Jane Downs
English actress (1935–2015)
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Early life
Career
She started her career in the theatre,[5] and later appeared on radio and in film, playing Kenneth More's wife in A Night to Remember (1958). Her first husband, Gerald Harper, appeared in the same film.[6]
Personal life and death
During the 1970s, she appeared on stage and television alongside Terence Alexander,[7] whom she married in 1976, following her divorce from Harper.
Downs died in London in May 2015 at the age of 80.[8]
Filmography
| Film and television | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1958 | A Night to Remember | Iowa Sylvania Zillah "Sylvia" Hawley-Wilson (Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller) | |
| 1960 | Emergency Ward 10 | Audrey Blake / Audrey Dawson | |
| 1961 | Sword of Freedom | Violetta | Episode: "Violetta" |
| 1965 | Darling | Julie | |
| 1982 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Mrs. Nickleby | TV film of RSC production |
| 1990 | Jeeves and Wooster | Lady Delia Glossop | 3 episodes |
| 1991 | Bergerac | Petra Crowe-Smith | Episode: "All For Love" |
| 1993 | Heartbeat | Edna Plummer | Episode: "Missing" |
| Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Additional Voices | Voice | |
| 1996 | Pie in the Sky | Traffic Reporter | |
| 2003 | Midsomer Murders | Dixie Goff | Episode: "A Talent for Life" |
| Theatre | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Production | Role | Notes |
| 1962 | Boeing-Boeing | Judith | Apollo Theatre in London, with Patrick Cargill, David Tomlinson, Andree Melly, Carole Shelley and Carmel McSharry[9] |
| 1957 | The Iron Duchess | Mary Garvald | Fortune Theatre |
| 1982 | Way Upstream | Mrs Hatfield | Lyttelton Theatre |