Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson

Born: August 31, 1940
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Jack Thompson, AM (born 31 August 1940) is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at the University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS). He is best known as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films including such classics as Wake in Fright (1971), Sunday Too Far Away (1975), The Man from Snowy River (1982) and Breaker Morant (1980). He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film. He was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards.

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Title: Faraway Downs
Character: Kipling Flynn
Released: November 26, 2023
Type: TV
The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband dies. When Australian cattle barons plot to take her land, she joins forces with a cattle drover to protect her ranch.
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Poker Face
Title: Poker Face
Character: Shaman Bill (Paje)
Released: November 16, 2022
Type: Movie
A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves hatch plans of their own breaking into the mansion thinking it is empty. The old friends quickly band together and the years of playing the game help them win their way through a night of terror.
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My Name Is Gulpilil
Title: My Name Is Gulpilil
Character: Self
Released: May 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.
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Never Too Late
Title: Never Too Late
Character: Angus Wilson
Released: April 23, 2020
Type: Movie
It's been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell—aka ‘The Chain Breakers'—escaped a torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison, The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each of the boys has an unrealised dream they want to achieve, so they band together to devise a plan to escape their new hell. But the rules of engagement have changed. In fact, they can’t even remember what they were—and that’s half the problem.
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High Ground
Title: High Ground
Character: Moran
Released: February 23, 2020
Type: Movie
In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other.
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Home
Title: Home
Released: June 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Tormented by the news that they bear, two men from town watch over a family whose lives are about to change forever.
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Title: On The Ropes
Character: Strick
Released: November 28, 2018
Type: TV
Follow aspiring Iraqi-Australian boxing trainer Amirah Al-Amir who has idolised her world champion father Sami her entire life. While working in the family gym in Sydney's west alongside her two brothers, Amirah negotiates a professional debut match for her hardnosed fighter Jess O'Connor with Sami's long-time promoter Strick. Furious that she has done this behind his back, her father threatens to cut her off. Desperate to chase her dream of transforming women's boxing, will Amirah choose her fighter or her family?
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Title: Show Me the Movie!
Character: Self
Released: March 22, 2018
Type: TV
Hosted by Rove McManus, this comedy panel game show features two teams captained by acclaimed actor Jane Harber and comedy star Joel Creasey who compete in a series of movie trivia rounds.
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Swinging Safari
Title: Swinging Safari
Character: Mayor
Released: January 18, 2018
Type: Movie
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.
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One Heart: One Spirit
Title: One Heart: One Spirit
Character: Himself
Released: July 15, 2017
Type: Movie
An Aboriginal Australian and Native American documentary narrated by award-winning actor Jack Thompson, One Heart-One Spirit tells the story of Kenneth Little Hawk, an elder Micmac/Mohawk performing artist, meeting the oldest surviving culture on the planet: the 40,000 year old Yolngu nation located in northern Australia.
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Don't Tell
Title: Don't Tell
Character: Bob Myers
Released: May 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a prestigious school. Her courage to fight for justice is entrusted to a local lawyer determined to build a case and give Lyndal peace from her torment. With the help of his aspiring young associate and an enigmatic barrister, the lawyer and Lyndal find their way together.
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Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Title: Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
Character: Himself
Released: April 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life and career of Australian actor Rod Taylor.
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David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Title: David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Character: Self
Released: March 9, 2017
Type: Movie
A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us from his boyhood cinema experience of Australia in England, where he saw the first images of this strange and exotic landscape via the medium of film, to his migration to Australia as a ‘ten pound pom’ in 1963 and onto his present day reflections on the iconic themes that run through our cinematic legacy. All of this reflects a passionate engagement in a uniquely Australian medium. Parallel and at the heart of the series is the story of an industry whose growing pains David has witnessed over a lifetime. Alongside David, the protagonists of this history are the giants of Australian cinema – both behind the camera and in front of it.
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Blue World Order
Title: Blue World Order
Character: Harris
Released: March 3, 2017
Type: Movie
After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resources. Society crumbles and an infectious bacteria threatens to destroy those who remain. In an attempt to rebuild civilization, a self appointed government called 'The ORDER' distributed an immunization to the bacteria, via a massive Electro-Macnetic Pulse (EMP). Secretly, the Order also delivered a bio-tech virus through the EMP, giving them the power to control the population. One man remains immune to the Order's virus - Jake Slater. Now Jake scavenges the wasteland searching for a way to keep his unconscious daughter alive, unaware she is the last child on Earth, and the key to the survival of mankind.
