Lisa Faulkner as Helen Flynn (Series 1) BBC/Shutterstock/ITV Lisa's role in Spooks was. Drama. She was later escorted from her home by four men to be confined in a closed psychiatric unit, but has since been able to control her illness with medication and self-awareness. Nicola Pagett Lady Elizabeth Kirbridge Poor Elizabeth, she had no luck at all with men and finally moved to America to seek happiness. I was hesitant at first to watch the new Upstairs Downstairs, knowing that it would be impossible to equal the quality production that was the original series. As Nol Coward said, early TV was weekly rep in an iron lung (both now obsolete). During the war she falls in love with a young airman named Jack Dyson, who dies in action. In Series Two, however, the date was changed, and they were said to have married in 1908. A Cartier jeweller later arrives at the house stating that she left the item at the shop to have a loose stone reset. Mrs. Van Groeben employs a young footman named William, whom she adopted from an orphanage (while she was still in South Africa) and appears to be overly fond of. is known as "Hudson" to the Bellamys, and as "Mr. Hudson" to the servants. 24/02/2023 19:09. At Hazel's urging, Richard asks family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon to help. The actor is also an accomplished theatre director, directing former co-star David inplay A Cold Supper Behind Harrods in 2012. In 1908, Sarah returns to Eaton Place but leaves again soon after when she is accused of theft. In 1905 he is forced to flee in disgrace after being caught in a sexual situation with an upstairs guest, Baron Klaus von Rimmer. Company Credits Portrayed by Jenifer Armitage, Henrietta Winchmore is the best friend of Elizabeth; she lives in her own apartment. Elizabeth fails to read her true situation, seeing the gift as loving support of her new-found equality: meanwhile, the businessman uses his new connections to court a Marchioness. He identifies himself to Richard Bellamy as "chapel", an expression used for members of independent or nonconformist places of worship: and he certainly is an independent thinker. Phillip, now 64, was recently seen singing David Jason's praises in a Channel 5 documentary about him. 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. Luckily, Julian Fellowes, the Mrs Beaton-cum-Nancy Mitford of our times, knew better than to trust Auntie with his Downton Abbey. I could see the writers saying, What the hell do we do with her now?. Sweaty, panic-stricken actors did battle with corsets and collar studs in the half-dark between scenes. [1] It would focus on two housemaids, played by Marsh and Atkins, in a large country house in the Victorian era. We didnt have the luxury of retakes. She had a brother, Charlie, who died young, and a sister named Sophia. According to IMDb, his last credited TV role was in 2011, when he appeared in an episode of Doctors. | 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." 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. Portrayed by Meg Wynn Owen, Hazel Bellamy (ne Hazel Patricia Forrest; circa 18831918) first appears in the episode "Miss Forrest" as secretary to Richard Bellamy; she is a middle class young woman who has been earning a living as a secretary for ten years, against her parents' wishes. Stairs take quite a beating, so hardwearing is key. 50 years ago, in 1971, when they were casting the role of James Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs, I joined the queue of young actors. Lady Marjorie continues to employ their under-parlour maid Sarah when she becomes pregnant and then miscarries the illegitimate child of James. Gurney, who played Lady Marjorie Bellamy, the . 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. Lady Marjorie dies in 1912, a victim of the sinking of the RMSTitanic, while her lady's maid, Miss Roberts, survives. Feedback. Official Sites As Captain Bellamy, I became accustomed to the sobriquet cad. Now, 34 years . I need to buy this series in DVD. Ms. Pagett in the 10-part BBC adaptation of Tolstoys Anna Karenina (1977). Yes, a live theater audiences immediate reaction was great. In 1930 she goes with Mr and Mrs Hudson to work at their boarding house with hopes to inherit it after their deaths. In 1995, while playing a psychiatrists purposeful wife in Joe Ortons black comedy What the Butler Saw, she had a breakdown. The possibility of Georgina going to 'her grandmother's hoise at Southwold is mentioned at the time of Hazel's death, so Lady Southwold was still alive in November 1918. Upstairs Down stairs was the idea of two actress friends, Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins. Portrayed by Gareth Hunt, Frederick Norton (1885?) He is about to have a breakdown but manages to collect himself by . If they forgot a line, they simply went on silently moving their lips, confident that viewers all over the country would be thumping their tellies, cursing a technical fault. Elizabeth gives birth to a daughter, Lucy Elizabeth, and her father and mother make provision for Lawrence so that the couple can separate. After Upstairs Downstairs her television work continued alongside her successful stage career, which included roles in J B Priestleys Dangerous Corner (1974) with Gerald Flood and Barbara Jefford, and Richard III (1989) in which she played the mother of Richard (Derek Jacobi). 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. Portrayed by Ian Ogilvy, socialist poet Lawrence Arthur Kirbridge (born 1879) is Elizabeth Wallace's first husband. When Diana returns to him, he takes her back without a qualm, but the couple remain childless. She later appeared in Frankenstein: The True Story (1973), a television movie whose co-writer was Christopher Isherwood. While on leave in London 1916, he seeks out Rose and they agree to marry when the war ends; later there is a brief mention that they will marry on his next leave in London. 