Jean Marsh
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).
94 acting credits
Acting · 94
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Murder, She Wrote
1984
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Love Boat
1977
Doctor Who
1963
Play for Today
1970
The One Show
2006
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Holby City
1999
The Saint
1962
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Waltons
1972
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Tales from the Darkside
1984
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Omnibus
1952
The Wednesday Play
1964
Grantchester
2014
Danger Man
1960
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
Upstairs, Downstairs
1971
UFO
1970
The Persuaders!
1971
The Expert
1968
The Third Man
1959
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
Department S
1969
Gideon's Way
1965
Willow
2022
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Detective
1964
Sense and Sensibility
2008
Cleopatra
1963
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
1959
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Willow
1988
Story Parade
1964
9 to 5
1982
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Upstairs Downstairs
2010
The Informer
1966
Goliath Awaits
1981
Return to Oz
1985
Master of the Game
1984
Frenzy
1972
The Eagle Has Landed
1976
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
2004
Crooked House
2008
The Changeling
1980
The Ghost Hunter
2000
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997
Fatherland
1994
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961
Unearthly Stranger
1963
Adam Bede
1992
The Corsican Brothers
1985
The Rebel
1961
Danny the Champion of the World
1989
Charlie Bubbles
1968
Jane Eyre
1970
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1989
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
1965
Dark Places
1973
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
1988
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
1990
Royal Variety Performance 1984
1984
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984
No Strings
1989
Bejewelled
1991
Monarch
2000
The Heavy
2010
Doctor Who: The Crusade
1965
Face of a Stranger
1964
The Persuaders!
1973
The Love Lottery
1954
The Moon and Sixpence
1959
The Last Post
2011
The Horsemasters
1961
See China and Die
1981
The Limping Man
1953
Back to Back
1959
Doctor Who: Battlefield
1989
UFO: Radar contact... They're landing!
1974
Skin Deep
1971
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1972
Outlier
2014
The Limbo Line
1969
Heart to Heart
1962
After Upstairs Downstairs
2002
A Bit of Crucifixion, Father
1968