Rita Tushingham

Rita Tushingham

Born: March 14, 1942
in Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Rita Tushingham (born 14 March 1942) is an English actress. She is known for her starring roles in films including A Taste of Honey (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), The Knack …and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Smashing Time (1967). For A Taste of Honey, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and Most Promising Newcomer at both the BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards. Her other film appearances include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Under the Skin (1997), and Being Julia (2004).

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Title: The Marlow Murder Club
Character: Mrs. Eddingham
Released: March 6, 2024
Type: TV
Retired archaeologist Judith Potts lives alone in a faded mansion in the peaceful town of Marlow, filling her time by setting crosswords for the local paper. During one of her regular wild swims in the Thames, Judith hears a gunshot coming from a neighbour's garden and believes a brutal murder has taken place.
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Boudica
Title: Boudica
Character: Green Druid
Released: October 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land and property. Driven to the edge of madness and determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the various tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the mighty Roman empire.
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Title: The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 18, 2023
Type: Movie
Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
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Elicit
Title: Elicit
Character: Felicity
Released: January 1, 2023
Type: Movie
About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person with the illness.
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Title: The Responder
Character: June Carson
Released: January 24, 2022
Type: TV
Under pressure, fraying at the edges. In relentless night-time Liverpool, copper Chris is paired with a rookie. Will they save or destroy each other?
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Last Night in Soho
Title: Last Night in Soho
Character: Peggy Turner
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: Movie
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
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Title: Ridley Road
Character: Nettie Jones
Released: October 3, 2021
Type: TV
During London's swinging sixties, young Jewish Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and when he is caught between life and death, she finds herself going undercover with the fascists, not only for him but for the sake of her country.
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The Owners
Title: The Owners
Character: Ellen Huggins
Released: August 27, 2020
Type: Movie
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.
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Title: The Pale Horse
Character: Bella Webb
Released: February 9, 2020
Type: TV
After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins investigating and is drawn to the The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumored witches living in a small village. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using dark arts.
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My Name Is Lenny
Title: My Name Is Lenny
Character: Reenie Joyce
Released: June 9, 2017
Type: Movie
The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".
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Title: Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
Released: May 26, 2016
Type: TV
A unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman, directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. With a score by Jarvis Cocker and starring a host of British acting talent led by Tom Hughes, Johnny Vegas, George MacKay, Rita Tushingham and Kenneth Cranham.
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Title: Still Open All Hours
Character: Annie
Released: December 26, 2014
Type: TV
Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
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The Wee Man
Title: The Wee Man
Character: Rita Thompson
Released: January 18, 2013
Type: Movie
The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
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Outside Bet
Title: Outside Bet
Character: Martha
Released: April 27, 2012
Type: Movie
A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
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Seamonsters
Title: Seamonsters
Character: Rose
Released: November 17, 2011
Type: Movie
Two teenage best friends growing up in a forgotten British seaside town. When a mysterious new girl comes between them the friendship is torn apart and their lives are changed forever.
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Title: Vera
Character: Audrey Latham
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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The Calling
Title: The Calling
Character: Sister Gertrude
Released: April 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.
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Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
Title: Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
Character: Medium
Released: June 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar – the biggest selling record of it's time – before bad luck, depression, heartbreak and paranoia led to his downfall.
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The Hideout
Title: The Hideout
Character: Paula Hardyn
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
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Puffball
Title: Puffball
Character: Molly
Released: October 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house.
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Angel Cake
Title: Angel Cake
Character: Millie
Released: September 15, 2006
Type: Movie
A cakemaker and her dysfunctional family live on a grimy estate. When Elaine's rock buns come out of the oven resembling the Virgin Mary, potentially miraculous consequences follow for her family and friends. Her arthritic mother Millie is suddenly able to move freely, her irresponsible son Todd falls in love, and both she and her husband Ed are offered the chance of other relationships. But miracles are not all they seem.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Miss Elizabeth Percehouse
Released: December 12, 2004
Type: TV
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
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Being Julia
Title: Being Julia
Character: Aunt Carrie
Released: September 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.
