Rita Tushingham
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rita Tushingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Doctor Zhivago
as The GirlThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a...
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A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she...
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Boudica
as Green DruidInspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni...
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Mysteries
as Martha GudeIn the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His...
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The Owners
as Ellen HugginsA group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of...
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Being Julia
as Aunt CarrieJulia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all -...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
as Aunt LilyLiverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby...
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A Taste of Honey
as JoWhile out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old...
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The Knack... and How to Get It
as Nancy JonesA nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to...
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Straight On Till Morning
as Brenda ThompsonBrenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her...
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My Name Is Lenny
as Reenie JoyceThe life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also...
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Girl with Green Eyes
as Kathleen "Kate" BradyA naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author...
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The Hideout
as Paula HardynA mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her...
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Resurrected
as Mrs. DeakinA Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.
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The Bed Sitting Room
as PenelopeIn the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is...
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The Trap
as EveA fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in...
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The Wee Man
as Rita ThompsonThe true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
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The Human Factor
as JaniceAfter his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to...
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Flying
as Jean StollerRobin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot...
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
as Alice ToklasLarger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles...
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Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
as MediumSet against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first...
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The American Backyard
as La madre di BarbaraA troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary after a single glance. A year...
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Black Journal
as MariaA mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by...
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Elicit
as FelicityAbout the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the...
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Under the Skin
as MumAlthough married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris...
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
as Self (archive footage)Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with...
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Puffball
as MollyPowerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving...
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Swing
as Mags LuxfordWhen Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been...
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Outside Bet
as MarthaA group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
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Smashing Time
as BrendaTwo young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money...
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The Guru
as JennyBritain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play...
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Diamonds for Breakfast
as Bridget RaffertySwinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were...
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The Leather Boys
as DotReggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know...
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Moscow in Madrid
as SelfWhen David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to...
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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
as SelfIn this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean...
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Fischia Il Sesso
as Carol HoustonA girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who...
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Broken Lines
as RaeAfter losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for...
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Green Eyes
as Margaret SheenDisillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among...
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Spaghetti House
as Kathy CeccacciThree black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims...
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A Judgment in Stone
as EuniceAn English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to...
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The Rapture of Deceit
as uncreditedHungary after the changes. Jutka loses her job and even her marriage is ruined, since her...
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Out of Depth
as Margaret NixonBased on a true story and in the same mould as Get Carter and Nil by Mouth, Out of Depth is a...
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The Boy from Mercury
as May CroninSet in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes...
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A Place to Go
as Catherine DonovanSet in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that...
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Gospel According to Harry
as MyrnaKaren and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to...
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Paper Marriage
as Lou, gospodyni AlicjiAlice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an...
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Red Riding Hood
as GraceA repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn...
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Sunday Pursuit
as Alice FletcherThomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his...
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Rachel's Man
as LeahThe Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces...
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Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
as Miss ClutterbuckThe Five reunite at a hotel on Cragstone Ridge, where old foe Thomas Wentworth seeks their help....
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The Stretford Wives
as Marilyn MasseyThe film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook,...
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Slaughter Day
as RitaMichael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who...
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The Athena Syndrome
as VivianTwo untested female secret agents are well out of their depth - battling against a huge violent...
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Seamonsters
as RoseTwo teenage best friends growing up in a forgotten British seaside town. When a mysterious new...
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Vera
as Audrey LathamA sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England,...
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New Tricks
as uncreditedNew Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...
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The Merv Griffin Show
as SelfThe Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...
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Agatha Christie's Marple
as Miss Elizabeth PercehouseThe adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St...
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Lady Killers
as Charlotte BryantCompelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which...
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Bread
as Celia HigginsBread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on...
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The Responder
as June CarsonUnder pressure, fraying at the edges. In relentless night-time Liverpool, copper Chris is paired...
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The Marlow Murder Club
as Mrs. EddinghamRetired archaeologist Judith Potts lives alone in a faded mansion in the peaceful town of...
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Still Open All Hours
as AnnieStill Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All...
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The Pale Horse
as Bella WebbAfter a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins...
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The Human Jungle
as JoyThe Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the...
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The Famous Five
as Miss ClutterbuckThere's adventure around every corner with The Famous Five! Join Julian, George, Dick, Anne and...
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Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
as uncreditedA unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman,...
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Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as SelfFive programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with...
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Ridley Road
as Nettie JonesDuring London's swinging sixties, young Jewish Vivien Epstein follows her lover into danger and...
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No Strings
as uncreditedIn BBC sitcom No Strings mismatched Leonara (Rita Tushingham) and Derek (Keith Barron) share a...
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