# Jane Merrow > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jane_Merrow > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jane_Merrow.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Merrow > Source revision: 1356977139 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British actress (born 1941)}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Jane Merrow | image = Jane Merrow.jpg | caption = Merrow in 2020 | birth_name = Jane Josephine Meirowsky | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|08|26|df=y}} | birth_place = [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire), England | death_date = | death_place = | years_active = 1960–present | alma_mater = [Royal Academy of Dramatic Art](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Dramatic_Art) | occupation = Actress | website = https://janemerrow.com }} '''Jane Josephine Meirowsky''' (born 26 August{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.ru/books/edition/International_Film_and_TV_Year_Book/dZxmAAAAMAAJ|title=International Film and TV Year Book, Volume 34|last=Noble|first=Peter|publisher=King Publications Limited|year=1979|isbn=|location=|page=622}} 1941), known professionally as '''Jane Merrow''', is an English actress who has been active from the 1960s in both Britain and the United States. ==Early years== Merrow was born in 1941 in [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire) to an English mother and German-Jewish refugee father.{{cite web|url=https://www.janemerrow.net/blogs/blog_nov_09_2009.htm|title=Jane Merrow Blog|website=www.janemerrow.net}}{{cite book|last1=Cotter|first1=Robert Michael "Bobb"|title=The Women of Hammer Horror: A Biographical Dictionary and Filmography|date=2013|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476602011|pages=134–135|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IiZnbykWAsIC&dq=%22Young+Male+Lead+and+nearly+meets%22&pg=PA134|access-date=19 July 2017|language=en}}{{cite web|url=http://www.janemerrow.net/biography.htm|title=Jane Merrow Biography Page|website=www.janemerrow.net}} "My father’s side of the family were ethnically Jewish, but not practising," she would later state. She is a graduate of the [Royal Academy of Dramatic Art](/source/Royal_Academy_of_Dramatic_Art). She also was active in the British [National Youth Theatre](/source/National_Youth_Theatre) and won the Shakespeare Cup at the Kent Drama Festival.{{cite news|title=Katharine Out to Repeat History|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12467315/jane_merrow/|work=The Ottawa Journal|date=2 March 1968|location=Canada, Ottawa, Ontario|page=62|via = [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)|access-date = 18 July 2017}} {{Open access}} ==Film and television career== In 1963, Merrow was cast in the lead role of a BBC adaptation of ''[Lorna Doone](/source/Lorna_Doone)'' and subsequently had roles in British [ITC](/source/ITC_Entertainment) TV series such as ''[Danger Man](/source/Danger_Man)'', ''[The Saint](/source/The_Saint_(TV_series))'', ''[The Baron](/source/The_Baron_(TV_series))'', ''[The Prisoner](/source/The_Prisoner)'' (in the 1967 episode "[The Schizoid Man](/source/The_Schizoid_Man_(The_Prisoner))" as Alison, a mind reader), Gerry Anderson's ''[UFO](/source/UFO_(British_TV_series))'', and ''[The Avengers](/source/The_Avengers_(TV_series))'' where, having appeared in the penultimate episode of the 1967 series ("Mission ... Highly Improbable"), she was considered as the replacement for a departing [Diana Rigg](/source/Diana_Rigg). The role went to [Linda Thorson](/source/Linda_Thorson) instead. She also appeared as Lollo Romano in the 1965 "Gang War" episode of ''[Gideon's Way](/source/Gideon's_Way)''. She featured in a new version of the [Nigel Kneale](/source/Nigel_Kneale) adaptation of ''[Nineteen Eighty-Four](/source/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(British_TV_programme))'' (1965) which was broadcast in the ''[Theatre 625](/source/Theatre_625)'' series. [David Buck](/source/David_Buck) was Winston Smith with Merrow as his lover, Julia.