Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Born: November 15, 1958
in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Lewis Fitz-Gerald is an Australian actor, screenwriter and television director. He is an actor and director, best known for Pitch Black (2000), Breaker Morant (1980) and Home and Away (1988).

His academic qualifications include PhD (UNE), MA (Comms) UNE, BDA (Acting) NIDA. Fitz-Gerald lectures in Screen and Media Studies at Australia's University of New England.

Movies for Lewis Fitz-Gerald...

What About Sal?
Title: What About Sal?
Character: Geoff
Released: September 10, 2023
Type: Movie
With his mother dying of lung cancer, Sal, in his 30's and with Down Syndrome, embarks on a journey to find his father - a rock band singer that his mother had a one-night stand with - 30 years ago.
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Thirteen Lives
Title: Thirteen Lives
Character: Vernon Unsworth
Released: July 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning.
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Title: The Wilds
Character: Ted Wolchak
Released: December 11, 2020
Type: TV
A group of teen girls from different backgrounds must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep, and the traumas they've all endured. But there’s just one twist… these girls did not end up on this island by accident.
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Title: Reef Break
Character: Sonny Turner
Released: June 19, 2019
Type: TV
Cat Chambers is a thief-turned-fixer for the governor of a stunning and seductive Pacific Island paradise. Impulsive, reckless, and irresistible, Cat's less-than-perfect past gives her an instinctive gift for understanding crime and criminals as she becomes enmeshed in fast-paced, high-octane adventures and island intrigue.
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Title: Pine Gap
Character: Rudi Fox
Released: October 14, 2018
Type: TV
A team of talented Australian and American intelligence analysts work together to ensure global stability in one of the world's most important and secretive joint intelligence facilities... Pine Gap. But the relationship between the Australian and American intelligence analysts working at Pine Gap isn’t always rosy.
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Harmony
Title: Harmony
Character: Mr. Lenox
Released: October 4, 2018
Type: Movie
Born with an energetic power to absorb fear from others, a young woman must find love to balance the fears of her own and fight an ever growing storm of negative energy.
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Pimped
Title: Pimped
Character: Michael
Released: August 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Over the course of one night, Sarah meets the handsome, captivating and smooth talking Lewis, who aims to be the bait in a sick sexual trap set up by himself and his low-life, rich kid housemate Kenneth. When their ruse backfires, Lewis and Sarah are forced into an unlikely alliance with deadly consequences.
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Title: Blue Murder: Killer Cop
Character: Commissioner
Released: August 6, 2017
Type: TV
A floating body, a drug deal gone wrong, and two former detectives the perpetrators. Life imprisonment is the end of Roger Rogerson's story. The last Blue Murder ended with his expulsion in disgrace from the NSW Police Force. In this instalment, Rogerson struggles to make a living in a world that's rapidly changing, caught between the pressures of criminals, police and a love that might save him
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Title: Hunters
Character: Truss Jackson
Released: April 11, 2016
Type: TV
The disappearance of a decorated FBI agent's wife leads him to a secret government unit assembled to hunt a group of ruthless terrorists - shadowy figures that may or may not be from this world.
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Truth
Title: Truth
Character: Louis Boccardi
Released: October 16, 2015
Type: Movie
As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President’s military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change their stories, document authenticity is questioned, and the casualties begin to mount.
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Title: Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story
Character: Alan Reid
Released: August 9, 2013
Type: TV
The making of modern Australia through the eyes of competing media moguls Sir Frank Packer and a young Rupert Murdoch.
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Not Suitable For Children
Title: Not Suitable For Children
Character: Dr. McKenzie
Released: July 12, 2012
Type: Movie
A young playboy who learns he has one month until he becomes infertile sets out to procreate as much as possible.
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Title: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Character: Professor Bradbury
Released: February 24, 2012
Type: TV
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.
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The Cup
Title: The Cup
Character: Michael Smurfit
Released: November 13, 2011
Type: Movie
At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the way their father died 27 years earlier. After suffering through a series of discouraging defeats, Damien teams with Irish trainer Dermot Weld, and triumphs at the 2002 Melbourne Cup in one of the most thrilling finales in sporting history.
