Catherine (Kit) Agutter: mother of actress Jenny Agutter
Michael Rhodes
2005, aged 76, from rheumatoid arthritis, was mother of the actress
Jenny Agutter, whose films include "Walkabout" (1968); "The Railway
Children" (1969); "The Eagle Has Landed" (1977); "Equus" (1977); "An
American Werewolf in London" (1981), &c.
Mrs Agutter was wife of Derek, she also leaves a son, Jonathan
Her funeral will be held 21 October, 2005, at St Ruan Church, Ruan
Minor, Cornwall.
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Haven't seen her in anything I can recall since then.
Michael Rhodes
deb...@comcast.net wrote:
> I thought Jenny Agutter was very good in "An American Werewolf".
> Haven't seen her in anything I can recall since then.
Some more recent films: "Freddie as Fro7" (1992); "Blue Juice" (1995).
On the telly she was in the lavish "The Buccaneers" in 1995.
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Sarns
"Michael Rhodes" <migx73all...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Catherine (Kit)Agutter, who died in hospital in Cornwall, 10 October,
> 2005, aged 76, from rheumatoid arthritis, was mother of the actress
> Jenny Agutter, whose films include "Walkabout" (1968); "The Railway
[snip]
I had to watch 'Walkabout' a couple of years back when doing my degree
(anthropology paper).... for a 1968 movie it's great... i rather recommend
it...
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deb...@comcast.net
(anthropology paper).... for a 1968 movie it's great... i rather
recommend
it...
I saw it in film class around 1980...good film.
Brad Ferguson
<deb...@comcast.net> wrote:
"Walkabout" was a mainstay of HBO back when there was only one feed, it
went from 5 p.m. to midnight or 2 a.m., and there were only 250,000 or
so of us subscribing.
The other film they had was "Dillinger."
King Daevid MacKenzie
>>Catherine (Kit)Agutter, who died in hospital in Cornwall, 10 October,
>>2005, aged 76, from rheumatoid arthritis, was mother of the actress
>>Jenny Agutter, whose films include "Walkabout" (1968); "The Railway
>
>
> [snip]
>
> I had to watch 'Walkabout' a couple of years back when doing my degree
> (anthropology paper).... for a 1968 movie it's great... i rather recommend
> it...
...by sheer coincidence, in my wading through unlabelled videocassettes
this weekend, I just came across my 1998 recording of when Independent
Film Channel cablecast the Criterion Collection version of WALKABOUT
with Agutter and Nicolas Roeg's audio commentary track...fascinating
stuff...
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King Daevid MacKenzie
> "Walkabout" was a mainstay of HBO back when there was only one feed, it
> went from 5 p.m. to midnight or 2 a.m., and there were only 250,000 or
> so of us subscribing.
>
> The other film they had was "Dillinger."
...do I assume correctly that this was before they ran the piss out of
ENDLESS LOVE circa '82?...
...and they weren't the only ones guilty of such practices; every
independent TV station in the United States and Canada ran NIGHT OF THE
LIVING DEAD at least once every month for a three-year stretch in the
early '80s...
Brad Ferguson
<echoes...@charter.net> wrote:
> Brad Ferguson sez:
>
> > "Walkabout" was a mainstay of HBO back when there was only one feed, it
> > went from 5 p.m. to midnight or 2 a.m., and there were only 250,000 or
> > so of us subscribing.
> >
> > The other film they had was "Dillinger."
>
> ...do I assume correctly that this was before they ran the piss out of
> ENDLESS LOVE circa '82?...
Sure was. This was in 1973 or so. A little after that, they ran the
piss out of "At Long Last Love" and "Death Wish." The first serious
thing HBO ever did was to score "Gone with the Wind" in 1975, a year
before NBC broadcast it for the first time.
They had E.G. Marshall introduce most of the movies back then, and of
course most of them were pieces of shit. E.G. always did his best,
though. I still remember Marshall introducing the lady-gladiator film
"The Arena" -- a Pam Grier boobyfest made in Italy -- by pointing out
that the ladies had practiced long and hard with the swords and nets
and so forth, all for the sake of authenticity. I hope E.G.'s check
cleared.
> ...and they weren't the only ones guilty of such practices; every
> independent TV station in the United States and Canada ran NIGHT OF THE
> LIVING DEAD at least once every month for a three-year stretch in the
> early '80s...
