Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson

Born: April 11, 1924
Died: October 24, 2005
in Northcote, Victoria, Australia
Frank Wilson (11 April 1924 - 24 October 2005) was an Australian film, stage and television actor; musical comedy singer and director; and television game show and variety host.

Wilson joined the Australian Army in 1943, to escape the wartime Manpower Directorite and being placed in a "useful" job, becoming a signalman in the 7th Division, 2nd AIF. Served in Papua New Guinea and Borneo, being discharged in late 1945. He started acting in 1948, acting up to his death in 2005.

Movies for Frank Wilson...

Crackerjack
Title: Crackerjack
Character: Len Johnson
Released: July 11, 2002
Type: Movie
When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club a prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances.
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Title: Changi
Character: Older Gordon Yates
Released: October 14, 2001
Type: TV
Six young Australians go to war, full of confidence and bravado. They land in Singapore in 1942, just in time for surrender. With 15,000 others, they are marched off to Changi prison camp. Together, the six boys survive three and a half years of incarceration. Almost sixty years later, the six prepare to get together for what may be their last hurrah.
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The Well
Title: The Well
Character: Francis Harper
Released: May 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Young Katherine and her older friend Hester live at the isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to leave that place because there's too much work. Hester, however, gets attracted to Katherine and hold her there, promising to give her less work in the future. When old Francis dies, Hester decides to sell the farm for cash. They move to small cottage on the edge of the farm and plan to go to Europe for the money they got. But tragic accident and theft of their money change their plans.
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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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Black Robe
Title: Black Robe
Character: Father Jerome
Released: October 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
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Ultimate Desires
Title: Ultimate Desires
Character: Detective Southard
Released: July 31, 1991
Type: Movie
Samantha Stewart is a successful public defender whose life gets turned upside-down one night when a prostitute named Vicki gets thrown out of a limo at Samantha's feet. Vicki slips a brooch into Sam's hand before disappering, then turns up the next day, dead. Sam soon finds herself the target of an international conspiracy who will stop at nothing to get back the brooch and silence Sam for good. To get to the bottom of the mystery (as well as to save her own skin), Sam makes the natural decision to disguise herself as a prostitute, but will it be enough?
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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Mr. Bridger
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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The Riddle of the Stinson
Title: The Riddle of the Stinson
Character: G. A. Robinson
Released: July 25, 1988
Type: Movie
A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.
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Empire of Ash
Title: Empire of Ash
Character: Shepherd
Released: July 1, 1988
Type: Movie
In post-nuclear "New Idaho," a lone warrior teams up with a girl to help rescue the girl's sister from a hostile warrior clan.
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Going Sane
Title: Going Sane
Character: Sir Colin Grant
Released: July 30, 1987
Type: Movie
A business executive leaves his wife and family when he discovers that he only has a short time left to live.
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Title: The Great Bookie Robbery
Character: Winton Bathurst
Released: November 15, 1986
Type: TV
On 21st April 1976, gunmen held up more than 50 members of Melbourne’s venerable Victorian club, escaping with several million dollars in untraceable cash.The robbery had been so brilliantly planned and executed that police were left without a single clue–and so strict was the robbers’ code of silence that not even the underworld was aware of their identities.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Karl Szalinski
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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News Report on a Journey to a Bright Future
Title: News Report on a Journey to a Bright Future
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
The wife of a reporter, who turned up missing while investigating reports of illegal toxic dumping, teams up with a photographer to find her husband.
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Title: Scales of Justice
Character: Sir John Ritchie
Released: September 20, 1983
Type: TV
Scales of Justice is a three-part Australian drama miniseries, made in 1983 by director Michael Jenkins. It was one of the most controversial Australian mini-series ever produced, examining corruption in all levels of law enforcement.
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Fatty Finn
Title: Fatty Finn
Character: Lord Mayor
Released: December 18, 1980
Type: Movie
The 10-year-old Hubert Finn, known as "Fatty", lived in poor conditions in Australia in the 1930s. He and his friends stick together as they often have to defend themselves against the villain Bomer and his gang. Fatty wants a detector radio, but can't afford it. He has to raise money for it within a week, otherwise he won't get the radio ...
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The Club
Title: The Club
Character: Jock Reily
Released: September 18, 1980
Type: Movie
The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.
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Breaker Morant
Title: Breaker Morant
Character: Dr. Johnson
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.
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Title: Doctor Down Under
Released: February 19, 1979
Type: TV
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Money Movers
Title: Money Movers
Character: Lionel Darcy
