Rita Tushingham
Birthday: 1942-03-14
Place of Birth: Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Biography: 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.
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Elicit
About the isolation and loneliness of the person with dementia, and the person caring for the person...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre t...
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The Human Factor
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find th...
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A Taste of Honey
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo h...
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Puffball
Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to a...
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The Bed Sitting Room
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing s...
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Straight On Till Morning
Brenda, a timid, withdrawn woman, meets Peter, a man she believes is finally the love of her life. H...
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The Hideout
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her hus...
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The Knack... and How to Get It
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to sco...
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Flying
Robin and her father have a car accident. Her father dies. Robin is badly injured and cannot compete...
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Girl with Green Eyes
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice h...
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Moscow in Madrid
When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do l...
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The Trap
A French-Canadian fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote...
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A Judgment in Stone
An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to Ameri...
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Under the Skin
Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whos...
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The Leather Boys
Reggie and Dot are a young South London couple who get married before they really get to know each o...
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Smashing Time
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and ...
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The Guru
Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the si...
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Mysteries
In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence so...
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Fischia Il Sesso
A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduce...
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A Place to Go
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that wer...
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Pane, burro e marmellata
Bruno De Santis, successful TV presenter, was left by his wife Sofia. One day he decides to call her...
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Boudica
Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni peop...
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The Boy from Mercury
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his ...
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Resurrected
A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia....
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Spaghetti House
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befrie...
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Diamonds for Breakfast
Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were over...
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Rachel's Man
The Biblical love story of Rachel and Jacob is adapted for the screen as Rachel's father forces them...
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Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean
In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains w...
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The Athena Syndrome
Two untested female secret agents are well out of their depth - battling against a huge violent crim...
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Gospel According to Harry
Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her h...
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the ...
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Swing
When Martin Luxford leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the sax...
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Spending Nights with Joan
Four stages in the life of the aging Joan Crawford. 1954: A beautiful woman of a “certain age” drive...
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Hard Days, Hard Nights
Hamburg 1960: The Liverpool band "Rick and the Rich Kids" and their manager, the young American Chri...
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Doctor Zhivago
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...
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Green Eyes
Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia in search among thousands ...
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Seamonsters
Two teenage best friends growing up in a forgotten British seaside town. When a mysterious new girl ...
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Being Julia
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a...
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Angel Cake
A cakemaker and her dysfunctional family live on a grimy estate. When Elaine's rock buns come out of...
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Outside Bet
A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse....
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Out of Depth
Seeking to avenge an attack on his mother, Paul decides to hire a local villain, Lenny, to give the ...
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Black Journal
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering a...
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Sunday Pursuit
Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his bos...
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Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent r...
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Red Riding Hood
A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn int...
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My Name Is Lenny
The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as...
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Paper Marriage
Alice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an obstacle wh...
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Last Night in Soho
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she enc...
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Slaughter Day
Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who kno...
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The Rapture of Deceit
Hungary after the changes. Jutka loses her job and even her marriage is ruined, since her husband ge...
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The Owners
A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash...
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The Stretford Wives
The film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by Fay Ripley, Claire Rushbrook, and Li...
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The American Backyard
A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he rel...
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Broken Lines
After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness...
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Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
The Five reunite at a hotel on Cragstone Ridge, where old foe Thomas Wentworth seeks their help. He ...
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Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties
'Revolution: The Legacy of the Sixties' is an exploration of the 1960s Western cultural revolution a...
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