Garry McDonald

Garry McDonald

Born: October 30, 1948

Movies for Garry McDonald...

Title: The ABC Of
Character: Self
Released: June 28, 2022
Type: TV
The ABC Of, a interview series, revisits the pasts of prominent Australians through moments drawn from the vast ABC archives.
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The Light Between Oceans
Title: The Light Between Oceans
Character: Bill Graysmark
Released: September 2, 2016
Type: Movie
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
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Being Venice
Title: Being Venice
Character: Arthur
Released: January 17, 2013
Type: Movie
Venice is having trouble with the men in her life: she breaks up with her lover and starts an affair with her best friend. The aggravation of her ex-hippy dad, camped on her sofa, is the last straw.
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Burning Man
Title: Burning Man
Character: Dr. Burgess
Released: September 10, 2011
Type: Movie
An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
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A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne
Title: A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne
Character: Tony Byrne
Released: April 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Australian television film based on alleged events surrounding the death of Caroline Byrne in June 1995. Byrne was found in the early morning of 8 June at the base of a cliff at The Gap, a notorious suicide spot in Sydney.
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The King
Title: The King
Character: Nicky Whitta
Released: May 20, 2007
Type: Movie
The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise from working class Balaclava kid, through radio, TV, film, and back to TV again. It also tracks Kennedy's personal tragedies - the loneliness, the unrealised ambitions and the terrible pressures of being Australia's first homegrown superstar in the 1950s and 60s.
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Stepfather of the Bride
Title: Stepfather of the Bride
Character: Ari
Released: November 12, 2006
Type: Movie
This is the story of a typical contemporary Australian family. Skye is getting married to Lachlan. They have to tell her mother, stepfather, father, step mother, his father, his new wife, his mother and her girlfriend. Not counting grandparents, aunt and friends. They live with Skye's stepfathers son and best mate who is in love with Skye.
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BlackJack: Dead Memory
Title: BlackJack: Dead Memory
Character: James
Released: August 27, 2006
Type: Movie
A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's offsider Sam, details of the crime mirror the disappearance of her friend Hannah, who vanished without trace some years ago. In Kempson's pursuit of the truth Sam is forced to face the sordid secrets of her past.
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Title: Two Twisted
Character: Norm
Released: August 14, 2006
Type: TV
Two Twisted is an Australian TV mystery anthology drama which premiered on the Nine Network on 14 August 2006. Narrated by Bryan Brown, who also produced the series' predecessor, Twisted Tales, each episode of the series contains two short half-hour stories, that have a twist ending. Also present in each episode is a link or connection between the two tales.
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Title: The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant
Character: Reverend Johnson
Released: October 30, 2005
Type: TV
Mary Bryant, a Cornish girl who was convicted of petty theft, is being transported to the Australian Penal Colony on the First Fleet with other prisoners bound for Botany Bay.
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The Rage in Placid Lake
Title: The Rage in Placid Lake
Character: Doug Lake
Released: May 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success. So when he finds himself flying off the school roof and breaking every bone in his body on graduation night, Placid decides to make a bid for the elusive normal life. To his parents' horror, he gets a normal job.
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Title: Rabbit-Proof Fence
Character: Mr. Neal at Moore River
Released: February 4, 2002
Type: Movie
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
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Moulin Rouge!
Title: Moulin Rouge!
Character: The Doctor
Released: May 24, 2001
Type: Movie
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
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Title: Love Is a Four Letter Word
Released: January 30, 2001
Type: TV
Love Is A Four Letter Word is a 26 episode drama written by Matt Ford produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2001. It was set and filmed in Newtown, in Sydney, New South Wales, following the lives of a group of friends working in a pub, and the concerns facing urban 20somethings in Australia. One of the regular features of the drama was a performance in the pub by a contemporary Australian band.
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Mr. Accident
Title: Mr. Accident
Character: Kelvin Chevalier
Released: March 24, 2000
Type: Movie
A very clumsy man and his UFO-obsessed girlfriend discover a plan made by his boss to market eggs laced with nicotine.
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Title: Fallen Angels
Character: Malcolm Lucas
Released: February 7, 1997
Type: TV
Fallen Angels is an Australian television series, aired by the ABC in 1997. Twenty episodes were produced, portraying a community legal centre in Endeavour Park, a fictional western suburb of Sydney, and the interesting clients represented by its overworked lawyers.
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Title: Halifax f.p.
