Martine Beswick

Martine Beswick

Birth : 1941-09-26, Port Antonio, Jamaica

History

Martine Beswick (born 26 September 1941) is an English-Jamaican actress and model perhaps best known for her roles in two James Bond films, From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), who went on to appear in several other notable films in the 1960s. From 1980 through 1993 she altered the spelling of her last name as Beswicke. In 2019, she was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Martine Beswick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Martine Beswick
Martine Beswick
Martine Beswick
Martine Beswick

Movies

Saturnalia
The Voice
A cave-girl from outer space wreaks havoc after she is brought to life by a top secret super-weapon that transforms drawings into real people.
Cowgirls vs. Pterodactyls
Narrator
After her husband is taken by a malicious pterodactyl, a schoolteacher enlists the help of a prostitute and a gunslinger to rescue him.
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Self
The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today.
House of the Gorgon
Euryale
A young woman must save herself and her family when her fiancé unleashes an ancient horror.
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Self
Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray Scott, Laurence Fishburne, Terry Gilliam and George Lucas pay tribute to Scotland's greatest movie star as he celebrates his 85th birthday.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Self - Actress
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Hammer Glamour
Self
This documentary features interviews with several leading ladies from Hammer's peak period, who share illuminating and amusing anecdotes about the various films they worked on.
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Self
There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. Focusing on the man behind the landmark effects on films like Clash Of The Titans, One Million Years B.C., Jason And The Argonauts and many more, this in-depth film features interviews with the great man himself, and with an array of animators and directors influenced by his work including Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Terry Gilliam, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. The film also features unseen footage of tests and experiments recently uncovered.
Bond Girls Are Forever
Paula Caplan (archive footage) (uncredited)
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.
Terence Young: Bond Vivant
Documentary on the career of director Terence Young.
Inside 'From Russia with Love'
Herself
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "From Russia with Love".
Magic Island
Lady Face
Jack Carlisle is a disillusioned 13-year old boy. His mother is always away at work since his father left. He decides to run away, as his mom won't miss him. As he is ready to leave, his nanny, convinces him to read this 'magic book'. The book is about a pirate adventure on Magic Island. As Jack reads the book, he is sucked into the world and goes on numerous adventures with Prince Morgan, while fleeing the evil Blackbeard the Pirate. He is even saved by Lily, a beautiful mermaid, whom he falls in love with.
Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".
Santa's Christmas Crash
Santa's sled crash-lands in the desert where some children and a herd of magic camels help get him back in the air.
Night of the Scarecrow
Barbara
A group of drunk teenagers accidently set free the spirit of a warlock, which possesses a scarecrow. The scarecrow goes on a bloody rampage killing the descendents of the men who had killed the warlock a century before. A newcomer and the daughter of the mayor try to stop it before it is too late and the warlock can reincarnate...
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
Thanks
Explore the most legendary horror studio of all time with this fascinating, frightening journey hosted by terror titans Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. England's most successful independent film company, the "fear factory" of Hammer Studios, has a history filled with feuds, censorship battles and streaks of luck both good and bad. Now the legacy of horror returns, featuring interviews with such Hammer legends as Raquel Welch, Veronica Carlson, Caroline Munro, Ingrid Pitt, Jimmy Sangster, Hazel Court, Martine Beswicke, Freddie Francis, Val Guest and Ray Harryhausen. Plus you'll be treated to behind-the-scenes home movies and nonstop shock scenes from over 40 classic films, including Horror of Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, The Devil Rides Out, Curse of the Werewolf and many more! It's the definitive study of one of the greatest names in horror!
Wide Sargasso Sea
Aunt Cora
In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester, an Englishman eerily similar to Mason.
Critters 4
Angela (voice)
Just before bounty hunter Charile triggers his gun to destroy the last two Critter-eggs, he gets a message that it would be illegal to extinguish the race from the galaxy. He's sent a transporter where he puts the eggs - unfortunately the transporter takes him with it and then gets lost in space.
Life on the Edge
Linda James
Earthquakes and aftershocks forces a group of residents stranded at a party to reevaluate their lives, as one grueling situation after another, prompts surprise and comedy.
Invasion of the Scream Queens
Herself
Women who have made a career out of starring in the B horror and science fiction genres are interviewed, and clips and trailers from their films are shown.
Trancers II: The Return of Jack Deth
Nurse Trotter
