Paul Chubb

Paul Chubb

Born: January 14, 1949
Died: May 9, 2002
in Arncliffe, New South Wales, Australia
Paul Dunford (14 January 1949 – 9 June 2002), professionally billed as Paul Chubb, was an Australian film, television and stage actor and scriptwriter primarily in genres of comedy and drama.

He died due to post operative cardiomyopathy complications, in 2002.

Movies for Paul Chubb...

Dirty Deeds
Title: Dirty Deeds
Character: Sammy
Released: July 18, 2002
Type: Movie
Set in 1960s Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast competitors.
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The Well
Title: The Well
Character: Harry Bird
Released: May 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Young Katherine and her older friend Hester live at the isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to leave that place because there's too much work. Hester, however, gets attracted to Katherine and hold her there, promising to give her less work in the future. When old Francis dies, Hester decides to sell the farm for cash. They move to small cottage on the edge of the farm and plan to go to Europe for the money they got. But tragic accident and theft of their money change their plans.
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Cosi
Title: Cosi
Character: Henry
Released: March 4, 1996
Type: Movie
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart despite the fact that none of the patients are able to sing and none of them speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.
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The Roly Poly Man
Title: The Roly Poly Man
Character: Dirk Trent
Released: December 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an incident he caught on tape, where a man seemed about to murder his mistress with an axe. Delving deeper, the film enters some seldom-trodden territory as it slips easily into horror and sci-fi, while still maintaining the hilarious dialogue
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Title: The Damnation of Harvey McHugh
Character: Bob Shearer
Released: June 2, 1994
Type: TV
The Damnation of Harvey McHugh is a television miniseries made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series consists of 12 episodes and was first broadcast on the ABC in 1994.
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Shotgun Wedding
Title: Shotgun Wedding
Character: Geoffrey Dinkwater
Released: May 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Shotgun Wedding is a 1993 Australian film based on the Wally Melish siege.
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Singapore Sling
Title: Singapore Sling
Character: Cray
Released: March 9, 1994
Type: Movie
John Stamford, an expatriate Australian, now a private detective in Singapore, becomes involved in a fake pharmaceuticals case and a dangerous love triangle.
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Title: Stark
Character: Mayor
Released: December 8, 1993
Type: TV
Stark is a 1993 British-Australian television miniseries, based on the bestselling novel Stark by comedian Ben Elton. The three-episode series, directed by Nadia Tass, was an international co-production between the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Stan and George's New Life
Title: Stan and George's New Life
Character: Stanley Harris
Released: August 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Stan is a mild-mannered, gentle, middle-aged man who still lives with his overbearing parents. One day, acting on a suggestion by his father, he lands a job at the Weather Bureau. The work is challenging to him, and a little daunting, and his adjustment is considerably eased for him by his female co-worker "George," as she is called. The two become close, eventually marrying and moving in together. While they are adapting to the married state, conditions at work are deteriorating in a bizarre and irrational way, which puts a considerable strain on both the newlyweds.
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Big ideas
Title: Big ideas
Character: Noel Draper
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Selling compost brings a boy inventor (Justin Rosniak) and his widowed mother (Gosia Dobrowolska) into conflict with their neighbor.
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Dead to the World
Title: Dead to the World
Character: Sergeant Jack Grant
Released: June 7, 1991
Type: Movie
Two women battle for control of an inner-city boxing school.
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Sweet Talker
Title: Sweet Talker
Character: Billy
Released: May 10, 1991
Type: Movie
When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an old Portuguese treasure ship lies buried in the sand. Harry is an old pro at manipulating this situation to his best advantage, but never anticipates how deeply he will be affected by the relationship he develops with a young boy and his mother. A delightful tale of greed, gullibility and grandiose schemes, "Sweet Talker" is a romantic comedy for everyone in the family.
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And a Fire Engine to Go with the Dog
Title: And a Fire Engine to Go with the Dog
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Two of Australia's finest acors, Jo Kennedy and Paul Chubb, combine in this delicate two-hander that explores the relationship between a middle-aged man who has left the Church, and a rock singer.
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Golden Braid
Title: Golden Braid
Character: Joseph
Released: September 7, 1990
Type: Movie
When a man discovers a golden braid hidden inside an antique he has purchased, he becomes obsessed with the fantasy of a love affair from time past and the woman he imagines the braid belonged to.
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Hard Knuckle
Title: Hard Knuckle
Character: Max
Released: December 9, 1988
Type: Movie
