Robin Askwith
Also Known As: Robin Asquith, Robin Mark Askwith
Biography: Robin Askwith is a British actor prolific in the 1970s with softcore sexploitation comedies such as the Confessions series. Away from those films, Askwith acted for directors like Lindsay Anderson and Pier Paolo Pasolini More recently he stars as Jeremy Lloyd James in Channel 5 mystery drama The Madame Blanc Mysteries
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
Birthday: October 12, 1950
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Gender: Male
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Horror Hospital
Overview: Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the leather-gloved, ex-Nazi scientist Dr. Storm. Along the way, Jason meets Judy, also on her way to Brittlehouse Manor to visit her aunt, who married Dr. Storm some years ago. Once they arrive, the pair realise rather quickly that something is wrong, probably because the other guests have had their brains surgically removed, or all the blood pouring from the sink, or possibly just because the creepy midget keeps telling them to brush their teeth.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-11
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Tower of Evil
Overview: A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-26
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Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Overview: Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to teach, young Timmy finds that his female students are far more interested in keeping their eyes on him than on the road.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Overview: Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is, he reluctantly accepts the juicy duty. However his heart belongs to Liz, who demands the highest commitment until she lets him go all the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-16
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Britannia Hospital
Overview: Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-27
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Confessions of a Pop Performer
Overview: Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to get it all the time! Signing up with a pop group, our boisterous hero progresses rapidly from local gigs to scoring a titillating hit with The Climax Sisters, with plenty of ribald adventures along the way!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Confessions from a Holiday Camp
Overview: Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy and inefficient, preferring to laze by the pool rather than organise activities for the holiday campers. A new owner, Mr. Whitemonk, an ex-prison officer, takes over the camp and is determined to install discipline into the staff. He is on the verge of dismissing Timmy and Sidney; however, Sidney's suggestion of organising a beauty contest changes his mind.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-01
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Conjuring: The Book of the Dead
Overview: A writer of graphic novels who is given the task of writing a biography on the foremost occultist Aleister Crowley. Things start to go wrong when he discovers a rune inserted in Crowley's diary when visiting New Orleans.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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Queen Kong
Overview: A female film crew journeys to Africa where a giant ape, Queen Kong, falls in love with the crew's male star.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-10
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Necronomicon
Overview: From the mind of HP Lovecraft comes the story of a book made from human flesh and written by Aleister Crowley during his visit to the depths of hell
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-31
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The Four Dimensions of Greta
Overview: Hans a young German journalist arrives in London to write an article about au-pair girls, but is requested by friends to investigate the whereabouts of their teenage daughter Greta.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-23
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Cool It, Carol!
Overview: A naive couple leave their small town for success in London's adult entertainment culture.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-01
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Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Overview: Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-04
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Let's Get Laid
Overview: A demobbed soldier, Gordon Laid, returning from World War II meets Maxine Lupercal, a member of a traveling troupe of actors returning to England on the same ship. As Gordon closely resembles a member of the troupe of actors, mistaken identity causes him to become embroiled in various murders and an international espionage plot involving a cigarette lighter that strangely affects electricity. The action reaches its comical climax on stage with Gordon and his double as the spies and the police converge on the theatre is a desperate attempt to retrieve the missing cigarette lighter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-01
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Hans Brinker
Overview: Melodrama on ice
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-14
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Buckle Up
Overview: The story of ex-banger racer Jack Elger who has to honor his brothers gambling debt by picking up a rare diamond necklace from an Arab prince off the coast of Cornwall and bring it back to London before he his killed. The trick is to stay alive as they race through the streets of London's Westend dodging bullets in the process.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-06
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Hide and Seek
Overview: A young boy runs away from an approved school to meet up with his father in the hope that he can persuade his dad to allow him to travel to Canada with him. He also meets up with two local children and discovers that his father is instead planning a bank heist.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-07
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The Hostages
Overview: Children on lonely farm outwit escaped Dartmoor prisoners.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-07
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The Flesh and Blood Show
Overview: Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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Bless This House
Overview: The legendary Sid James stars as the head of a chaotic household in this movie spin-off from the hit ITV sitcom. Sid Abbott and his best mate Trevor (Peter Butterworth) enjoy home-brewing. Plans to turn their hobby into a profitable, if illicit, sideline come unstuck when a Customs and Excise officer (Terry Scott) moves in next door! What’s more, Sid’s outspoken and madcap family hinder neighbourly relations even further.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-08
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The Canterbury Tales
Overview: Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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Run For Your Wife
Overview: John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-16
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Last Train to Christmas
Overview: When successful 80s nightclub manager Tony Towers boards a magical train at Christmas, he discovers that each carriage harbours a different stage of his life and the actions he takes in one carriage directly affect his life in the next. Can Tony change his life – and the lives of the people he loves – for the better, or will he just make things worse?
