Pat Astley

A minor, but always fun to watch, sexploitation starlet. Pat Astley grew up in the seaside town of Blackpool, Britain's 'Las Vegas of the North'. By the early 1970s Astley, with a baby daughter in tow, relocated to London in pursuit of fame and fortune. She drifted into 'blue movies' (i.e. hardcore shorts) made by 'John Lindsay' and George Harrison Marks. These were of sort of home projection 8mm porn films that would later be referenced in mainstream movies like Get Carter and O Lucky Man. Promoted as a 'mind-blowing orgy of Lolita lust' End of Term (1971) is in keeping with John Lindsay's taboo theme of dressing 20 something aged actresses as schoolgirls with its story of a 'teenybopper' spending her holiday seducing a chauffeur and a Maid (Astley).