Upstairs, Downstairs

Upstairs, Downstairs was a 1970s British television series set in a grand Edwardian town house in London and depicting the events of the early twentieth century as they affected the servants ('downstairs') and masters ('upstairs').

Downstairs Characters and Cast Members

The Servants

Nanny

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• Nanny Webster (Daphne Heard) (1909)

Governess

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• Miss Treadwell (Shirley Cain) (1921-1922)

Butler

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• Mr. Angus Hudson (Gordon Jackson) (1903-1930)

Cook

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• Mrs. Kate Bridges (Angela Baddeley) (1903-1930)

Lady?s Maids

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• Miss Maude Roberts (Patsy Smart) (to Lady Marjorie Bellamy, 1903-1912)
• Rose Buck (Jean Marsh) (to Virginia Hamilton Bellamy, 1919-1930)

Nursery Maid

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• Sarah Moffat (Pauline Collins) (1909-1910)

Housemaids

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• Rose Buck (Jean Marsh) (Head Housemaid, 1903-1919)
• Sarah Moffat (Pauline Collins) (1903-1904, 1908)
• Mary (Susan Penhaligon) (1906)
• Alice (Susan Porrett) (1907-1908)
• Brenda (Uncredited) (1909)
• Violet (Angela Walker) (1909)
• Joan (Jane Carr) (1910)
• Gwyneth Davies (Janet Lees Price) (1912)
• Daisy Peel (Jacqueline Tong) (1912-1918, Head Housemaid from 1919 to 1930)
• Lily Hawkins (Karen Dotrice) (1919-1924)
• Mary (Pippa Page) (1929)

Kitchen Maids

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• Emily/Aoibhinn (Evin Crowley) (1903-1907)
• Doris (Maggie Wells) (1907-1908)
• Nelly (Sylvia Brayshay) (1909)
• Ruby Finch (Jenny Tomasin) (1909-1915, 1916-1929, 1929-1930)
• Mabel (Elaine Donnelly) (1929)

Footmen

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• Alfred Harris (George Innes) (1903-1905)
• Edward Barnes (Christopher Beeny) (1906-1915)
• Frederick Norton (Gareth Hunt) (1919-1927)

Coachmen/Chauffeurs

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• Pearce (Brian Osborne) (1903-1909)
• Thomas Watkins (John Alderton) (1909-1910)
• Edward Barnes (Christopher Benny) (1919-1930)

Recurring Friends of the Downstairs

• Gregory Wilmot (Keith Barron) (Rose Buck's Australian soldier fiancée who gets killed during World War I)