Colin Friels

Colin Friels

Born: September 25, 1952
in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK

Movies for Colin Friels...

Interceptor
Title: Interceptor
Character: Frank Collins
Released: May 26, 2022
Type: Movie
A U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack threatens her remote missile interceptor station.
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Title: Underbelly: Vanishing Act
Character: George K
Released: April 3, 2022
Type: TV
The story of Melissa Caddick, a woman who disappeared after swindling over $40 million from her most trusted clients.
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Title: Wakefield
Character: Baz
Released: April 18, 2021
Type: TV
Nikhil Katira is a psychiatric nurse working at Wakefield, a facility perched on the edge of Australia's spectacular Blue Mountains. There's one problem - while his patients are getting better, he's getting worse.
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Title: Total Control
Character: Jack Ramsey
Released: October 13, 2019
Type: TV
A local Indigenous politician is recruited to the senate by the Australian Prime Minister after a contentious video goes viral.
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Title: Mystery Road
Character: Tony Ballantyne
Released: June 3, 2018
Type: TV
When there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate. Working with local cop Emma James, Jay’s investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
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Title: The Secret Daughter
Character: Jack Norton
Released: October 3, 2016
Type: TV
A part-time country pub singer has a chance meeting with a wealthy city hotelier which triggers a series of events that will change her life forever. Explore the worlds of 'the haves' and 'the have nots' with heart, humour, romance and music.
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The Crossing
Title: The Crossing
Character: The Captain
Released: June 18, 2016
Type: Movie
A tender fable of an ageing sea captain, who risks the lives of his men when he decides to change course, taking his ship through a violent storm.
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Title: DNA Nation
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 22, 2016
Type: TV
Who are we? And where do we come from? Australia's greatest Olympian Ian Thorpe, iconic Indigenous actor Ernie Dingo, and TV presenter and Queen of Eurovision Julia Zemiro set off on an epic journey of genetic time travel to find out.
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Title: Sydney Sailboat
Character: Terry (voice)
Released: March 9, 2015
Type: TV
Young Sydney Sailboat explores the waters of Bubble Bath Bay, going on adventures with his nautical friends, including best bud Zip the Water Taxi. They learn about life under the command of Terry the Tugboat as they go on adventures that teach them about friendship, teamwork, resourcefulness, cooperation, respect and problem solving. Other boats that can be found in Bubble Bath Bay include cranky crane Muddles, speedboat Jet and chatterbox ferries Bryan and Toots.
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Schapelle
Title: Schapelle
Character: Mick Corby
Released: March 11, 2014
Type: Movie
A 27-year-old beauty school dropout, Schapelle, was arrested at Bali airport with 4.2kg of marijuana. At first, her arrest was barely noticed by the media, but it soon sparked a frenzy and attracted a frantic cast of characters.
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The Turning
Title: The Turning
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
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Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Title: Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Character: Garth Bruce
Released: October 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
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Mabo
Title: Mabo
Character: Justice Moynihan
Released: June 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Mabo tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
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Title: Killing Time
Character: Lewis Moran
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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The Eye of the Storm
Title: The Eye of the Storm
Character: Athol Shreve
Released: September 15, 2011
Type: Movie
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.
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A Heartbeat Away
Title: A Heartbeat Away
Character: Mayor Riddick
Released: March 11, 2011
Type: Movie
A young aspiring rock guitarist is forced to become the musical director of the local marching band when his father is hit by a bus just four weeks before a major competition.
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Matching Jack
Title: Matching Jack
Character: Professor Nelson
Released: August 19, 2010
Type: Movie
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
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Tomorrow, When the War Began
Title: Tomorrow, When the War Began
Character: Dr. Clements
Released: August 8, 2010
Type: Movie
Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return, the youths find that their town has been overrun by an enemy army, and their friends and family have been imprisoned. When the hostile invaders become alerted to their presence, Ellie and her friends band together to escape -- and strike back against -- this mysterious enemy.
