Jill St. John

Jill St. John

Birth : 1940-08-19, Los Angeles, California, USA

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jill St. John (born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim; August 19, 1940) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Tiffany Case, first American Bond girl of the 007 franchise, in Diamonds Are Forever. Her other films include The Lost World, Tender Is the Night, Come Blow Your Horn, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, Who's Minding the Store?, The Oscar, Tony Rome, Sitting Target and The Concrete Jungle. On television, St. John has appeared in such top rated shows as Batman, The Big Valley, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Hart to Hart, Vega$, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Magnum, P.I. and Seinfeld. During her Hollywood heyday she was almost equally famous for her high-profile social life and frequent romantic associations with prominent public figures. St. John is married to actor Robert Wagner and has known him since she was 18 years old. They share credits on nearly a dozen screen and stage productions, notably the miniseries remake of Around the World in 80 Days.

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Jill St. John
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Jill St. John
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Movies

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
Self
Explore the personal and professional triumphs and challenges of actor Natalie Wood, which have often been overshadowed by her premature death.
Robert Osborne's 20th Anniversary Tribute
Self
Friends and family surprise Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne at the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival with a tribute to his twenty years with the network.
Northpole
Mrs. Claus
Northpole, the magical city where Santa and his elves live and work is in trouble. Families around the globe have gotten too busy to enjoy the season together, and Northpole depends on their holiday happiness to keep running. In the hopes of turning things around, a determined young elf befriends a little boy with a lot of spirit. His skeptical journalist mom doesn’t have room in her heart for anything but the facts, so it’s going to take a little nudge from his charming teacher to create an unbeatable Christmas team to turn around this town and share the importance of the season with the whole world.
Mrs. Stone: Looking for the Light in All the Dark Corners
Self
The making of the film with Donald Spoto.
The Calling
Elegant Lady
The Calling follows the controversial life of evangelist Leroy Jenkins.
Bond Girls Are Forever
Herself
Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ursula Andress and Diamonds Are Forever's Jill St. John), the documentary traced the evolution of the typical James Bond heroine from decorative damsel in distress to gutsy (but still decorative) participant in the action.
The Trip
Mary Oakley
When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themselves on the opposite sides of the political coin...
Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
Tiffany Case (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn who playing Q in 17 James Bond films. This trailer with archief footage was created as tribute for SE dvd of The World Is Not Enough. His final movie before he died on 19 December 1999.
The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond
Documentary looking at the special effects from the bond movies and the men who created them. Narrated by Marie Clairu.
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever"
Something to Believe In
Dr. Joanne Anderson
Reports of a weeping Madonna in Italy reach Las Vegas, where blackjack dealer Maggie has just learnt she has only weeks to live. With a massive leap of faith she convinces herself that seeing the Madonna with her own eyes could lead to her salvation, and travels to Europe to find it. Hitching through Italy, she meets pianist Mike, who is also en route to what he believes could be a life-changing event - a performance at the Barbarina concert in Naples.
Out There
Bunny Wells
A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. After he purchases an old camera at a yard sale, he discovers some undeveloped film in it, including photos of an apparent alien abduction. When he goes public with the photos, he garners the attention of his former boss, the government and a woman who thinks her father was the abductee.
The Player
Jill St. John
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
The Act
Elise
Comedy directed by Sig Shore.
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Self
A look back at the first 21 years of Britain's most successful film series.
The Concrete Jungle
Warden Fletcher
An unfortunate and naive girl is set-up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survive.
Rooster
Joanna Van Eegan
A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arson case.
Hart to Hart
Sylvia Maxwell
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. There was no warning of him being troubled so the Harts go undercover to find out what happened at the farm.
Telethon
Fran Sullivan
The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.
Brenda Starr
Brenda Starr
A newspaper reporter trying to track down a hermit-like billionaire goes to the Brazilian jungle, where she finds herself in the middle of an extortion plot, voodoo and supernatural occurrences.
Saga of Sonora
Molly
A musical TV special with Vince Edwards as a hero who must stop gold-greedy villains, Jill St. John and Zero Mostel, and prove his love to his girl, Lesley Ann Warren.
Old Faithful
Miss Roberts
A forest ranger is asked by his boss to attract a record-breaking crowd to Yellowstone National Park. Various celebrities are enlisted to help.
Sitting Target
Pat Lomart
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Jill St. John
A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Diamonds Are Forever
Tiffany Case
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
Decisions! Decisions!
Andrea Winters
A precedent-setting comedy-drama special in which a salesman (Bob Newhart) and a sexologist (Jill St. John) have misadventures with plot development determined by the votes of the studio audience.
Foreign Exchange
Mary Harper
A former British Secret Service agent is persuaded to negotiate a spy exchange with Russia, only to find himself drawn into political intrigues.
The Spy Killer
Mary Harper
Spy Killer stars Robert Horton as a secret agent turned private eye. Framed for murder, Horton is released, but only after promising that he'll track down a book containing a list of government agents who are operating covertly in Red China. The reluctant spy discovers that he can't completely trust anyone in this endeavor--not even his former chief
Banning
Angela Barr
A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.
Tony Rome
Ann Archer
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.
The King's Pirate
Mistress Jessica Stephens
Handsome British officer, Lt. Brian Fleming is sent undercover to infiltrate a lively band of pirates.
Eight on the Lam
Monica
Bank teller and widower with seven kids, Bob Hope finds $10,000 in a parking lot.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Nikki Pine
A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Leona Purdy
A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.
The Oscar
Laurel Scott
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
The Liquidator
Iris MacIntosh
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to complications.
Honeymoon Hotel
Sherry Nugent
A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
Toby Tobler
TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own fragile relationship.
Who's Minding the Store?
Barbara Tuttle
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?
Come Blow Your Horn
Peggy John
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
Tender Is the Night
Rosemary Hoyt
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Barbara Bingham
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paola to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.
The Lost World
Jennifer Holmes
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
Holiday for Lovers
Meg Dean
Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
Kate Pennypacker
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed.
Summer Love
Erica Landis
A neighborhood rock band gets a job playing at a summer camp.
The Christmas Carol
Missie Cratchit
A Christmas Carol was a 1949 syndicated, black and white television special narrated by Vincent Price.