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. My old territory is under siege: actors of all sorts are now upwardly mobile, wafting effortlessly into palaces and drawing rooms. 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. When three months later Elizabeth seeks an annulment, the affair and a surprise pregnancy come to light, and to avoid scandal Lawrence is given an allowance and sent abroad, to return only for the sake of appearances at the baby's christening, where he accepts paternity. Portrayed by Lesley-Anne Down, Georgina, Marchioness of Stockbridge (ne Georgina Worsley, born 28 November 1895) is the step-daughter of Lady Marjorie's brother Hugo, her natural father having died in a hunting accident when she was six years old. Lady Dolly then secretly arranges for Georgina and Frederick to have to kiss in a film that they are both starring in. Veteran actress Cathleen Nesbitt portrayed Lady Mabel Talbot-Carey, Countess of Southwold. It did, and we had to reshoot them.>span class="Apple-converted-space">. One I remember fondly from my childhood is the original Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-1975), having seen the last few seasons on PBS and in repeats. | What Are We Going to Do with Uncle Arthur? She left for LA, bagging parts in Oceans Twelve, Entrapment and The Mask Of Zorro and as the vengeful pregnant wifeHelena in Traffic in 2000. Catching the series now, it's just as entertaining and rather enlightening to see exactly how much this series influenced . He returned to England with a middle class fianc, putting pressure on the underparlour maid to find another situation. 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. first appears as James Bellamy's Army batman Trooper Norton when he arrives at Eaton Place to return some of James's belongings when James is believed killed in October 1917. Upstairs Downstairs were recorded in black and white the mandarins of ITV werent sure that colour TV would catch on. Upstairs, Downstairs Critics Consensus. Portrayed by Christopher Beeny, Edward Barnes (born 24 January 1889) replaces Alfred as footman in 1906, and stays until he leaves to go to war in 1915, having just married Daisy. At the ensuing inquest, Lady Dolly, who takes cocaine, gives evidence which harms Georgina's case. Portrayed by Karen Dotrice, Lily Hawkins (born circa 1901 in Shoreditch, London) arrives at Eaton Place as under house parlour maid in January or May 1919 to replace Daisy, who has left for a new life with Edward. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Portrayed by Madeleine Cannon, Lady Dorothy "Dolly" Beatrice Louisa Hale is one of Georgina's closest friends and a fellow "Bright Young Thing". Back-stage group photo from the 50-years BAFTA celebration event from October 2007. to guest on a forthcoming Season Four episode of, What Christmas Is In Country Places by Charles Dickens, Louisa Cornell By the late 18th century, a new species of rat had invaded England. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Upstairs,_Downstairs_(1971_TV_series)_characters&oldid=1141820905, Richard Marson, "Inside UpDown The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs", Kaleidoscope Publishing, 2005, This page was last edited on 27 February 2023, at 00:10. 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. He commits suicide after losing his fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It was my lucky day. She returns early in the following year after the factory is destroyed in the Silvertown explosion. Virginia returns about a year later, when her seventeen-year-old son Michael (who is at that time serving as a midshipman aboard a British Navy coastal patrol boat) is court-martialled for cowardice. Upstairs/Downstairs is the eighth episode of the third season of the television series Daredevil. Upstairs Downstairs, based on an original idea by actress friends Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, ran for 5 series and 68 episodes from 1971-1975 and featured a number of well-known or soon-to-be well known British actors.In addition to Marsh and now-Dame Eileen Atkins, the series jump-started the careers of Anthony Andrews, Gordon Jackson, Lesley-Anne Down and Pauline Collins. you will spare them the shame of explaining their presence more.. We had one letter from a chtelaine in the shires, who loved the programme: Such a good title, too the staff watch it in black and white downstairs in the servants hall and we see it on the colour set upstairs in the drawing room.. 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. Certainly Ivy and Beryl would smoke cigarettes, very unlikely that they do not here. When Upstairs, Downstairs was at its peak, with viewing figures of 18 million (video tape recorders hadnt yet been born), parishioners demanded that evensong be brought forward to avoid a conflict of loyalties. Vowel sounds and skin colour didnt matter any more. But because "Upstairs, Downstairs" aired on commercial-free PBS, Americans lost that vital dimension to the story. Watch with BritBox. In 1913, Alfred returns to Eaton Place in search of refuge, after murdering his most recent employer (and lover). By 1912, she is known as 'stone deaf and not very good company' dying in 1921 and leaving James 1,000, some of which he used to buy an aeroplane. She had also hopes to be the one to marry the widowed Richard, having known him for many years, but even though she did not, remains a close family friend even though Richard is remarried later, to Virginia Hamilton. She is informally called "Pru", and James calls her Aunt Pru, although she is not related to the Bellamys. 