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Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress.
Welch was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children and the daughter of Josephine Sarah (née Hall) and Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo. Her father, an aeronautical engineer, emigrated from La Paz, Bolivia;...
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Bandolero!
Bandolero! is a 1968 western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen starring James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch and George Kennedy.
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing his brother Dee from the gallows. Dee...
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Bedazzled
Bedazzled is a 1967 film written by and starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, retelling the Faust legend in the Swinging London of the 1960s. It was remade in 2000 under the same name.
Stanley Moon (Moore) is a dissatisfied introverted young man who...
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Fantastic Voyage
Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner. Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it. Because the novelization was released six months...
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One Million Years BC
One Million Years B.C. is a 1966 (released in the United States in 1967) adventure film/fantasy film starring Raquel Welch set - loosely - in the time of cavemen. The film was made by UK's Hammer Film Productions, and was a remake of the 1940...
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The Wild Party
The Wild Party is a 1975 Merchant Ivory Productions film directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, and starring James Coco as Jolly Grimm and Raquel Welch as Queenie.
An aging silent movie comic star (Coco) attempts a comeback by staging...
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Hannie Caulder
Hannie Caulder is a 1971 Western movie starring Racquel Welch and Robert Culp.
The simple plot of this film revolves around Welch, Hannie Caulder, a frontier wife whose husband is murdered by the Clemens Brothers, a trio of rather inept outlaw...
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The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers is a 1973 film based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Directed by Richard Lester and written by George MacDonald Fraser (famous for his Flashman series of historical comic novels). It was originally proposed in the 1960s,...
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The Last of Sheila
The Last of Sheila is a 1973 mystery film directed by Herbert Ross, written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim, and starring Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, James Mason, Ian McShane, Joan Hackett, and Raquel Welch. The original...
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All
The Biggest Bundle of Them All is a 1968 American crime film set in Napoli, Italy. The story is about a mobster and a novice gang of crooks who team up to steal $5 million worth of platinum ingots from a train. The film stars Robert Wagner and...
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100 Rifles
100 Rifles is a 1969 western directed by Tom Gries. The film stars Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, and Fernando Lamas. The original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
Set in 1912 Mexico, an Arizona lawman named Lyedecker (Brown)...
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Myra Breckinridge
Myra Breckinridge is a campy American comedy film released in 1970. Based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Gore Vidal, the film was directed by Michael Sarne, with Raquel Welch in the title role. It also starred John Huston as Buck Loner, Mae...
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Right to Die
Right to Die, directed by Paul Wendkos, was a 1987 made-for-TV film that explored issues relating to the Right to Die movement. Raquel Welch was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1988 for her performance as Emily Bauer, a psychologist diagnosed with...
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The Four Musketeers
The Four Musketeers is the title of a 1974 Richard Lester film, which follows upon his film of the year before, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers. Fifteen years later, the cast and crew returned to...
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Mother, Jugs & Speed
Mother, Jugs & Speed is a 1976 comedy film directed by Peter Yates. It stars Bill Cosby (Mother), Raquel Welch (Jugs) and Harvey Keitel (Speed) as employees of an independent ambulance service trying to survive in Los Angeles. Allen Garfield plays...
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The Magic Christian
The Magic Christian is a 1969 film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with noteworthy appearances by John Cleese, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski. It was loosely adapted from...
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A House Is Not a Home
A House Is Not a Home is a 1964 drama film loosely based on the 1953 autobiography by madam Polly Adler. The film stars Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, and Kaye Ballard.
Academy Award
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Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde is a 2001 American comedy film starring Reese Witherspoon, produced by Marc E. Platt for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and directed by Robert Luketic. It is based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Amanda Brown.
The film tells the...
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Cannery Row
Cannery Row is the title of a 1982 film directed by David S. Ward. Like the unsuccessful 1955 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream, the movie is adapted from John Steinbeck's novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, and contains many of the same...
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Roustabout
Roustabout (1964) is a Paramount Pictures musical feature film starring Elvis Presley as a singer who takes a job working with a struggling carnival. The film was produced by Hal Wallis and directed by John Rich from a screenplay by Anthony Lawrence...
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Tortilla Soup
Tortilla Soup is a 2001 American dramedy film directed by Maria Ripoll. The screenplay by Tom Musca, Ramón Menéndez, and Vera Blasi is based on the film Eat Drink Man Woman, which was written by Hui-Ling Wang, Ang Lee, and James Schamus.
Semi...
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Chairman of the Board
Chairman of the Board is a 1998 movie starring Courtney Thorne-Smith and Carrot Top in which a surfer/inventor (Carrot Top) inherits and runs a billionaire's company. To some critics, it is considered Carrot Top's rendition of Mr. Deeds. It was...
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Torch Song
Judith Krantz's Torch Song is a 1993 Made-for-TV drama film directed by Michael Miller. It stars Raquel Welch, Jack Scalia and Alicia Silverstone.
Paula Eastman (Raquel Welch) is a Hollywood actress with an alcohol problem. Her career is doing...
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Fathom
Fathom is a 1967 adventure film directed by Leslie H. Martinson, starring Anthony Franciosa, Raquel Welch. Fathom Harvill (Raquel Welch) is a dental assistant and an American skydiver touring Europe with a U.S. parachute team. She is approached by a...
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Kansas City Bomber
Kansas City Bomber is a 1972 American drama film directed by Jerrold Freedman and starring Raquel Welch.
The film is an inside look at the world of women's Roller Derby, then a popular league sport.
The songwriter Phil Ochs wrote a song with the...
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Lady In Cement
Lady In Cement is a 1968 detective film, directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, Martin Gabel and Richard Conte. A sequel to the 1967 film Tony Rome, and based on the novel by Marvin H. Albert, Lady In...
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Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand (Italian: Spara forte, più forte, non capisco) is a 1966 Italian crime film directed by Eduardo De Filippo.
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Crossed Swords
Crossed Swords (UK title: The Prince and the Pauper) is a 1977 adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain. It stars Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, and Mark Lester.
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