Joanna Pettet
Also Known As: Joanna Jane Salmon
Biography: Joanna Pettet is an English retired actress, born 16 November 1942). Pettet was born in London, England, daughter of Harold Nigel Egerton Salmon and Cecily J. Tremaine, who were married in Chelsea, London in 1940. Her father, a British Royal Air Force pilot, was killed in the Second World War in 1943. After the war, her mother remarried and settled in Montréal, where Joanna was adopted by her stepfather and assumed his surname of "Pettet".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 16, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Female
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Cry of the Innocent
Overview: An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-15
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Casino Royale
Overview: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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The Night of the Generals
Overview: A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Thriller Mystery War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-29
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The Evil
Overview: Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-05
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Welcome to Arrow Beach
Overview: A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nearby mansion with his sister. The girl soon begins to suspect that the mansion is home to some very strange goings-on.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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Robbery
Overview: In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-01
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The Group
Overview: It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-04
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Double Exposure
Overview: A photographer for a men's magazine is haunted by disturbing dreams, in which he slaughters his models. When he learns that these models are dying in real life as they did in his dreams, he begins to go insane.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-03
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Fade In
Overview: A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-08
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The Making of Casino Royale, 1967
Overview: Interviews and overview of the making of the original 1967 James Bond film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-11
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A Cry in the Wilderness
Overview: The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood. Several trips upstream by the son have failed to locate the blockage and now Dad wants to be released...
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-26
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Blue
Overview: A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a Mexican gang.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-09
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Pioneer Woman
Overview: A homesteading family in 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether to remain or take her son and daughter back East.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-19
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The Desperate Miles
Overview: A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he finds his life is endangered by a deranged truck driver.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-05
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The Weekend Nun
Overview: Drama based on the life of Joyce Duco, with Joanna Pettet as a young nun torn between the reality of her secular job as a daytime juvenile probation officer and the vows she has taken with the church.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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The Best House in London
Overview: In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Delphi Bureau
Overview: A government agent with a photographic memory is assigned to solve the disappearance of an entire fleet of old Air Force planes. Pilot for short-lived TV series
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-06
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Sex and the Married Woman
Overview: A suburban housewife writes a novel based on her neighbors' sex lives. It becomes a runaway best seller, but causes no end of trouble in her marriage and her relationships with her neighbors.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-13
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The Dark Side of Innocence
Overview: A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. This causes tension with her daughter, who bitterly resents her walking out on the family, and her mother, whose own beliefs about marriage and family are jolted by her daughter's divorce.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-20
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Black Commando
Overview: The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Genres: Romance Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-11-15
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Just Tipsy, Honey
Overview: Teenage girl is in total denial about her mother's drinking problem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-16
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The Return of Frank Cannon
Overview: Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate an old friend and Army Intelligence colleague's death, which has been ruled a suicide, but which smells like murder.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Terror In Paradise
Overview: Jason Kirby and Vickie Evans encounter something other than paradise when their tropical vacation unwittingly meets up with a terrorist force. Soon a quiet romantic getaway has turned into a highstakes thriller of life and death.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-06
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Footsteps
Overview: A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the team to improve.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-03
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Sweet Country
Overview: An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-23
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To Catch a Pebble
Overview: An American stewardess escaping from a bad relationship flees to Israel. She gets involved with an Israeli who takes her to the kibbutz where he grew up to meet his family. He's sort of a charming longhair, but it turns out the stewardess is pregnant by her old boyfriend, who then shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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A Killer in Every Corner
Overview: A criminal psychologist invites three psychology students to his English countryside home to view some of his research on the criminal mind. Unbeknownst to the students, they are actually guinea pigs in a mind-control experiment he is conducting and the servants of the house are not what they appear to be.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-19
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A Midsummer Nightmare
Overview: A young woman's knowledge of Shakespeare helps her solve a five-year-old mystery.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-16
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