Highest rated movie: Reach for the Sky (1956)
Lowest rated movie: Run For Your Wife (2012)
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Looking for reviews of Jess Conrad movies? Cinafilm has a total of 224 reviews across 9 movies.
Movies starring Jess Conrad have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 53%.
Reach for the Sky - released in 1956 - is Jess Conrad's highest rated movie, with a score of 76% based on 35 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jess Conrad is Run For Your Wife - released in 2012 - with a score of 32% based on 16 reviews.
Jess Conrad (born Gerald Arthur James, 24 February 1936, Brixton, London) is an actor and singer from England. He was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s with a number of hits to his credit, "Cherry Pie", "This Pullover", "Mystery Girl" and "Pretty Jenny". He has recorded for Decca, Columbia, Pye President and EMI record labels. During the late 1950s and in to the mid 1960s Conrad appeared in a number of cult films, namely Serious Charge (uncredited), The Boys, Rag Doll, (filmed in 1960, and released in 1961); Kill 1 and Konga. He also featured in a cameo role in the Sex Pistols film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. Odeon recently re-issued one of his 1970s films on to DVD - Cool It Carol!. He appeared in the 1984 TV series of Miss Marple in the episode entitled The Body in the Library as Raymond Starr. He also starred in the 1990s film, The Punk And The Princess.
A Freemason, he is a member of Chelsea Lodge No. 3098, the membership of which is made up of entertainers. Conrad has been married to wife Renee for over forty years.
In recent years, Conrad has appeared in a number of documentaries and television programmes, often offering entertaining stories of violent encounters with other famous people. In a BBC Arena documentary about the legendary record producer Joe Meek, Conrad boasts of biting off part of the nose of singer Heinz during a confrontation backstage at a package show in the early 1960s.Similarly, in Sex, Secrets & Frankie Howerd, he tells of threatening to cut off comedian Frankie Howerd's ears, when Howerd made untoward advances to Conrad in a dressing room.
Jess Conrad has acted in films with Steven Berkoff, Michael Gough, Clive Revill and Robin Askwith.
Jess Conrad has worked with these film directors: Terence Young, Nick Moran, Basil Dearden and Julien Temple.
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