Rita Tushingham

Rita Tushingham

English actress (1942–)

Rita Tushingham 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), Being Julia (2004), and Last Night in Soho (2021).

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 12 films (1961–1972) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 1 other record (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1961 A taste of honey Walter Reade 16 (Publisher) | Woodfall Film Productions: Publisher 1:40:00 16mm B&W
1961 A Taste of Honey Woodfall Film 12:00 B&W
1962 A Taste Of Honey Bryanston Woodfall Productions 100 min 16mm B&W sound
1963 A Place to Go Basil Dearden 86 min B&W
1964 The Girl With Green Eyes. Woodfall Film Productions Ltd. 35mm B&W sound
1964 The Leather Boys Sidney J. Furie 108 min B&W
1965 The Knack …and How to Get It Richard Lester 85 min B&W
1966 The Trap Sidney Hayers 105 min Color
1967 Smashing Time. Selmur Productions Inc. 96 min 35mm Color sound
1968 The Guru. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 112 min 35mm Color sound
1969 The Bed-Sitting Room Richard Lester 90 min Color
1972 Straight on Till Morning Peter Collinson 96 min Color