

Synopsis: This version of the classic tale of estranged twin brothers, one good and one evil, whose lives and swords cross as adults, was made for British television. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers

Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Roy Dotrice, Shelby Fiddis, Rikki Marin

Synopsis: Filmed on location "Somewhere in France", this umpteenth version of Dumas' The Corsican Brothers stars the zoned-out comedy team of Cheech and Chong. Perhaps inspired by the Ritz Bros.' spin on The Three Musketeers, the duo retains enough of the original story (about twin brothers who feel one Read More

Master of the Game

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Harry Hamlin, Ian Charleson, Cliff De Young, Fernando Allende

Synopsis:

Another of the many Sidney Sheldon novels given the TV-miniseries treatment in the 1970s and '80s, Master of the Game yielded a three-part, nine-hour extravaganza, with enough corporate and romantic intrigue to fill an entire television season. Covering nearly 100 years, the story (which Read More

Goliath Awaits

Synopsis: Though it strains credibility to the breaking point, the made-for-TV Goliath Awaits proved a ratings success when it was first syndicated via "Operation Prime Time" on November 16, 1981. Mark Harmon plays oceanographer Peter Cabot, who intends to salvage valuable treasures from the ocean liner Read More

The Changeling

Actors: George C. Scott, Trish VanDevere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: Peter Medak's The Changeling is among a handful of films, including The Haunting (1963), Ghost Story (1981), and Lady in White (1988), that have successfully recreated the intimate, drawing-room atmosphere of supernatural horror fiction. After his wife and daughter are killed in a snowbound car Read More

The Waltons: The Hiding Place

Synopsis: Jean Marsh of Upstairs, Downstairs fame guest stars as Hilary Von Kleist, a cousin of the Baldwin sisters. The wife of a German national, Hilary it reluctant to discuss the Nazi domination of her new homeland. Despite this, John-Boy is determined to get the woman's "inside story" for his Read More

The Eagle Has Landed

Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high command during World War II. When it is discovered that in November 1943 Winston Churchill is scheduled to spend a weekend in a country home in Norfolk Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 05

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of Upstairs, Downstairs covers the years 1910 to 1930, bringing the saga of the Bellamy household to a close. So much time has to be dealt with this season that the producers expanded the episode output from 13 to 16 hour-long episodes. And because virtually every one of Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 04

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The fourth season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs takes place during the war years of 1914 through 1918, a time of great anxiety and upheaval for England in general and the Bellamy household at 165 Eaton Place in particular. The season begins as Hazel Bellamy (Meg Wynn Owen), wife Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 03

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The third season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs sweeps past the Edwardian era to cover the pre-war years between 1912 and 1914. Because actress Rachel Gurney had already announced her intention to leave the series, the producers decided to provide the character of Lady Marjorie Read More

Dark Places

Actors: Carleton Hobbs, Jennifer Thanisch

Synopsis: This tepid supernatural melodrama involves the former director of a mental hospital (Robert Hardy) who inherits the estate of one of his patients -- a house which was once the site of multiple murders. He also stands to inherit a substantial sum of gold... if only he can locate the treasure, which Read More

Frenzy

Actors: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock entered the 1970s with his commercial reputation virtually in tatters, a far cry from his stature at the start of the 1960s. Then, he'd been in the middle of the massively successful trio of movies, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds, and was a ubiquitous presence on Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 02

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, Rachel Gurney, David Langton, Jenny Tomasin

Synopsis: Inasmuch as Season One of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs covered the years 1903 to 1909, logic dictates that the second season should have moved on to the second decade of the 20th century. However, the produced decided for the time being to keep the action concentrated in the Read More

Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 01

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, Rachel Gurney, David Langton, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The first season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs takes place from November 1903 through June 1909, an era popularly known as "Edwardian" in honor of King Edward VII. Fans of the series will notice that the familiar characters are still in the developmental process during the first Read More

Jane Eyre

Actors: George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen, Jack Hawkins, Nyree Dawn Porter

Synopsis: Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian novel is once again put through the paces, this time by Delbert Mann, in this stodgy Masterpiece Theater style television adaptation. Susannah York is Jane Eyre, the orphan girl who secures a position as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester (George C. Scott Read More

Best of Upstairs Downstairs

Upstairs, Downstairs [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Synopsis: The internationally popular British series Upstairs, Downstairs was created by actresses Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, and originally conceived as a contemporary half-hour situation comedy. By the time the series had been accepted by London Weekend Television, it had been revised as a hour-long Read More

UFO: Exposed

The Limbo Line

Actors: Craig Stevens, Kate O'Mara, Eugene Deckers, Moira Redmond, Vladek Sheybal

Synopsis: This story of Cold War double-crossing finds British secret agent Manston (Craig Stevens) trying to break up a group of Russian agents who return defectors to Moscow for brainwashing. When a Russian ballerina defects to Germany, Manston goes after the head of The Limbo Line in an effort to stop Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 10

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Kevin Stoney, Peter Butterworth

Synopsis: In the tenth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," things bode ill for the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions. Steven (Peter Purves) and Sara (Jean Marsh) are taken hostage by the Daleks, who then prepare to recapture the Taranium core and resume their orgy of Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 9