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-18
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All Coppers Are...
Overview: A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-24
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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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U-571
Overview: In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.
Genres: War Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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Bartleby
Overview: An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-30
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No Sex Please: We're British
Overview: A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, David (the bank's assistant manager) and his new wife are shocked when photos, then films and finally two girls are sent to them in their bank-supplied flat. They and the banks' head cashier then hatch a plan to get rid of the porn—without letting their boss, the local police and David's mother in on what is happening.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-25
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Scramble
Overview: Jimmy Riley makes friends with Colin and Brian Buxton, both keen members of a schoolboys' scramble club. Lennie and Cliff, old friends of Jimmy's, steal wealthy Mr Hepplewhite's car. Jimmy finds the crooks with the car but will not join in with them.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-01
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Doing Rude Things
Overview: A light-hearted celebration of British sex films from the 1950s to the early 1980s. Presented by Angus Deayton, the programme includes interviews with movie veterans Robin Askwith and Pamela Green, as well as featuring clips from popular X-rated movies like “Come Play with Me” (1977).
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-29
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Grindhouse Nightmares
Overview: Welcome to the Grindhouse experience like it was meant to be, killer story lines and themes zig zig across the screen in Grind-O-Vision, a nonstop thrill ride of babes, guns, muscle cars, motorcycle shoot outs, rendezvous with the devil and much more. From "Manhunt" to "Stripper with a Shotgun", Grindhouse Nightmares is cinema exploitation at its best.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-13
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The Asylum
Overview: Plagued by endless visions and nightmares, Jenny Adams suspects that, as a child, she was responsible for the brutal murder of her own mother.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Eldorado
Overview: The Stranger, a tall striking creature dressed in white sets into motions a series of events whilst reciting the Edgar Allen Poe Poem "Eldorado", which will have an effect on those heading towards the mythical city.
Genres: Comedy Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-30
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Saucy! - Secrets of the British Sex Comedy
Overview: Director Simon Sheridan's exhaustive examination of British sexploitation movies, made during the 1960s and 1970s, when homegrown cinema was struggling to survive. The films' stars and makers share their memories of an extraordinary era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-28
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Inside the Tower
Overview: A look back at a 70s cult classic, Tower of Evil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-02
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if....
Overview: In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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Otley
Overview: A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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King Rocker
Overview: How does a working class autodidact, with no visible means of support, maintain his role as the leader of a cult British underground band into its fifth decade? Comedian and writer Stewart Lee, director Michael Cumming and James Nicholls investigate the mysterious existence of Robert Lloyd, Britain’s ultimate post-punk survivor. Robert Lloyd’s Prefects played with The Clash on the White Riot tour in 1977, and their ongoing incarnation, as Birmingham’s Captain Beefheart suffused post-punk poets The Nightingales, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other band. Ever. But what were the social, cultural and economic circumstances that enabled and sustained such outsider artists in the punk and post-punk eras, and how has the world changed to the point where such figures are unlikely to flourish in the same way today? Lloyd’s own odyssey echoes how abstract notions of social mobility, of the value of culture and music, have changed in the last five decades.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-31
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The Legend of Harrow Woods
Overview: With the aim of investigating the disappearance of horror novelist George Carney, a group of students, encouraged by Gary, enter the forest Harrow Woods where he was last seen two years ago. Uncovering more than they had bargained for, the students soon find themselves in a battle for survival.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-12
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Last Bus
Overview: Late at night a gang of young men refuse to pay their bus fares, and assault the conductor. None of the other passengers or the driver intervene. After the incident everybody involved is interviewed in the studio about why they behaved as they did. Scene’s first play, specially commissioned for the series, was repeated late at night for an adult audience in December 1968, and shown again for schools to mark 25 years of Scene in 1993.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-10
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