Janette Scott

Janette Scott

Born: December 14, 1938
in Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thora Janette Scott (born 14 December 1938) is an English actress. She was born in Morecambe, England. She is the daughter of actors Jimmy Scott and Thora Hird. She started her acting career as a child actress, known as Janette Scott, and became a popular leading lady. Among her best known roles was as April Smith in the 1960 film School for Scoundrels, based on the "One-upmanship" books by Stephen Potter, in which Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas competed for her attention. Scott wrote her autobiography at the age of 14. Her role in the film The Day of the Triffids is referenced in the opening song of The Rocky Horror Show ("Science Fiction/Double Feature") which made references to many B-movie sci-fi and horror films.

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Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
Title: Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy
Character: Self
Released: May 9, 2020
Type: Movie
The comedy pioneer behind the Goon Show, Dr Strangelove and the Pink Panther series is explored in depth in this film, surveying his meteoric rise to fame and troubled personal life.
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Title: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Character: Sidney's Mother
Released: October 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.
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Creepy Classics
Title: Creepy Classics
Character: Karen Goodwill - (archive footage)
Released: October 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.
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Title: Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
Released: September 21, 1986
Type: TV
A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.
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Title: Last of the Summer Wine
Character: Cameo (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: TV
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.
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Bikini Paradise
Title: Bikini Paradise
Character: Rachel
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
A pair of U.S. Navy officers are marooned on a South Pacific island with a group of women whom want to use them for marriage and mating purposes.
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Crack in the World
Title: Crack in the World
Character: Dr. Maggie Sorenson
Released: April 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
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The Beauty Jungle
Title: The Beauty Jungle
Character: Shirley Freeman
Released: August 25, 1964
Type: Movie
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
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The Old Dark House
Title: The Old Dark House
Character: Cecily Femm
Released: October 30, 1963
Type: Movie
An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Jennifer Robbins
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Siege of the Saxons
Title: Siege of the Saxons
Character: Princess Katherine
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.
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Paranoiac
Title: Paranoiac
Character: Eleanor Ashby
Released: January 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter intervenes.
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The Day of the Triffids
Title: The Day of the Triffids
Character: Karen Goodwin
Released: July 5, 1962
Type: Movie
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
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Two and Two Make Six
Title: Two and Two Make Six
Character: Irene
Released: May 1, 1962
Type: Movie
An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.
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Double Bunk
Title: Double Bunk
Character: Peggy Goddard
Released: May 6, 1961
Type: Movie
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
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His and Hers
Title: His and Hers
Character: Fran Blake
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charles Lunton; it matters little that most of his experiences are wildly embellished or even entirely fictitious...
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School for Scoundrels
Title: School for Scoundrels
Character: April Smith
Released: March 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
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The Devil's Disciple
Title: The Devil's Disciple
Character: Judith Anderson
Released: August 20, 1959
Type: Movie
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
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The Lady is a Square
Title: The Lady is a Square
Character: Joanna Baring
Released: February 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young Janette Scott.
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Happy Is the Bride
Title: Happy Is the Bride
Character: Janet Royd
Released: March 4, 1958
Type: Movie
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.
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The Good Companions
Title: The Good Companions
Character: Susie Dean
Released: April 22, 1957
Type: Movie
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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Now and Forever
Title: Now and Forever
Character: Janette Grant
Released: September 10, 1956
Type: Movie
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
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Helen of Troy
Title: Helen of Troy
Character: Cassandra
Released: January 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
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As Long as They're Happy
Title: As Long as They're Happy
Character: Gwen Bentley
Released: March 15, 1955
Type: Movie
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
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Background
Title: Background
Character: Jess Lomax
Released: November 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Ethel Friese-Greene
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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No Highway
Title: No Highway
Character: Elspeth Honey
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
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The Galloping Major
Title: The Galloping Major
Character: Susan Hill
Released: May 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
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No Place for Jennifer
Title: No Place for Jennifer
Character: Jennifer Parry
Released: January 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
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Conspirator
Title: Conspirator
Character: Toby
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
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The Lamp Still Burns
Title: The Lamp Still Burns
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.