{{cite web|last=Wake|first=Oliver|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1413212/index.html|title=''1984'' (1965)|work=BFI Screenonline|access-date=28 March 2020}} In 1966 she appeared in ''[The Saint](/source/The_Saint_(TV_series))'' (series 5, episode 7: "The Angel's Eye") as Mabel, the unwilling partner of her father's bid to steal a famous diamond: The Angel's Eye. Merrow starred in the British science fiction film ''[Night of the Big Heat](/source/Night_of_the_Big_Heat_(film))'' (1967) with [Peter Cushing](/source/Peter_Cushing) and [Christopher Lee](/source/Christopher_Lee), prior to her most prominent role as [Alais](/source/Alys%2C_Countess_of_the_Vexin), the mistress of [Henry II](/source/Henry_II_of_England) (played by [Peter O'Toole](/source/Peter_O'Toole)) in ''[The Lion in Winter](/source/The_Lion_in_Winter_(1968_film))'' (1968), for which she received a 1969 [Golden Globe](/source/Golden_Globe) nomination in the category of actress in a supporting role,{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/best-performance-actress-supporting-role-any-motion-picture/all-years|title=Golden Globe Nominees|access-date=18 February 2020|archive-date=12 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912135619/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/best-performance-actress-supporting-role-any-motion-picture/all-years|url-status=dead}} losing to [Ruth Gordon](/source/Ruth_Gordon) who won for ''[Rosemary's Baby](/source/Rosemary's_Baby_(film))''. She appeared in ''[Adam's Woman](/source/Adam's_Woman)'' with [Beau Bridges](/source/Beau_Bridges) in 1970. She also appeared as the blind Laura in the [Hammer](/source/Hammer_Film_Productions) film ''[Hands of the Ripper](/source/Hands_of_the_Ripper)'' (1971). She appeared in an episode ("[Who Killed Cock Robin?](/source/Who_Killed_Cock_Robin%3F_(Randall_and_Hopkirk_Deceased))", 1969) of ''[Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)](/source/Randall_and_Hopkirk_(Deceased))''. In 1971, she played Anne Hepton in ''[Hadleigh](/source/Hadleigh_(TV_series))'', becoming the romantic interest of the lead character. Around this time, she moved to the U.S., where she guest-starred on television in dramas, mysteries and adventure programmes, including ''[Mission: Impossible](/source/Mission%3A_Impossible_(1966_TV_series))''; ''[Bearcats!](/source/Bearcats!)''; ''[Mannix](/source/Mannix)''; ''[Emergency!](/source/Emergency!)''; ''[Police Woman](/source/Police_Woman_(TV_series))''; ''[The Six Million Dollar Man](/source/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man)''; ''[Cannon](/source/Cannon_(TV_series))''; ''[Barnaby Jones](/source/Barnaby_Jones)''; ''[The Eddie Capra Mysteries](/source/The_Eddie_Capra_Mysteries)''; ''[Airwolf](/source/Airwolf)''; ''[MacGyver](/source/MacGyver_(1985_TV_series))''; ''[Hart to Hart](/source/Hart_to_Hart)''; ''[Magnum, P.I.](/source/Magnum%2C_P.I.)''; ''[The Incredible Hulk](/source/The_Incredible_Hulk_(1978_TV_series))''; ''[Once an Eagle](/source/Once_an_Eagle_(miniseries))''; ''[The Greatest American Hero](/source/The_Greatest_American_Hero)''; and [''The Magician''](/source/The_Magician_(U.S._TV_series)).