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. Benjamin Poindexter returns to his apartment after the attack on the New York Bulletin. Primrose actress Abigail went from HE Bates - the author of the Darling Buds books - to William Shakespeare. Learn more. 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. Their lives after leaving Eaton Place are portrayed in the spinoff series Thomas & Sarah. March 16, 2021 Nicola Pagett, the actress who played the rebellious and thoroughly spoiled Elizabeth Bellamy on the beloved British television series "Upstairs, Downstairs" and the title role. Towards the end of World War I the old lady insists on a private ambulance being used to bring her wounded grandson James back from France. When will Season Two (2) Air In the U.S.A? What's more he has appeared in a series of. Her performance as the doomed, adulterous title character earned glowing reviews. 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). 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. Elizabeth is sent to finishing school in Germany and upon her return to London, finds the upper class life of the Bellamys claustrophobic. Simon Williams remembers his time on the hit 70s series. In the name of diversity, audiences were herded towards gender and race blindness. 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. She was 81. I cant be cut or stopped or changed or lost.. Portrayed by John Quayle, Lord Newbury (later the Marquess of Newbury) is James Bellamy's best friend, who attended the same schools and served as an officer in the Household Cavalry with him. Sadly, for those of us whose bread and butter is at stake, this traffic is one-way. We use cookies to give you the best possible online experience. Displeased, he later sent her into domestic service where she has risen through the ranks to her lady's maid position and remained to the present. Inappropriate liaisons were de rigueur for the Sunday-evening treat, with four-poster beds begging to be rumpled and pantries primed for hanky-panky. She quickly strikes up an unlikely friendship with head house parlourmaid, Rose. He was bothered only with how we handled the cutlery or put on a Sam Browne. Rose was originally depicted as the head house parlor maid of 165 . Casting now flies happily in the face of history and/or likelihood. She made her London stage debut in The Boston Summer in 1968. She received glowing reviews for her performance as the doomed, adulterous title character. 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. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. A social climbing colonial of Dutch descent, Mrs. Van Groeben (born 1862) is a haughty and unpleasant nouveau riche woman from Cape Town, South Africa. Elizabeth moves to New York and marries Dana J. Wallace in about 1911, and never again appears in the series, remaining in America. Each episode took ten days to rehearse, then two days in the studio to record. (It was, incidentally, the BBCs leaden politicisation of the 2010-12 remake of Upstairs, Downstairs that wrecked it.). | In rooms you live in, warmth and feeling underfoot are more important. Here, we catch up with the Larkin family'sactors and actresses 30 years after the show first delighted audiences on ITV in the early90s. Customers also watched. 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 . 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". However, Lily sees Hudson as more of a father figure. Downton Abbey is released on 13th September, 2023 Oldie Publications Ltd. (Company No. 1974. Forty years later, Upstairs, Downstairs followed suit with the Bellamy family. 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. A former child actor, he is best known for his work as the footman Edward on the 1970s television series Upstairs, Downstairs, as Billy .more David Langton Upstairs, Downstairs, Compact He has a brief, steamy affair with a Vienna-born French Countess de Ternay, which ends on wistfully friendly terms when they both realise neither has the wealth that their public appearances imply. 02649845). But the wind of change was soon blowing through the French windows. When another maid, Emily, commits suicide after her suitor coldly rejected her, Mrs. Bridges felt guilt for constantly nagging and scolding Emily. In addition to her daughter, a film and television production manager, Ms. Pagett is survived by a sister, Angela. Lady Dolly then secretly arranges for Georgina and Frederick to have to kiss in a film that they are both starring in. 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. After being listed as missing, Miss Roberts shows up at 165 Eaton Place, to the astonishment of the household, having not been registered on the Carpathia's manifest of survivors. Nothing more could have happened to me anyway, she told The Washington Post years later about her decision to leave the show. 