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The Light Between Oceans
Title: The Light Between Oceans
Character: Ralph Addicott
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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Blood on the Coal
Title: Blood on the Coal
Character: Narrator
Released: August 12, 2015
Type: Movie
A story of struggle and tragedy, the film features harrowing underground disasters, heroic rescues and traces a history of strikes, industrial turmoil and the current push by global mining giants to destroy regional communities and replace local mineworkers with a subservient itinerant workforce.
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Ruben Guthrie
Title: Ruben Guthrie
Character: Peter Guthrie
Released: July 16, 2015
Type: Movie
The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.
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Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
Title: Gallipoli: The Last Anzacs Tell All
Character: Narrator
Released: April 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Narrated by Jack Thompson and featuring the last Gallipoli Anzacs this film challenges the widely held perspective of the Gallipoli Campaign and the birth of the Anzac legend.
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Title: Devil's Playground
Character: Cardinal Neville
Released: September 9, 2014
Type: TV
The year is 1988. It is 35 years after the events of Fred Schepisi’s classic film, The Devil’s Playground. Tom Allen, now in his 40s and recently widowed, is a respected Sydney psychiatrist and father of two children. A practicing Catholic, Tom accepts an offer by the Bishop of Sydney to become a counselor of priests. During these sessions, he will uncover a scandal and become embroiled in the Church’s attempts to cover it up. Tom’s quest for justice will push him to his limits, and reveal a side of Church power and official corruption he could never have imagined.
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Around the Block
Title: Around the Block
Character: Mr. O'Donnell
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
A young Aboriginal boy is torn between his unexpected love of acting and the disintegration of his family.
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Mystery Road
Title: Mystery Road
Character: Charlie Murray
Released: August 15, 2013
Type: Movie
A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone.
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The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
Character: Dr. Walter Perkins
Released: May 9, 2013
Type: Movie
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
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Blinder
Title: Blinder
Character: Charlie "Chang" Hyde
Released: March 7, 2013
Type: Movie
An ex footballer, embroiled in a scandal, returns to his hometown to clear his name and reignite an old flame.
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Oakie's Outback Adventures
Title: Oakie's Outback Adventures
Character: Orpheus
Released: August 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Oakie, a young blue heeler pup, is supposed to be delivered to Texas, USA, but through a courier bungle he ends up in Texas, Queensland, in Outback Australia. Oakie is quickly befriended by Action Dann (an animated character identifiably based on Troy Dann) and they embark on a series of adventures, meeting many wonderful and quirky characters in the rugged and unique beauty of the Australian Outback.
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The Telegram Man
Title: The Telegram Man
Character: Bill Williams
Released: January 7, 2011
Type: Movie
The Telegram Man explores the impact of World War II on a close-knit Australian farming community.
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Title: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Character: Harris
Released: November 6, 2010
Type: Movie
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
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Mao's Last Dancer
Title: Mao's Last Dancer
Character: US Federal Judge
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
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Title: Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing
Released: March 26, 2009
Type: TV
A definitive history of surfing in Australia, Bombora tells the story of Australian beach culture through our surfing champions, writers, pioneers, entrepreneurs, mavericks, legends, drop-outs and drop-ins.
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Australia
Title: Australia
Character: Kipling Flynn
Released: November 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
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Not Quite Hollywood
Title: Not Quite Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: August 28, 2008
Type: Movie
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
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Ten Empty
Title: Ten Empty
Character: Bobby Thompson
Released: July 3, 2008
Type: Movie
A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.
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Leatherheads
Title: Leatherheads
Character: Harvey
Released: March 24, 2008
Type: Movie
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up some dirt on the war hero... everyone could lose out.
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Title: Who Do You Think You Are?
Character: Self
Released: January 13, 2008
Type: TV
Australian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past. Along the way there will be scandal, adultery, pioneers, bushrangers, artists and royalty. Join the trail of discovery to uncover where these celebrities came from as they find out just who they think they are.
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December Boys
Title: December Boys
Character: Bandy
Released: September 14, 2007
Type: Movie
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who would make perfect parents. The youths compete with one another to be the one Teresa and Fearless decide to adopt.
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Title: Bastard Boys
Released: May 13, 2007
Type: TV
Bastard Boys is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute. The script, published by Currency Press, won the 2007 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Television Script.
