Jill Goldston
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Jill Goldston is a prolific British background actress. Starting in the 1960s while still in her teens, she has been an extra in over 100 film & television productions. Her most notable credits include The Elephant Man, Aliens and Little Shop of Horrors.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: May 01, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Female
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Cor, Blimey!
Overview: Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the backdrop of the 'Carry On' films during the 1960s and 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Documentary Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-24
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The Black Windmill
Overview: A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-17
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The Slipper and the Rose
Overview: Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the prince to wed no matter what. When the prince meets Cinderella at a ball, he's sure she's the one, and when she loses her slipper upon exiting the dance, the prince is determined to find and marry her.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-25
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Lassiter
Overview: A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Clinic Exclusive
Overview: A beautiful massage parlor/sex clinic owner financially & emotionally mistreats her customers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Saturn 3
Overview: In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three years in the base alone with their dog Sally. Captain Benson arrives Saturn 3 with Hector, incapable to controlling his emotions he transfers his homicidal tendency and insanity to Hector. Now Major Adam and Alex are trapped in the station with a dangerous psychopath robot.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-15
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Overview: Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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Jill, Uncredited
Overview: Prolific background actor Jill Goldston takes centre stage in this unique portrait. Constructed entirely from Jill’s performances – captured fleetingly in everything from Mr. Bean to The Elephant Man – the film is a lyrical journey through popular culture, and a haunting study of a life lived out of focus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-15
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The Beauty Jungle
Overview: A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-25
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The Looking Glass War
Overview: When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and bring back photos of the new rockets.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Victor/Victoria
Overview: A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-25
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The Elephant Man
Overview: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-09
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Reds
Overview: An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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Flash Gordon
Overview: A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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Frenzy
Overview: London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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Carry On at Your Convenience
Overview: At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed up with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-10
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The Long Good Friday
Overview: In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Overview: A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Superman III
Overview: Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-17
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Carry On Girls
Overview: Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-09
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Plenty
Overview: David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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Supergirl
Overview: After losing a powerful orb, Kara, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-01
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A Private Function
Overview: In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-09
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The Virgin Soldiers
Overview: The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-14
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Clinic Exclusive
Overview: A beautiful massage parlor/sex clinic owner financially & emotionally mistreats her customers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Little Shop of Horrors
Overview: Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker, Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day, Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-19
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Confetti
Overview: A mockumentary that follows three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of 'Most Original Wedding of the Year'.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-05
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The Hiding Place
Overview: Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. Suspected of hiding Jews and caught breaking rationing rules, they are sent to a concentration camp, where their Christian faith keeps them from despair and bitterness.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-04
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The Human Factor
Overview: When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-18
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Sweeney 2
Overview: The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-30
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Lost In London
Overview: Facing his parent's impending divorce and emotional upheaval, a young boy runs away and joins a gang of London street urchins who live by their wits, begging, and thievery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-20
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Carry On Cleo
Overview: Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-08
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Arabesque
Overview: When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?
Genres: Thriller Comedy Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-04
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Butley
Overview: Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-21
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Just for Fun
Overview: When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own political party.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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A Touch of Class
Overview: Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex. They then return to London to set up a cozy menage, despite the fact that he loves his wife and children, and now realize that he and Vicki have also fallen in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-25
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Overview: Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-21
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The Mutations
Overview: A mad scientist (Donald Pleasence) crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-22
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Valentino
Overview: The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-07
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Overview: Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-13
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Overview: With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, recently sprung from jail, is declaring war on the Man of Steel and his quest to save the planet. Using a strand of Superman's hair, Luthor synthesizes a powerful ally known as Nuclear Man and ignites an epic battle spanning Earth and space.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-24
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The Thirty Nine Steps
Overview: The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-04
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Santa Claus: The Movie
Overview: In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-making elf, Patch, in the North Pole. In the present day, Santa Claus has become overwhelmed by his workload, and the disgruntled Patch flees the workshop to New York City. There, Patch unknowingly threatens the fate of Christmas by taking a job at a failing toy company run by a scheming businessman.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-29
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Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
Overview: Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-03
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O Lucky Man!
Overview: An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-25
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Just for Fun
Overview: When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own political party.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Mutiny on the Buses
Overview: Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the wedding. Meanwhile, he hits on an idea: Arthur should learn to drive a bus. Somehow he does just that, and even gets a job. Stan then blackmails the Depot Manager into giving him the job of driver on the new money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea ...if only the inspector hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to the Windsor Safari Park
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-02
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Slipstream
Overview: In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-22
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The Razor's Edge
Overview: An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Carry On Matron
Overview: A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan. The hypochondriac consultant Sir Bernard Cutting, Matron and the doctors and nurses at Finisham have a habit of getting in the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-05
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Overview: Four kids travel to the magical land of Narnia where they must battle an evil queen with the direction of the lion, Aslan.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-13
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Fiddler on the Roof
Overview: In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-03
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Mrs. Acland's Ghosts
Overview: Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-15
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Aliens
Overview: Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-18
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Carry On Again Doctor
Overview: Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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