
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