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Title: Crownies
Character: David Sinclair
Released: July 14, 2011
Type: TV
Delving into the extraordinary world of the Department of Public Prosecutions and its young, eager lawyers, Crownies follows five young solicitors as they face the pressures and endearing madness of modern single life - in a fast paced workplace that highlights the moral dilemmas and big issues facing an apparently civilized society.
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A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne
Title: A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne
Character: Gary Jubelin
Released: April 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Australian television film based on alleged events surrounding the death of Caroline Byrne in June 1995. Byrne was found in the early morning of 8 June at the base of a cliff at The Gap, a notorious suicide spot in Sydney.
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Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia
Title: Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia
Character: Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)
Released: January 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Biography of Lachlan Macquarie and his wife, Elizabeth, who arrived to govern the colony of New South Wales in Australia in 1810. In just over a decade, the couple transformed the prison colony into a proto nation.
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The Boys Are Back
Title: The Boys Are Back
Character: Tim Walker
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: Movie
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting.
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Title: Underbelly
Character: John Aston
Released: February 13, 2008
Type: TV
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events.
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Title: The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Character: Dr. Thayer
Released: March 1, 2004
Type: TV
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The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Title: The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Character: Dr. Thayer
Released: February 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner and faces inner conflicts about her Hollywood persona.
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The Three Stooges
Title: The Three Stooges
Character: Jules White
Released: April 24, 2000
Type: Movie
A biography of the Three Stooges, in which their careers and rise to fame is shown throughout the eyes of their leader, Moe.
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Border Patrol
Title: Border Patrol
Character: Dr. Roderick Helms
Released: March 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Even the dead need policemen. Meet the Border Patrol, which is to ensure that the law is enforced in the territory of the dead. These hard supernatural guards are responsible for sinners to face their destiny and that good are the creator. To Numan, a character who makes the laws are enforced in the gloomy abyss between the two worlds, the present case appears to be the most tremendous of his career, both his past life in New York, as now become the Patrullero Spooky Frontera . When chasing a serial murderer, Dr. Helms, Numan is forced to break the rules of Purgatory and ask for help to the police in Miami Chavez, a mortal. The union of these incredible allies soon becomes clear that Helms, a strange supernatural being generic, has the power to open the door to other territories, threatening the existence of Life and Death as we know it.
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Pitch Black
Title: Pitch Black
Character: Paris P. Ogilvie
Released: February 18, 2000
Type: Movie
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.
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Title: Farscape
Character: Kor Tosko
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 Heart
Title: Dead Heart
Character: Les
Released: September 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives and white settlers are on the verge of erupting. When it's discovered that Kate, the white wife of local schoolteacher Les, has despoiled a sacred site by secretly meeting her aborigine lover, Tony, there, a shocking murder threatens to rip the small town apart.
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Title: The Man from Snowy River
Character: Harry Faulkner
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: TV
The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in both the United States and the United Kingdom as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. The television series has no relationship to the 1982 film The Man from Snowy River or the 1988 sequel The Man from Snowy River II. Instead, the series follows the adventures of Matt McGregor, a successful squatter, and his family. Matt is the hero immortalized in Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River", and the series is set 25 years after his famous ride.
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Spider and Rose
Title: Spider and Rose
Character: Robert Dougherty
Released: September 14, 1994
Type: Movie
A young ambulance driver befriends an elderly woman.
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Cody: Bad Love
Title: Cody: Bad Love
Character: Martin Campbell
Released: June 11, 1994
Type: Movie
Cody’s investigation of an art theft leads him to Claudia who works at an art gallery where the certificate of the stolen painting is held. His judgement may be clouded when he discovers the federal police suspect Claudia of smuggling the paintings.
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Title: The Damnation of Harvey McHugh
Character: Trevor Martin
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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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: R.F.D.S.
Character: Dr. Sebert Blitho
Released: January 21, 1993
Type: TV
R.F.D.S. was created as a spinoff of the popular series The Flying Doctors and is set in the mining town of Broken Hill.
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Title: Time Trax
Character: Charlie Burke
Released: January 20, 1993
Type: TV
Time Trax is an American/Australian co-produced science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent through time into the past, has to track down and return convicted criminals who have escaped prison in the future. This was the last new production from Lorimar Television.
