Jane Downs

 ( 1935 Births ) 

Jane Margaret Downs (22 January 1935 – 20 May 2015) was an English actress.

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Early life Downs was born in Bromley, Kent, England.

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Career She started her career in the theatre, 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.

Brian McFarlane (2025). 9781526111968, Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526111968

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Personal life During the 1970s, she appeared on stage and television alongside Terence Alexander,

Howard Maxford (2025). 9781476629148, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 9781476629148

whom she married in 1976, following her divorce from Harper.

Downs died in London in May 2015 at the age of 80.

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Filmography

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 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"

1962	Boeing-Boeing	Judith	Apollo Theatre in London, with Patrick Cargill, David Tomlinson, Andree Melly, Carole Shelley and Carmel McSharry
1957	The Iron Duchess	Mary Garvald	Fortune Theatre
1982	Way Upstream	Mrs Hatfield	Lyttelton Theatre

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