Sean Scully

Sean Scully

Born: September 28, 1947
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sean Scully (born 28 September 1947) is an Australian actor, active in film and television, most especially serials.

Scully was born in Sydney, New South Wales. He began his acting career at the age of 12, going on 13, in the 1960 Children’s Film Foundation film Hunted in Holland, which won the Diploma of Honour at the Cannes Film Festival. Following that, he was signed by Walt Disney and starred in a number of Technicolor family feature films for the studio, including The Prince and the Pauper (filmed 1961, released 1962), in which he played both title characters, alongside Guy Williams as Miles Hendon, and also played opposite Patrick McGoohan in Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963).

Scully also starred in the 1962 Walt Disney movie Almost Angels. He played Peter, a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir whose voice is near to breaking. He is extremely jealous of Toni Fiala, played by Vincent Winter, who is the new boy with a wonderful clear treble voice. Ultimately, however, the two boys become friends. The film was retitled Born To Sing in the UK.

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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Family Portrait
Title: The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Family Portrait
Character: Lloyd Wellman
Released: November 12, 2017
Type: Movie
Three murders, two weddings and a funeral... life's never been straightforward for Doctor Lucien Blake and Jean. So why would anything change now?
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Evil Never Dies
Title: Evil Never Dies
Character: Suit #2
Released: June 1, 2003
Type: Movie
After his wife is brutally murdered, a policeman transfers to patrol duty at a college, only to discover that the now-executed murderder may be brought back to life as part of a professor's experiment.
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Title: Pacific Drive
Released: January 29, 1996
Type: TV
Pacific Drive is an Australian television series The series was conceived as a flamboyant, melodramatic soap opera and dealt with the lives of wealthy Australians living on the Gold Coast. Although criticised for being an Australian copy of the American soap opera Melrose Place, its outrageous storylines - including corporate scheming, various affairs, serial killers and a lesbian love triangle - saw the series gain a cult reputation.
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Title: Echo Point
Character: Neville Loman
Released: June 5, 1995
Type: TV
Echo Point was an Australian television soap opera produced by Southern Star Group for Network Ten on 1 June 1995 until 1 December 1995. The series was devised as an attempt by the Ten Network to rival the opposition soap Home and Away on the Seven Network. The series focused on several families and teenagers in a coastal community, and a key on-going storyline concerned renewed interest in a long-unsolved local murder mystery. Echo Point originally aired at 7:00pm weeknights to low ratings and the series was cancelled after a little over 100 episodes had been produced. The final episodes were aired in a late night 11.30pm slot. The only purchaser of the series in the UK was Central Television, the only member of the ITV network to screen it. Central screened the series at 1315-1345 in the summer of 1998 following the conclusion of A Country Practice. TV3 in New Zealand picked up the series for just a few weeks in 1996 but then later cancelled, the show featured former Shortland Street actor Martin Henderson.
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Title: Janus
Character: Ian Cochrane
Released: September 1, 1994
Type: TV
Janus is an Australian drama television series screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1994 and 1995. Two series were produced, with a total of 26 episodes. Janus was a spin-off series from the earlier ABC-TV crime series Phoenix. Loosely based on the true story of Melbourne's Pettingill family and the Walsh Street police shootings, Janus follows the bitterly-fought prosecutions of a notorious criminal family, the Hennesseys, from the viewpoints of the family, the police and, in particular, the lawyers, prosecutors, barristers and judges involved in all aspects of the story. When the series begins, four members of the infamous Hennessey clan are acquitted of the shooting of two young policemen in a bungled bank heist. The city of Melbourne is shocked as brothers Mal and Steve, along with brother-in-law Darren Mack and friend Ken Hardy, walk free. The prosecutors, judges, magistrates and police—many modelled heavily on real-life legal figures—are determined to put the Hennessey members behind bars if they can. But corruption, legal loopholes, delays, and stretched resources combine to make the quest to jail the group far from straightforward.
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Shotgun Wedding
Title: Shotgun Wedding
Character: Det. Craig Haker
Released: May 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Shotgun Wedding is a 1993 Australian film based on the Wally Melish siege.
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Title: Blue Heelers
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.
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Title: Phoenix
Character: Ian Cochrane
Released: February 13, 1992
Type: TV
Phoenix is an Australian police drama television series. Phoenix screened as two thirteen-part series on Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1992 and 1993. The first series of Phoenix in 1992 recounted the investigation of the bombing of the Victorian state police headquarters, loosely based on a real case in the mid-1980s, the Russell Street Bombing. It was aided by extensive research into police techniques and was lauded as one of the most realistic depictions of police investigation techniques, including both surveillance and forensics, as well as having an involving storyline. The series was notable for its dark visual tone and for its no-holds-barred attitude to violence and language. It spawned a second thirteen-part series, Phoenix II, in 1993 as well as a spin-off series, Janus, in 1994 devoted to the machinations of court cases. The series was created and produced by Tony McDonald and Alison Nisselle and screened by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The ABC have released Series 1 and 2 on DVD as a 4 DVD box set.
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The Time Game
