Bill McCluskey

Bill McCluskey

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An Accidental Soldier
Title: An Accidental Soldier
Character: General Firth
Released: September 14, 2013
Type: Movie
An unexpected love story set in WW1 France between a young Australian baker who has deserted the front line, and a grieving French woman, who puts her own life at risk by sheltering him from the authorities.
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3 Acts of Murder
Title: 3 Acts of Murder
Character: Charles Bogle
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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Title: The Circuit
Character: Sergeant Bob 'Shirley' Temple
Released: July 8, 2007
Type: TV
The Circuit is an Australian television drama series. The six part first season screened on SBS TV, premiering on 8 July 2007 at 9:30 pm, and concluding on 12 August 2007. Season 2 began airing on 1 December 2009. The series stars Aaron Pedersen and Gary Sweet and centres on mixed-race solicitor Drew Ellis who joins the district to work at the Kimberley Circuit Court. Filmed mainly in Broome, Western Australia and surrounding areas, the show had a budget of more than $4 million, and 1,000 local Aboriginal extras have been employed for the production.
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Thunderstruck
Title: Thunderstruck
Character: Ronnie's Dad
Released: May 20, 2004
Type: Movie
After a near death experience, five Boys, all devoted AC/DC fans, make a pact to bury their best friend next to the grave of Bon Scott. 12 years later, having gone their different ways, they come together to fulfill the promise.
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Teesh and Trude
Title: Teesh and Trude
Character: Bob
Released: July 18, 2002
Type: Movie
Teesh and Trude is the humorous, yet biting story of two hard and damaged women living on a diet of soapies, frustration and sarcasm. It reveals the dysfunction, denial and desperation of two people trapped by circumstances, apathy and class.
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Title: E Street
Character: Mr. Kennedy
Released: January 24, 1989
Type: TV
An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
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Strike of the Panther
Title: Strike of the Panther
Character: Bradford
Released: January 4, 1989
Type: Movie
Jason Blade is a man who can't bring himself to commit fully to his woman, and who spends all his time with a special crime task force taking on assignments to fight crime and right wrong do-ers. When his love is kidnapped by his arch-enemy the race is on to get into the power station where she is being held and battle an army of ninjas. Only then can he face Baxter, his arch-enemy, and stop a bomb from exploding to save his sweetheart, and show her that he is a man. A man who can commit. A man who is strong.
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Evil Angels
Title: Evil Angels
Character: Greg Lowe
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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Shame
Title: Shame
Character: Ross
Released: February 26, 1988
Type: Movie
Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But Cadell's relaxing ride turns tense when her motorcycle malfunctions and she makes a pit stop in a remote town. Cadell meets teen Elizabeth Curtis, who confides that she has just been raped, and Cadell helps the young woman report the crime to the authorities. When police corruption stands in the way of justice, she takes matters into her own hands.
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Fast Talking
Title: Fast Talking
Character: Swinton
Released: August 16, 1984
Type: Movie
A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it.
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The Great Gold Swindle
Title: The Great Gold Swindle
Character: Terence Henry
Released: February 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The true story of a half million dollar gold robbery which took place in Perth Western Australia in 1982.
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Doctors & Nurses
Title: Doctors & Nurses
Character: Producer
Released: December 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
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The Chain Reaction
Title: The Chain Reaction
Character: Ralph
Released: September 25, 1980
Type: Movie
Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.
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Manganinnie
Title: Manganinnie
Character: Convict 2
Released: August 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Through lyrical images, Manganinnie journeys across mountains towards the coast with Joanna, a white girl, in search of Manganinnie's vanished tribe. The poignancy of this film derives from the Aboriginal woman's gradual realization that her people and the tribal way of life are forever gone. It is the story of the Black Drive of 1830, the near-genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines.