Frank Thring

Frank Thring

Born: May 11, 1926
Died: December 29, 1994
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Frank Thring (11 May 1926 – 29 December 1994) was an Australian character actor in radio, stage, television and film; as well as a theatre director. His early career started in London in theatre productions, before he starred in Hollywood film, where he became best known for roles in Ben-Hur in 1959 and King of Kings in 1961.

He was the son of Australian film director, producer and exhibitor Francis William Thring III.

Movies for Frank Thring...

Howling III: The Marsupials
Title: Howling III: The Marsupials
Character: Jack Citron
Released: May 15, 1987
Type: Movie
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?
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Death of a Soldier
Title: Death of a Soldier
Character: Religious Speaker
Released: May 16, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite the defense lawyer's concerns that the killer is not fit to stand trial, the US military presses forward with the case and its desire to have the killer executed in order to strengthen the shaky alliance.
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Title: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Character: The Collector
Released: June 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
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Title: Bodyline
Character: Lord Harris
Released: July 16, 1984
Type: TV
Dramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) applied a bowling technique called "leg theory", or more commonly, Bodyline. This technique involved bowlers bowling the ball directly at the batsman's body, and resulted in many of the Australian team receiving numerous bruises and injuries, with batsman Bert Oldfield sustaining a cracked skull. The series generated much anger and resentment towards the English team within Australia and seriously damaged Anglo-Australian cricketing relations at the time.
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At Last... Bullamakanka: The Motion Picture
Title: At Last... Bullamakanka: The Motion Picture
Released: December 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Aussie comedy.
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Death Shock
Title: Death Shock
Character: Vicar (as Bill Wright)
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Sex and black magic in the Norwich countryside.
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Title: Parkinson In Australia
Character: Self
Released: March 31, 1979
Type: TV
Australian version of Michael Parkinson's UK talk show. He interviews a broad range of famous Australians, and in later series, international stars.
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Mad Dog Morgan
Title: Mad Dog Morgan
Character: Superintendent Cobham
Released: July 9, 1976
Type: Movie
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
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The Man from Hong Kong
Title: The Man from Hong Kong
Character: Willard
Released: July 31, 1975
Type: Movie
Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.
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Alvin Rides Again
Title: Alvin Rides Again
Character: Fingers
Released: December 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
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Ned Kelly
Title: Ned Kelly
Character: Judge Barry
Released: July 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
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Age of Consent
Title: Age of Consent
Character: Godfrey
Released: May 13, 1969
Type: Movie
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.
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Title: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Character: Dr. Alexander Stark
Released: February 5, 1968
Type: TV
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
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Title: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
Character: Dr. Stark
Released: February 5, 1968
Type: TV
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, and the various visitors to the fictional Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.
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El Cid
Title: El Cid
Character: Al Kadir
Released: October 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
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King of Kings
Title: King of Kings
Character: Herod Antipas
Released: October 11, 1961
Type: Movie
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
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Ben-Hur
Title: Ben-Hur
Character: Pontius Pilatus
Released: November 18, 1959
Type: Movie
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
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A Question of Adultery
Title: A Question of Adultery
Character: Mr. Stanley
Released: July 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Mark Loring is madly jealous of his wife, Mary, former American cabaret singer. Due to an automobile accident, she loses her unborn child, and Mark becomes sterile. His father, Brit-stuffy Sir John Loring, has never approved of the marriage and, again, tries to break it up. Believing that a child will hold the marriage together, Mary suggests artificial insemination to Mark, who finally agrees to accompany her to a clinic in Switzerland. However, when she is again pregnant, Mark finds it impossible to reconcile himself to the situation and leaves her. Prompted by his father, Mark sues for divorce, accusing her of adultery. She contests the divorce and a trial concerns itself with whether or not artificial insemination is a question of adultery. The Catholic Church's National League of Decency placed this film on its Condemned" list.
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The Vikings
Title: The Vikings
Character: Aella
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.