Jeffery Richards

Jeffery Richards

Jeffery Richards is a Melbourne based film, television and stage actor, award winning playwright, published author and screenplay writer with over three decades of experience behind him. He was also the editor and voice of Trent for the two time Emmy Award nominated animation series, Get Ace.

At this stage he has several feature films scripts on his slate in various stages, along with a musical and a television comedy series.

Movies for Jeffery Richards...

Sleeping Beauties
Title: Sleeping Beauties
Character: Alfred
Released: May 29, 2023
Type: Movie
Cahya gets a job as a maid working in an isolated old mansion. Pregnant and a recent widow, she is desperate to reconnect with her husband, opening a doorway to the spirit world. And in doing so, inadvertently awakens the tormented ghosts of her current employer, the previous maids.
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Apparitions
Title: Apparitions
Character: Ted the Barfly
Released: December 11, 2021
Type: Movie
With only nightmares for childhood memories, Lily Stone returns to her family home to find out what happened to her parents. Despite the locals' warnings about an evil presence cursing the house, Lily crosses the threshold and discovers not all the ghosts that haunt us are dead.
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Title: 2121
Character: Silas
Released: April 19, 2020
Type: TV
In the year 2121, society is controlled by Counsel, an all-knowing AI who logs and analyses every move citizens make. The unnamed city wherein 2121 takes place is under a hard-socialist rule. If at any time a citizen breaks any of Counsel's numerous rules, they will be expelled to the Outlands-a lawless wasteland outside the city walls, without the benefits of its clean air and water. Inevitably, from the depths of the misery of this society, a revolution is forming. A group called Defiance is planning a complex attack on Counsel, aiming to bring down both the AI and those who serve it. They have spent months recruiting members, turning assets in high places, and cooking up their own brand of digital weaponry-and now it's time to put their plan into action.
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Title: Get Ace
Character: Trent
Released: January 19, 2014
Type: TV
Meet Ace McDougal - just your average, everyday nerdy school kid... Well he was, 'til he happened to be in the wrong dentist's chair at the wrong time and accidentally said the secret codeword... next thing he knew he'd been fitted with a set of top secret, ultra high-tech experimental braces. From that moment on he's catapulted - teeth-first - into one hair-raising adventure after another! Now he's the kid proving you're never too nerdy to be cool!
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Dangerous Remedy
Title: Dangerous Remedy
Character: Policeman Reagan
Released: November 4, 2012
Type: Movie
The ABC telemovie event Dangerous Remedy tells the fascinating story of Dr Bertram Wainer. Living and working in Melbourne in the 1960s, Dr Wainer put his life at risk to expose police corruption in an effort to change the law on abortion and put an end to the illegal operations that were killing young women. It’s a truly inspiring story. Dr Wainer’s determination, even when his own life and that of his family’s was threatened, never faltered. He was living proof that one person can make a difference and change the status quo. With the support of Dr Wainer’s family, the filmmakers have endeavoured to capture the essence of his struggle to expose police corruption and change the law.
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Title: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
Character: Frettlby Butler
Released: October 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the driver finds the second man dead; murdered. The ‘high-society’ killing sends shockwaves through the young city, still flush from its gold-rush boom.
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Underground: The Julian Assange Story
Title: Underground: The Julian Assange Story
Character: Security Guard
Released: October 7, 2012
Type: Movie
In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining themselves as white hat hackers - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. In the eyes of the US Government, they were a major threat to national security.
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Title: Conspiracy 365
Character: Doctor Van dooren
Released: January 14, 2012
Type: TV
Conspiracy 365 is a 12-part Australian television miniseries based on the novels written by Gabrielle Lord. It follows the adventures of Callum Ormond, a 15 year old who is forced to become a fugitive as he searches for the truth behind the death of a family member.
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Title: Killing Time
Character: AFP Officer
Released: November 2, 2011
Type: TV
Killing Time is an Australian television drama series on TV1 subscription television channel which first screened in 2011. It is based on the true story of disgraced lawyer Andrew Fraser. In New Zealand it screens on Prime Television. The ten part series is written by Ian David, Mac Gudgeon, Katherine Thompson and Shaun Grant. The executive producer is Jason Stephens. The series was initially due to screen in 2010 but was deferred due to strong violence and horror content scenes of the mini-series, which jeopardised a series of gangland trials that were in progress.
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Scope
Title: Scope
Character: Don Hardy
Released: December 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Persephone Chase is a contract assassin with a difference. In a fond homage to 1970s drive-in action thrillers -- but set in modern-day Melbourne -- powerful criminals plot the downfall of a right-wing, devoutly religious political candidate... and each other.
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Title: Rush
Character: Ambo
Released: September 2, 2008
Type: TV
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Knox of TV Tonight has announced that Rush would not return after 4 years, as the next episode would be its last.
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Title: Stingers
Character: Moody
Released: September 29, 1998
Type: TV
Stingers brings to light the life and work of an undercover police unit located in Melbourne. This dangerous work requires complete dedication, one slip can cost an operative their life.
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Title: Stingers
Character: Simon the Maitre D'
Released: September 29, 1998
Type: TV
Stingers brings to light the life and work of an undercover police unit located in Melbourne. This dangerous work requires complete dedication, one slip can cost an operative their life.
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Title: Blue Heelers
Character: Doctor Darby
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: Bony
Character: Constable Read
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: TV
Bony is an Australian television series made in 1992. The series of 13 episodes followed on from a telemovie made in 1990. The series was criticised for casting a white man (Cameron Daddo) as the title character Detective David John Bonaparte, under the tutelage of "Uncle Albert", an elderly Aborigine (Burnham Burnham). Bony was supposed to be a descendent of the Bony character created by Arthur Upfield in dozens of novels from the late 1920s until his death in 1964.
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Rose Against the Odds
Title: Rose Against the Odds
Character: Detective Jones
Released: September 29, 1991
Type: Movie
The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until his first title fight in Japan.
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Title: Boys from the Bush
Character: John
Released: January 19, 1991
Type: TV
BBC comedy-drama series about the life of Reg Toomer (Tim Healy), an ex-pat Briton living in Australia and running Melbourne Confidential, a failing private detective agency with his shifty business partner Dennis Tontine. His estranged young cousin Leslie arrives in Melbourne from the United Kingdom after a painful divorce looking for fun and excitement in the new world, instead he finds himself used as a drone for Melbourne Confidential.
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The Big Steal
Title: The Big Steal
Character: Cousin Vinnie (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1990
Type: Movie
Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After he is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.
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Title: Flair
Character: Randle (1990)
Released: August 1, 1990
Type: TV
A fashion designer returns home to Australia from America intent on becoming a major player in the Australian fashion industry.
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Title: All The Rivers Run II
Character: Ned
Released: March 18, 1990
Type: TV
At the turn of the century, new roads and railway lines threaten the very existence of the once thriving river boat trade. While trying to mediate in the dispute between the shearers and the riverboat skippers, Brenton Edwards is framed and sentenced to imprisonment in Melbourne. Without Brenton, Delie is faced with a custody battle over her children and the not altogether unwanted attentions of Cyrus James, a charming, but mysterious overseas entrepreneur. Alone she must fight to keep her family and the riverboat "Philadelphia".
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The Rift - Candidate 23
Title: The Rift - Candidate 23
Character: Mr I
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In the distant future, our race has broken away from the holds of religious belief, and with the advancement of technology harnesses a concept known as retro-causality, changing events before they occur.