I remember when the Reader's Digest ran an article urging that the film
be banned because it was "dangerous to young minds," a phrase you used
to hear all the time, but not anymore.
I thought the Digest article "I Am Joe's Man Gland" was dangerous to
young minds. You don't often come across a talking testicle.
King Daevid MacKenzie
>>...and they weren't the only ones guilty of such practices; every
>>independent TV station in the United States and Canada ran NIGHT OF THE
>>LIVING DEAD at least once every month for a three-year stretch in the
>>early '80s...
>
>
> I remember when the Reader's Digest ran an article urging that the film
> be banned because it was "dangerous to young minds," a phrase you used
> to hear all the time, but not anymore.
...that wasn't the Roger Ebert piece on NOTLD, was it?...
> I thought the Digest article "I Am Joe's Man Gland" was dangerous to
> young minds. You don't often come across a talking testicle.
...although there are folks who will claim conversing with Bob Hoskins
is a similar experience...
Brad Ferguson
<echoes...@charter.net> wrote:
> Brad Ferguson quotes me 'n sez:
>
> >>...and they weren't the only ones guilty of such practices; every
> >>independent TV station in the United States and Canada ran NIGHT OF THE
> >>LIVING DEAD at least once every month for a three-year stretch in the
> >>early '80s...
> >
> >
> > I remember when the Reader's Digest ran an article urging that the film
> > be banned because it was "dangerous to young minds," a phrase you used
> > to hear all the time, but not anymore.
>
> ...that wasn't the Roger Ebert piece on NOTLD, was it?...
I remember the article pretty well, but not who wrote it. I'm appalled
that it might have been Ebert.
King Daevid MacKenzie
>>>>...and they weren't the only ones guilty of such practices; every
>>>>independent TV station in the United States and Canada ran NIGHT OF THE
>>>>LIVING DEAD at least once every month for a three-year stretch in the
>>>>early '80s...
>>>
>>>
>>>I remember when the Reader's Digest ran an article urging that the film
>>>be banned because it was "dangerous to young minds," a phrase you used
>>>to hear all the time, but not anymore.
>>
>>...that wasn't the Roger Ebert piece on NOTLD, was it?...
>
>
> I remember the article pretty well, but not who wrote it. I'm appalled
> that it might have been Ebert.
...Ebert, at the very least, wrote a scathing piece in the Chicago
Sun-Times back in '69 about parents who dropped their kids off at the
theater for a weekend afternoon that happened to be screening NIGHT OF
THE LIVING DEAD. As it turned out, the kids had no idea what they were
about to be hit with, and many that Ebert saw that day were clearly
traumatised by the depiction of zombies eating what a few minutes before
had been Judith Ridley's hand and Keith Wayne's thigh. Danny Peary later
cited the article in his essay about NOTLD in his book CULT MOVIES. I
suspect the Readers Digest item was either a reprint of the Sun-Times
item or a companion follow-up item by a different author...
...and, of course, it's also worth noting that both CALIGULA and I SPIT
ON YOUR GRAVE had their biggest box office weeks as a direct result of
Ebert and Gene Siskel lambasting them on "Sneak Previews" -- most of the
patrons wanted to know if there could truly be a movie as bad as they
made it out to be (in both cases, they were)...
Sarns
"King Daevid MacKenzie" <echoes...@charter.net> wrote in message
news:WTn4f.14200$1X5....@fe05.lga...
> Sarns quotes Michael Rhodes 'n sez:
>
> >>Catherine (Kit)Agutter, who died in hospital in Cornwall, 10 October,
> >>2005, aged 76, from rheumatoid arthritis, was mother of the actress
> >>Jenny Agutter, whose films include "Walkabout" (1968); "The Railway
> >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > I had to watch 'Walkabout' a couple of years back when doing my degree
> > (anthropology paper).... for a 1968 movie it's great... i rather
recommend
> > it...
>
> ...by sheer coincidence, in my wading through unlabelled videocassettes
> this weekend, I just came across my 1998 recording of when Independent
> Film Channel cablecast the Criterion Collection version of WALKABOUT
> with Agutter and Nicolas Roeg's audio commentary track...fascinating
> stuff...
Well how creepy is that! ;-)