Released: October 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
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Title: The Truckies
Released: July 31, 1978
Type: TV
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Title: Power Without Glory
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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Alvin Rides Again
Title: Alvin Rides Again
Character: House Detective
Released: December 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Title: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Character: Vince
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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Moon Over Harlem
Title: Moon Over Harlem
Released: May 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta Wilcois). Sue meanwhile, is in love with Bob (Carl Hough), an idealist fond of looking out over the skyline and saying "Harlem... there's so much to be done here--it's fairly screaming for leadership." When Bob decides to organize the community against local racketeers he little realizes would-be father-in-law Dollar Bill is one of them. Bill meanwhile has problems of his own: A vicious white mob from lower Manhattan is muscling in on his action, and bullets are about to fly.
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The Sacred Order
Title: The Sacred Order
Character: Inspector Weymouth
Released: December 10, 1923
Type: Movie
When sleuth Nayland Smith steals evil Dr Fu-Manchu's 'Sacred Order', the Devil Doctor himself faces death at the hands of the Si-Fan organisation.
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The Silver Buddha
Title: The Silver Buddha
Character: Inspector Weymouth
Released: December 3, 1923
Type: Movie
Our hero Dr Petrie is caught by evil Fu-Manchu and imprisoned near the British Museum, where he risks a daring escape, high above the London streets.
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The Queen of Hearts
Title: The Queen of Hearts
Character: Inspector Weymouth
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on Sax Rohmer’s third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917), this sensational episode sees Fu-Manchu partly paralysed by a bullet wound. The Devil Doctor snatches eminent surgeon Sir Baldwin Frazer to carry out the delicate operation he needs. Dr Petrie, abducted by Fu-Manchu’s scheming assistant, Zarmi, must assist – and choose a playing card to determine whether he lives or dies...
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The Man with the Limp
Title: The Man with the Limp
Character: Inspector Weymouth
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
This action-packed episode features one of the Devil Doctor's most enjoyably silly schemes to do away with his nemesis Nayland Smith. When Smith goes missing, it's up to Dr Petrie to continue the hunt for the Si-Fan, Fu-Manchu's secret society. On the trail of a mysterious man with a limp, Petrie disguises himself as a rough bargee to investigate a smoky riverside drinking den, the Joy-Shop Club.
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The Fiery Hand
Title: The Fiery Hand
Character: Inspector Weymouth
Released: November 12, 1923
Type: Movie
In this exciting adventure based on the second Fu-Manchu novel, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie investigate a haunted house, but get more of a fright than they expected. Caught by the evil Dr Fu-Manchu, Nayland Smith faces a plague of ravenous Cantonese rats - a torture known as 'The Six Gates of Joyful Wisdom'. Will Petrie end his agony, with the razor-sharp ‘Friend’s Sword’?
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The Cry of the Nighthawk
Title: The Cry of the Nighthawk
Character: Inspector Weymouth
Released: October 29, 1923
Type: Movie
n this episode of adventure serial The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie investigate the strange death of a man from Forest Hill found with his face covered with scratches; their enquiries lead them once more to the Devil Doctor, Fu-Manchu. Meanwhile, Petrie’s stiff upper lip begins to quiver, as he grows dangerously fond of Fu-Manchu’s slave girl, Karamaneh...
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The Knocking on the Door
Title: The Knocking on the Door
Character: Inspector Weymouth
Released: October 22, 1923
Type: Movie
The evil Dr Fu-Manchu proves to be a master of disguise as well as villainy in this thrilling episode of the popular adventure serial. Adopting the persona of a long-bearded professor, Fu-Manchu pays a visit to London's Madame Tussauds waxworks. Elsewhere, there's something horribly uncanny going on at a remote country cottage: sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie leave the capital to investigate.
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The Fungi Cellars
Title: The Fungi Cellars
Character: Inspector Weymouth
Released: October 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Fu-Manchu’s slave girl Karamaneh leads sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie to her evil master’s lair, where they fall prey to another of the Devil Doctor’s traps. Bound hand and foot, they watch helplessly as a party of policemen are imprisoned in a subterranean vault and poisoned with vile fungal spore vapour, while Fu-Manchu cackles with maniacal glee. Can our heroes escape to save the day?
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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Character: Inspector Weymouth
Released: October 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Nayland Smith restores a `dead' man to life.
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The Call of Siva
Title: The Call of Siva
Character: Inspector Weymouth
Released: October 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Fourth release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series. Nayland Smith saves the life of Graham Guthrie, the British Resident in Bhutan, while on a visit to London from a plot by Dr. Fu-Manchu.
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The Clue of the Pigtail
Title: The Clue of the Pigtail
Character: Inspector Weymouth
Released: September 24, 1923
Type: Movie
Third release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series, where the police has to investigate the clue of the pigtail wig.