Robert Menzies

Robert Menzies

Born: November 4, 1955
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Movies for Robert Menzies...

The Rooster
Title: The Rooster
Character: Mr. Poulson
Released: February 22, 2024
Type: Movie
When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan, a small-town cop, seeks answers from a volatile hermit who was the last person to see his friend alive. As Dan gets closer to the truth, he must confront his own personal demons and he discovers that hope can be found in unlikely places.
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Little Tornadoes
Title: Little Tornadoes
Released: May 12, 2022
Type: Movie
This affecting period drama depicts a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in the world around him.
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A Terrible Beauty
Title: A Terrible Beauty
Character: John
Released: October 6, 2017
Type: Movie
After her father destroys her prototype 'Soulmate' robot, a replacement for her dead mother, a roboticist, Olivia, questions her fundamental belief in a world without suffering and the nature of love.
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Title: Jack Irish
Character: Dr. Greaves
Released: February 11, 2016
Type: TV
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 investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don’t want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
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Title: The Beautiful Lie
Character: Phillip Ballantyne
Released: October 18, 2015
Type: TV
Anna is happily married. She has the perfect family. But one man will change it all. A grand, complex love story of love, lust and betrayal across three families and generations.
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The Daughter
Title: The Daughter
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: October 9, 2015
Type: Movie
In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte, daughter Hedvig, and father Walter, he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart.
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Canopy
Title: Canopy
Character: Older Jim
Released: September 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Wartime, 1942. Singapore. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary.
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Title: The Doctor Blake Mysteries
Character: Mr Michaels
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: TV
Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is afoot, nothing is sacred, and no one is safe.
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Monash: The Forgotten Anzac
Title: Monash: The Forgotten Anzac
Character: John Monash
Released: November 11, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of how Australia's 'ANZAC myth' was born and the role of General John Monash in this process as soldier and statesman both during and after WW1.
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Lucky Country
Title: Lucky Country
Character: The Rabbiter
Released: July 16, 2009
Type: Movie
1902....the Australian Federation is a year old. Twelve year-old Tom's father, Nat, has dragged him and his sister, Sarah, to an isolated farm at the edge of the woods. But Nat's dream of living off the land has died and he is losing his grip on sanity. When three ex-soldiers arrive at their cabin one night Tom, like his father, believes they are providence.
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3 Acts of Murder
Title: 3 Acts of Murder
Character: Arthur Upfield
Released: June 14, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. This true story resulted in one of Australia’s most sensational murder trials of the 1930’s and catapulted Upfield’s name onto the world stage.
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Three Dollars
Title: Three Dollars
Character: Nick
Released: April 21, 2005
Type: Movie
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 the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and finds he has only 'three dollars' to his name.
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Floodhouse
Title: Floodhouse
Character: Harry
Released: October 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Two girls are sent to live in the Australian bush with their hippy father. As they gradually bond, a stranger arrives from a town called Paradise.
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Lamb
Title: Lamb
Character: Father
Released: February 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A poor father lives with his blind son, dog and sheep. When he can't find any food, he is forced to make a hard decision.
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Innocence
Title: Innocence
Character: David
Released: September 8, 2000
Type: Movie
After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her first husband, John. Andreas and Claire find that the connection they shared when they were young is still there and they soon become involved in a rekindled love affair.
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Muggers
Title: Muggers
Character: Dr. Alvin
Released: May 25, 2000
Type: Movie
When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transplant scam in order to save their lives. 'Muggers' is a twisted, hilarious, pitch-black comedy about friendship, poor choices and the drag of student debt.
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Thomson of Arnhem Land
Title: Thomson of Arnhem Land
Character: Thomson
Released: January 20, 2000
Type: Movie
In the 1930s tensions between the government and the Indigenous peoples of Australia's north were on a knife-edge. Donald Thomson, an anthropologist, volunteered to go to Arnhem Land to make peace. For over two years, he lived with the Aboriginal people, forging strong bonds, learning and recording their way of life. His report to the government outlined a vision of land rights and other measures to protect a unique yet fragile culture - it was ignored. Ostracised by politicians and fellow academics, Thomson never gave up the struggle for Aboriginal rights. Now, his extraordinary photographs, field notes and artefacts are considered one of the most significant ethnographic collections in the world.
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Dogwoman: A Grrrl's Best Friend
Title: Dogwoman: A Grrrl's Best Friend
Character: Dr. Jim Morgan
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
An eco-bomber is terrorizing the city. Margaret O'Halloran and Kelty are called in to assist only to discover that the bomber could be Margaret's idealistic younger cousin.
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Siam Sunset
Title: Siam Sunset
Character: Eric
Released: September 9, 1999
Type: Movie
A British design executive, who seemingly has everything going for him has his life totally changed when a refrigerator falls from an aircraft and lands on his wife...
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Oscar and Lucinda
Title: Oscar and Lucinda
Character: Abel Leplastrier
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
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Title: Blue Heelers
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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Tender Hooks
Title: Tender Hooks
Character: Yawn
Released: December 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Mitchell leaves the comfort of suburban bliss convinced that no-one can assess life who has not experienced it first-hand. Clear about what is not appropriate for her, she is searching for what is: a choice. She takes a job at an inner-city hair salon and a room in a nearby boarding house. Here she meets Gaye, who lives on love and spurts on her asthma inhaler. Through a quirk of fate she meets Rex in the hall with not much on but the imprint of a boot on his behind. She takes him in, captivated by his smile. They warm to one another at once. Rex appreciates Mitchell's style and is impossible to ignore. The drawback is he comes fully loaded: Mitchell discovers that where Rex is trouble follows close behind.
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Westward Ho!
Title: Westward Ho!
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Features the beautiful young lady, Rose Salterne, who together with Lucy Oxman is captured by Spanish pirates, launching the nationwide cry for a high-seas chase to win the girls' return. When the British hero Leigh hears the cry, he takes an unlikely crew to search for Rose and Lucy, braving the wide seas and Spanish pirates. He chases down clues through remote jungle islands with fearsome natives and hidden gold.
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Cactus
Title: Cactus
Character: Robert
Released: September 5, 1986
Type: Movie
A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Colin Lyons
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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Bliss
Title: Bliss
Character: Damien
Released: October 4, 1985
Type: Movie
An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.