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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1934-01-01
Place of Birth:Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Three Dollars (2005) 1o2d2i
Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when...

Welcome Stranger (2006) 214w25
A strange day begins for 18 year old Adam with a phone call from an old school friend. After several years without any , Luke is eager for a...

Breakaway (1990) 4y5o17
When Joey, a prisoner on the run, takes Reginald, an ant, as his hostage, he gets more than he bargained for.

Lilian's Story (1996) 2q2tf
For forty years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a 'loony bin' by her father. Her release is eventually secured by her eccentric Aunt Kitty and...

Newsfront (1978) 332568
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing...

Grievous Bodily Harm (1988) 3t714u
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.

Yackety Yack (1974) 7269n
A classic Australian underground comedy in which a group of people fight over how to make the truly collective/revolutionary/existential movie....

The Legend of Fred Paterson (1996) 21161d
The story of Fred Paterson, member for Bowen in the Queensland parliament in the 1940s and the only Communist Party member ever elected to any...

Queensland (1976) 5k475b
The allure of pleasant weather, a carefree lifestyle and better job prospects in Queensland appeal to Doug, a downtrodden factory worker from...

BoyTown (2006) 5c4z6r
They were the hottest thing in the eighties, the pin-up boys on every teenage girl’s wall. And with hits like “Tough Titties” and...

Point of No Return (1996) 3m6fh
The story of Grady, a former soldier who is in prison for his part in a major money-laundering operation. Whilst inside, he learns of the brutal, yet...

Feathers (1987) 5w65z
Conflicts of interest arise when a country couple are visited by a couple from the city.

The Last Days of Loneliness (2021) 4o3z
A younger man encounters the old. Both fearful and aware of the impending end. The clock is almost striking 12, it has ed 5 to 12. Celebrating...
Open City (1993) 5dh24
A newspaper journalist in Bosnia returns home to find that things are and are not as they seem.

Blood Money (1980) 3q205t
A dying criminal takes his younger brother on one final job so that when the final hour comes, his brother and his brother's wife and daughter who he...

Tatlin (1990) 3w1w2d
Made as an exercise in my animation class at Swinburne University in 1990, Tatlin is rumination on the life & work of Vladimir Tatlin.

Puppenhead (1990) l646u
Berlin, 1934: John Flaus plays Goethe, the puppeteer whose mechanical clockwork knife-throwing act is under surveillance by a slimy SS agent (Heinz...

The Secret History of Brisbane (2001) l4y1f
A one off 7 minute documentary film commissioned in 2001

The Love Letters from Teralba Road (1977) 3n6e27
A violent man (Bryan Brown), who ostensibly has a slight mental illness due to fillings in his teeth, continues to write letters to his estranged...
Flausfilm (2009) 60821
A portrait of the actor, film teacher, critic, and legendary cinephile, John Flaus, in a unique film mosaic structured around cryptic crossword clues...

Spotswood (1992) 4c4j3d
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small...

The Weatherman's Umbrella (2016) 1a331n
When the Weatherman puts on his boots it gets frosty, when he puts on his scarf it gets windy, and when he puts on his hat it gets warm. The problem...

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em (1988) e5666
The world is a blazing atomic hell. Civilisation is dying in agony... What do you do? ...THROW A PARTY! The Third World War has happened. Bombs are...

Tracks (2013) 6f4f5d
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert...

Ernie Biscuit (2015) 6a1455
The world of a lonely deaf Parisian taxidermist is turned upside down and back to front when a dead pigeon arrives on his doorstep.

Uncle (1996) 3o1b71
A nephew recalls the sometimes-lonely and often-eccentric life of his beloved uncle.
Lemonade Stand (2012) 1h6e6r
Benny and Grandad are best friends and never leave each other's side. They also run the most successful light refreshment stand in town. Yet all...

Palm Beach (1980) 4b6x3h
The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.

Harvie Krumpet (2003) 67163m
The odd biography of Harvie Krumpet, a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung...

Mary and Max (2009) o1h2o
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a...

