James Bellamy (Upstairs, Downstairs)
| James Rupert Bellamy | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| First appearance | "Board Wages" |
| Last appearance | "All the King's Horses" |
| Portrayed by | Simon Williams |
| Information | |
| Spouse(s) | Hazel Forrest |
| Relatives | Richard Bellamy (father) Lady Marjorie Bellamy (mother) Elizabeth Bellamy (sister) |
Major The Honourable James Rupert Bellamy (1881 – October 1929) is a fictional character in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, that was originally broadcast for five series from 1971 to 1975. He was portrayed by Simon Williams.
James Bellamy is one of the main characters in Upstairs, Downstairs, appearing in 37 episodes, from the third episode of the first series "Board Wages" to the penultimate episode of the fifth and final series "All the King's Horses". Handsome, arrogant, irresponsible, and selfish, James is his mother's favourite, and he never truly recovers from her death on the Titanic in 1912. After a few unsuccessful relationships, James marries Hazel Forrest, but their happiness is short-lived due to their disparate backgrounds; she dies in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. James serves in the Great War, but is seriously wounded at Passchendaele on the Western Front in 1917, and subsequently never finds a purpose in life or a true love. He commits suicide in 1929, after losing his fortune in the Wall Street Crash.
James Rupert Bellamy is born in one of the summer months of 1881 or 1882 (Lady Prudence, an old family friend, reminds his father that he is 30 years of age when he proposes to Hazel in November 1912, in the episode "A Family Secret", however Hawkesworth explicitly states in the first novelisation of the shows scripts that James is 23 years old in 1904 making 1881 more than likely his birth year), the first child of Richard, a Conservative MP and Lady Marjorie Bellamy, the daughter of the 12th Earl of Southwold. He has a sister Elizabeth who is born in 1886 (or 1887). James goes to Eton and then attends the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and by 1904 he has been commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Life Guards in the British Army. James is his mother's favourite, while he has a difficult relationship with his father, who finds his son weak and irresponsible.
...
Wikipedia