John Howard

John Howard

Born: October 22, 1952

Movies for John Howard...

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Title: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Character: The People Eater
Released: May 22, 2024
Type: Movie
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.
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Title: Bump
Character: Hippy Baby Boomer
Released: January 1, 2021
Type: TV
An unexpected pregnancy complicates the lives of two families. The series centers around Oly, an ambitious and high-achieving teenage girl who has a surprise baby.
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A Matter Of Principle
Title: A Matter Of Principle
Released: December 8, 2019
Type: Movie
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The Merger
Title: The Merger
Character: Bull Barlow
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: Movie
A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.
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Frontier
Title: Frontier
Released: March 21, 2018
Type: Movie
Texas, 1848. Families are being forced off their land by the settlers who come to colonize this unpopulated state. A battle for the land and oil ensues.
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Title: Get Krack!n
Character: Bill Langham
Released: August 30, 2017
Type: TV
Having conquered the cutthroat world of satirical online cooking shows with The Katering Show, the two Kates are ready to take a Sassy Swipe at morning lifestyle television in Get Krack!n.
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Title: The Warriors
Character: Bill Shepherd
Released: April 12, 2017
Type: TV
The Warriors is set in the world of Australian Rules Football. It explores the elite world of professional sport through the eyes of two new recruits - plucked from obscurity to fame and fortune - and two established players as they are thrown together in a share house in Melbourne.
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Last Cab to Darwin
Title: Last Cab to Darwin
Character: Simmo
Released: August 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.
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Mad Max: Fury Road
Title: Mad Max: Fury Road
Character: The People Eater
Released: May 13, 2015
Type: Movie
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
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Grace Under Water
Title: Grace Under Water
Character: Ken
Released: November 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Lou is losing the cold war with her stubborn and enigmatic stepdaughter Grace when an unexpected challenge arises from the depths of a warm, dreamy afternoon at the local pool.
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Title: Soul Mates
Released: October 23, 2014
Type: TV
Soul Mates has fun with big life questions as the twin souls of a pair of Bondi Hipsters appear throughout history and the future in a fresh blend of sketch comedy with a narrative arc.
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Title: Janet King
Character: Steven Blakely
Released: February 27, 2014
Type: TV
Senior Prosecutor Janet King returns from maternity leave to confront a high-profile murder, and a conspiracy which will have shocking ramifications throughout the judicial system.
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Jindabyne
Title: Jindabyne
Character: Carl
Released: July 20, 2006
Type: Movie
Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.
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Title: Jessica
Released: July 18, 2004
Type: TV
Set in the Australian outback at the turn of the twentieth century, this family based drama follows a young woman who is unjustly institutionalised.
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A Man's Gotta Do
Title: A Man's Gotta Do
Character: Eddy
Released: July 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Eddy does what he has to do to give his family what they want. For the last 25 years, he has secretly moonlighted as a "standover" man, purely to provide his aspirational wife with her dream house and a privileged upbringing for his only daughter. Eddy finds it hard to express how he feels, especially now that his "little girl" is engaged and will soon be leaving the family home. Chantelle believes her emotionally blocked father has only two feelings "angry" and "very angry" and feels her father just doesn't understand her. Eddy is perplexed: "What's to understand?" Herein lies the problem. Over eager to get on the same wavelength as his daughter and recapture the closeness they once had, Eddy starts reading Chantelle's diary. In the process, more secrets than anyone was prepared for, begin to surface with devastating yet hilarious results. Eddy rides the storm and once the dust settles, all is well... for now.
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Japanese Story
Title: Japanese Story
Character: Richards
Released: August 30, 2003
Type: Movie
Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on Earth.
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Take Away
Title: Take Away
Character: Burgies CEO
Released: August 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Tony Stilano and Trev Spackneys both own, live over and work in adjoining take-away fish shops in Melbourne. Although they have fallen into a habitual rivalry based on a cause long forgotten, the pair unite when the multinational fast-food outlet "Burgies" unveils a new store directly opposite the twin fish & chips shops.
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The Road from Coorain
Title: The Road from Coorain
Character: Angus
Released: March 3, 2002
Type: Movie
A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.
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The Man Who Sued God
Title: The Man Who Sued God
Character: Edward Piggott
Released: October 25, 2001
Type: Movie
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
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Title: Always Greener
Character: John Taylor
Released: September 9, 2001
Type: TV
Every city-dweller daydreams about dropping out of the rat-race and moving to the country. Every country-dweller wonders what it might be like to try their luck in the 'Big Smoke'. Always Greener is the story of two families who actually dare to give it a go.
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Title: The Job
Released: March 14, 2001
Type: TV
