Overview - Up the Down Staircase

Overview

Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.

Cast

• Name: Sandy Dennis

  Character: Sylvia Barrett

  Popularity: 1.416

  

• Name: Patrick Bedford

  Character: Paul Barringer

  Popularity: 0.349

  

• Name: Eileen Heckart

  Character: Henrietta Pastorfield

  Popularity: 2.387

  

• Name: Ruth White

  Character: Beatrice Schacter

  Popularity: 5.04

  

• Name: Jean Stapleton

  Character: Sadie Finch

  Popularity: 4.553

  

• Name: Sorrell Booke

  Character: Dr. Bester

  Popularity: 14.086

  

• Name: Roy Poole

  Character: Mr. McHabe

  Popularity: 2.212

  

• Name: Florence Stanley

  Character: Ellen Friedenberg

  Popularity: 8.295