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The Good German
Title: The Good German
Character: Congressman Breimer
Released: December 15, 2006
Type: Movie
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
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Whaledreamers
Title: Whaledreamers
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 15, 2006
Type: Movie
"Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an incredible glimpse into a rarely seen and scarcely understood tribal culture whose entire story of creation revolves around whales and has endured for centuries. The film passionately explores the connection between the subtle elegance of these “mothers of the sea” and ancient civilizations around the world whose culture and very existence is based on whales. Intertwining incredible underwater footage with ancient legend, whaledreamers examines the complex past and the possibly dire future of human civilization. Told with moving optimism and spiritual strength, it is a clarion call encouraging humanity’s reconnection to the profound beauty of the natural world and is an appeal to embrace all living beings thereby creating the unity and peace which the Earth itself can bring.
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Oyster Farmer
Title: Oyster Farmer
Character: Skippy
Released: June 30, 2005
Type: Movie
A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.
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Feed
Title: Feed
Character: Richard
Released: May 11, 2005
Type: Movie
A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.
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Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
Title: Gallipoli: The Untold Stories
Character: Narrator
Released: April 26, 2005
Type: Movie
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare insight into what really happened. Together with meticulously researched stories, it provides a unique analysis of the Gallipoli campaign, including never-seen before interviews with the last 10 Gallipoli Anzacs, rare film footage showing the beach & trenches at Gallipoli.
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Man-Thing
Title: Man-Thing
Character: Frederic Schist
Released: April 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Title: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Character: Other Voices (voice)
Released: September 4, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Title: The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Character: Jack Jones
Released: May 17, 2004
Type: Movie
It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his misfortunes and comes up with the President of the United States who he plans to murder.
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Title: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Character: Cliegg Lars
Released: May 15, 2002
Type: Movie
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could change the galaxy forever.
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Title: My Brother Jack
Character: Bernard Brewster
Released: June 3, 2001
Type: TV
The story of two brothers, David and Jack Meredith, who grow up in a working class family in Melbourne between the First and Second World Wars. Jack is the archetypal Aussie battler, whose greatest dream is to fight for his country. David, the more ambitious and complex of the brothers, takes a path which will lead him to success and ultimately, alienation from his homeland.
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Original Sin
Title: Original Sin
Character: Alan Jordan
Released: May 8, 2001
Type: Movie
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp
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South Pacific
Title: South Pacific
Character: Captain George Brackett
Released: March 26, 2001
Type: Movie
During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. The war is tearing them apart.
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Yolngu Boy
Title: Yolngu Boy
Character: Policeman
Released: March 22, 2001
Type: Movie
After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.
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The Magic Pudding
Title: The Magic Pudding
Character: Buncle (voice)
Released: December 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Meet Albert, The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum, a splendid young koala and his seafaring friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Together they fight off the bungled attempts of pudding thieves, Possum and Wombat, and try to solve the mystery of Bunyip's parents' disappearance.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Title: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Character: Sonny Seiler
Released: November 21, 1997
Type: Movie
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
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Under the Lighthouse Dancing
Title: Under the Lighthouse Dancing
Character: Harry
Released: October 15, 1997
Type: Movie
Harry and his much-younger girlfriend surprise their friends one vacation weekend by announcing their desire to marry immediately. As they are visiting a small island village off the coast of west Australia, that is easier said than done.
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Excess Baggage
Title: Excess Baggage
Character: Alexander
Released: August 29, 1997
Type: Movie
A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.
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McLeod's Daughters
Title: McLeod's Daughters
Character: Jack McLeod
Released: May 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Tess returns home to Drovers Run, a family-run ranch in Australia’s outback, to reunite with her estranged father Jack and half sister Claire. Although Tess and Claire have feuded in the past, they must now work together to save the ranch from bankruptcy.
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Last Dance
Title: Last Dance
Character: The Governor
Released: May 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, while all the while the date for her execution draws nearer.
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Flight of the Albatross
Title: Flight of the Albatross
Character: Mike
Released: April 29, 1996
Type: Movie
After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably involved in events involving both Maori legend and an Albatross.
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Broken Arrow
Title: Broken Arrow
Character: Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff
Released: February 9, 1996
Type: Movie
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Title: The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Character: The Judge
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Title: Peter Allen: The Boy From Oz
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The story of Peter Allen, Australia's beloved variety entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly gay entertainers, Allen won a unique stardom with a mainstream public which loved him for his honesty.
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The Sum of Us
Title: The Sum of Us
Character: Harry Mitchell
Released: July 28, 1994
Type: Movie
A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."
