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LONDON -  Scottish actor Gordon Jackson, known to television viewers around the world as the crotchety butler Hudson in the TV series "Upstairs, Downstairs," died Sunday, his agent said yesterday. He was 66.
Mr. Jackson died Sunday at Cromwell Hospital in London, agent Michael Anderson said. No cause of death was given.
Mr. Jackson's long career in about 60 films made his face and gentle, rolling Scots accent familiar to two generations of moviegoers, but it was his lead role in "Upstairs, Downstairs" that brought the widest fame.
As Hudson, the tall, ginger-haired actor presided over the often chaotic "downstairs" servants' world with a stern hand but soft heart; his old-fashioned sense of duty and propriety was a bulwark to the aristocratic Bellamy family "upstairs" during the times of changing values of post-World War I. …
Chicago Sun-Times;             January 16, 1990
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LONDON Scottish actor Gordon Jackson, known to television viewers around the world as the crotchety butler Hudson in the "Upstairs Downstairs" series, is dead at 66. His agent, Michael Anderson, said Mr. Jackson died Sunday in Cromwell Hospital here with his wife, Rona, at his side. No cause was…
The Washington Post;             January 16, 1990
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Gordon Jackson, 66, an actor who played the butler in "Upstairs, Downstairs" and brought his mellifluous Scottish accent to dozens of films, stage and television roles, died Jan. 14 at a hospital in London. The cause of death was not reported. The tall, ginger-haired Mr. Jackson started acting as a…
Daily Mail (London);             December 18, 2010
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I'll never forget shooting my final scene in Upstairs, Downstairs 35 years ago. It was such an emotional experience. Every room in that grand old house in Belgravia - 165 Eaton Place, where the series had been set - held a memory for me and, of course, for my character Rose. In the storyline, the…
Daily Mail (London);             November 26, 2010
By                     Das, Lina;                     700+ words
Byline: by Lina Das AS THE captivatingly seductive Lady Georgina Worsley in Upstairs Downstairs 35 years ago, Lesley-Anne Down broke more hearts than the wealthy Bellamy family had hot dinners, rustled up by the cook, the exacting Mrs Bridges. She went on to find fame in America as a Hollywood…
The Washington Post;             February 5, 2012
By                     Adam Bernstein;                     700+ words
Jenny Tomasin, a British actress forever known to hundreds of millions of television viewers as the clumsy, disheveled, Valentino- obsessed kitchen maid Ruby Finch in "Upstairs, Downstairs," died at her home in London. She died Jan. 3 of hypertensive heart disease, according to the coroner's office…