William Zappa

William Zappa

Born: October 13, 1948
in Hadleigh, Essex, England, UK

Movies for William Zappa...

Title: Population 11
Character: Cedric Blumenthal
Released: March 14, 2024
Type: TV
When American Andy pulls into a tiny Australian outback town to visit his father, he’s alarmed to discover that Hugo has vanished. He soon finds himself in increasing danger in a town full of secrets, where everyone is a suspect.
bee
Title: One Night
Character: Don
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: TV
Three friends are forced to relive their traumatic memories from one night twenty years previously when one of them writes a book.
bee
Title: The Tourist
Character: Elliot's Dad
Released: January 1, 2022
Type: TV
When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.
bee
The Butter Scene
Title: The Butter Scene
Character: Bernardo Bertolucci
Released: November 8, 2021
Type: Movie
Based on interviews given by actor Maria Schneider and director Bernardo Bertolucci about the infamous scene in Last Tango in Paris (1972).
bee
The Dry
Title: The Dry
Character: Mal Deacon
Released: January 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
bee
Title: Operation Buffalo
Character: Sir Rupert Edgely
Released: May 31, 2020
Type: TV
A captivating drama set in Maralinga, South Australia, at the height of the Cold War. At a remote army base carrying out British nuclear testing, paranoia runs rife and nuclear bombs are not the only things being tested, as loyalty, love, and betrayal are pitted against each other.
bee
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Title: Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Character: Assist Commissioner Forsythe
Released: February 27, 2020
Type: Movie
After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.
bee
Title: Doctor Doctor
Character: Mr. Khourdair
Released: September 14, 2016
Type: TV
The story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist who, due to his sheer talent, believes he can live outside the rules. His "work hard, play harder" philosophy is about to come back and bite him.
bee
Broke
Title: Broke
Character: Abe
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: Movie
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.
bee
Title: Paper Giants: Magazine Wars
Character: Rupert Murdoch
Released: June 2, 2013
Type: TV
The battle between Nene King, editor of Woman's Day, and Dulcie Boling, editor of New Idea, from the rival Packer and Murdoch empires, to make their publication the number one seller in Australia.
bee
Dead Europe
Title: Dead Europe
Character: Vassili
Released: December 12, 2012
Type: Movie
In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his family. Dismissing the idea, his trip begins to unveil dark truths that forced his father to flee years ago.
bee
A Heartbeat Away
Title: A Heartbeat Away
Character: Edwin Flack
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.
bee
Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away
Title: Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away
Character: Jack Jacobs
Released: February 21, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of David McMillan an Australian drug smuggler and the only person in history to escape from Klong Prem prison in Bangkok.
bee
Shot Open
Title: Shot Open
Character: Jack Walsh
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
In 19th century Australia, an exiled Polish thief struggles to get to Sydney to start a new life. When he takes refuge with a young woman his understanding of the world, and his role within it, is permanently altered.
bee
Men's Group
Title: Men's Group
Character: Anthony
Released: September 18, 2008
Type: Movie
What lies in the hearts of men.
bee
Curtin
Title: Curtin
Character: Gen. Vernon Sturdee
Released: April 21, 2007
Type: Movie
1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and a furious battle with Churchill over the deployment of Australian troops. This is a raw and intimate story of a driven and inspirational leader - a man who struggles to battle his own personal demons while serving and protecting a country at war.
bee
Man-Thing
Title: Man-Thing
Character: Steve Gerber
Released: April 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.
bee
The Illustrated Family Doctor
Title: The Illustrated Family Doctor
Character: Adrian Kelp
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.
bee
The Monkey's Mask
Title: The Monkey's Mask
Character: Detective Sergeant Wesley
Released: May 10, 2001
Type: Movie
A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex.
bee
Bootmen
Title: Bootmen
Character: Walter
Released: October 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Sean Odkin loves to dance—much to his fathers distain. When the woman he loves cannot return his love, he goes in search of the only thing that can make him whole again—dancing.
bee
Title: Farscape
Character: Captain Molayne
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.
bee
Amy
Title: Amy
Character: Bill Trendle
Released: August 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.
bee
Diana & Me
Title: Diana & Me
Character: Phil
Released: December 4, 1997
Type: Movie
Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and namesake, Princess Diana. She goes there with her fiance, Mark, but during the garden party the Princess plans to attend, things get mixed up and Aussie Diana gets arrested with Paparazzi photographer Rob. Diana really wants to meet the Princess and follows Rob as he searches for Princess Di to take some photos.
bee
Mr. Reliable
Title: Mr. Reliable
Character: Army Colonel
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.
bee
Zone 39
Title: Zone 39
Character: Sharp
Released: May 4, 1996
Type: Movie
In a time of misery and fear two enemies come together to prevent an apocalypse conspired by their leaders. 40 years of war between the Federated Republics and the New Territories Union has taken its toll. The cities are overcrowded, farming land is riddled with unexploded mines -- and still there is no hope of peace. In this hostile, decaying world of the future on thing remains constant for Lieutenant Leo Megaw; his love for his pregnant wife. Her access to classified information makes her an increasing liability for the government. When she's ambushed, Leo is forced into exile. As a border patrolman on the isolated outpost of Zone 39, ordered to kill anyone that tries to cross the border, he comes to understand that ultimate catastrophe forced upon his world by his government. The real enemy is not looming across the border but standing right behind him. Now he must reach across the border into enemy territory and form an alliance to save his world.
bee
Title: Water Rats
Character: Conran
Released: February 12, 1996
Type: TV
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
bee
Title: Correlli
Character: Officer Ben Costa
Released: July 26, 1995
Type: TV
Correlli was an Australian television series first broadcast by ABC TV in 1995. It starred Deborra-Lee Furness as prison psychologist Louisa Correlli. The series also featured her future husband Hugh Jackman in one of his earliest roles. The first episode entitled "The Rat Tamer" has been released on to DVD. The creators and Associate Producers of the show were actress Denise Roberts from the ABC's G.P., and Carol Long. Roberts also played the role of prison warden Helen Buckley in episodes four and five.
bee
The Rat Tamer
Title: The Rat Tamer
Character: Officer Ben Costa
Released: July 26, 1995
Type: Movie
In this Aussie prison drama directed by Kate Woods, no one can explain why inmate Kevin Jones (Hugh Jackman) arrived at Blackstream Penitentiary with brain damage and horrible bruises on his body -- least of all Kevin. Can a jailhouse psychologist (played by Deborra-Lee Furness) help Kevin regain his memory, or will it take an act of violence to bring out the truth? This "Correlli" TV series pilot "The Rat Tamer" was later released separately on DVD as a feature.
bee
Crush
Title: Crush
Character: Colin Iseman
Released: September 15, 1992
Type: Movie
On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash which leaves literary critic Christina brain-damaged. Lane undertakes the assignment and becomes attracted to the novelist's 15 year old daughter, leading to stormy emotions.
bee
Quigley Down Under
Title: Quigley Down Under
Character: Reilly
Released: October 17, 1990
Type: Movie
American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even American expatriate Crazy Cora can't keep Quigley safe in his cat-and-mouse game with the homicidal Marston.
bee
Celia
Title: Celia
Character: Inspector John Burke
Released: May 18, 1989
Type: Movie
An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.
bee
Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Brian
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.
bee
Mad Max 2
Title: Mad Max 2
Character: Zetta
Released: December 24, 1981
Type: Movie
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.