{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} ==Later life== In the 1990s, Merrow returned to Britain to run a family business. In 2006, she took part in a ''Prisoner''-related event in [Portmeirion](/source/Portmeirion), [North Wales](/source/North_Wales),{{cite web|url=http://www.theunmutual.co.uk/pm2006.htm|title=PM2006 Patrick McGoohan / Prisoner / Portmeirion Convention|website=www.theunmutual.co.uk}} and in 2008, she was a guest there for the annual convention for ''[The Prisoner](/source/The_Prisoner)'' TV series organised by the Prisoner Appreciation Society.{{cite web|url=http://www.sixofone.co.uk/convention2008.htm|title=Portmeirion}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The summer of 2009 saw Merrow return to the stage, playing Emilia in Shakespeare's play ''[The Comedy of Errors](/source/The_Comedy_of_Errors)'' with the Idaho Shakespeare Company.{{Cite web |url=http://www.janemerrow.net/comedy/comedy_review.htm |title=Jane Merrow Film Reviews - Comedy of Errors |access-date=11 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915181822/http://www.janemerrow.net/comedy/comedy_review.htm |archive-date=15 September 2009 |url-status=dead }} ==Filmography== ===Film=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1961 || ''[Don't Bother to Knock](/source/Don't_Bother_to_Knock_(1961_film))'' || Girl in Gallery || Uncredited |- | rowspan="2" |1962 || ''[The Phantom of the Opera](/source/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_(1962_film))'' || Chorus Girl || Uncredited |- | ''[The Wild and the Willing](/source/The_Wild_and_the_Willing)'' || Mary Parker || |- |1964 || ''[The System](/source/The_System_(1964_film))'' || Nicola || USA: ''The Girl-Getters'' |- |1965 || ''[Catacombs](/source/Catacombs_(1965_film))'' || Alice Taylor || |- |1967 || ''[Night of the Big Heat](/source/Night_of_the_Big_Heat_(film))'' || Angela Roberts || |- | rowspan="2" |1968 || ''[Assignment K](/source/Assignment_K)'' || Martine || |- | ''[The Lion in Winter](/source/The_Lion_in_Winter_(1968_film))'' || [Alais](/source/Alys_of_France%2C_Countess_of_Vexin) || |- |1970 || ''[Adam's Woman](/source/Adam's_Woman)'' || Bess || |- |1971 || ''[Hands of the Ripper](/source/Hands_of_the_Ripper)'' || Laura || |- |1974 || ''A Time for Love'' || Janice || |- |1975 || ''[Diagnosis: Murder](/source/Diagnosis%3A_Murder_(film))'' || Mary Dawson || |- |1981 || ''[The Appointment](/source/The_Appointment_(1981_film))'' || Dianna || |- |2010 || ''Be Careful of What You Wish For'' || Mrs. White || |- |2016 || ''Almosting It'' || Gladys || |- |2020 || ''The Haunting of Margam Castle'' || Edith Withers || |} ===Television=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- | rowspan="2" |1961 || ''The Angry Gods'' || Perdita || 2 episodes |- | ''[Deadline Midnight](/source/Deadline_Midnight_(TV_series))'' || Dilys Jones || Episode: "An Eye for Detail" |- | rowspan="7" |1962 || ''[Oliver Twist](/source/Oliver_Twist_(1962_TV_serial))'' || Oliver's Mother || Episode: #1.1 |- | ''[Compact](/source/Compact_(TV_series))'' || Anna || Episode: "Pets Corner" |- | ''This Time Next Year'' || Joyce || TV film |- | ''[Man of the World](/source/Man_of_the_World_(TV_series))'' || Nurse || Episode: "Blaze of Glory" |- | ''[BBC Sunday-Night Play](/source/BBC_Sunday-Night_Play)'' || Jean Skelton || Episode: "A Suitable Case for Treatment" |- | ''[Harpers West One](/source/Harpers_West_One)'' || Ruth Leigh || Episode: #2.11 |- | ''Call Oxbridge 2000'' || Joan Price || Episode: #2.12 |- | rowspan="10" |1963 || ''[Moonstrike](/source/Moonstrike)'' || Vicky || Episode: "Message Received" |- | ''The Birth of a Private Man'' || Frances Waring || TV film |- | ''[The Plane Makers](/source/The_Plane_Makers)'' || Sue Collins || Episode: "Point of Contact" |- | ''[About Religion](/source/About_Religion)'' || Girl || Episode: "The Night Before the Execution" |- | ''[24-Hour Call](/source/24-Hour_Call)'' || Moira Singleton || Episode: "The Confession" |- | ''[Jane Eyre](/source/Jane_Eyre_(1963_TV_series))'' || Rosamund Oliver || Episode: #1.5 |- | ''[The Human Jungle](/source/The_Human_Jungle_(TV_series))'' || Penny Branch || Episode: "Fine Feathers" |- | ''Corrigan Blake'' || Mary || Episode: "Love Bird" |- | ''[Lorna Doone](/source/Lorna_Doone_(1963_TV_series))'' || Lorna Doone || Title role, nine episodes |- | ''[Festival](/source/Festival_(British_TV_series))'' || Susan || Episode: "I Want To Go Home" |- | rowspan="3" |1964 || ''[Festival](/source/Festival_(British_TV_series))'' || Giselle || Episode: "Justin Thyme" |- | ''[Love Story](/source/Love_Story_(British_TV_series))'' || Jane Cleveland || Episode: "The End of the Line" |- | ''[Detective](/source/Detective_(TV_series))'' || Eve Gill || Episode: "The Hungry Spider" |- |1964-5|| ''[Danger Man](/source/Danger_Man)'' || Various || 3 episodes |- |1965 || ''[Gideon's Way](/source/Gideon's_Way)'' || Lollo Romano || Episode: "Gang War" |- |1965 || ''Story Parade'' || Erika Hacker || Episode: "The World That Summer" |- |1965 || ''[Theatre 625](/source/Theatre_625)'' || Julia || Episode: "The World of George Orwell: 1984" |- |1965-66 || ''[The Saint](/source/The_Saint_(TV_series))''|| Lois Norroy/Mabel || 2 episodes |- | rowspan="2" |1966 || ''[The Baron](/source/The_Baron_(TV_series))''|| Savannah Olmira || Episode: "Red Horse, Red Rider" |- | ''[Mystery and Imagination](/source/Mystery_and_Imagination)''|| Carmilla || Episode: "Carmilla" |- | rowspan="3" |1967 || ''[The Prisoner](/source/The_Prisoner)''|| Alison || Episode: "[The Schizoid Man](/source/The_Schizoid_Man_(The_Prisoner))" |- | ''[The Avengers](/source/The_Avengers_(TV_series))''|| Susan Rushton || Episode: "Mission: Highly Improbable" |- | ''[Man in a Suitcase](/source/Man_in_a_Suitcase)''|| Susan Fenchurch || Episode: "The Bridge" |- |1968 || ''[BBC Play of the Month](/source/BBC_Play_of_the_Month)'' || Sorel Bliss || Episode: "Hay Fever" |- | rowspan="2" |1969 || ''[Strange Report](/source/Strange_Report)'' || Jill Crowley || Episode: "REPORT 1553 RACIST 'A most dangerous proposal'" |- | ''[Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)](/source/Randall_and_Hopkirk_(Deceased))'' || Sandra Joyce || Episode: "Who Killed Cock Robin?" |- |1970 || ''[Mission: Impossible](/source/Mission%3A_Impossible_(1966_TV_series))'' || Lady Cora Weston || Episode: "Lover's Knot" |- | rowspan="4" |1971 || ''[UFO](/source/UFO_(British_TV_series))'' || Jo Fraser || Episode: "The Responsibility Seat" |- | ''[Hadleigh](/source/Hadleigh_(TV_series))'' || Anne Hepton || Eight episodes in season 2 |- | ''[Bearcats!](/source/Bearcats!)'' || Samantha Burke || Episode: "Conquerer's Gold" |- | ''[Alias Smith and Jones](/source/Alias_Smith_and_Jones)'' || Sister Isabel || Episode: "The Reformation of Harry Briscoe" |- | rowspan="3" |1972 || ''[Mannix](/source/Mannix)'' || Clarissa Colburn || Episode: "The Sound of Murder" |- | ''[Love, American Style](/source/Love%2C_American_Style)'' || Miranda/Jeannie Zambini || Episode: "Love and the Happy Medium/Love and the Jinx/Love and the Little Black Book/Love and the Old Swingers" (segment "Love and the Happy Medium") |- |''[The Hound of the Baskervilles](/source/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_(1972_film))'' |Beryl Stapleton | rowspan="2" |TV film |- | rowspan="6" |1973 |''[The Horror at 37,000 Feet](/source/The_Horror_at_37%2C000_Feet)'' |Sheryl O'Neil |- | ''[Mannix](/source/Mannix)''|| Leona Kellaway || Episode: "Carol Lockwood, Past Tense" |- | ''[Emergency!](/source/Emergency!)''