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Blind Company
Title: Blind Company
Character: Geoff Brewster
Released: August 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Geoff Brewster has retreated to the family’s isolated, coastal shack to die in peace. He is also going blind. Geoff spends his days walking on the beach and leaving tape-recorded confessions to his estranged wife, Sally. But Geoff’s solitude is interrupted when his Porsche driving nephew, Josh, turns up and decides to stay. Tension fills the shack as Josh’s strange behaviour sets Geoff on edge and when Sally arrives for her weekly cleaning, the shack is ready to explode. Sally encourages Geoff to audition for an amateur production of Hamlet and Geoff takes to Hamlet like Olivier. But Geoff goes totally blind. The arrival of two strangers bearing the ashes of one of Geoff’s lovers sets Geoff and Josh on a collision course that threatens to destroy the both of them. Blind Company was adapted from Austin Pendleton's stage production Uncle Bob, that was set in New York. Quite the difference in location from Tasmania.
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Title: Gangs of Oz
Released: February 11, 2009
Type: TV
Gangs of Oz is an Australian television documentary series on the Seven Network narrated by actor Colin Friels. The show looks at real stories of Australia's criminal underworld with accounts from criminals, their families and the police who risk their lives to catch them.
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The Informant
Title: The Informant
Character: Doug Lamont (as Colin Friel)
Released: November 14, 2008
Type: Movie
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.
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Australia: Land of Parrots
Title: Australia: Land of Parrots
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Discover the beauty, brilliance and behaviour of Australia's most conspicuous birds - parrots and cockatoos in Australia: Land of Parrots. Multi-award winning, natural history filmmakers David Parer and Elizabeth Parer-Cook have turned their cameras to the sky to capture the spirit of these dazzling birds with breathtaking results - including rare and never before seen footage - all shot in HD.
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BlackJack: Ghosts
Title: BlackJack: Ghosts
Character: Jack Kempson
Released: December 2, 2007
Type: Movie
Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for the murder is about to be paroled. Jack has two missions - to bring the father and his daughter back together and to find out if any justice has been done by the conviction.
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Title: Air Australia
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: May 31, 2007
Type: TV
Australia's aviation history is a saga of daring feats, can-do attitude, pig-headed visionaries, iron-fisted politicians and warring pilots; of humble beginnings and mega deals.
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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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BlackJack: At the Gates
Title: BlackJack: At the Gates
Character: Jack Kempson
Released: September 24, 2006
Type: Movie
Ten years ago, a baby was killed in a house arson fire after a violent home invasion. The parents used the tragedy as a motivation to help build an evangelical community church but now the mother has comes to Jack for help. Jack agrees to look into the still unsolved crime but in looking for the truth Jack will have to fight the system and his own conscience to uncover a tangled web of lies and deception. In the end, Jack must decide if the truth should prevail over the interests of the innocent.
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BlackJack: Dead Memory
Title: BlackJack: Dead Memory
Character: Jack Kempson
Released: August 27, 2006
Type: Movie
A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's offsider Sam, details of the crime mirror the disappearance of her friend Hannah, who vanished without trace some years ago. In Kempson's pursuit of the truth Sam is forced to face the sordid secrets of her past.
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BlackJack: Ace Point Game
Title: BlackJack: Ace Point Game
Character: Jack Kempson
Released: August 20, 2006
Type: Movie
After wearing a wire to catch a dirty colleague selling confiscated drugs, detective Jack Kempson is hated by his colleagues. He also gets 'promoted away' to the basement, where old files get transferred to the national computer database. Thus he comes across fingerprints, now identifiable, in the 30 year old case of Ashley, the kidnapped son of lottery winners. Although he's too late to help him now, he tracks the perpetrators down behind his boss's back.
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The Book of Revelation
Title: The Book of Revelation
Character: Olsen
Released: July 29, 2006
Type: Movie
An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.
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Solo
Title: Solo
Character: Jack Barrett
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm of the Sydney Underworld. Standover tactics, prostitution, illegal gambling, creative importation - you name it, "The Gentlemen" are into it. And Barrett enforces it for them. Old school muscle for hire. Now 53 years old, he's tired of having to throw away perfectly good suits because you can't dry-clean the blood off. He needs to get out of Sydney. Out of the game. Which is, of course, easier said than done.