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Title: New Tricks
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
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The Stretford Wives
Title: The Stretford Wives
Character: Marilyn Massey
Released: August 1, 2002
Type: Movie
The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Lindsey Coulson – who live in Stretford, Greater Manchester, England.
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Out of Depth
Title: Out of Depth
Character: Margaret Nixon
Released: April 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Based on a true story and in the same mould as Get Carter and Nil by Mouth, Out of Depth is a hard hitting, contemporary character based thriller. A gritty expose of the South London Underworld, it tells the story of misguided good intentions, of family love and of the personal hopes and fears that lay behind several gangland killings.
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Swing
Title: Swing
Character: Mags Luxford
Released: June 18, 1999
Type: Movie
When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returning to his native Liverpool, Martin pulls together a backing band of misfits and loners, and recruits his ex-girlfriend Joan (Lisa Stansfield) as a singer. Things are complicated somewhat by the fact that Joan is now married to the policeman who arrested Martin, and when the band's first gig - at a heavy metal pub - goes badly, it seems as though the road to musical success may be a rocky one.
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Spending Nights with Joan
Title: Spending Nights with Joan
Character: Bette Davis
Released: May 13, 1998
Type: Movie
A drama directed by Horst Königstein.
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Under the Skin
Title: Under the Skin
Character: Mum
Released: November 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by mother's death. Suffocating, Iris spirals out of control and copes by losing herself in sexual oblivion.
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The Boy from Mercury
Title: The Boy from Mercury
Character: May Cronin
Released: December 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Title: An Awfully Big Adventure
Character: Aunt Lily
Released: July 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
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Gospel According to Harry
Title: Gospel According to Harry
Character: Myrna
Released: May 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get everywhere. Harry, a tax collector, is a witness to this marriage falling apart.
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Title: Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 1993
Type: TV
Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.
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Paper Marriage
Title: Paper Marriage
Character: Lou, gospodyni Alicji
Released: March 10, 1992
Type: Movie
Alice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an obstacle when her fiance changes his mind and leaves her in need of citizenship in Britain.
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Title: Love at First Sight
Character: Alice Fletcher
Released: February 12, 1992
Type: TV
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The Rapture of Deceit
Title: The Rapture of Deceit
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Hungary after the changes. Jutka loses her job and even her marriage is ruined, since her husband gets involved with the daughter of an influential businessman. Jutka moves in with a female friend, Dóra likewise has to face a difficult choice.
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Sunday Pursuit
Title: Sunday Pursuit
Character: Alice Fletcher
Released: November 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new ideas. Thomas advertise under "Lonely Hearts" and receives an answer.
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Hard Days, Hard Nights
Title: Hard Days, Hard Nights
Character: Rita
Released: August 16, 1990
Type: Movie
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Resurrected
Title: Resurrected
Character: Mrs. Deakin
Released: March 12, 1989
Type: Movie
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Title: The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Character: Alice Toklas
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
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Flying
Title: Flying
Character: Jean Stoller
Released: May 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete in gymnastics tournaments anymore. She lives with her mother and bad step-father. Robin is accepted to the school athlethics team but is not accepted by some other girls, so she works out at a friends house. Eventually Robin and her team compete in the national scholastic meet.
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Title: Bread
Character: Celia Higgins
Released: May 1, 1986
Type: TV
Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991. The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related. Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.
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A Judgment in Stone
Title: A Judgment in Stone
Character: Eunice
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job as a maid for a wealthy family. Soon her severe psychosis and her attempts to keep her sexuality from asserting itself combine to cause trouble for all concerned.
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Spaghetti House
Title: Spaghetti House
Character: Kathy Ceccacci
Released: October 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
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Title: Lady Killers
Character: Charlotte Bryant
Released: July 20, 1980
Type: TV
Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.
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Mysteries
Title: Mysteries
Character: Martha Gude
Released: September 7, 1978
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
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Black Journal
Title: Black Journal
Character: Maria
Released: November 24, 1977
Type: Movie
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.
