Gordon Jackson became a household name playing the stern Scottish butler Angus Hudson in sixty episodes of the period drama "Upstairs, Downstairs" from 1971 to 1975. In 1976, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor for the episode "The Beastly Hun". In 1974, he was named British Actor of the Year and in 1979 he was made an OBE. Jackson was cast opposite Bette Davis for the American television film "Madame Sin" (1972), which was released in overseas markets as a feature film.