''Big Zapper'' is a 1973 British
action film
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directed by
Lindsay Shonteff
Lindsay Craig Shonteff (5 November 1935 – 11 March 2006) was a Canadian born film director, film producer and screenwriter who achieved fame for low-budget films produced in the United Kingdom.
Biography
Lindsay Shonteff was born in Toronto, O ...
and starring
Linda Marlowe
Linda Virginia Marlowe (née Bathurst, born 26 July 1940) is an Australian-born British film, theatre, and television actress. She is noted for her association with Steven Berkoff, performing in many of his theatrical works, creating a one-woman ...
,
Gary Hope
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and
Sean Hewitt. It was followed by a sequel ''
The Swordsman''.
[Sheridan p.99]
Cast
*
Linda Marlowe
Linda Virginia Marlowe (née Bathurst, born 26 July 1940) is an Australian-born British film, theatre, and television actress. She is noted for her association with Steven Berkoff, performing in many of his theatrical works, creating a one-woman ...
as Harriet Zapper
*
Gary Hope
Gary may refer to:
*Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
*Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary
Places
;Iran
* Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province
;Uni ...
as Kono
*
Sean Hewitt as Fingers
*
Michael O'Malley as Strawberry Jim
*
Richard Monette
Richard Jean Monette CM, DHum, LLD (June 19, 1944 – September 9, 2008), was a Canadian actor and director, best known for his 14-season tenure as the longest-serving artistic director of the Stratford Festival of Canada from 1994 to 2007.
Ear ...
as Rock Hard
*
Jack May
Jack Wynne May (23 April 1922 – 19 September 1997) was an English actor.
Early life and education
May was born in 1922 in Henley-on-Thames, and was educated at Forest School in Walthamstow. After war service with the Royal Indian Navy in Bri ...
as Jeremiah Horn
*
Penny Irving
Penny Irving is a former actress and a page 3 model in '' The Sun'' “newspaper”.
Career
Irving is best remembered for her roles in the 1970s sitcom ''Are You Being Served?'' (as Miss Bakewell, Young Mr Grace's secretary), appearing between ...
as Maggie
*
Stuart Lock as Septimus / Randy Horn
*
Bobbi Anne as Pandora Horn / Pandy
*
Kristopher Kum
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as Samurai
*
Hock Chuan as Samurai
*
Tony Hiew as Samurai
*
William Ridoutt as Shawn Cobra
*
Graham Ashley
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as Cortini
References
Bibliography
* Denis Gifford. ''
British Film Catalogue, Volume I''. Routledge, 2016.
* Simon Sheridan. ''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema''. Reynolds & Hearn Books, 2007.
External links
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1973 films
British action films
1973 action films
1970s English-language films
Films directed by Lindsay Shonteff
1970s British films
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