Janette Scott

Janette Scott

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thora Janette Scott (born 14 December 1938) is an English actress. She was born in Morecambe, England. She is the daughter of actors Jimmy Scott and Thora Hird. She started her acting career as a child actress, known as Janette Scott, and became a popular leading lady. Among her best known roles was as April Smith in the 1960 film School for Scoundrels, based on the "One-upmanship" books by Stephen Potter, in which Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas competed for her attention. Scott wrote her autobiography at the age of 14. Her role in the film The Day of the Triffids is referenced in the opening song of The Rocky Horror Show ("Science Fiction/Double Feature") which made references to many B-movie sci-fi and horror films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janette Scott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Janette Scott
  • Popularity: 1.1456
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1938-12-14
  • Place of Birth: Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
  • Homepage:
  • Also Known As: Thora Janette Scott
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Janette Scott Movies

  • 1963
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    The Day of the Triffids

    The Day of the Triffids

    6.1 1963 HD

    After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

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  • 1965
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    Crack in the World

    Crack in the World

    5.7 1965 HD

    Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.

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  • 1963
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    The Old Dark House

    The Old Dark House

    5.9 1963 HD

    An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.

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  • 1963
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    Paranoiac

    Paranoiac

    6.6 1963 HD

    A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter intervenes.

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  • 1960
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    School for Scoundrels

    School for Scoundrels

    6.884 1960 HD

    Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.

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  • 1956
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    Helen of Troy

    Helen of Troy

    6.1 1956 HD

    Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.

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  • 1951
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    No Highway in the Sky

    No Highway in the Sky

    6.9 1951 HD

    James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.

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  • 1961
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    Double Bunk

    Double Bunk

    5.7 1961 HD

    When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.

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  • 1987
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    Creepy Classics

    Creepy Classics

    6.3 1987 HD

    A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.

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  • 1949
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    Conspirator

    Conspirator

    5.652 1949 HD

    A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

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  • 1959
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    The Devil's Disciple

    The Devil's Disciple

    6.639 1959 HD

    In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.

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  • 1951
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    The Galloping Major

    The Galloping Major

    6 1951 HD

    A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.

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  • 1955
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    As Long as They're Happy

    As Long as They're Happy

    7.7 1955 HD

    The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.

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  • 1964
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    The Beauty Jungle

    The Beauty Jungle

    4.688 1964 HD

    A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

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  • 2008
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    How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

    How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

    6 2008 HD

    Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.

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  • 1958
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    Happy Is the Bride

    Happy Is the Bride

    6.2 1958 HD

    In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.

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  • 1957
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    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    1 1957 HD

    The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

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  • 1950
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    No Place for Jennifer

    No Place for Jennifer

    5.1 1950 HD

    A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.

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  • 1963
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    Siege of the Saxons

    Siege of the Saxons

    4.8 1963 HD

    King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.

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  • 1956
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    Now and Forever

    Now and Forever

    7 1956 HD

    A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.

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  • 1959
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    The Lady is a Square

    The Lady is a Square

    5.8 1959 HD

    Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young Janette Scott.

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  • 1962
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    Two and Two Make Six

    Two and Two Make Six

    6 1962 HD

    An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.

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  • 1953
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    Background

    Background

    6 1953 HD

    Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.

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  • 1967
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    Bikini Paradise

    Bikini Paradise

    6 1967 HD

    A pair of U.S. Navy officers are marooned on a South Pacific island with a group of women whom want to use them for marriage and mating purposes.

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  • 1952
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    The Magic Box

    The Magic Box

    6.4 1952 HD

    Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

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  • 1961
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    His and Hers

    His and Hers

    4.9 1961 HD

    Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charles Lunton; it matters little that most of his experiences are wildly embellished or even entirely fictitious...

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  • 1943
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    The Lamp Still Burns

    The Lamp Still Burns

    5.4 1943 HD

    A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.

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  • 2020
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    Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy

    Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy

    8 2020 HD

    The comedy pioneer behind the Goon Show, Dr Strangelove and the Pink Panther series is explored in depth in this film, surveying his meteoric rise to fame and troubled personal life.

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  • 1975
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    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    7.444 1975 HD

    After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr. Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.

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  • 1963
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    Burke's Law

    Burke's Law

    6 1963 HD

    Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

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  • 1986
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    Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

    Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

    1 1986 HD

    A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.

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  • 1989
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    Elstree: Britain's Hollywood

    Elstree: Britain's Hollywood

    1 1989 HD

    Two-part documentary celebrating the 75th anniversary of what was once the biggest film production centre outside Hollywood: Elstree.

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  • 1994
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    The World of Hammer

    The World of Hammer

    6.5 1994 HD

    The World of Hammer is a thirteen-part British documentary series created and written by Robert and Ashley Sidaway for Channel 4. Initially broadcast from 12 August to 4 November 1994, the series is narrated by English actor and frequent Hammer collaborator Oliver Reed.

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