Jean Marsh, co-creator and star of classic British TV series Upstairs Downstairs, left family, friends and charities just over £700,000 following her death aged 90, documents have shown.
The actress’s requests included that £100,000 go to the charity Emergency UK, helping civilian victims of war and poverty, and the same sum to London music venue Wigmore Hall, also a registered charity.
Emmy Award-winning Marsh’s many screen credits also included various appearances in Doctor Who, Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.
Her death was announced in April last year by friend and former partner Michael Lindsay-Hogg, a film-maker who
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