Sue Longhurst

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[edit] Sue Longhurst

An English actress, best known for appearing in the British "saucy" films of the 1970s.

Little is known of Sue's early years. Having trained at the Royal Academy of Music, Sue was initially a music teacher, but egged on by her model sister, she was soon posing for magazines, record sleeves, book covers & TV commercials, as well as spending 18 months advertising John Player's cigarettes.

She made her acting debut, aged 27 in 1971 in Hammer's "Lust For A Vampire", playing a schollgirl at a boarding school. Sue was also "seen" in the 1971 film "Straw Dogs", as an uncreditted body double for Susan George.

Her second movie role came in the 1973 production "The Secrets of A Door-To-Door Salesman". Later in 1973, she co-starred with Mark Jones in "Keep It Up Jack".

Sue's first film of 1974 was "The Over-Amorous Artist". She was next seen on our TV screens in 1974 as hostess of the Golden Shot, replacing "dizzy" Anne Aston. her next movie of 1974 was "Can You Keep It Up For A Week?" in which she played consultant psychiatrist Mrs Bristol. Her third film of 1974 was her smallest role, as Jacqi Brown, who captures Timmy Lea's (Robin Asquith) virginity in "Confessions of a Window Cleaner" (Britain's highest grossing movie of 1974). On his exit from the house, Timmy stands proudly on the doorstep to the sound of a chorus of "Hallelujah" and gives himself a tick in his notepad!

Her first film of 1975 was "Girls Come First", which also included a then unknown "Hazel O'Connor". Her second film of 1975 was probably her best known movie: "What The Swedish Butler Saw", also known as Champagnegalopp or "A Man with a Maid" or "The Groove Room". The basic plot of the movie is that young Jack Armstrong is desperate to win the love of his beloved, if money-worshipping, Lady Alice Faversham, played by Sue Longhurst. All his attempts fail, despite the advice of local brothel owner Madame Helena (Diana Dors). However when Alice's rich, but very old fiancee, Sir Cecil Spentwicke, dies from a heart attack, just as Jack inherits his late uncle's estate, he again starts courting Lady Alice. In the meantime, Jack has bought a former madhouse and converted it into a "love nest" -- and entices the lovely Lady Alice back to his "lair", where the seduction begins! It was filmed in Denmark.

1976 saw Sue in just the one film, as Lady Cockshute in: "Keep It Up Downstairs".

Her penultimate film was the 1977 movie "Come Play With Me". She had a minor role as Christina, the girl friend of a gangster (played by Ronald Fraser), whose gang is behind an influx of forged notes into the British economy.

Her final film was the 1979 release "Can I Come Too?". Sue retired from acting in 1981.