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Title: The Dwelling Place
Character: Richard
Released: May 8, 1994
Type: TV
Set in the 1830s, the story of 16-year-old Cissie Brodie after the death of parents and the repossession of the family home. She finds a barren place to live and care for her younger brothers and sisters with the help of Matthew, a local carpenter, but her life becomes complicated when the aristocratic Fischel family take an unwelcome interest.
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A Far Off Place
Title: A Far Off Place
Character: John Ricketts
Released: March 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.
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Ruby Cairo
Title: Ruby Cairo
Character: Ed
Released: December 12, 1992
Type: Movie
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
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Wind
Title: Wind
Character: Jack Neville
Released: September 11, 1992
Type: Movie
In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defeat during the America's Cup race against an Australian crew. Determined to get the prize back, Will convinces Morgan to finance an experimental boat designed by his ex-girlfriend Kate's new beau, Joe Heisler. When the boat is completed, the Americans head to Australia to reclaim the cup.
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Turtle Beach
Title: Turtle Beach
Character: Ralph
Released: March 19, 1992
Type: Movie
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan, and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at "Turtle Beach" where the refugees try to land secretly in the hope that one day her own children will arrive. Accompanying Minou one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.
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Resistance
Title: Resistance
Character: Mr Wilson
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
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Trouble in Paradise
Title: Trouble in Paradise
Character: Jake
Released: May 16, 1989
Type: Movie
Following her husband Arthur's mysterious death, Rachel Baxley packs up her life as a State Department wife in Hong Kong and boards a freighter along with her husband's casket bound for the U.S. She begins to regret this decision when she meets one of the crew members, a handsome rogue named Jake Fontaine - who has smuggled his liquor above in Arthur's coffin! Suddenly, a typhoon hits and the freighter breaks apart. Marooned on a desert island with Jake they fall in love. Shortly thereafter, Jake comes to suspect that Rachel's "late" husband Arthur might not be dead at all. Rachel is stunned when Arthur arrives on the island with his heroin smuggling partners. In the ensuing chaos, Jake overcomes each of the smugglers and heroically rescues his new love, Rachel.
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The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
Title: The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
Character: Stuart Irving
Released: October 9, 1988
Type: Movie
Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.
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The Riddle of the Stinson
Title: The Riddle of the Stinson
Character: Bernard O'Reilly
Released: July 25, 1988
Type: Movie
A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.
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Ground Zero
Title: Ground Zero
Character: Trebilcock
Released: October 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.
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Kojak: The Price of Justice
Title: Kojak: The Price of Justice
Character: Aubrey Dubose
Released: February 21, 1987
Type: Movie
Top New York cop Theo Kojak finds himself trapped in a tangled web of false trials, jealousies and murderous scheming as he investigates the death of two young boys. Their bodies are discovered in a Harlem river, the boys mother is the major suspect. But what appears to be an open shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.
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Title: The Last Frontier
Character: Nick Stenning
Released: October 5, 1986
Type: TV
Following a whirlwind courtship, a single mother from Los Angeles marries an Australian cattle rancher. He returns to Australia ahead of her and her two children but dies before they arrive, leaving his widow to deal with a debt-ridden ranch and land-grabbing neighbors.
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Short Circuit
Title: Short Circuit
Character: Party Guest
Released: May 9, 1986
Type: Movie
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
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Burke & Wills
Title: Burke & Wills
Character: Robert O'Hara Burke
Released: October 30, 1985
Type: Movie
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
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Flesh + Blood
Title: Flesh + Blood
Character: Hawkwood
Released: August 30, 1985
Type: Movie
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
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Waterfront
Title: Waterfront
Character: Maxey Woodbury
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Title: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Character: Hicksley
Released: May 28, 1983
Type: Movie
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
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Bad Blood
Title: Bad Blood
Character: Stan Graham
Released: November 12, 1982
Type: Movie
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
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The Letter
Title: The Letter
Character: Robert Crosbie
Released: May 3, 1982
Type: Movie
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
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A Woman Called Golda
Title: A Woman Called Golda
Character: Ariel
Released: April 26, 1982
Type: Movie
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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The Man from Snowy River
Title: The Man from Snowy River
Character: Clancy
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet.
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The Club
Title: The Club
Character: Laurie Holden
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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The Earthling
Title: The Earthling
Character: Ross Daley
Released: July 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents have been killed and decides to take him under his wing.