Title: The Time Game
Character: Graham Johnson
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
13 year old Tony Johnson and computer wizard, is of falsely accused of setting fire to his school. He is sent to stay with his grandparents over Christmas. Tony's grandfather invents things. He has designed a game called "The Time Game"...
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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Michael (Jumper)
Released: February 14, 1991
Type: TV
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.
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Heaven Tonight
Title: Heaven Tonight
Character: Tim Robbins
Released: November 12, 1990
Type: Movie
The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the leader of a band making rock-music from the 60s but his son becomes a star of techno-pop music.
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Phobia
Title: Phobia
Character: David Simmons
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Phobia is a psychological thriller. It is a two-hander, a battle of wits between a husband and wife who are separating.
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Daisy and Simon
Title: Daisy and Simon
Character: Simon
Released: May 4, 1989
Type: Movie
Daisy, a gun-toting grumpy old battle-axe, eeking out her life in a tumbledown shack in the middle of nowhere. Into her life stumbles Simon, a mild-mannered accountant. Together, they form an uneasy alliance that is hilarious to watch. Gradually he helps her rediscover her zestful youth in return for stability in his troubled life.
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Title: E Street
Character: Mike Kominski
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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Takeover
Title: Takeover
Character: Enzo
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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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: (voice)
Released: January 4, 1987
Type: Movie
This heartwarming adaptation of the novel tells the story of the courageous stallion Black Beauty, a well-bred horse in 19th century England. Black Beauty is happy as a country carriage horse, living with a wealthy Squire and his children Polly and Bertie
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Barry Irving
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: TV
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
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Shark's Paradise
Title: Shark's Paradise
Character: Detective Charlie Kelly
Released: March 13, 1986
Type: Movie
A mad man threatens to lure hundreds of sharks to the beach at Surfers Paradise Australia at the start of the tourist season, his price to hold off the sharks is $2 million. Our heroes do everything from escaping jail to risking death in a chemical factory, to stop him.
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Departure
Title: Departure
Character: Alex Rowan
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on the highly acclaimed play by Michael Gurr, 'A Pair of Claws', it revolves around a couple who have been married for more than 30 years. Although there is a great mutual warmth between them, they are both aware that a gulf exists between them. Their son, Simon, is involved in a scandal and to preserve his career Simon must publicly denounce his father.
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The Dismissal
Title: The Dismissal
Character: Doug Anthony
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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Title: Sara Dane
Character: Louis de Bourget
Released: May 31, 1982
Type: TV
Sara Dane is a 1982 Australian television miniseries about a woman transported from England to Australia for a crime she did not commit.
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Title: Water Under the Bridge
Character: Pete
Released: September 25, 1980
Type: TV
Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.
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Title: The Sullivans
Character: Sam Kendall (credit only)
Released: November 15, 1976
Type: TV
The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives. It was a consistent ratings success in Australia, and also became popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Gibraltar and New Zealand.
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Title: Power Without Glory
Character: Eddie Corrigan
Released: June 21, 1976
Type: TV
Award-winning historical drama series which traces the life of John West from his impoverished youth in the depression of the 1890s, to his death as a multi-millionaire some sixty years later.
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Sunday Too Far Away
Title: Sunday Too Far Away
Character: Beresford
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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A City's Child
Title: A City's Child
Character: Man
Released: November 8, 1971
Type: Movie
To escape her demanding, sick mother and her suburban loneliness, a middle-aged woman slides into a fantasy world in which there is incredible relief.
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Title: Riptide
Character: Chuck
Released: February 6, 1969
Type: TV
Riptide is an Australian adventure television
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Romeo and Juliet
Title: Romeo and Juliet
Character: Romeo
Released: October 18, 1967
Type: Movie
"Romeo and Juliet" is a 1967 Australian TV play based on the play by William Shakespeare. It was presented as part of the Love and War anthology series on the ABC.
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Title: Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Character: John Banks / The Curlew
Released: December 6, 1963
Type: Movie
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
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Almost Angels
Title: Almost Angels
Character: Peter Schaefer
Released: November 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: Prince Edward / Tom Canty
Released: April 18, 1962
Type: Movie
In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles" for a short while. After many adventures, the prince regains his rightful identity and graciously makes his "twin" a ward of the court.
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Hunted in Holland
Title: Hunted in Holland
Character: Tim
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
English schoolboy and his Dutch pen friend chase a diamond smuggling gang in Holland.