Jean Marsh, TV co-creator of the 70s, hit upstairs, under the floor, dies 90 years old | Downstairs
Jean Marsh, an actor and writer known for co-creation and played on the 70s TV show on the top floor, died at the age of 90.
The filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who was a dear friend of Marsh, said he died from complications with dementia in his home in London Sunday.
“Jean died peacefully in bed edited by one of his very loving caregivers,” he said. “You could say that we were very close for 60 years. He was wise and fun like anyone who has ever met, in addition to being very nice and kind and talented both as an actress and writer.
“An instinctively empathic person who was loved by all those who have met her. We talked on the phone almost every day in the last 40 years.”
Once, on the floor below, which covers class relationships in Edadian England, he ran for five series from 1971 to 1975 in the United Kingdom and was also projected in the United States. He won Seven Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award, and Marsh won Emmy for the exceptional leading actress in a dramatic series in 1975 for his interpretation of Rose, the head waitress of the elegant Bellamy family on which the show focused.
Marsh also co-creating Eliott’s room and appeared in films like Cleopatra in 1963, Frenzy in 1972, The Eagle landed in 1976, The Changeling in 1980, returning to Oz in 1985, Willow in 1998, Paterland in 1994 and Monarch in 2000.
She became known for her apparitions in the Doctor Who universe, including Giovanna of England in the crusade, then like Sara Kingdom, a companion of the first doctor. He later interpreted a villain in front of the seventh doctor.
The actor was born as Lyntsay Torren Marsh on July 1, 1934. She was six years old when she started the blitz, and at seven she started ballet lessons and was interested in the show arts. Instead of pursuing a traditional career, Marsh went to the theater school – that his parents considered a practical move, according to The New York Times.
In 1972, he said to The Guardian: “If you were a working class in those days, you wouldn’t have thought of a career in science. Or you did a tap dance or you worked in Woolworths”.
Marsh had the idea of the upper floor, the actor Eileen Atkins with his friend with his friend when the couple was sitting at home at the house of a rich friend in the south of France. After explaining that he wanted to live more often, Marsh had the idea of creating a show that explored class relationships within the dynamics of the family.