Once again someone from the future has come back to create an army of Trancers, human zombies who do what they're told without question or pause. Now officer Jack Deth, a cop from the future stranded in the past, must once again go forth to stop them. This sci-fi action sequel chronicles his courageous actions as he struggles to save the future. His difficulties are compounded when his boss sends his first wife back from the future to help Deth who has unfortunately, married a 20th-century girl.
Miami Blues
Noira, Waitress
When Fred gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student Susie. Opposing Fred is Sgt Hoke Moseley, a cop who is getting a bit old for the job.
Miami Blues
Noira
When Fred gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student Susie. Opposing Fred is Sgt Hoke Moseley, a cop who is getting a bit old for the job.
Evil Spirits
Vanya
A dark comedy thriller that manages to skillfully blend humor and mystery into one incredible film from its thrilling beginning to the shocking climax! The superb all-star cast is a unique collection of characters who find themselves with one very special thing in common -- they are all boarders of Mrs. Ella Purdy (Karen Black) and totally dependent upon her gracious nature. The suspense mounts as, one-by-one, they fall sacrifice to ominous secrets enshrined within the walls of her foreboding house! Murder and mayhem prevail throughout the tense but often humorous situations as each victim draws nearer to his or her fate.
From a Whisper to a Scream
Katherine White
The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.
Cyclone
Waters
Rick has developed the ultimate motorcycle, the Cyclone. It is a $5 million bike equipped with rocket launchers and laser guns. Rick meets his fate and it is up to his girlfriend Teri to keep the Cyclone from falling into the wrong hands. Teri can trust no one but herself.
Balboa
Narrator
A battle between a man's determination to bring legal gambling to an island off the California coast and a local councilman's equally strong determination to stop him. The catch is they both love the same woman.
The Horror of It All
Herself
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
Melvin and Howard
Realty Agent
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Xaviera Hollander
Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs.
The Tenth Month
Joan Poole
An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own.
My Husband Is Missing
Francesca Bellini
A young American woman travels to North Vietnam to search for her husband, an American pilot who was shot down during the war. She is joined by a Canadian reporter, who is looking for a human interest story and sees this as his ticket to the big time.
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
Red Haired Lady
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.
Strange New World
Tana
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
Crime Club
Sonia Schroeder
A Washington DC club comprises specialists who band together to combat crime.
Please Stand by for Murder
Linda
The wife of a TV executive thinks she might have committed a murder and is tormented by a stalker while locked inside an empty TV station.
The Kiss of Death
Nara Kotosky
Adaptation of a novel by Carolina Invernizio.
Seizure
Queen of Evil
Jonathan Frid portrays a horror novelist who has a recurring nightmare about three figures out of his book who terrorize him and his family and friends during a weekend of fun. Then the dream becomes reality and it never ends.
The Last Italian Tango
la ragazza
A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives with a young girl who drags him into a sadomasochistic relationship.
Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde
Sister Hyde
In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.
Longstreet
Nikki Bell
The pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. Mike Longstreet, an insurance investigator in New Orleans loses his sight and his wife in an explosion and is determined to track down his wife's killers.
John the Bastard
Dona Antonia
Johnny Donald, a cynical seducer of women, discovers he is actually the son of Don Diego Tenorio, a wealthy Mexican landowner. Accompanied by his trusty servant Morenillo, he travels south in search of vengeance and riches, but manages to deflower and make enemies all along the way until he finally meets his match in the person of a Mormon assassin and a stone statue.
The Penthouse
Harry
Three thugs--Tom, Dick and Harry (a woman)--break into the penthouse apartment of an adulterous couple and proceed to terrorize them, but as it turns out, things aren't exactly what they seem to be.
Slave Girls
Kari
Leader of a tribe of amazon women, Queen Kari, has vanquished a rival tribe and rules them with savage ruthlessness and cruel arrogance. A hunter stumbles onto the enclave and falls for one of the slaves, so unleashing the anger and envy of the possessive, sadistic Queen.
A Bullet for the General
Adelita
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the Mexican government.
The Solarnauts
Kandia
A pilot for an unproduced British science fiction space adventure series.
One Million Years B.C.
Nupondi
As the Earth wrestles with its agonising birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from opposing clans fall in love, existing conventions are shattered forever as each tribe struggles for supremacy and Man embarks on his tortuous voyage of civilisation.
Thunderball
Paula Caplan
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Saturday Night Out
Barmaid
Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.
From Russia with Love
Zora
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.