Jill Gascoine

Acting

Jill Gascoine

Born 1937-04-11 · Lambeth, London, England, UK

Jill Gascoine (11 April 1937 - 28 April 2020) was an English actress, best known for her role as Maggie Forbes in the ITV television series "The Gentle Touch (1980-1984)" and its spin-off "C.A.T.S. Eyes (1985-1987)". She was married to fellow actor Alfred Molina and was also an author of three novels: "Addicted (1994)", "Lilian (1995)" and "Just Like A Woman (1997)".

Acting credits

BASEketball poster
6.1

Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop and Remer, invent a new game combining basketball with the rules of baseball. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire's help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. When a rival owner wants to institute major rule changes, Coop and Remer's team is the only one standing in the way.

BASEketball

1998

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NR

On the day Mike McGlone gets everything he ever wanted, a bloody twist of events takes it all away. Three years later, he'll have to fight his deepest fears to win it all back.

After Midnight

2007

Confessions of a Pop Performer poster
4.5

Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to get it all the time! Signing up with a pop group, our boisterous hero progresses rapidly from local gigs to scoring a titillating hit with The Climax Sisters, with plenty of ribald adventures along the way!

Confessions of a Pop Performer

1975

The Patron Saint of Liars poster
6.2

Unhappy in her marriage, expectant mother Rose (Dana Delany) flees to a home for unwed mothers in rural Tennessee in this adaptation of Ann Patchett's novel. When she stays on after her baby is born, Rose becomes friends with an elderly nun (Sada Thompson) and begins a relationship with the local handyman, Son (Clancy Brown). Everything seems fine until Rose's first husband tracks her down and she's forced to relive her troubled past.

The Patron Saint of Liars

1998

Upstairs and Downstairs poster
5.8

On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.

Upstairs and Downstairs

1959

Peter Pan poster
6.0

Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, produced for television as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, starring Mia Farrow as Peter Pan and Danny Kaye as Captain Hook, and with Sir John Gielgud narrating. Julie Andrews sang one of the songs, "Once Upon a Bedtime", off-camera over the opening credits. It aired on NBC at 7:30pm on Sunday, December 12, 1976, capping off the program's 25th year on the air. The program did not use the score written for the highly successful Mary Martin version which had previously been televised many times on NBC. Instead, it featured 14 new and now forgotten songs, written for the production by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.

Peter Pan

1976

King of the Wind poster
7.0

In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a gift to the King of France, through a series of adventures with his faithful stable boy, Agba, he becomes the Godolphin Arabian, the founder of one of the greatest thoroughbred racing lines of all time.

King of the Wind

1990

An Audience with Dame Edna Everage poster
3.8

Dame Edna Everage takes questions from a celebrity audience about her life and career.

An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

1980

Trust Me poster
8.5

Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a publisher, things start to go seriously wrong.

Trust Me

1992

Sunshine in Brixton poster
NR

Sixteen-year-old Otis loathes school. He wants to be a professional footballer, but is good at drawing, so his mother wants him to be a draughtsman. Then, a new sports teacher appears at his South London comprehensive school, and life starts to look a little more hopeful...

Sunshine in Brixton

1976

Nudist Memories poster
3.3

Nudist Memories is a 1959 British naturist film. It was inspired by the success of Nudist Paradise and was a success at the box office.

Nudist Memories

1961