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Kevin Stoney, Jean Marsh, Peter Butterworth

Synopsis: In the ninth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Meddling Monk (Peter Butterworth), a renegade Time Lord, unexpectedly offers to help the Doctor (William Hartnell) in his efforts to halt the Daleks' campaign of interplanetary destruction. More characteristically, however, the Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 11

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Kevin Stoney, Terence Woodfield

Synopsis: In the 11th episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Doctor tries to stop the Daleks from destroying the universe without risking the lives of his travelling companions. Captured by the villains, Steven (Peter Purves) and Sara (Jean Marsh) are in for the biggest surprise of their Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 8

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Kevin Stoney, Roy Evans

Synopsis: In the eighth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Doctor (William Hartnell) resumes his efforts to foil the mass-destruction schemes of the mutant Daleks. Unfortunately, he stymied by the unexpected appearance of his old enemy, the renegade Time Lord known as the Meddling Monk Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 12

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Kevin Stoney, Robert Jewell

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," things come full circle as the TARDIS crew and the Daleks reconverge on the devastated, dust-covered planet Kembel. Will the Daleks finally succeed in their plans to wreak wholesale havoc with their Time Destructor? Or will the Doctor (William Hartnell Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 4

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Adrienne Hill, Nicholas Courtney, Douglas Sheldon

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the TARDIS crew persists in its efforts to prevent the Daleks from unleashing their doomsday weapon, the Time Destructor. Captured by the villains, Katarina (Adrienne Hill) nonetheless manages to save the lives of her traveling Read More

Doctor Who: The Crusade, Episode 3

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, George Little

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Crusade," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions are still marooned in the Holy Land at the time of the Crusades. The good news is that the Doctor and Vicki (Maureen O'Brien) have caught up with Barbara (Jacqueline Hill), who had been Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 6

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Kevin Stoney, David Graham

Synopsis: In the sixth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Doctor (William Hartnell) has aligned himself with the valiant Sara Kingdom (Jean Marsh) in his efforts to foil the mass-destruction plans of the dreaded Daleks. Things come to a head when the crew of the TARDIS is forced into a Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 5

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, James Hall, Bill Metley

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions discover that their plan to thwart the Dalek's rampage of destruction is being undermined by a hidden enemy. But there's more -- the enemy in question is utterly invisible. It is up Read More

Doctor Who: The Crusade, Episode 2

Actors: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Julian Glover

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Crusade," the Doctor (William Hartnell), Ian (William Russell), and Vicki (Maureen O'Brien) are forcibly detained in the camp of King Richard the Lionhearted (Julian Glover). Ian manages to secure Richard's permission to leave so that he can rescue Read More

Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Episode 7

Actors: William Hartnell, Peter Purves, Jean Marsh, Clifford Earl, Norman Mitchell

Synopsis: In the seventh episode of the 12-part story "The Dalek Masterplan," the Doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions are still locked in deadly combat with the dreaded Daleks. Though the fate of the universe hangs in the balance, the Doctor still manages to materialize in his favorite London Read More

Face of a Stranger

Synopsis: When Vince Howard is released from prison, he impersonates his cellmate (still in prison) and goes to live with his cellmate's wife, who is blind, in the hopes of learning where money from a robbery has been hidden. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Unearthly Stranger

Actors: John Neville, Philip Stone, Patrick Newell, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: The Unearthly Stranger takes a romantic approach to standard sci-fi material. John Neville marries mysterious Gabriella Lucidi, but begins questioning his judgment when his new bride exhibits some curious behavioral traits. When he discovers that Lucidi has no pulse, Neville is really thrown for a Read More

Cleopatra

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall, George Cole, Martin Landau

Synopsis: In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox down the Nile along with Cleopatra's barge. Handsomely mounted by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Read More

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: The Horsemasters: Follow Your Heart

Actors: Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk, Janet Munro, Tony Britton, John Fraser

Synopsis: In the first episode of Walt Disney's two-part miniseries The Horsemasters, the viewer is whisked of to England's prestigious Valleywood Riding School, a training ground for future riding instructors. The head of the riding academy, Janet Hale (Janet Munro), greets her new pupils in her usual Read More

The Horsemasters

Actors: Annette Funicello, Janet Munro, Tommy Kirk, Donald Pleasence, Tony Britton

Synopsis: Produced for television and released as a European feature, this Disney adventure stars Annette Funicello as a would-be equestrian who must conquer her fears of jumping. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Lonely

Actors: Jack Warden, John Dehner, Jean Marsh, Ted Knight, James Turley

Synopsis: Discounting the pilot "Where Is Everybody?", "The Lonely" was the first Twilight Zone episode to be produced, though not the first to be shown. Jack Warden stars as futuristic convicted murderer James Corry, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment on a lonely asteroid. Out of compassion for Read More

The Limping Man

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister, Alan Wheatley, Leslie Phillips, Helene Cordet

Synopsis: His Hollywood career temporarily in the doldrums in 1953, Lloyd Bridges headed to Britain to star in The Limping Man. Bridges plays an ex-GI who arrives in London to visit his wartime amour (Moira Lister). Before anyone knows what's happened, our hero is mixed up in a murder case. The victim was Read More