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Pane, burro e marmellata
Title: Pane, burro e marmellata
Character: Vera De Virdis
Released: November 9, 1977
Type: Movie
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Green Eyes
Title: Green Eyes
Character: Margaret Sheen
Released: January 3, 1977
Type: Movie
Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.
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Rachel's Man
Title: Rachel's Man
Character: Leah
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: Movie
The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them to wait seven years before they can marry, but fate intervenes as Rachel's sister sleeps with Jacob and bears him a child.
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Ragazzo di borgata
Title: Ragazzo di borgata
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Human Factor
Title: The Human Factor
Character: Janice
Released: November 19, 1975
Type: Movie
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.
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Title: No Strings
Released: April 16, 1974
Type: TV
In BBC sitcom No Strings mismatched Leonara (Rita Tushingham) and Derek (Keith Barron) share a flat. This early Carla Lane series began life as a Comedy Playhouse entry. Guest stars included Michael Staniforth, Jessica Benton, Robert Gillespie and Tommy Godfrey. Cast: Rita Tushingham as Leonora; Keith Barron as Derek Writer: Carla Lane / Producer: John Howard Davies UK / BBC One / 7×30 minute episodes / Pilot: 16 April 1974 Season: 4 October – 8 November 1974 Fridays at 7.45pm
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Fischia Il Sesso
Title: Fischia Il Sesso
Character: Carol Houston
Released: March 6, 1974
Type: Movie
A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her to Gavino, a young Sardinian immigrant clandestine.
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Red Riding Hood
Title: Red Riding Hood
Character: Grace
Released: September 10, 1973
Type: Movie
A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.
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Slaughter Day
Title: Slaughter Day
Character: Rita
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who know nothing about each other and each only know part of his plan. In the background Michael pulls the strings and mercilessly plays the actors on his stage against each other. This strategy also poses unsolvable problems for the police until something goes wrong and the house of cards collapses.
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Straight On Till Morning
Title: Straight On Till Morning
Character: Brenda Thompson
Released: July 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. However, little does Brenda know that Peter is a vicious serial killer.
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The Bed Sitting Room
Title: The Bed Sitting Room
Character: Penelope
Released: June 1, 1969
Type: Movie
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
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The Guru
Title: The Guru
Character: Jenny
Released: February 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.
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Diamonds for Breakfast
Title: Diamonds for Breakfast
Character: Bridget Rafferty
Released: December 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.
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Smashing Time
Title: Smashing Time
Character: Brenda
Released: December 20, 1967
Type: Movie
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: Eve
Released: April 7, 1966
Type: Movie
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
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Moscow in Madrid
Title: Moscow in Madrid
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1965
Type: Movie
When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a location on the plains outside Madrid, Spain and built a set to look like the Russian capital. This promotional film gives viewers a short look at the set under construction.
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Doctor Zhivago
Title: Doctor Zhivago
Character: The Girl
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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The Knack... and How to Get It
Title: The Knack... and How to Get It
Character: Nancy Jones
Released: May 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.
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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Title: Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles in the movie.
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Girl with Green Eyes
Title: Girl with Green Eyes
Character: Kathleen "Kate" Brady
Released: May 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.
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The Leather Boys
Title: The Leather Boys
Character: Dot
Released: March 8, 1964
Type: Movie
An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working class marriage and her husband's relationship with his best friend.
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A Place to Go
Title: A Place to Go
Character: Catherine Donovan
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Joy
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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A Taste of Honey
Title: A Taste of Honey
Character: Jo
Released: October 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Jo is a neglected 16-year-old girl whose promiscuous mother marries a dandy. Jo gets pregnant after a tryst with a black cook, who leaves her over his impending responsibilities of fatherhood, and she only finds support in a gay male friend.
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The Athena Syndrome
Title: The Athena Syndrome
Character: Vivian
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Two untested female secret agents are well out of their depth - battling against a huge violent criminal organisation. They are both about to be tested in the field against a ruthless underworld army. How will they hold up? Will they survive?
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L’orto americano
Title: L’orto americano
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie