Joan Collins

Joan Collins
Date of Birth: 23 May 1933
Country: UK
Biography: Joan Henrietta Collins, OBE is a British actress, author, and columnist. Born in Paddington and raised in Maida Vale, Collins grew up during the Second World War. At the age of nine, she made her stage debut in A Doll's House and after attending school, she was classically trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. After eighteen months at the drama school, she was signed to an exclusive contract by the Rank Organisation...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 79 (Actor)
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The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
The Flintstones are at it again. The Flintstones and the Rubbles head for Rock Vegas with Fred hoping to court the lovely Wilma. Nothing will stand in the way of love, except for the conniving Chip Rockefeller (played by Thomas Gibson) who is the playboy born in Baysville but who has made it in the cutthroat town of Rock Vegas. Will Fred win Wilma's love? A tried and tested cast delivers a family entertainment script. (imdb)
Empire of the Ants
Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades... (imdb)
Tales from the Crypt
Five people get lost in a crypt and meet up with a strange crypt keeper who tells them stories of how they died (imdb)
In the Bleak Midwinter
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet... (imdb)
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is the true story of Evelyn Nesbit Shaw, a beautiful showgirl caught in a love triangle with elderly architect Stanford White and eccentric young millionaire Harry K. Thaw.
The Big Sleep
Set in England, rather than California, the story follows Raymond Chandler's book fairly closely otherwise. Philip Marlowe is asked by the elderly (and near death) General Sternwood to investigate an attempt at blackmail on one of his daughters. He soon finds that the attempt is half hearted at best and seems to be more connected with the disappearance of the other daughter's husband, Rusty Regan... (imdb)
The Virgin Queen
Sir Walter Raleigh gains audience with Queen Elizabeth I and soon wins her over to his way of thinking. He wants ships to sail and make a name for England. A young ward of the court, Beth Throgmorton, is strongly attracted to Raleigh and returns the attraction. But soon the Queen shows her desires and he bends in order to achieve his goal of ships. But still he loves Beth. (imdb)
Seven Thieves
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo. (imdb)
The Bravados
Jim Douglas has been relentlessly pursuing the four outlaws who murdered his wife, but finds them in jail about to be hanged. While he waits to witness their execution, they escape; and the townspeople enlist Douglas' aid to recapture them. (imdb)
Land of the Pharaohs
In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khu-fu is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life." To this end he enlists the aid of Vashtar, an architect whose people are enslaved in Egypt. The deal: build a robbery-proof tomb and the enslaved people will be freed... (imdb)
The Stud
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, the hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her nymphomaniac demands. Tony loses interest in Fontaine, and turns his attention to her young step daughter, who uses him to get back at Fontaine for cheating on her father. (imdb)
The Road to Hong Kong
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby return as Con-men Chester Babcock and Harry Turner, in the last of their road movies. When Chester accidentally memorizes and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, they are thrust into international intrigue, trying to stay alive, and keep the formula out of enemy hands. (imdb)
Ellis in Glamourland
Linda de Mol, TV-host and actress is a single mother with always financial problems. During her work at the hotel as a cleaning lady, she meets Susan. Susan wrote the bestseller how to marry a millionaire and gives courses to ladies in their attempt to find a rich and wealthy man. Susan offers Ellis the course for free... (IMDB Comments)
The Bitch
The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place. (imdb)
Sea Wife
In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of survival. Told in a too-long flashback frame. (imdb)
Alfie Darling
Alfie returns, up to his old womanizing ways, until he meets his match in a sophisticated magazine editor Abby. His pursuit is complicated by his encounter with Norma and the fact that a jealous husband won't let him forget about his time with his wife Fay. (imdb)
Island in the Sun
Set on a fictitious island in the Carribean during colonial British rule. It focuses on the life of a young charismatic and handsome black male with political aspirations. He finds himself confused on returning home when his romantic liaison with a white female tends to conflict with his political views. The plot is further strengthened by a look at the lives of a white ex-pat family also living on the island. The family has to deal with problems of infidelity, racism and murder. (imdb)
The Devil Within Her
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Cue a spate of strange deaths, the one common factor being the presence of a baby in pram at the scene... (imdb)
Esther and the King
The setting is Persia in the 4th century BC, as Esther comes to the attention of the recently widowed King Ahasuerus. The king has been trying to stifle and defeat the campaign of hatred fomented against the Jews by his evil minister Haman (Sergio Fantoni). Before the King can pair off with Esther and defeat the villainous Haman, there are several intervening adventures and an additional, attractive woman who competes for attention. (All Movie Guide)
Monte Carlo
This is a spy story set around Monaco at the time that France fell during the second world war. (imdb)
Valentino: The Last Emperor
A look at the life of legendary fashion designer Valentino
Fear in the Night
A young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown moves with her husband to a boys' school, but finds herself being terrorized by a mysterious one-armed man - and nobody believes her. (imdb)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
In this filmed adaption of the long-running musical, we see the story of Joseph, son of Jacob. The favoured son, he is betrayed by his jealous brothers and sold into slavery and driven to Egypt. Though beset with adversity, Joseph perseveres through wit and faith and becomes the governor of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh. This all the sets the scene for when he meets his brothers who have come to Egypt to purchase food. (imdb)
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Hosted by Robert Culp, this two-hour program combines film clips, behind the scenes footage, and recent interviews to create a look at the troubled 1958-1963 production. The interviews include a few surviving (at the time) actors such as Hume Cronyn and Martin Landau, plus 1995 bits from Roddy McDowall. (imdb)
The Opposite Sex
Kay Hilliard, a former nightclub singer, married ten years and mother of a young daughter, is informed that her husband Steve is having an affair with chorus girl Crystal, so she goes to Reno for a divorce. After that, Steve marries Crystal, but Crystal isn't true. When Kay hears about this, she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back. (imdb)
Rally \
All about the citizens of Putnam's landing and their reactions to an army missile base in their back yard. (imdb)
Stopover Tokyo
An American intelligence agent is sent to Tokyo to track down a Communist spy ring. (imdb)
The Good Die Young
Three good men - a broken boxer, an American veteran trying to win back his mother-dominated wife, and an air force sergeant married to a faithless actress - are corrupted by Miles Ravenscourt, an amoral "gentleman." Because they need money, they let Miles lure them into his scheme to rob a postal van with a large cash cargo. (imdb)
Quest for Love
A puerile sci-fi romance in which a scientist is transported into a parallel world. The year is the same, but in his new world, Vietnam hasn't happened, nor the conquest of Everest, nor the surgery of heart transplants. Making little of this premise, the film plunges forthwith into a moony romance where his lady of the camellias dies of a heart condition, and he races off in search of her counterpart in the other world to save her from a similar fate. (timeout.com)
Warning Shot
A police sergeant kills a man who pulls a gun on him during a stakeout. The man's gun disappears, and the sergeant is charged with manslaughter. The sergeant works to clear his name and determine where the gun went and why the man was there at all. (imdb)
Dark Places
A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in is haunted. (imdb)
The Executioner
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent. (imdb)
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth and moral decay. (imdb)
Tales That Witness Madness
A psychiatrist in a high tech modern mental asylum, Dr. Tremayne (Donald Pleasence), discusses a bold new psychiatric theory with colleague Dr. Nicholas (Jack Hawkins). Tremayne uses four patients who went insane - Paul, Timothy, Brian and Auriol - to illustrate the theory, presenting each in turn to Nicholas. (wikipedia.org)
The Wayward Bus
Most of the story takes place on the charter bus owned by driver Rick Jason. Traveling slowly through a treacherous California mountain region, the passengers -- including Jason's spiteful, alcoholic wife Joan Collins-- undergo a variety of life-altering experiences. The journey has its most profound effects upon an iconoclastic traveling salesman (Dan Dailey) and lonely stripper (Jayne Mansfield). (allmovie.com)
Our Girl Friday
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and bald and bookish Professor Gibble. All fancy their chances. (imdb)
Magnum Cop
Merli is a low-rent private investigator and former cop who is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that lead him into a strange web of corruption and decadence. (imdb comments)
Sunburn
Jake, an insurance investigator, is assigned to probe the killing of a wealthy businessman in Acapulco. To help him, he hires a beautiful New York model, Ellie, to act as his wife, and they pretend to be tourists on vacation. Art Carney plays Marcus, a local detective who befriends Jake but gets him into various scrapes. Joan Collins also appears as the suspicious Nera. (allmovie.com)
Bikini Baby
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge. (imdb)
The Great Adventure
A young boy and his dog fight a continual battle for survival as they travel through the rugged Yukon territory during the days of the Great Gold Rush. (Yahoo ! Movies)
Decameron Nights
The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa, Pampinea and three villa girls are hiding following the rape of their home city, Florance, Italy, by the Duke of Lorenzo. (imdb)
Up in the Cellar
A student poet seduces his college president's wife, daughter, and girlfriend over lost financial aid. (imdb)
Annie: A Royal Adventure!
nnie is back! Along with her friends Molly, Hannah, her dog Sandy, and her wealthy father Oliver Warbucks. They take a trip to England where Oliver Warbucks is going to be Knighted by the King. Annie and the gang stumbles onto a wicked scheme led by an evil noblewoman who plans to blow up Buckingham Palace so she can become Queen and claim the throne for herself! And now it is up to Annie and her friends to stop her! (imdb)
Homework
A good-looking but virginal "rockstar" teen tries to score with some of the local high school girls. But a classmate's mom decides to make a man out of him. (imdb)
Game for Vultures
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man. (imdb)
Marple - Season 4
Turn the Key Softly
After three women are released from prison, we follow them for their first day of freedom. (imdb)
These Old Broads
After a re-release of their 60's film hit "Boy Crazy" becomes a smash, three actresses (Piper Grayson, Kate Westburn and Addie Holden) reunite for a reunion show, with help from Kate Westburn's son and their manager, Beryl Mason. The problem? The three actresses and their manager all loathe each other.
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
This is not the same kind of film as the 1962 production, Tom Jones. In fact, it is a "nudie musical", as evidenced by the presence of singing star Georgia Brown in the dual role of Jenny Jones and Mrs. Waters. The project originated as a Las Vegas stage presentation, with Nicky Henson in the lead. The plot of the Henry Fielding novel about the "boy born to be hanged" is followed in spirit rather than to the letter, with busty Joan Collins thrown in like a lagniappe as a lady highwayman. (allmovie.com)
The Cartier Affair
Curt Taylor is a convict and owes Phil Drexler the number 1 convict in the prison. Now to settle his debt Drexler sends Curt to be the secretary for Cartier Rand so that he can steal her jewels. But he falls in love with her, which complicates things. (imdb)
Drive Hard, Drive Fast
A race-car driver finds himself in a romantic triangle and a machete-swinging stranger trying to kill him. (imdb)
Dynasty: The Reunion
This movie picks up where the series ended; well not exactly where it ended. Instead of continuing where we were when the series ended, we are now two years later. Blake Carrington has just been released from prison and he is trying to reclaim his empire. And he is also reunited with his beloved Krystle, who until recently was in a coma for sometime. For years he has suspected a foreign consortium of being behind his downfall, and it is true, and these men have brainwashed Krystle to kill him. (imdb)
Hart to Hart: Two Harts in Three-Quarter Time
When the Harts accept a clock left to them by Max, their recently deceased valet, the timepiece becomes the centerpiece of a case involving blackmail and murder. (imdb)
I Believe in You
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of _Blue Lamp, The (1950)_. Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges. (imdb)
Judgment Deferred
A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church. (imdb)
The Moneychangers
The Moneychangers (1976) - TV Mini-Series
This is the story of the happenings at a major bank. The first of which is that the bank's president announces that he is dying and that with no heir to take his place, he informs the bank's officers that he is letting them choose a successor. The two vice presidents who are the front runners for the job are Alex Vandervoort and Roscoe Heyward. Now Alex is not exactly running around looking for support, Roscoe can only see the benefits the presidency can give him. (imdb)
Saving Santa
Saving Santa (2013) - Direct-to-Video
A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using the secret of Santa's Sleigh, a TimeGlobe, to travel back in time to Save Santa - twice. (imdb)
Revenge
A family plots to take its revenge on the man who raped and murdered their daughter. (imdb)
La congiuntura
Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that is accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has some plans for hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection... (imdb)
Dynasty
Dynasty (1981) - TV Series
The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.
The Clandestine Marriage
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family. (imdb)
Cosh Boy
Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother, Welsh, already on probation, drifts into more and more devious and serious offences.
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Orphan girl learns hypnosis and makes irresponsible decisions.
The Time of Their Lives
A former Hollywood star enlists the help of a new friend in order to journey from London to France for her ex-lover's funeral, with the various mishaps en route making the trip unforgettable. (imdb)
The Royals
The Royals (2015) - TV Series
Drama about a fictional British Royal family set in modern day London, who inhabit a world of opulence and regal tradition that caters to any and every desire, but one that also comes with a price tag of duty, destiny and intense public scrutiny. (E!)
Making of a Male Model
A young man is enticed by an agent to join her modeling agency
The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch
During the latter stages of the Civil War, the men in a Southern town leave to fight. Which leaves only the women to take care of the town, which won't be easy since half of the women are the wives of the men who left and the other half are the prostitutes whom the men see on the side. Now the madam has brought her recently graduated niece to town to take care of things.
My Generation
The cultural revolution that occurred in the 1960s England is explored in this documentary.
Zero to Sixty
A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners. (imdb)
American Horror Story - Season 8
Subterfuge
A C.I.A. man goes to London to assist British Intelligence uncover a mole and destroy a foreign spy ring. (imdb)
The Loss Adjuster
A hapless insurance loss adjuster feels his life is spiralling out of control but discovers that even when you reach rock bottom, that some clouds really do have a silver lining.
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 1
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 2
The Square Ring
Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers. (imdb)
The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy
Follows the adventures of Levy as he visits some of the world's most remarkable hotels, as well as explores the people, places, and cultures. (imdb)
Sins
Sins (1986) - TV Mini-Series
Joan Collins, Timothy Dalton and Gene Kelly star in a 1986 miniseries about a woman's rise in the fashion-magazine industry. (imdb)
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A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the women, now. (imdb)
From Roger Moore with Love
An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the life of charismatic actor Roger Moore, who redefined the role of James Bond.