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BlackJack: In the Money
Title: BlackJack: In the Money
Character: Jack Kempson
Released: September 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some part to play in the mystery?
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The Illustrated Family Doctor
Title: The Illustrated Family Doctor
Character: Ray Gill
Released: March 3, 2005
Type: Movie
Gary Kelp (Samuel Johnson) is losing the plot. As he edits a medical journal called The Illustrated Family Doctor, his life and his body seem to be falling apart. A black comedy about coping with the modern world, based on the novel by David Snell.
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BlackJack: Sweet Science
Title: BlackJack: Sweet Science
Character: Jack Kempson
Released: November 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago.
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Tom White
Title: Tom White
Character: Tom White
Released: August 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not everything is as it appears at work. Tom chooses a different path and cuts ties with his normal life.
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Title: The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Character: Nick Gurdin
Released: March 1, 2004
Type: TV
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The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Title: The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Character: Nick Gurdin
Released: February 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner and faces inner conflicts about her Hollywood persona.
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Title: BlackJack
Released: December 21, 2003
Type: TV
BlackJack is a series of Australian television movies created by Shaun Micallef and Gary McCaffrie, and starring Colin Friels. The movies began airing on Network Ten in 2003 and concluded in 2007. They were shown in the United Kingdom on the BBC and UKTV Drama. After testifying against his former colleagues in a corruption trial Sydney detective Jack Kempson is reassigned to a unit charged with entering the details of old cases into a police database. He unofficially begins to investigate unsolved crimes dating back many years.
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Max's Dreaming
Title: Max's Dreaming
Character: Mark Bryce
Released: June 8, 2003
Type: Movie
A hospitalized amnesiac boy, victim of an abduction gone wrong, brings police detective Mark Bryce (Friels) and nurse Rose (Picot) together. Both have 'baggage' -- she a recently widowed and somewhat demented father, George (Myles), living at home; Mark a divorce with only part-time access to his two children, plus a demanding and increasingly frustrating job. Over the next 24 hours the lives of this pair intersect as they each try to coax some memories from the boy (named 'Max' by Mark), while George struggles with his failing mental capacity and visions of his late wife and her dead first husband.
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BlackJack
Title: BlackJack
Character: Jack Kempson
Released: March 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral barometer. He turns a blind eye to the dubious methods employed by some of his contemporaries — prepared to let dodgy means be justified by the noble end.
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Black and White
Title: Black and White
Character: Father Tom Dixon
Released: October 31, 2002
Type: Movie
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
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Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
Title: Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
Character: George Temple
Released: December 18, 2001
Type: Movie
As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts of moviegoers around the world.
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My Husband, My Killer
Title: My Husband, My Killer
Character: Bob Inkster
Released: November 13, 2001
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of an Australian woman that was murdered in bed next to her husband.
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The Man Who Sued God
Title: The Man Who Sued God
Character: David Myers
Released: October 25, 2001
Type: Movie
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
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The Farm
Title: The Farm
Character: Tom Cooper
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be repaid.
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Dark City
Title: Dark City
Character: Det. Eddie Walenski
Released: February 27, 1998
Type: Movie
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
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Mr. Reliable
Title: Mr. Reliable
Character: Wally Mellish
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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Cosi
Title: Cosi
Character: Errol
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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Title: Water Rats
Character: Detective Senior Constable Frank Holloway
Released: February 12, 1996
Type: TV
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
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Back of Beyond
Title: Back of Beyond
Character: Connor
Released: November 2, 1995
Type: Movie
A garage mechanic out in the middle of the outback gets involved with the girl friend of a jewel smuggler who is on the run.
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Angel Baby
Title: Angel Baby
Character: Morris Goodman
Released: October 26, 1995
Type: Movie
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
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Title: Space: Above and Beyond
Character: Lt. Col. Fouts
Released: September 24, 1995
Type: TV
Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, and act as infantry and pilots of SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet fighters.