In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australia, the most popular sport is Hard Knuckle, a bloodier form of pool. Harry is a pool hustler, wants to beat Knuckle champ Top Dog, to get his bike back.
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Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
Title: Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
Character: Mayor Leo Bainbridge
Released: March 28, 1988
Type: Movie
The fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had traveled to Australia by ship during the time of the Roman Emperor, Nero.
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Danger Down Under
Title: Danger Down Under
Character: Dennis Quinn
Released: March 14, 1988
Type: Movie
The story of an American horse-breeder living in Australia who is the single father of three sons.
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Takeover
Title: Takeover
Character: Frank
Released: February 10, 1988
Type: Movie
George Oppenheimer has two problems: an eccentric wife and an uncontrollable child. At work his team invented a computer with personality. George thinks the computer is faster, smarter and elegant. When his life falls apart, the computer offers suicide as the only alternative.
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Title: Home and Away
Character: Jack Brown
Released: January 17, 1988
Type: TV
Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. During the early 2000s, the central storylines focused on the Sutherlands and later, the Hunters. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.
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With Love to the Person Next to Me
Title: With Love to the Person Next to Me
Released: November 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Wallace is a Melbourne taxi driver who lives in a block of run-down small apartments in St Kilda on the bay. When not driving his cab, he makes apple cider and broods about his past.
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Bullseye
Title: Bullseye
Character: Don Mckenzie
Released: June 1, 1987
Type: Movie
In the 1860s, two friends, Harry and Bluey, steal a thousand head of cattle and trek it across country from Queensland to Adelaide.
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Bliss
Title: Bliss
Character: Reverend Des
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.
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The Coca-Cola Kid
Title: The Coca-Cola Kid
Character: Fred
Released: July 14, 1985
Type: Movie
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
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Robbery Under Arms
Title: Robbery Under Arms
Character: Mungo
Released: March 28, 1985
Type: Movie
Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill as the infamous Captain Starlight.
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Title: Bodyline
Character: Ernest Jones (Barracker)
Released: July 16, 1984
Type: TV
Dramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) applied a bowling technique called "leg theory", or more commonly, Bodyline. This technique involved bowlers bowling the ball directly at the batsman's body, and resulted in many of the Australian team receiving numerous bruises and injuries, with batsman Bert Oldfield sustaining a cracked skull. The series generated much anger and resentment towards the English team within Australia and seriously damaged Anglo-Australian cricketing relations at the time.
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A Girl's Own Story
Title: A Girl's Own Story
Character: Father
Released: June 8, 1984
Type: Movie
This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s.
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Passionless Moments
Title: Passionless Moments
Character: Jim Simpson
Released: December 31, 1983
Type: Movie
A series of the awkward trials of everyday living.
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Goodbye Paradise
Title: Goodbye Paradise
Character: Curly
Released: July 21, 1983
Type: Movie
The plot centres on Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup.
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Kitty and the Bagman
Title: Kitty and the Bagman
Character: Slugger
Released: February 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Notorious Australian flop set in the Roaring 20s Sydney follows Kitty O'Rourke who, after her thug husband ends up in jail, becomes a tough gangster on her own, befriends a crooked cop called The Bagman and takes on the competition.
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Hoodwink
Title: Hoodwink
Released: November 5, 1981
Type: Movie
Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a labor-saving plan. Hargreaves pretends to be totally blind, thus lightening his work load....and carries off the hoax for years.
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Demolition
Title: Demolition
Released: June 21, 1979
Type: Movie
When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repetition, discovers chordation that completely erases all memory, it is obvious that such a cleansed mind may be programmed to perform any type of action. Erstwhile agent Peter Clarke inactive for years, is chosen as courier to transport an audio tape of the tones to his native Australia.
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The Night, the Prowler
Title: The Night, the Prowler
Character: Policeman #1
Released: June 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Felicity Bannister is a young woman living in the shadow of her overpowering mother. Her oppression is her worst enemy until the day she is attacked by an intruder who breaks into her bedroom and forces Felicity into action. The tables are suddenly turned and Felicity transforms from the helpless victim into a ruthless renegade in search of trouble, driven by the anarchic thrill of malevolence.