Bootleg (1985) 4t3u6m
A detective tracking down anti-nuclear terrorists gets involved with prostitutes and rogue government agents.

A Night of Horror Volume 1 (2015) 53503f
Whether you’re a fan of Sydney's iconic genre film festival A Night of Horror, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema,...

Jack Irish: Black Tide (2012) 6vw4c
Jack Irish has no shortage of friends, but family are few and far between. His wife was murdered by an ex-client and his father is a fading...

The BBQ (2018) 4b1v3
Dazza's ion in life is barbecuing, but unfortunately he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning. To make amends, he receives tutelage...

The Plains of Heaven (1983) 4y4d57
Two technicians manning a tracking station on the Victorian High Plains pursue opposite ways of coping with isolation. The ageing Cunningham seems to...

Nirvana Street Murder (1990) 365t1v
Two brothers become conflicted after one goes on the run and the other has an affair with a Greek woman and takes care of an old rich lady who could...

Lone Wolf (2021) 122062
Through various modes of surveillance we observe an overprotective young woman, Winnie, and her disabled brother, Stevie, caught in a web of intrigue...

Bloodlust (1992) 1q5l30
Three vampires wander the streets of Melbourne killing, screwing and taking drugs. They decide to carry out a heist, stealing three million and...

Pinion (2010) c1n72
Suffering from a mysterious affliction, a young boy is taken to a secluded hospital by his fearful parents. Lloyd soon learns that more harm is being...

The Castle (1997) 1a4t2d
A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and...

Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) 506m6r
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time...

Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014) 304p5y
Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.

Blue Notes (2006) 2r3y6s
A multi-layered narrative drama about ordinary people and their struggles and joys with life. Blue Notes is composed of five tales about people who...

Archer's Adventure (1985) 4g51l
During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from...

The Balanced Particle Freeway (1997) 4o5v16
Welcome to the far-famed and most reliable Balanced Particle Freeway, a magical adventure that can take you anywhere in the world in no time at all!...
A Kink in the Picasso (1990) 4e2g3j
Two crooked gallery officials swap a Picasso for a fake hoping to make a fortune. When thieves break into the gallery to steal the Picasso, an...

The Debt Collector (1970) z3jg
Frank Vaughan is a debt collector pushed to breaking point. In a frenzy of revenge, he tracks down the priests who abused him in boarding school and...

Bachelor Girl (1987) 384c4x
Dorothy, single and one of the writers of the soap "The True World" hates living alone, but the guys she knows don't appeal to her. Her aunt Esther's...

Devil's Hill (1988) 6u2u20
Set in Tasmania, a boy is sent to stay with cousins while his mother is ill and discovers a wilderness adventure.

Always Afternoon (1988) 6u4753
Always Afternoon is a 1988 Australian mini series about German internees in Australia. It was a co production between and Australia. It...

Rush (2008) 1l465f
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing...

The Flying Doctors (1986) 5r4r2x
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real...

The Flying Doctors (1986) 5r4r2x
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real...

The Man from Snowy River (1994) 566a3w
The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo...

Police Rescue (1991) 354n54
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work...

The Man from Snowy River (1994) 566a3w
The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo...

Snowy (1993) h2o6v
The family lives of those working on Australia's Snowy Mountains dam in the 1950s.

The Leftovers (2014) 353e30
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about...

Kelly (1991) 7274d
Kelly is a Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten in 1991. The series was produced by Jonathan M. Shiff...

Jack Irish (2016) 723z5q
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time...

Romper Stomper (2018) 5f1m5n
A high stakes drama that follows a new generation of far right activists, their Anti-Fascist counterparts, and its impact on today's multicultural...

City Homicide (2007) 6t6o55
City Homicide follows a group of detectives in the Homicide department of Melbourne's Metropolitan Police Headquarters.

Good Guys, Bad Guys (1997) w592n
Good Guys, Bad Guys was an Australian crime TV series that screened on the Nine Network between 1997 and 1998, with a telemovie and twenty-six...