Introducing Credits

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?