Barry Otto

Barry Otto

Born: January 1, 1941
in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Barry Otto (born 1941) is an Australian actor, primarily of cinema, and an amateur artist.

He is the father of two daughters, Miranda Otto and Gracie Otto, who are actresses.

Movies for Barry Otto...

Title: Faraway Downs
Character: Administrator Allsop
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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Title: Sisters
Character: Julius Bechly
Released: October 25, 2017
Type: TV
A woman's life is turned upside down when she finds out her father used his sperm in a number of IVF procedures, leading her to track down her newly discovered siblings.
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The Dressmaker
Title: The Dressmaker
Character: Percival Almanac
Released: October 29, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
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Blinky Bill the Movie
Title: Blinky Bill the Movie
Character: Mayor Cranklepot (voice)
Released: August 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his missing father’s footsteps. When Blinky discovers a mysterious marker that hints at his Dad’s whereabouts, he embarks on a journey that takes him beyond the boundary of Green Patch and into the wild and dangerous Outback.
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The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
Character: Benny McClenahan
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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A Cautionary Tail
Title: A Cautionary Tail
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
A little girl is born with a tail that expresses her emotions. As a child, her parents celebrate their daughter's uniqueness and her tail inspires magical make-believe adventures with her friends. As she grows up, however, the young woman faces pressure to fit in, and must choose between conformity and self-expression. An animated short film starring Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, using a striking collage of 3D animated characters and hand-made miniature sets.
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Waiting for the Turning of the Earth
Title: Waiting for the Turning of the Earth
Character: Tom
Released: December 1, 2011
Type: Movie
It is not everyday that you meet a man on the beach in his pajamas. It is even less often that you find he has brought his bed with him. A gentle film about life, death and forgiveness, starring two of Australia's best loved actors.
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South Solitary
Title: South Solitary
Character: George Wadsworth
Released: July 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her uncle the new head keeper.
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Title: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Character: Echidna (voice)
Released: July 10, 2010
Type: Movie
When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.
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$9.99
Title: $9.99
Character: Albert Kweller (voice)
Released: April 29, 2009
Type: Movie
Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99.
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Schadenfreude
Title: Schadenfreude
Released: February 21, 2009
Type: Movie
An existential fable about a man who wakes to find himself broke, homeless, and missing one shoe.
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Australia
Title: Australia
Character: Administrator Allsop
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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Three Blind Mice
Title: Three Blind Mice
Character: Fred
Released: June 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancé and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption.
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Rogue
Title: Rogue
Character: Merv
Released: November 8, 2007
Type: Movie
When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.
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Title: headLand
Character: Professor Day
Released: November 15, 2005
Type: TV
Headland is an Australian drama television series produced by the Seven Network which ran from 15 November 2005 to 21 January 2006. The Seven Network filmed 52 episodes in the first series. Production on the second series had begun before any episodes were aired. Set in a university, Headland premiered in Australia on Tuesday, 15 November 2005 at 7.30pm. On 23 January 2006, the Seven Network officially announced that the series has been cancelled. The show aired on weekdays at 7.30pm in the United Kingdom on E4, re-formatted as half-hour episodes. E4 eventually dropped the show but episodes continued to be broadcast on Channel 4 at 12:30pm, this time in the original hour-long format.
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Title: Through My Eyes
Character: Frank Cocks
Released: October 23, 2004
Type: TV
The true life story of Lindy Chamberlain and her recount of a dingo taking her baby
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Loot
Title: Loot
Character: Charles Highsmith
Released: June 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Jon Peregrine (Jason Donovan), a financial slueth investigates a stock market rort which caused his brother-in-law to commit suicide. Meanwhile his ex-wife asks for his help to investigate a missing underworld "business" figure.
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Love's Brother
Title: Love's Brother
Character: Father Alfredo
Released: April 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in rural Australia and Tuscany in the 1950's, this is the story of two brothers and the bride who - as fate would have it - arrives from Italy betrothed to one yet falls madly in love with the other.
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The Visitor
Title: The Visitor
Character: Michael
Released: June 14, 2002
Type: Movie
Michael, at his beach-home in Australia, is avoiding phone calls regarding his dear lifelong friend and former lover of two-years Chris who is dying back in Boston, America. While trying to write, he is disturbed by the noisy surfers next door as they get ready for a weekend away of surf. C.K., one of the surfers, remains behind to surf the local beach....
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Title: Farscape
Character: Dr. Tumii
Released: March 19, 1999
Type: TV
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
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Dead Letter Office
Title: Dead Letter Office
Character: Gerald Urquhart
Released: August 20, 1998
Type: Movie
After years of having her letters to her estranged father come back as undeliverable, a young woman takes a job at a Dead Letter Office. She hopes to figure out how to locate her father. Unexpectedly, she finds a potential romance and begins to learn more about herself.