|| Lady Rossman || Episode: "The Professor" |- | ''[Love, American Style](/source/Love%2C_American_Style)''|| Pamela || Episode: "Love and the Golden Memory/Love and the Heavy Set/Love and the Novel/Love and the See-Through Mind/Love and the Seven Year Wait" (segment "Love and the Golden Memory") |- | ''[The Magician](/source/The_Magician_(U.S._TV_series))''|| Carol Spain / Lorna Hackett || Episode: "Man on Fire" |- | ''[Cannon](/source/Cannon_(TV_series))''|| Gretchen Calloway || Episode: "Murder by the Numbers" |- | rowspan="3" |1974 || ''[Police Woman](/source/Police_Woman_(TV_series))''|| Linda || Episode: "Requien for Bored Wives" |- | ''[Barnaby Jones](/source/Barnaby_Jones)''|| Hillary Padgett || Episode: "Web of Deceit" |- | ''[The Six Million Dollar Man](/source/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man)''|| Irina Leonova || Episode: "Doomsday, and Counting" |- | rowspan="3" |1977 || ''[Once an Eagle](/source/Once_an_Eagle)''|| Hallie Burns || Episode 7 |- | ''[The Six Million Dollar Man](/source/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man)'' || Irina Leonova || Episodes: "Death Probe, Parts 1 and 2" |- | ''[Van der Valk](/source/Van_der_Valk)'' || Diane || Episode: "Diane" |- |1978 || ''[The Eddie Capra Mysteries](/source/The_Eddie_Capra_Mysteries)'' || Unknown || Episode: "Murder Plays a Dead Hand" |- | rowspan="2" |1981 || ''[The Incredible Hulk](/source/The_Incredible_Hulk_(1978_TV_series))'' || Dr Jane Cabot || Episode: "Bring Me the Head of the Hulk" |- | ''[The Greatest American Hero](/source/The_Greatest_American_Hero)'' || Betty || Episode: "The Beast in the Black" |- | rowspan="2" |1982 || ''[Romance Theatre](/source/Romance_Theatre)'' || Magda || Episodes: "Escape to Love, Parts 1 - 5" |- | ''[Hart to Hart](/source/Hart_to_Hart)'' || Margaret Chumley || Episode: "Rich and Hartless" |- |1983 || ''[Magnum, P.I.](/source/Magnum%2C_P.I.)'' || Vivien Brock Jones, Lady Wilkerson, Duchess of Whitt || Episode: "Letter to a Duchess" |- |1984 || ''[Rituals](/source/Rituals_(TV_series))'' || Harriet Winslow || Episode: "Unaired pilot" |- | rowspan="2" |1985 || ''[St. Elsewhere](/source/St._Elsewhere)'' || Landlady || Episode: "Tears of a Clown' |- | ''[Days of Our Lives](/source/Days_of_Our_Lives)'' || Mrs. Pierpoint || Episode: "#1.5121" |- | rowspan="2" |1986 || ''[Airwolf](/source/Airwolf)'' || Mrs Eleanor Haines || Episode: "Break-In at Santa Paula" |- | ''[MacGyver](/source/MacGyver)'' || Dr Natalia Petrovitsh || Episode: "A Prisoner of Conscience" |- |1993 || ''[Lovejoy](/source/Lovejoy)'' || Stella || Episode: "Taking the Pledge" |- |1996 || ''[Accused](/source/Accused_(1996_TV_series))'' || Janet Walsh || Three Episodes: "Carol", "Kirkpatrick", "Mukesh" |- |1997 || ''[Sharpe](/source/Sharpe_(TV_series))'' || Duchess of Richmond || Episode: "[Sharpe's Waterloo](/source/Sharpe's_Waterloo_(TV_programme))" |} ==Notes== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.janemerrow.com}} *{{IMDb name|id=0581457|name=Jane Merrow}} *[http://www.janemerrow.net Jane Merrow website] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Merrow, Jane}} Category:1941 births Category:20th-century English actresses Category:Actresses from 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