Character: Alex Goodson
Released: October 9, 1994
Type: TV
Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halifax, a forensic psychiatrist investigating cases involving the mental state of suspects or victims. The series is set in Melbourne. The producers of the film were Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier; Australian Film Finance Corporation and aired on the Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd 21 Episodes of 90 and 102 minutes each were produced, and the series has screened in more than 60 countries. The budget for each episode was an average of $1.3 million. Funding came in part from the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Film Victoria.
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Title: Eggshells
Released: February 11, 1991
Type: TV
Eggshells is a 1991 Australian sitcom about a divorced man.
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Struck by Lightning
Title: Struck by Lightning
Character: Ollie Rennie
Released: October 11, 1990
Type: Movie
This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of all his workers. He employees Pat Cannizzaro to help get all his workers into some sort of sport, and Pat just happens to be a soccer teacher. He forms a team and tries to take them all the way, with some funny results.
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Those Dear Departed
Title: Those Dear Departed
Character: Max Falcon
Released: August 13, 1987
Type: Movie
A disturbed woman murders her husband, and others, so that she can be haunted by their "wronged" spirits.
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Wills & Burke
Title: Wills & Burke
Character: Robert O'Hara Burke
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Parody of historical epics that focuses on real-life Australian explorers William John Wills and Robert O'Hara Burkes, who tragically tried to cross the Australian continent from the south, to the north, a distance of 3,250 km.
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Banduk
Title: Banduk
Character: Mr. Kool
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Banduk discovers that Mr Kool is smuggling birds out of Australia.
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Title: Mother and Son
Character: Arthur Beare
Released: January 16, 1984
Type: TV
Mother and Son was a multiple Logie Award-winning Australian television sitcom produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 16 January 1984 until 21 March 1994. The show stars Ruth Cracknell, Garry McDonald, Henri Szeps and Judy Morris. It was created and written by Geoffrey Atherden AM. Its classic theme song features the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, playing to I Want a Girl, a jazz standard which was recorded by Al Jolson in the 1920s.
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Molly
Title: Molly
Character: Jones
Released: December 27, 1983
Type: Movie
After Dan collapses at a train station, he enlists Maxie to watch his beloved dog, Molly. Maxie develops a soft spot for her new furry companion - a dog which has a unique ability to sing in tune.
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Ginger Meggs
Title: Ginger Meggs
Character: Mr. John Meggs
Released: December 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Ginger Meggs (Paul Daniel) is a young "Dennis the Menace" who first appeared in Australian comic strips in 1921. In this film meant for the pre-teen set, Ginger is constantly getting himself in trouble in spite of his good intentions -- at the same time, he prevaricates, he disobeys his teachers and parents, he skips school, or while in school, fights it out with the bullies -- all activities that are bound to capture the attention of children who can vicariously enjoy the forbidden behavior.
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The Picture Show Man
Title: The Picture Show Man
Character: Lou
Released: May 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Title: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Character: Const. Jones
Released: September 2, 1975
Type: Movie
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
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Avengers of the Reef
Title: Avengers of the Reef
Released: October 20, 1973
Type: Movie
This Australian children's film is about scientist Bill Stewart goes to Fiji with his son Tim to investigate the appearance of the Crown of Thorns starfish in the reefs off the island.
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Title: The Aunty Jack Show
Released: November 16, 1972
Type: TV
The Aunty Jack Show was a Logie Award–winning Australian television comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1973. Produced by and broadcast on ABC-TV, the series attained an instant cult status that persists to the present day. The lead character, Aunty Jack was a unique comic creation — an obese, moustachioed, gravel-voiced transvestite, part trucker and part pantomime dame — who habitually solved any problem by knocking people unconscious or threatening to 'rip their bloody arms off'. Visually, she was unmistakable, dressed in a huge, tent-like blue velvet dress, football socks, workboots, and a golden boxing glove on her right hand. She rode everywhere on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and referred to everyone as "me little lovelies" — when she was not uttering her familiar threat: "I'll rip yer bloody arms off!", a phrase which immediately passed into the vernacular. The character was devised and played by the multi-talented Grahame Bond and was partly inspired by his overbearing Uncle Jack, whom he had disliked as a child, his grandfather Ben Doyle and Dot Strong the ABC's last official tea lady.
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Title: Snake Gully With Dad 'N' Dave
Released: November 14, 1972
Type: TV