| Jane Downs | |
| Birth Name: | Jane Margaret Downs |
| Birth Date: | 22 January 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Bromley, Kent, England |
| Death Place: | London, England |
| Spouse: | |
Jane Margaret Downs (22 January 1935 - 20 May 2015) was an English actress.[1] [2]
Downs was born in Bromley, Kent, England.[3] She started her career in the theatre,[4] 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.[5]
During the 1970s, she appeared on stage and television alongside Terence Alexander,[6] whom she married in 1976, following her divorce from Harper.
She died in London in May 2015 at the age of 80.[7]
| 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" | |
| 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[8] | |
| 1957 | The Iron Duchess | Mary Garvald | Fortune Theatre | |
| 1982 | Way Upstream | Mrs Hatfield | Lyttelton Theatre | |