Jane Downs

Jane Downs

Born: January 22, 1935
Died: May 20, 2015
in Bromley, Kent, England, UK

Movies for Jane Downs...

Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Dixie Goff
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Ain't Misbehavin'
Character: Clive's Mother
Released: March 20, 1994
Type: TV
When Clive and Sonia discover that their respective partners are having an affair, they join forces in an attempt to save their marriages.
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Title: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Character: Additional Voices (voice)
Released: December 25, 1993
Type: Movie
When a powerful criminal, who is connected to Bruce Wayne's ex-girlfriend, blames the Dark Knight for killing a crime lord, Batman decides to fight against him.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Edna Plummer
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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Title: Waiting for God
Character: Daisy
Released: June 28, 1990
Type: TV
Refusing to succumb to old age, Tom Ballard and Diana Trent are a pair of seasoned delinquents that cause many headaches. Their uneasy alliance is destined to make life difficult at the Bayview Retirement Village.
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Title: Jeeves and Wooster
Character: Lady Glossop
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: TV
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
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Starlings
Title: Starlings
Character: Mrs Wilson
Released: September 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Starlings are the charlatans of the bird world; they change their tune to match their company. In this comedy, Gary Wilson is the changeling; he loses his factory job, retrains as a butler and, under the patronage of a wealthy young woman, finds success in the City.
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Title: ScreenPlay
Character: Mrs. Wilson
Released: July 9, 1986
Type: TV
Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.
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Title: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Released: November 7, 1982
Type: TV
Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school to be cruel, and runs away with one of the students. Meanwhile, Kate is subjected to the unwanted attentions of Sir Mulberry Hawk, aided by her uncle. Nicholas and his new friend, Smike, begin their adventures and eventually set out to rescue Kate, with the usual Dickensian twists, turns and asides.
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Title: Family Ties
Character: Photographer
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
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Title: Ooh La La!
Character: Lucienne
Released: April 6, 1968
Type: TV
Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken identities and impeccable timing.
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Some Lapse of Time
Title: Some Lapse of Time
Character: Diana Harrow
Released: December 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Dr Max Harrow is awakened from a re-current nightmare in which he is pursued by a barbaric accusing figures, to find a tramp collapsed on his doorstep, The tramp is suffering from a genetic radiation disorder that should killed him in infancy as it did Harrow's baby son. The man is the living image of Harrow's nightmare figures, Clutched in his hand is a human finger bone and he speaks a strange, unknown tongue,
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Darling
Title: Darling
Character: Julie (as Jane Downes)
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.
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A Night to Remember
Title: A Night to Remember
Character: Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller
Released: July 3, 1958
Type: Movie
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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Title: Pride and Prejudice
Character: Elizabeth Bennet
Released: January 24, 1958
Type: TV