Jane Merrow

• Name — Jane Merrow • Birth Name — Jane Josephine Meirowsky • Born — 26 August 1941 • Birthplace — Hertfordshire, England • Years Active — 1960–present • Education — Royal Academy of Dramatic Art • Occupation — Actress • Website — https: janemerrow.com

Merrow was born in 1941 in Hertfordshire to an English mother and German-Jewish refugee father. "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. She also was active in the British National Youth Theatre and won the Shakespeare Cup at the Kent Drama Festival.

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. She also appeared as Lollo Romano in the 1965 "Gang War" episode of Gideon's Way. She featured in a new version of the Nigel Kneale adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1965) which was broadcast in the Theatre 625 series. David Buck was Winston Smith with Merrow as his lover, Julia. 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 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). She appeared in an episode ("Who Killed Cock Robin?", 1969) of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). In 1971, she played Anne Hepton in Hadleigh, 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; Bearcats!; Mannix; Emergency!; Police Woman; The Six Million Dollar Man; Cannon; Barnaby Jones; The Eddie Capra Mysteries; Airwolf; MacGyver; Hart to Hart; Magnum, P.I.; The Incredible Hulk; Once an Eagle; The Greatest American Hero; and The Magician.

In the 1990s, Merrow returned to Britain to run a family business. In 2006, she took part in a Prisoner-related event in Portmeirion, North Wales, 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.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1961 — 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: #2.12 • 1963 — 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 episodes • 1965 — 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 episodes • 1966 — 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 Baskervilles — Beryl Stapleton — TV film • 1973 — The Horror at 37,000 Feet — Sheryl 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"