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Oscar and Lucinda
Title: Oscar and Lucinda
Character: Jimmy D'Abbs
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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Kiss or Kill
Title: Kiss or Kill
Character: Adler Jones
Released: July 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
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Mr. Nice Guy
Title: Mr. Nice Guy
Character: Baggio
Released: January 31, 1997
Type: Movie
A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.
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Mr. Reliable
Title: Mr. Reliable
Character: The Premier (NSW)
Released: November 22, 1996
Type: Movie
All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officers come around to disturb this, a misunderstanding quickly becomes out of control, resulting Wally, Beryl and her child being trapped in their house, surrounded by armed police under the impression that Wally is holding everyone hostage. Events quickly spiral into a media circus as, through the siege, Wally - inadvertently - manages to become a symbol for the anti-war movement.
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Lilian's Story
Title: Lilian's Story
Character: John Singer / Albion Singer
Released: May 9, 1996
Type: Movie
For forty years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a 'loony bin' by her father. Her release is eventually secured by her eccentric Aunt Kitty and her brother, John. Lilian starts to carve out a place for herself. As she explores Sydney and the people who live and work around her she sees others looking for love. Lilian shows us it is never too late to change your life and that even unusual choices can bring contentment.
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Cosi
Title: Cosi
Character: Roy
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 Custodian
Title: The Custodian
Character: Brian Ferguson
Released: March 17, 1994
Type: Movie
Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his straight life to join his partner Detective Church in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He secretly sides with a reporter and an Internal Affairs lawyer to expose them to the press.
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Touch Me
Title: Touch Me
Character: Stewart
Released: December 16, 1993
Type: Movie
Two women escape to the mountains where they enjoy each others company, apparently disappointed with their male partners.
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Strictly Ballroom
Title: Strictly Ballroom
Character: Doug Hastings
Released: August 20, 1992
Type: Movie
Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?
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The Punisher
Title: The Punisher
Character: Shake
Released: October 5, 1989
Type: Movie
The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. His ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast and became the Punisher, living in the sewers and exacting vigilante violence against mob bosses throughout the city. When the populace is caught in the midst of a gang war that he caused, Castle must again emerge from the shadows and save the innocent.
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The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Title: The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Character: Kevin
Released: February 13, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.
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I've Come About The Suicide
Title: I've Come About The Suicide
Character: Garfield Lawson
Released: December 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Australian TV-Movie (Comedy), Also known as Pigs Will Fly
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Takeover
Title: Takeover
Character: George Oppenheimer
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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Howling III: The Marsupials
Title: Howling III: The Marsupials
Character: Prof. Harry Beckmeyer
Released: May 15, 1987
Type: Movie
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?
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Title: Vietnam
Character: Douglas Goddard
Released: February 23, 1987
Type: TV
The Goddard family is about to be torn apart by the arrival of Australian conscription during the Vietnam War.
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Vietnam
Title: Vietnam
Character: Douglas Goddard
Released: February 23, 1987
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
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The More Things Change...
Title: The More Things Change...
Character: Lex
Released: March 19, 1986
Type: Movie
A couple hires a young girl to take care of their son.
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Bliss
Title: Bliss
Character: Harry Joy
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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Title: Singles
Character: Peter
Released: August 14, 1984
Type: TV
Singles is a 1984 Australian television mini series about Sydney doctor Alison advertises in a singles magazine and meets five different men, the serial looked at a different date each episode.
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Undercover
Title: Undercover
Character: Professor Henckel
Released: February 24, 1984
Type: Movie
The uniquely Australian underwear invention of the Berlei Bra and under corsetry of the time is lovingly and lavishly depicted in David Elfick's lush and amusing production.
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The Dismissal
Title: The Dismissal
Released: March 6, 1983
Type: Movie
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.
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Norman Loves Rose
Title: Norman Loves Rose
Character: Charles
Released: September 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A teenage boy falls hopelessly in love with his new sister-in-law. When she gets pregnant, someone raises the question that he might be the father--a notion he does nothing to discourage.
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Benny Hill Down Under
Title: Benny Hill Down Under
Character: Various / Guest star
Released: October 11, 1977
Type: Movie
A one-off special starring Benny Hill, filmed entirely in Australia. Includes a sketch about "Benny Kelly," son of infamous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly; "Hold Back the Wind" (a Tennessee Williams parody); "Archie's Angels" (a spoof of Charlie's Angels); and "Lady Godiva." Also: a vagabond dreams of moving up to the high life; an interview with Chow Mein; a dance routine set to the themes from The Avengers, M*A*S*H and Hawaii Five-O; and closing hijinks around the beach.