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Title: Halifax f.p.
Character: Kevin Tait
Released: October 9, 1994
Type: TV
Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halifax, a forensic psychiatrist investigating cases involving the mental state of suspects or victims. The series is set in Melbourne. The producers of the film were Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier; Australian Film Finance Corporation and aired on the Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd 21 Episodes of 90 and 102 minutes each were produced, and the series has screened in more than 60 countries. The budget for each episode was an average of $1.3 million. Funding came in part from the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Film Victoria.
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A Good Man in Africa
Title: A Good Man in Africa
Character: Morgan Leafy, 1st Secretary of the High Commissioner
Released: July 14, 1994
Type: Movie
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.
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Title: Stark
Character: Sly Morgan
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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The Nostradamus Kid
Title: The Nostradamus Kid
Character: American Preacher
Released: October 14, 1993
Type: Movie
The spiritual and sexual coming of age of a Seventh-Day Adventist boy in 1950s Australia. Ken Elkin is a "randy young man" who is told that the world is about to end. In a race against time, there's only one goal Ken wants to accomplish: bedding the love of his life, who just happens to be the local pastor's daughter.
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Dingo
Title: Dingo
Character: John Anderson
Released: June 2, 1991
Type: Movie
Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician, Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking dingoes and playing trumpet in a local band, John still dreams of joining Billy on trumpet and makes a pilgrimage to Paris.
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Class Action
Title: Class Action
Character: Michael Grazier
Released: March 15, 1991
Type: Movie
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Lew
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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Weekend with Kate
Title: Weekend with Kate
Character: Richard Muir
Released: November 29, 1990
Type: Movie
This breezy sex comedy follows ex-journalist turned rock promoter Richard Muir (Colin Friel), who is pulled in two different directions by the women in his life -- his vivacious wife, Catherine (Catherine McClements), who wants to have a baby -- and Carla (Helen Mutkins), his ambitious mistress, who wants to have Richard.
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Darkman
Title: Darkman
Character: Louis Strack Jr.
Released: August 24, 1990
Type: Movie
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
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Grievous Bodily Harm
Title: Grievous Bodily Harm
Character: Tom Stewart
Released: October 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
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Ground Zero
Title: Ground Zero
Character: Harvey Denton
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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High Tide
Title: High Tide
Character: Mick
Released: July 30, 1987
Type: Movie
A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following her husband's death.
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Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
Title: Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
Character: Man
Released: May 10, 1987
Type: Movie
A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cross-country night sleeper. She makes sure she is in control of each encounter until one client reaches her more than she expects.
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Kangaroo
Title: Kangaroo
Character: Richard Somers
Released: July 24, 1986
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trade unions and fascist groups.
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Malcolm
Title: Malcolm
Character: Malcolm Hughes
Released: July 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Character: Phillipe
Released: December 31, 1985
Type: Movie
Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him to replace the king, but in a way that no one finds out about the switch. Burbank Films Australia animated release.
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The Coolangatta Gold
Title: The Coolangatta Gold
Character: Adam Lucas
Released: November 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Steve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to live in his brother's shadow. His brother Adam, is burdened by his father's desire for glory, and must win The Coolangatta Gold Tri-Aquathon, It is the greatest endurance test of them all: a marathon involving a 20 kilometer beach run, 6 kilometer swim and a 17 kilometer surf ski from Surfers Paradise along the golden arc of beach to Coolangatta and back to the start. The Coolangatta Gold is a story of human endeavor and endurance against overwhelming odds.
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Buddies
Title: Buddies
Character: Mike
Released: June 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly
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Title: For the Term of His Natural Life
Character: Richard Devine / Rufus Dawes
Released: May 23, 1983
Type: TV
In 1830s England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Diemen's Land where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.
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Monkey Grip
Title: Monkey Grip
Character: Javo
Released: June 17, 1982
Type: Movie
Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when she's drawn into a passionate affair with a heroin addict, Nora struggles to maintain control of her life.
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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.