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Breaker Morant
Title: Breaker Morant
Character: Major J.F. Thomas
Released: June 11, 1980
Type: Movie
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
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The Journalist
Title: The Journalist
Character: Simon Morris
Released: November 15, 1979
Type: Movie
Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics of the 1970's. A somewhat lesser Australian film comparable to the American film Shampoo.
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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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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Title: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Character: Rev. Neville
Released: June 21, 1978
Type: Movie
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
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Because He's My Friend
Title: Because He's My Friend
Character: Geoff
Released: June 11, 1978
Type: Movie
An American military man moves his family to Australia to undergo training in submarine warfare, providing new challenges for his wife and their developmentally disabled son.
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Mad Dog Morgan
Title: Mad Dog Morgan
Character: Detective Manwaring
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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Caddie
Title: Caddie
Character: Ted
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.
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That Lady from Peking
Title: That Lady from Peking
Character: Flunky
Released: November 13, 1975
Type: Movie
Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape, the diplomat must turn over to Foster a diary revealing the true events taking place in China. While making his escape, the defector is killed ant the diary vanishes. The reporter sets off on a search for it, from Hong Kong to Australia. The chase ends in an action-filled climax, with the journalist finally meeting up with "That Lady from Peking" (Nancy Kwan) - the diplomat's daughter.
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Scobie Malone
Title: Scobie Malone
Character: Scobie Malone
Released: October 3, 1975
Type: Movie
Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the basement of the Sydney Opera House.
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Sunday Too Far Away
Title: Sunday Too Far Away
Character: Foley
Released: June 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.
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Jock Petersen
Title: Jock Petersen
Character: Tony Petersen
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of his students after class. Petersen and the professor's wife talk about having a baby. But then she accepts an appointment to Oxford, provoking a rage in Petersen...
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Title: The Evil Touch
Released: June 19, 1973
Type: TV
The Evil Touch is an Australian-produced television series, originally broadcast in Australia in 1973. It was an anthology series where each episode had a self-contained story and a new set of characters. Each episode feature a new cast of guest actors, although several guest stars appeared in more than one episode, playing different characters. Each story is a thriller or horror story of some variety, ranging from tales of the occult and the supernatural, science fiction horror stories, to more standard murder schemes and whodunits. Most stories feature a twist ending.
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Libido
Title: Libido
Released: April 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
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Title: Spyforce
Released: August 8, 1971
Type: TV
Spyforce was an Australian TV series produced from 1971 to 1973, based upon the adventures of Australian Military Intelligence operatives in the South West Pacific during World War II. It was produced by the Nine Network in conjunction with Paramount Pictures. The series centres on the action and adventures of lead actor Jack Thompson's character Erskine, and his main support character, Peter Sumner's Gunthar Haber. It was the first lead role for Jack Thompson. The two are part of an elite unit of special operatives, the Special Intelligence Unit, and their adventures are loosely based upon those of the real Services Reconnaissance Department who often operated behind Japanese-held lines during the war. Unlike most previous war films, Spyforce deliberately steered away from the notion that the United States was solely responsible for Japan's defeat, and highlights the important role Australian forces played in the defeat of the Imperial Japanese Army. Producer Roger Mirams was also careful to avoid stereotypes of the genre, and tired formulas for the battle scenes. The idea appealed to American producers Paramount Pictures, who backed creator Roger Mirams to begin production without having seen a script. He made the pilot episode, "Spy Catcher", which impressed Paramount, and the Nine Network immediately bought the local rights. The first episode aired in Sydney on 8 August 1971, and the rest of Australia on 26 August 1971. It was originally intended to produce 26 episodes, but following the success of the first series, Mirams held talks with both Nine Network and Paramount Pictures, who backed him for a second series. In all 42 episodes were produced. The series was last aired on Australian television in Adelaide on 21 September 1976, but has been re-run several times since.
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Wake in Fright
Title: Wake in Fright
Character: Dick
Released: July 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.
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Title: Riptide
Character: Ted
Released: February 6, 1969
Type: TV
Riptide is an Australian adventure television
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Runt
Title: Runt
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Ten year old Annie Shearer and her stray dog Runt attempt to win the Agility Course Championship at the Krumpets Dog Show in London in order to save their family's farm from drought and misery.
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Justice in a Smoking Gun
Title: Justice in a Smoking Gun
Character: William Gray
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1868 Goldfields Victoria, an Irish settler seeks revenge and justice from those who murdered his family.