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Portrayed by Keith Barron, Sergeant Gregory Walter Wilmot (circa 1879 1916) is Rose's fianc. I grew up in a world of middle-class theatre drawing-room comedies awash with posh, straight, white actors bouncing about and leaning on mantelpieces. However, in the third series finale "The Sudden Storm", Mr Hudson states that there was never a "Mr Bridges", but that the "Mrs" was a courtesy title customarily applied to a cook in a gentleman's household. In the summer of 1906, she has an affair with a much younger man, Charles Victor Hammond, a captain in the Khyber Rifles and a friend of her son James. Joanna Lumley and Barry Cryer pay tribute to June Whitfield at her memorial service, The last interview with the late Carmen Callil - Harry Mount, A key encounter with Naim Attallah - Desmond Cecil, How to kill your wife and get away with it - Gyles Brandreth, Prince Harry drives me spare - his memoir is crammed full of fiction and his ghost makes him much brighter than he is. We filmed Upstairs, Downstairs in the studio ironically all on one level; we had to fake the stairs, which went nowhere. Diana, faced with James' ambivalence and defeatism, returns to Bunny who takes her on a world cruise to try and rekindle their relationship. Lily is a quiet, hardworking and caring girl. Dominated by his spouse, he is happiest playing his expected role of a traditional English country squire, a duty described by his wife as "scratching the backs of pigs with a glazed look in his eye." Portrayed by John Alderton, Thomas David Watkins (born circa 1876) grew up in Wales. Not long ago, if directors needed a lofty aristocrat a James, Charles, Sebastian or Peregrine my hat would always be in the ring. It was a perfect format for drama. By the time we rode off, they and their steeds were champing ominously at the bit. So conceited is she, that she believes that she is a subject of envy in London society. Faced with his wife's adultery, he refuses to cause a scandal believing that "no man should divorce a woman" and offers to give her grounds instead. At a weekend hunting party at Somerby Park in 1913, Diana, jealous and contemptuous of James' middle-class wife Hazel, secretly switches horses on her, nearly causing a disastrous accident. In the early months of 1914 Hazel suffers a miscarriage which sends her into an extended depression. In June 1904, Richard Bellamy commissions Guthrie Scone to paint his wife. A meek, quiet, and decent man known to his friends as Bunny, he marries Lady Diana Russell in 1912 having inherited his title and estates the previous year. The original version of Upstairs Downstairs ran for five seasons and 68 episodes, from 1971 until 1975. | Upstairs, Downstairs is a British television drama series created by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, and developed by Alfred Shaughnessy for London Weekend Television. Portrayed by Patsy Smart, Maude Roberts (1850?) She is not, however, referred to again in any way. Each episode of "Upstairs, Downstairs" was strictly structured around three dramatic "acts." In Britain, where the program aired on ITV, viewers knew an act had finished when the program cut to commercials. When the original Upstairs, Downstairs aired 40 years ago, theseries about life in Edwardian England was watched avidly by 300 million viewers in 50 countries and won five Emmy Awards in the United States. Illiterate and inexperienced, she is sent to Eaton Place by an agency for domestic servants. Hudson originally came from Scotland, born to Ian and Margaret Hudson; he also has a brother Donald and a sister Fiona. However, late in 1916 he is killed by a sniper while returning from patrol and dies instantly. We filmed Upstairs, Downstairs in the studio - ironically all on one level; we had to fake the stairs, which went nowhere. She was preceded by Doris, Nellie, and Emily. 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. By Joe Reid Sep 15, 2016. Celebrate over 50 years of small-screen prestige by re-visiting some of the best dramatic series in TV history. Angela Baddeley, CBE (4 July 1904 22 February 1976) was an English stage and television actress, best-remembered for her role as household cook Mrs. Bridges in the period drama Upstairs, Brian Osborne (born 1940) is an English actor. He uses her to further his career and contacts, and gives Elizabeth a hat shop in Mayfair's Brook Street, and successfully manages the stocks she inherited from a recently deceased great-aunt. It concerns the Bellamy family: politician Richard Bellamy his wives Marjorie and Virginia, wastrel son James, wayward daughter Elizabeth and his flighty ward, Georgina Worsley. Elizabeth takes up with Julius Karekin, an opportunistic, wealthy businessman who uses her to gain access to her father and his government connections and then gives Elizabeth a hat shop. 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. He went onto continued stardom in another ITV hit, as Sergeant Raymond Craddock in Heartbeat and has popped up everywhere from Absolutely Fabulous to Countdown's Dictionary Corner. 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. We had none of Downtons snappy exchanges or panoramic long shots. 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. 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They had two children, James and Elizabeth. In 1909 Arthur visits Richard, the two have a falling out and they never speak to each other again. She toured with The Contessa (1965), starring Vivien Leigh. Filming & Production Ms. Pagett was 26 when she was cast in the original Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-76), the prestigious, multi-award-winning British drama set in a spacious Belgravia townhouse during the first three decades of the 20th century. Upstairs, Downstairs. In the 2010 revival of Upstairs, Downstairs, Rose Buck refers to her late master, Lord Richard Bellamy of Haversham, with the implication that Richard had died sometime between 1930 and 1936; Rose later claims that "The Bellamys", meaning Richard and Virginia, gave Rose a teapot for all of her hard work when she left their service sometime between 1930 and 1936. Portraying the social niceties and sexual scandals of Edwardian England, Upstairs, Downstairs became one of the most successful TV series of all. 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