Mike McNeil is a decorated New York City detective whose toughest assignment is himself. He's struggling to balance a challenging personal life with a job that leaves him wondering on a daily basis if he is the last sane person in New York. His unconventional approach to his job makes him a great cop, even on the most trying days. The only thing he can't figure out is why, if he's the only sane guy around, everyone's always looking at him like he's crazy.
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In a Savage Land
Title: In a Savage Land
Character: Rev Macgregor
Released: October 21, 1999
Type: Movie
Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.
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Title: The Games
Character: John Howard
Released: August 17, 1998
Type: TV
The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000. 'The Games' starred satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe along with Australian comedian Gina Riley and actor Nicholas Bell. It was written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and satirised corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behaviour within politics and the media. An unusual feature of the show was that the characters shared the same name as the actors who played them, to enhance the illusion of a documentary on the Sydney Games.
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Title: SeaChange
Character: Bob Jelly
Released: May 10, 1998
Type: TV
SeaChange is a popular Australian television show that ran for 39 episodes from 1998 to 2000 on the ABC. It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox and starred Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham, William McInnes, John Howard, Tom Long and Kerry Armstrong. The director was Michael Carson. Filming was based at Barwon Heads, Victoria and St Leonards, Victoria, both locations being on the Bellarine Peninsula. A number of streets in the St Leonards Sea Change Estate have since been named to acknowledge some of the characters of the series. Many scenes were also filmed in Williamstown, including the exterior of the Williamstown Life Saving Club, which became the court house of Pearl Bay.
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Never Tell Me Never
Title: Never Tell Me Never
Character: Uncle Darryl
Released: April 7, 1998
Type: Movie
This is the story of Janine Shepard, a world class skier faced with tragedy, being hit by a car and being told she will never walk again.
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Title: All Saints
Character: Frank Campion
Released: February 24, 1998
Type: TV
Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.
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Blackrock
Title: Blackrock
Character: Len Kirby
Released: May 1, 1997
Type: Movie
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
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Dating the Enemy
Title: Dating the Enemy
Character: Davis
Released: September 19, 1996
Type: Movie
Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their first anniversary, under a full moon, a frustrated Tash declares her wish that they could swap lives. The next morning, Brett and Tash awaken to find Tash's wish has come true. Forced to confront the unfamiliar sensations of their "new" bodies, both must navigate strange new experiences with friends and co-workers.
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Title: Blue Heelers
Character: Michael Fielding
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.
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Joh's Jury
Title: Joh's Jury
Character: Hedley
Released: February 16, 1993
Type: Movie
Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
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Title: The Girl from Tomorrow
Character: Silverthorn
Released: January 5, 1992
Type: TV
Alana, a girl from the year 3000, is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year 2500, and brought back in time to the year 1992. While in the past, Alana befriends Jenny, who helps her adapt to life in a time unfamiliar to her, and to find a way back to her own time.
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Young Einstein
Title: Young Einstein
Character: Preston Preston
Released: December 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
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Evil Angels
Title: Evil Angels
Character: Lyle Morris
Released: November 3, 1988
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.
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Around the World in Eighty Ways
Title: Around the World in Eighty Ways
Character: Dr. Proctor
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world...
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Mike Stone
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: TV
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
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Strikebound
Title: Strikebound
Character: Bashed Scab
Released: September 20, 1984
Type: Movie
Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the Salvation Army and, finally, to labor organization."
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Razorback
Title: Razorback
Character: Danny
Released: April 19, 1984
Type: Movie
In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
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Bush Christmas
Title: Bush Christmas
Character: Sly
Released: December 12, 1983
Type: Movie
In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him back.
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Gary's Story
Title: Gary's Story
Character: Gary
Released: November 25, 1983
Type: Movie
A story of transition: from lust to compassion, compassion to escape and escape to Sydney. Truth plays a very small part.
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The Highest Honour
Title: The Highest Honour
Character: Captain R. C. Page
Released: May 15, 1982
Type: Movie
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
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Title: A Town Like Alice
Character: Donald Paget
Released: July 12, 1981
Type: TV
Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
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Title: Water Under the Bridge
Character: Archie
Released: September 25, 1980
Type: TV
Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.
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The Club
Title: The Club
Character: Geoff Hayward
Released: September 18, 1980
Type: Movie
The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.
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Capone
Title: Capone
Character: Warden J. Johnston
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: Movie
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.