Jane Merrow

Jane Josephine Meirowsky (born 26 August 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 "My father’s side of the family were ethnically Jewish, but not practising," she would later state.

Film and television career In 1963, Merrow was cast in the lead role of a BBC adaptation of Lorna Doone and subsequently had roles in British ITC TV series such as Danger Man, The Saint, The Baron, The Prisoner (in the 1967 episode "The Schizoid Man" as Alison, a mind reader), Gerry Anderson's UFO, and The Avengers 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. The role went to Linda Thorson instead.

In 1966 she appeared in The Saint (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 (1967) with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, prior to her most prominent role as Alais, the mistress of Henry II (played by Peter O'Toole) in The Lion in Winter (1968), for which she received a 1969 Golden Globe nomination in the category of actress in a supporting role, losing to Ruth Gordon who won for Rosemary's Baby. She appeared in Adam's Woman with Beau Bridges in 1970. She also appeared as the blind Laura in the Hammer film Hands of the Ripper (1971). and in 2008, she was a guest there for the annual convention for The Prisoner TV series organised by the Prisoner Appreciation Society.

The summer of 2009 saw Merrow return to the stage, playing Emilia in Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors with the Idaho Shakespeare Company.

Filmography Film

Television Year Title Role Notes1961 The Angry Gods Perdita 2 episodes Deadline Midnight Dilys Jones Episode: "An Eye for Detail"1962 Oliver Twist Oliver's Mother Episode: #1.1 Compact Anna Episode: "Pets Corner" This Time Next Year Joyce TV film Man of the World Nurse Episode: "Blaze of Glory" BBC Sunday-Night Play Jean Skelton Episode: "A Suitable Case for Treatment" Harpers West One Ruth Leigh Episode: #2.11 Call Oxbridge 2000 Joan Price Episode: #2.121963 Moonstrike Vicky Episode: "Message Received" The Birth of a Private Man Frances Waring TV film The Plane Makers Sue Collins Episode: "Point of Contact" About Religion Girl Episode: "The Night Before the Execution" 24-Hour Call Moira Singleton Episode: "The Confession" Jane Eyre Rosamund Oliver Episode: #1.5 The Human Jungle Penny Branch Episode: "Fine Feathers" Corrigan Blake Mary Episode: "Love Bird" Lorna Doone Lorna Doone Title role, nine episodes Festival Susan Episode: "I Want To Go Home"1964 Festival Giselle Episode: "Justin Thyme" Love Story Jane Cleveland Episode: "The End of the Line" Detective Eve Gill Episode: "The Hungry Spider"1964-5 Danger Man Various 3 episodes1965 Gideon's Way Lollo Romano Episode: "Gang War"1965 Story Parade Erika Hacker Episode: "The World That Summer"1965 Theatre 625 Julia Episode: "The World of George Orwell: 1984"1965-66 The Saint Lois Norroy/Mabel 2 episodes1966 The Baron Savannah Olmira Episode: "Red Horse, Red Rider" Mystery and Imagination Carmilla Episode: "Carmilla"1967 The Prisoner Alison Episode: "The Schizoid Man" The Avengers Susan Rushton Episode: "Mission: Highly Improbable" Man in a Suitcase Susan Fenchurch Episode: "The Bridge"1968 BBC Play of the Month Sorel Bliss Episode: "Hay Fever"1969 Strange Report Jill Crowley Episode: "REPORT 1553 RACIST 'A most dangerous proposal'" Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) Sandra Joyce Episode: "Who Killed Cock Robin?"1970 Mission: Impossible Lady Cora Weston Episode: "Lover's Knot"1971 UFO Jo Fraser Episode: "The Responsibility Seat" Hadleigh Anne Hepton Eight episodes in season 2 Bearcats! Samantha Burke Episode: "Conquerer's Gold" Alias Smith and Jones Sister Isabel Episode: "The Reformation of Harry Briscoe"1972 Mannix Clarissa Colburn Episode: "The Sound of Murder" Love, 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 BaskervillesBeryl StapletonTV film1973The Horror at 37,000 FeetSheryl O'Neil Mannix Leona Kellaway Episode: "Carol Lockwood, Past Tense" Emergency! Lady Rossman Episode: "The Professor" Love, 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 Carol Spain / Lorna Hackett Episode: "Man on Fire" Cannon Gretchen Calloway Episode: "Murder by the Numbers"1974 Police Woman Linda Episode: "Requien for Bored Wives" Barnaby Jones Hillary Padgett Episode: "Web of Deceit" The Six Million Dollar Man Irina Leonova Episode: "Doomsday, and Counting"1977 Once an Eagle Hallie Burns Episode 7 The Six Million Dollar Man Irina Leonova Episodes: "Death Probe, Parts 1 and 2" Van der Valk Diane Episode: "Diane"1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries Unknown Episode: "Murder Plays a Dead Hand"1981 The Incredible Hulk Dr Jane Cabot Episode: "Bring Me the Head of the Hulk" The Greatest American Hero Betty Episode: "The Beast in the Black"1982 Romance Theatre Magda Episodes: "Escape to Love, Parts 1 - 5" Hart to Hart Margaret Chumley Episode: "Rich and Hartless"1983 Magnum, P.I. Vivien Brock Jones, Lady Wilkerson, Duchess of Whitt Episode: "Letter to a Duchess"1984 Rituals Harriet Winslow Episode: "Unaired pilot"1985 St. Elsewhere Landlady Episode: "Tears of a Clown' Days of Our Lives Mrs. Pierpoint Episode: "#1.5121"1986 Airwolf Mrs Eleanor Haines Episode: "Break-In at Santa Paula" MacGyver Dr Natalia Petrovitsh Episode: "A Prisoner of Conscience"1993 Lovejoy Stella Episode: "Taking the Pledge"1996 Accused Janet Walsh Three Episodes: "Carol", "Kirkpatrick", "Mukesh"1997 Sharpe Duchess of Richmond Episode: "Sharpe's Waterloo"