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Title: Time Trax
Released: January 20, 1993
Type: TV
Time Trax is an American/Australian co-produced science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent through time into the past, has to track down and return convicted criminals who have escaped prison in the future. This was the last new production from Lorimar Television.
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The Four Minute Mile
Title: The Four Minute Mile
Character: Denis Johannson
Released: November 9, 1988
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the race to the four-minute mile.
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Evil Angels
Title: Evil Angels
Character: Tipple
Released: November 3, 1988
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.
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Title: The Shiralee
Character: Tony
Released: June 26, 1988
Type: TV
Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.
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Rikky and Pete
Title: Rikky and Pete
Character: Adam
Released: June 9, 1988
Type: Movie
Rikky (Nina Landis) and her brother Pete (Stephen Kearney) struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
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Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
Title: Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
Character: Brian
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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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: David Gibson
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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Ivanhoe
Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Ivanhoe (voice)
Released: April 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe's 12th-century England comes to life in Burbank Film's classic animated film.
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The More Things Change...
Title: The More Things Change...
Character: Barry
Released: March 19, 1986
Type: Movie
A couple hires a young girl to take care of their son.
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Time's Raging
Title: Time's Raging
Character: David
Released: September 22, 1985
Type: Movie
A 38-year-old woman feels her biological clock is ticking and is torn between her ex and a younger lover.
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The Boy Who Had Everything
Title: The Boy Who Had Everything
Character: Vandervelt
Released: July 5, 1985
Type: Movie
In '60's-era Australia, a college freshman must navigate freshman hazing, a distant mother, and a shaky relationship with his girlfriend.
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We of the Never Never
Title: We of the Never Never
Character: Jack
Released: November 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for a new life on her husband's isolated ranch, Jeannie's feisty, good-natured attitude soon wins over the misogynistic stockmen, but she faces a much tougher challenge in trying to change their racist attitudes towards the indigenous aboriginal population.
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Fighting Back
Title: Fighting Back
Character: John
Released: June 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Fighting Back is a 1982 Australian film about troubled teenagers.
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Title: I Can Jump Puddles
Character: Alan Marshall
Released: June 7, 1981
Type: TV
I Can Jump Puddles is a 1981 Australian television mini-series based on the 1955 autobiographical series of the same name by author Alan Marshall. Adapted for television by screenwriters Cliff Green and Roger Simpson, the series starred Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Adam Garnett, Tony Barry, Julie Hamilton, Ann Henderson, Lesley Baker, Olivia Brown, Debra Lawrance and Darren MacDonald. Several prominent television actors also had supporting roles including Lisa Aldenhoven, Kaarin Fairfax, Maurie Fields, Terry Gill, Reg Gorman, Matthew King, Julie Nihill, Maureen Edwards and Dennis Miller and Jason Donovan and Cliff Ellen. A large part of supporting and minor roles also featured cameo appearances by cast members of Prisoner such as Esme Melville, Peter Curtin, Ian Smith, Christine Amor, Fiona Spence, Edward Hepple, Sigrid Thornton, Leila Hayes, Sandy Gore, Mary Ward, Anne Phelan. Future cast members included Billie Hammerberg and Pepe Trevor.
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Title: The Last Outlaw
Character: Tom Lloyd
Released: October 20, 1980
Type: TV
An unmistakable Australian icon - a smoking revolver, two piercing eyes behind a makeshift mask of armour. But beyond the armour, behind the eyes was a man both ruthless and gentle, rugged and kind - the infamous last outlaw, Ned Kelly was his name. Both revered and reviled throughout the ages Ned Kelly was an Irish-Australian battler-cum-bushranger, fiercely independent and pushed into action by the repressive colonial authorities of the time. The Last Outlaw examines the life of Ned Kelly, and expounds the legend from early indiscretions and the formation of his gang through to the violent killings at Stringy Bark Creek, culminating in his explosive last stand and shoot out at Glenrowan. The Last Outlaw is a remarkable four-part miniseries presentation that deflects historical judgement and allows the legend to live on.
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Breaker Morant
Title: Breaker Morant
Character: Lt. George Witton
Released: June 11, 1980
Type: Movie
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.