Angel Tompkins

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Hi, Rebgtb! Having noticed your rare post directly above (now at bottom of the last page), here's wishing you will consider posting more in the future. (Since I haven't read Tarantino's book, I wonder why that spurred your post; no doubt Quentin had a thing for Angel, but who among us doesn't?)



From You Lie So Deep, My Love; how deep
is your love, for this angel?

Ya know, I just finished a post where the TV series Search came up. The tab for this marvelous page devoted to the forgotten 1970s series was still up, and among its photos was one featuring the star of this thread. "Hmm," I thought, "Why don't I share that rare photo with VEF'ers, and then continue with the post I was really supposed to be working on?" What I forgot was how much appreciation I have for the lady being celebrated, and look at what this post instead turned out to be. (I will save that singular photo that was intended to be my sole contribution until the end.)

A post from October that I cooked up, slightly exploring what was behind the "Devil Is a Woman" song; there were several versions. I think what they all had in common was that the inspiration was Angel Tompkins. (Only, she threw us off with the name of "Angel." How tricky was that of this devil woman, but she could get away with such tomfoolery, because she looks so damned angelic.)

Not only is Ms. Tompkins a jaw-dropper par excellence, she was generous to let us in on her secret stash not once, but a good few times in films and magazines. This is prime nudity, gentlemen.


This photo came from a site that celebrates feet.
They lifted it from Post #17, with more photos
from 1973's Little Cigar, a quirky exercise where
Angel's Snow White teams up with the "Seven
Dwarfs," as they embark on a life of crime. An
IMDb commenter claims that our lady was kind,
and for the next thirty years, "little people would...
thank her for making them feel normal."

An Obama White House archival page states: "The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors." Barack himself added, the prize is awarded to those who "change this country for the better," and who have "helped push America forward, inspiring millions of people around the world along the way."

Among artistic recipients were Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres, Robert De Niro, Diana Ross, and Robert Redford. I'm not saying those people are pantywaists, but how could they compare, in terms of "inspiring millions of people around the world"? Are you telling me Barack Obama never watched 1974's The Teacher, with Dennis the Menace? You know, the one where "Her Best Lessons Were Taught After Class"?



Unlike what the lobby card above stated, Angel did NOT corrupt "The Youthful Morality of an Entire School." Quite the contrary, she gave the students, especially the boys, HOPE. Wasn't that what Obama was supposed to be about, aside from "Change"? What a hypocrite, that Obama!

Originally Posted by debgtb

Angel with Heidi Brühl, Angus Duncan, Judith McConnell, & Jo Anne Meredith

Don't tell me Barack Obama did not watch 1974's How to Seduce a Woman (where Angel was one of four beauties marked to be bedded by hook or crook, discourtesy of the film's supposed lothario; the black and white promotional still from above features the quartet). Could there be greater inspiration than the way Angel was stripped against her will by an aggressive battleaxe of a Swedish masseuse, and capped off by a kinky swat on her butt?






There goes the exciting buttocks smack.






Ms. Tompkins was no slouch in the acting department. In this scene, she wonderfully demonstrated her comedic talents.


From 2015, Member Sidaris' Post #30:

Originally Posted by sidaris

with Johnny Carson

Guess there were perks to being the King of Late Night. Heeeeere's Johnny having more of the time of his life with this dream woman, that lucky sunuva dip switch.



Before continuing, please allow me to offer reflections on past contributions of this thread, which was begun by Member "Argonaut" in 2007 (the year he deluged this forum with nearly seven hundred posts, many in the forms of threads that he started, as with this one, and the year he oddly departed. I guess Argonaut found that golden fleece, and had no more call to stick around. He left this peculiar comment in the first post, relating to Ms. Tompkins: "The girl with 4 pussy's " Huh?)

A tip of the hat to Member "Septimiu29" who (in his Post #11 from 2010) reproduced pages of an edition of the Italian Playboy:

Originally Posted by septimiu29

That first page's photo was provided by Blocked! Member "Nick Danger" in a clearer fashion, in Post #4 (along with other "watery" shots from the same shoot, not shown in the pages above), which is being provided below. (Please note: Member "Fabrizio" filled in the gaps of where these "watery" photos came from, in Post #12, with his version of the photos; the source was named as "PB Italy January 1973." In his post following directly afterwards, Fabrizio reminded us that Angel had posed for U.S. Playboy in 1972. In 2015, Member "Mameylopez" put up similar views in what he sourced as Playboy's "digital edition.")



If you look at this photo, how could your heart not melt? (No wonder the Italian Playboy began with such an irresistible shot.) Here is the imperfect mechanical translation for the first page's text:

THE PERFECT LOVER
THERE ARE ROLES THAT FIT PERFECTLY. AND THAT TOGETHER WITH SOME ADEQUATE PHOTOGRAPHIC SHOTS THEY ARE ABLE TO MAKE A MYTH LIVE FOR DECADES
When in 1970 her film debut with a part in a film entitled I Love My Wife, in which she played the role of a lover who insinuates herself into the life of a happy couple, all the spectators, even the most strenuous defenders of the conjugal faithful, must have thought that such a friend would have been impossible to reject.
Because Angel Tompkins is one of those women who not noticing at first glance would be unthinkable: beautiful, intriguing, a mischievous gaze that seems to hide a perennial invitation to get to know her mystery and her delicate sensuality better...

