Diane Cilento

Diane Cilento

Born: October 5, 1933
Died: October 7, 2011
in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia
Diane Cilento (2 April 1932 – 6 October 2011) was an Australian actress. She is best known for her film roles in Tom Jones (1963), which earned her an Academy Award nomination, Hombre (1967) and The Wicker Man (1973). She also received a Tony Award nomination for her performance as Helen of Troy in the play Tiger at the Gates.

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The Sean Connery Paradox
Title: The Sean Connery Paradox
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 28, 2022
Type: Movie
Having become a world star thanks to James Bond, Sean Connery, who died in 2020, has never stopped trying to shed the image of a sexy and slightly brutal macho that stuck to 007. A look back at an eclectic career, carried out with panache.
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Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Title: Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Oscar-winning actor Sean Connery is profiled in this segment of "Intimate Portrait." Includes film clips, never-before-seen photos and interviews with
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The Boy Who Had Everything
Title: The Boy Who Had Everything
Character: Mother
Released: July 5, 1985
Type: Movie
In '60's-era Australia, a college freshman must navigate freshman hazing, a distant mother, and a shaky relationship with his girlfriend.
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Title: For the Term of His Natural Life
Character: Lady Elinor Devine
Released: May 23, 1983
Type: TV
In 1830s England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Diemen's Land where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.
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Duet for Four
Title: Duet for Four
Character: Margot Mason
Released: February 26, 1982
Type: Movie
A middle aged man, Ray Martin, faces a series of problems – his wife is cheating on him, his mistress wants to get married and Americans want to take over his toy business.
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The Wicker Man
Title: The Wicker Man
Character: Miss Rose
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
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Spell of Evil
Title: Spell of Evil
Character: Clara
Released: June 16, 1973
Type: Movie
A businessman hires a marriage bureau when his wife dies from a sudden illness and is delighted to find himself paired up with the beautiful Clara. Despite seeming like the perfect wife, Clara is in fact a witch and has nothing but evil intentions for her new husband.
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Title: Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Character: Hanna Reitsch
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Clara
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Z.P.G.
Title: Z.P.G.
Character: Edna
Released: May 25, 1972
Type: Movie
In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.
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Title: The Persuaders!
Character: Kate Sinclair
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: TV
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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The Frankie Howerd Show
Title: The Frankie Howerd Show
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1968
Type: Movie
A one off Frankie Howerd Special
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Negatives
Title: Negatives
Character: Reingard
Released: September 5, 1968
Type: Movie
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
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Title: Rogues' Gallery
Character: Lady Sarah Bellasize
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: TV
Rogues' Gallery was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1968 and 1969. It was set around London's Newgate Prison in the 18th century.
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Dial M for Murder
Title: Dial M for Murder
Character: Margo Wendice
Released: November 15, 1967
Type: Movie
A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
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Hombre
Title: Hombre
Character: Jessie
Released: March 21, 1967
Type: Movie
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
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Title: Thirty-Minute Theatre
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
Title: The Agony and the Ecstasy
Character: Contessina de'Medici
Released: September 16, 1965
Type: Movie
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
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Once Upon a Tractor
Title: Once Upon a Tractor
Character: Geraldine
Released: September 9, 1965
Type: Movie
Short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.
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Rattle of a Simple Man
Title: Rattle of a Simple Man
Character: Cyrenne
Released: December 20, 1964
Type: Movie
Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho strip club, where he meets blonde hostess Cyrenne. Accepting a bet from friend Ginger, he accompanies Cyrenne back to her flat, and a boast-worthy night of lust seems to be on the cards. However, drained of beer and bravado, Percy's innocence and vulnerability become all too evident.
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The Third Secret
Title: The Third Secret
Character: Anne Tanner
Released: February 2, 1964
Type: Movie
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
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Title: Festival
Character: Lysistrata
Released: October 9, 1963
Type: TV
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
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Tom Jones
Title: Tom Jones
Character: Molly Seagrim
Released: August 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
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I Thank a Fool
Title: I Thank a Fool
Character: Liane Dane
Released: September 14, 1962
Type: Movie
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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The Naked Edge
Title: The Naked Edge
Character: Mrs. Heath
Released: June 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
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The Full Treatment
Title: The Full Treatment
Character: Denise Colby
Released: October 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D'Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the time of the accident and cure him.
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Jet Storm
Title: Jet Storm
Character: Angelica Como
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: Movie
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
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The Truth About Women
Title: The Truth About Women
Character: Ambrosine Viney
Released: October 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Baffled and at a loss to understand the mentality of Diana, his wife, Anthony makes a frantic visit to the home of her parents to discover that she is staying with them.
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The Admirable Crichton
Title: The Admirable Crichton
Character: Eliza Tweeny
Released: June 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.
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The Woman for Joe
Title: The Woman for Joe
Character: Mary
Released: August 25, 1955
Type: Movie
A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman.
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Passage Home
Title: Passage Home
Character: Ruth Elton
Released: March 17, 1955
Type: Movie
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
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The Passing Stranger
Title: The Passing Stranger
Character: Jill
Released: November 30, 1954
Type: Movie
The British Passing Stranger stars Hollywood actor Lee Patterson as a deserting American GI. He drifts about until he falls in with a gang of gunrunners. He wants to quit, but can't until he makes enough money to support himself and his love Diane Cilento. Just before this is possible, Cilento's ex-boyfriend blows the whistle on the crooks. Just long enough not to wear out its welcome, The Passing Stranger is a passing good little film noir.
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The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
Title: The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
Character: The Angel
Released: September 9, 1954
Type: Movie
An angel finds that she needs money to fulfill her mission on Earth. Her only solution to this problem is to pawn her harp.
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Title: Meet Mr. Lucifer
Character: Woman in Street (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
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All Hallowe'en
Title: All Hallowe'en
Character: Harriet
Released: August 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A woman falls in love with a ghost on All Hallows Eve.
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Moulin Rouge
Title: Moulin Rouge
Character: Midinette (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1952
Type: Movie
Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a misfit among other misfits. Yet, because of the deformity of his legs from an accident, he believes he is never destined to experience the true love of a woman. But that lack of love in his life may change as he meets two women
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Wings of Danger
Title: Wings of Danger
Character: Jeannette
Released: April 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a morass of suspicion.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Bianca
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Captain Horatio Hornblower
Title: Captain Horatio Hornblower
Character: Maria Hornblower (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.