Something a bit different for this post that may be of
passing interest to some.
Mainly drawn from data compiled for the Rare British Film Reviews
part of the site, here is a rundown of actors who received "Introducing" credits.
Some went on to become household names whereas others were rarely seen
again. Of course many actors make their
first appearances without any fanfare but these are the ones where the
filmmakers chose to celebrate a newcomer with a special credit.
Listed in chronological order.
The more familiar names are highlighted in bold.
"Introducing"
credits
Beat Girl (1960) - Gillian
Hills
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Hylda Baker
The City of the Dead (1960) - Venetia Stevenson
Travelling Light (1960) - Yannick Philouze
A Matter of WHO (1961) - Richard Briers
A Taste of Honey (1961) - Rita Tushingham
During One Night (1961) - Don Borisenko and Susan Hampshire
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) - Edward Judd
A Kind of Loving (1962) - June Ritchie
The Wild and the Willing (1962) - Ian McShane
My Bare Lady (1963) - Nina Huntredos
That Kind of Girl (1963) - Margaret Rose Keil
The Pink Panther (1963) - Fran Jeffries
The Servant (1963) - James
Fox
French Dressing (1964) - Alita Naughton
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) - Jeanne Roland
The Leather Boys (1964) - Colin Campbell
The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964) - Karen Dotrice and
Matthew Garber
Die, Monster, Die! (1965) - Suzan Farmer
Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965) - Julie Samuel
Licensed to Kill (1965) - Tom Adams
Shakespeare Wallah (1965) - Felicity Kendal
The Pleasure Girls (1965) - Rosemary Nicols
Up Jumped a Swagman (1965) - Suzy Kendall
What's New Pussycat (1965) - Woody Allen
Deadlier Than the Male (1966) - Virginia North
Death Is a Woman (1966) - Patsy Ann Noble
Doctor in Clover (1966) - Elizabeth Ercy
Funeral in Berlin (1966) - Eva Renzi
The Psychopath (1966) - Judy
Huxtable
Theatre of Death (1966) - Jenny Till
Africa - Texas Style (1967) - Charles Malinda
Eye of the Devil (1967) - Sharon Tate
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) - Prunella Ransome
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967) - Barry Evans
The Viking Queen (1967) - Carita
The White Bus (1967) - Patricia Healey
To Sir, with Love (1967) - Lulu
Torture Garden (1967) - Barbara Ewing
Two a Penny (1967) - Ann Holloway
Baby Love (1968) - Linda
Hayden
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) - Virginia Wetherell
Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968) - Robin Phillips
Her Private Hell (1968) - Jeannette Wild
If.... (1968) - Malcolm
McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Robert Swann and Christine Noonan
Inspector Clouseau (1968) - Delia Boccardo
Loving Feeling (1968) - Françoise
Pascal
Witchfinder General (1968) - Hilary Dwyer
Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True
Happiness? (1969) - Connie Kreski
Clegg (1969) aka Harry and the Hookers - Gilbert Wynne
Come Back Peter (1969) aka Some Like It Sexy - Mary and Madeleine Collinson
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969) - Scott Hylands
One Brief Summer (1969) - Felicity Gibson
Some Girls Do (1969) - Sydne
Rome
The Bed Sitting Room (1969) - Marty Feldman
The Best House in London (1969) - Carol Friday and Marie
Rogers
The Body Stealers (1969) - Lorna Wilde
The Desperados (1969) - Benjamin Edney
The Haunted House of Horror (1969) - Mark Wynter
The Valley of Gwangi (1969) - Curtis Arden
Walk a Crooked Path (1969) - Clive Endersby
What's Good for the Goose (1969) - Sally Geeson
A Day at the Beach (1970) - Beatrice Edney (as an adult actress she was known as Beatie Edney)
A Touch of the Other (1970) - Helene Francoise
Every Home Should Have One (1970) - Julie Ege
Groupie Girl (1970) - Esme Johns
No Blade of Grass (1970) - Lynne Frederick, Nigel Rathbone and Christopher Lofthouse
Tam Lin (1970) - Stephanie
Beacham
Crucible of Horror (1970) - Sharon Gurney
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) - Hildegard Neil
Too Late the Hero (1970) - Ken Takakura
Toomorrow (1970) - Benny Thomas, Karl Chambers, Olivia Newton-John and Vic Cooper
Assault (1971) - Lesley-Anne
Down and James Laurenson
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) - Mark Edwards
Bread (1971) - Yocki Rhodes
Flight of the Doves (1971) - Helen Raye
Friends (1971) - Sean Bury and Anicée Alvina
Kidnapped (1971) - Lawrence Douglas and Vivien Heilbron
Lust for a Vampire (1971) - Yutte Stensgaard (receives an
"introducing" credit in the film's theatrical trailer but not in the
actual film's credits. She had appeared
in several films beforehand and this was in fact one of her very last roles
before leaving the acting profession).