Yes, the "Perfect Lover" indeed (at least in visual terms). This portion of the article was beautifully written, doing justice to a very special lady. It was this 1970 film that brought "sex symbol" attention to the actress, allowing for her to receive a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Newcomer." (Although she was in the racket for seven years already.) Here are a few more views from I Love My Wife, as she, the seductive blonde who comes between a man and his wife (Brenda Vaccaro), is being undressed by Elliott Gould in a scene from the film. (Axdx, who is coming up in the next paragraph, put up a different version of the first photo in his Post #35.)




Another (forgive me for using this phrase) "shout-out" I'd like to make goes to old-time Member "Axdx" (over four thousand posts, and I don't recall coming across his work before) who performed such a heartfelt job with his Post #17 from 2012, as he explored less-covered Angel territory as with The Starlost (1973) and The Bees (1978), the latter attempting to capitalize on The Swarm (a box office dud); below are views from my end.



Angel is the wife of a scientist who gets killed when trying to cross-breed African bees with Brazilian ones; the insects go on a rampage and head toward the USA. Angel's new love is scientist John Saxon, and together with a German-accented John Carradine (both pictured above), they try to stop this menace to humanity. In the last photos, Angel addresses the United Nations, "You have to listen! You have to listen (sic) what the bees are trying to tell you!"




Axdx followed up with several other posts featuring rare Angel views. (A man of great taste, he obviously has a keen appreciation for this beauty.) Above, I've reworked a shot of his (the aspect ratio was off, for one), from 1974's Police Woman (the first season's "Anatomy of Two Rapes"), where Angel is secretly caught by a photographer while skinny-dipping (see more views in Post #18; Member "Togolane" also put up a composite view in 2018's Post #39). Axdx followed up with views of six other Angel TV shows and films, including these fine shots you see below:

Originally Posted by axdx

Rod Serling's Night Gallery (segment) "Room with a View"(1970)
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The last two photos are from Axdx's Post #22, featuring deleted scenes from The Don Is Dead (1973), which called for new highlighting, given Angel's glorious exposure. Below is a view of Angel from this film, with Robert Forster, who plays a hot-headed gangster. The black & white photo is followed by frame grabs, where he behaves as a gentleman, in the scene before they enter the restaurant.



Anthony Quinn gets lucky with Angel. (Here is what appears to be a promotional view of this initial encounter, with a hint of Angel Areola, from Johnbear's Post #31.) Once Quinn has a taste of such a Grade-A feminine fixture, he gets pretty upset once he learns Forster has beaten her up.




Angel Tompkins appeared in the "The Concrete Jungle Caper" episode of McCloud in 1974. The hero infiltrates a prison while posing as a drug dealer presumed to be dead in order to bust a family of gangsters. The drug dealer is played by John Russell, pictured below, and he is enjoying Angel's friendly company. (Who says crime doesn't pay?)




In 1974, Angel also appeared in You Lie So Deep, My Love, an ABC TV movie aired in 1975; below are promotional stills. Don Galloway (pictured) is a married man who seeks his wife's money and Angel's love, and will go to lengths to attain both. (He will be breaking the law to get the first wish, but who can blame him for trying to get his second wish?)




I'm now noticing Member "DCV" put up frame grabs of this next film below, and for the one following, in his post numbers 47 and 48 from over two years ago, now located on the prior page. (Even though I went through the thread more than once to make sure old ground wasn't being covered again.) As a saving grace, almost all of what is below are original frame grabs, and all are new to the thread. First up, Lee Marvin plays an enforcer to collect a debt from a cattle rancher, played by Gene Hackman (who is fortunate enough to be married to Angel), in the excellent and delightfully trashy Prime Cut (1972).







After Angel is confident she will be having Lee Marvin eating out of her hand, she becomes aware he's a bit more independent-minded than the usual weakling male, and jumps out of the bed. (What a trooper! Can't tell easily from these views, but you may see she went without panties in the scene. By the way, we owe Sissy Spacek much admiration for the very explicit way she put herself out there the way she did in this movie, as one of Hackman's sex slaves. A trivia item on the movie's IMDb page claims that Marvin hated the idea of love scenes with Sissy, half his age, and had it out with the director over this matter.)




I know these grabs are not of the best quality, but those are indeed "ass lines" in the first two photos above.

When Angel realizes the tough guy has set her boat adrift, she yells after him, and calls him an S.O.B.; in these views from our next film, the same thing happens at the scene's end. (One of the things Angel berates the hero with in this next one is "lyin' polecat," in her charming Southern accent.)



Angel is hired by the bad man to set up real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in 1975's Walking Tall Part II, the sequel to the classic with Joe Don Baker. Once again, Angel is confident this man would be eating out of her hand, not counting on how Bo Svenson attended the same school as Lee Marvin. (Which teaches immunity to women, or Wommunity, as known in academic circles.) As she's undressing, Pusser reveals he is on to her, but thankfully not before the gratuitous nudity takes place. (Bless you, Ms. Tompkins. Bless you as well, 1970s movies.)



