Petula Clark
Highest Rated: 100% Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Lowest Rated: 50% Promoter (1952)
Birthday: Nov 15, 1932
Birthplace: Ewell, Surrey, England, UK
Singer-actress Petula Clark's soaring, often soulful vocals helped to grant her one of the longest-running and most successful music careers in the history of British pop music, with over 15 Top 40 singles in the United States alone and scores more in her native England and throughout the world. Though Clark's signature song was the plaintive No. 1 single "Downtown" (1965), she had been a fixture on British radio and film since the early 1940s, before enjoying a modest career as a teen singer in the 1950s. A move to France in 1960 established her as a more versatile talent before she broke worldwide with "Downtown" in the midst of the British Invasion. A string of hit singles, including "I Know a Place" and "Don't Sleep in the Subway" soon followed, as did her successful return to feature films with "Finian's Rainbow" (1968) and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1969). In the 1970s, Clark shifted her attention to television and theater, where she drew rave reviews for performances in "The Sound of Music" and the 1993 Broadway run of "Blood Brothers." But her pop career continued to enchant and entertain new generations of listeners, as evidenced by new versions of "Downtown" in 1988 and 2011 that enjoyed placement in the U.K. Top 10. Clark's ebullient personality and winning way with an upbeat song preserved her status as one of England's most beloved pop performers.
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Petula Clark
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petula Clark - At the Turn of the Year | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Tribute to Burt Bacharach & Hal David | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
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Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters | Unknown (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Orphan's Tale | Mme Milligan (Character) | - | 1981 |
100% |
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Katherine Bridges (Character) | - | 1969 |
53% |
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Finian's Rainbow | Sharon McLonergan (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daggers Drawn |
Herself/ |
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 6.5 Special | Self | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | City After Midnight | Janice Lawes (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Track the Man Down | June Dennis (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gay Dog | Sally Gay (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Happiness of Three Women | Unknown (Character) | - | 1954 |
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The Runaway Bus | "Nikki" Nicholls (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wishing Well (The Happiness of Three Women) | Unknown (Character) | - | 1954 |
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The Promoter | Nellie Cotterill (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Made in Heaven | Julie Topham (Character) | - | 1952 |
50% |
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Promoter | Unknown (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Madame Gambles | Miss Penny (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dance Hall | Georgie Wilson (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Romantic Age | Julie Dickson (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Ever Leave Me | Sheila Farlaine (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vote for Huggett | Pet Huggett (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Easy Money | Jackie Stafford (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here Come the Huggetts | Pet Huggett (Character) | - | 1948 |
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Vice Versa | Dulcie Grimstone (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | London Town | Peggy Sanford (Character) | - | 1946 |
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I Know Where I'm Going! | Cheril (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder in Reverse | Jill as a Child (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strawberry Roan | Kate Dibben (Character) | - | 1944 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Carol Burnett Show | Guest | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here's Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Guest | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Danny Kaye Show | Guest | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Toast of the Town | Guest | 1966 |