Melody (1971) - Tracy Hyde
Not Tonight, Darling! (1971) - Nicki Howorth
Revenge (1971) - Tom Marshall and Zuleika Robson
Secrets (1971) - Tarka Kings
Straw Dogs (1971) - Ken Hutchison
The Go-Between (1971) - Dominic Guard
The Horrors of Burke and Hare (1971) - Françoise Pascal (although
she also received an introducing credit in Loving Feeling from 1968)
The Road Builder (1971) - Nicholas Clay
The Ski Bum (1971) - Lori Shelle
Up the Chastity Belt (1971) - Anne Aston
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) - Chloe Franks (although she had already appeared in smaller
roles in some earlier films by this point)
Au Pair Girls (1972) - Nancie Wait
Demons of the Mind (1972) - Shane Briant
Disciple of Death (1972) - Marguerite Hardiman
Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972) - Valli Kemp
Four Dimensions of Greta (1972) - Leena Skoog
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972) - Michael Petrovitch
Pulp (1972) - Nadia Cassini
Rentadick (1972) - Richard
Beckinsale
The Pied Piper (1972) - Cathryn
Harrison
The Ragman's Daughter (1972) - Simon Rouse and Victoria
Tennant
Tower of Evil (1972) - Gary Hamilton
Vampire Circus (1972) - Serena and Milovan Weber
Virgin Witch (1972) - Ann Michelle and Vicki Michelle (Ann had been
in a film called Psychomania the previous year)
Because of the Cats (1973) - Sebastian Graham Jones
Live and Let Die (1973) - Jane Seymour
Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width (1973) - Bernard Stone
Not Now Darling (1973) - Trudi Van Doorn and Jackie Pallo (Trudi Van Doorn had previously already
appeared in a 1971 sci-fi film called Quest for Love)
Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman (1973) - Sue Longhurst,
Felicity Devonshire, Victoria Burgoyne and Jan Servais
The National Health (1973) - Sheila Scott-Wilkinson and
Neville Aurelius
The Optimists (1973) - Donna Mullane and John Chaffey
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974) - Nancy Blair
Can You Keep It Up for a Week? (1974) - Jill Damas
House of Whipcord (1974) - Penny Irving
Persecution (1974) - Mark Weavers
Vampyres (1974) - Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska
Zappers Blade of Vengeance (1974) - Jason Kemp
Farewell, My Lovely (1975) - Jack O'Halloran
Girls Come First (1975) - Rikki Howard
Legend of the Werewolf (1975) - David Rintoul
Mandingo (1975) - Ken Norton
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) - Andrew Dove and Max
Harris
Overlord (1975) - Nicholas
Ball, Julie Neesam and Sam Sewell
Side by Side (1975) - Stephanie De Sykes and Billy Boyle (Billy Boyle had previously had a prominent
role in 1970's Groupie Girl)
The Adolescents (1975) - Koo Stark
The Ghoul (1975) - Don
Henderson
The Lifetaker (1975) - Lea Dregorn
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976) - Janie Greenspun
A Little Night Music (1977) - Lesley Dunlop
Adventures of a Private Eye (1977) - Christopher Neil
Black Joy (1977) - Paul Medford
Cruel Passion (1977) - Lydia Lisle
French Quarter (1977) - Alisha Fontaine (she had previously appeared in 5 other films
starting in 1971)
Joseph Andrews (1977) - Natalie Ogle
Jubilee (1977) - Adam
Ant
Stand Up Virgin Soldiers (1977) - Pamela Stephenson and Fiesta Mei Ling
The Black Panther (1977) - Debbie Farrington
Carry on Emmannuelle (1978) - Suzanne Danielle
Give Us Tomorrow (1978) - Donna Evans and Alan Guy
Killer's Moon (1978) - Georgina Kean and Allison Elliott
Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (1978) - Debbie Ash and Caroline
Argyle
The Boys from Brazil (1978) - Jeremy Black
The Stud (1978) - Emma Jacobs
The Water Babies (1978) - Tommy Pender and Samantha Gates
Warlords of Atlantis (1978) - Lea Brodie (she was previously known as Lea Dregorn
under which name she had previously received an "introducing" credit
for the 1975 film The Lifetaker)
A Touch of the Sun (1979) - Edwin Manda
Arabian Adventure (1979) - Emma Samms
Bloody Kids (1979) - Richard Thomas and Peter Clark (not the famous Richard Thomas from The
Waltons)
That Summer! (1979) - Ray
Winstone, Julie Shipley, Tony London and Emily Moore
The Golden Lady (1979) - Christina World (although under the name Ina Skriver she had
appeared in several prior films)
The Human Factor (1979) - Iman
The Passage (1979) - Paul Clemens and Robert Rhys
The World Is Full of Married Men (1979) - Sherrie Lee Cronn
Sex with the Stars (1980) - Martin Burrows
Sweet William (1980) - Geraldine
James
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980) - Helen of Troy,
Tenpole-Tudor, Alan Jones, Faye Hart
The Long Good Friday (1980) - Derek Thompson
Eye of the Needle (1981) - Philip Martin Brown
Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) - Leonie Mellinger
The Appointment (1981) - Samantha Weysom
Five Days One Summer (1982) - Betsy Brantley and Lambert
Wilson
Nutcracker (1982) - Finola Hughes
The House Where Evil Dwells (1982) - Mako Hattori
Venom (1982) - Lance Holcomb
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) - Ted Wass
G.B.H. (1983) - Brett Sinclair and Jane Cunliffe
Screamtime (1983) - David Van Day
Xtro (1983) - Maryam
d'Abo and Simon Nash
Dutch Girls (1985) - Gusta Gerritsen
Letter to Brezhnev (1985) - Tracey Lea and Angela Clarke
Lifeforce (1985) - Mathilda
May
Dogs in Space (1986) - Michael
Hutchence
Into the Darkness (1986) - Polly Pleasence
Salomé (1986) - Jo Champa
The Fantasist (1986) - Moira Harris
The Girl (1986) - Clare Powney
Day of the Panther (1988) - Paris Jefferson
Sheherazade (1990) - Catherine
Zeta Jones
The Turning (1992) - Gillian
Anderson
Sparrow (1993) - Angela Bettis & Johnathon Schaech
Pervirella (1997) - Emily
Booth (as Emily Bouffante)
The Cat's Meow (2001) - Claudia
Harrison & Claudie Blakley
Rulers and Dealers (2006) - Freema Agyeman
Anyone know of any that I've missed?