She tells the bad man that he could hire her for playing a femme fatale, but there is no way he could afford her for something else that he has in mind.




About a month ago, I put up a post on another heart-flutterer, the beauteous Jill St. John: "When Jill was forty-one or forty-two, she appeared as the bitch-warden in The Concrete Jungle (1982)... There is a trend of 'Women in Prison' (W.I.P.) films where the one who plays the ruthless authority figure came from the ranks of sex symbol land, as with Stella Stevens in the classic Chained Heat (1983), with Linda Blair, and Brigitte Nielsen in Chained Heat II (1993)..."



Well, poke me in the tummy and call me the Pillsbury Dough Boy. Here we have the epitome of sexpottiness, and Angel Tompkins, too, was a part of this trend. She played the ruthless warden in 1986's The Naked Cage, and although she was forty-three or forty-four, she was fantastic enough (unlike the three other mentioned sexpots) to put herself on display in the way that matters most. Obviously, she was confident in the fact that she still had what it takes, and no one could argue.






Luckily, Lisa London, mostly M.I.A. from V.E.F. (these recently put up unidentified GIFs by Member
"Midnitetokerj" were all I could find; I believe they are from 1979's H.O.T.S) has watched How to Seduce a
Woman, and took after the Swedish masseuse's example to give Angel's delightful derriere a good whack.
Frankly, there should have been more "Angel-Spanking" in the choices Angel made for her film career.




The next year, Angel once again exhibited her wares (although, alas, not all the way) in Amazon Women on the Moon, the very fun film where she played a lascivious First Lady. The more we look into her, the harder it is to understand how she could have possibly been passed up for that Presidential Medal of Freedom.




Abraham Lincoln would have definitely awarded Angel with a Medal of Freedom. Member
"Vato76" provided a composite of photos for this film in his Post #14 from 2011.


Here is our lady (dressed in red) as she attended a screening of The Naked Cage on February 22, 1986 at Cannon Studios in Culver City, California; these photos were taken by famed paparazzi Ron Galella, as with the following, when she (dressed in gold) graced the Eddie Awards on March 15, 1986 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel (in Beverly Hills). The final two shots are from the Focus Magazine Party on August 7, 1986 at Le Bel Age Hotel in Hollywood.




A better version of the first of these two shots below featuring the actress's gorgeous gams was put up, as I later noticed, ten years ago by Axdx, in Post #20, but the similar view next to it is new to the thread. The third photo is also brand new, which is surprising, given how such an especially sexy view slipped everyone's radar in all of these years. I did not spot the fourth photo, another very sexy one, on the thread either.

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After beginning as a Chicago-area model, Angel Tompkins first got her feet wet in show biz by appearing in the soap opera, General Hospital, at the tender age of twenty-one. The IMDb does not list the number of episodes she appeared in; it could be one, or it could be one thousand. Since her character was assigned a first and last name, and she had the possibly weighty role of a doctor, it's reasonable to assume she appeared in more than one episode. That would also explain the gap between the soap and her next screen venture, a whopping five years later.



The untrustworthy Wikipedia claims "Tompkins was discovered by Woody Allen who sent her to Universal Pictures where she started her acting career in the late 1960s." Did Woody Allen have such power as the writer and stand-up comic that he primarily worked as, at that time? Also, since they had this "bond" (he must have thought very highly of her, to have so gone out of his way), why would he have neglected casting her in later years, given how he has directed more films than he has acted in?


Later became aware Johnbear
used this photo in his Post #31;
this is slightly different.

Angel's career basically began in 1968, and she amassed a list of nearly ten TV credits in that year and the next (as a Universal "contract player," perhaps, if the claim above is on the mark), before being noticed in the Elliot Gould film. This promising start did not open many doors for the lady in "respectable" Hollywood fare, but at least she worked constantly, finally amassing a list of over sixty acting credits. When she was (reportedly) forty-two, Angel married a TV writer and venture capitalist, and later gave birth twice. Beginning in the mid-nineties, Angel ran for president of the Screen Actors Guild five times, without success.



Angel Tompkins' last film role was Extreme Honor (2001), an action film that boasts the impressive likes of Michael Ironside, Michael Madsen and Charles Napier, but screen time for each was limited. The film is about a disgraced marine who returns to wreak havoc, and is played by the embodiment of beefcake, Dan Andersen (glimpsed above), an actor never heard from again. Angel played his mother, and she keeps coughing in her brief scene with the muscleman. (No one wants to see Angel as sickly; she was pushing sixty, here.)




This shot below is from 2014, when our lady was seventy-one or two; she was attending a showing of the film, Paddington, at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Angel recently turned eighty.



Let me cap off with that rare photo I found of our lady, as she appeared either in the 1972 TV-movie (Probe), or one of the two episodes of the short-lived series it spawned in the same year, Search. Again, my whole idea at first was to simply put up this photo, and then scram.












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From Getty Images: (watermarks removed by me)

I Love My Wife by Alan Band May 28th 1970:





Prime Cut: (1972)






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