Graeme Blundell

Graeme Blundell

Born: July 8, 1945
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Graeme Blundell (born 1945) is an Australian actor, director, producer, writer and biographer. Blundell was born in Melbourne; he grew up in Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne. He was educated at University High School and the University of Melbourne. In his early years, Blundell worked at La Mama Theatre, the Pram Factory, Hoopla, the Playbox Theatre Company, and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He directed and acted in the premiere performance of Jack Hibberd's play Dimboola at La Mama. His first television appearance was as an uncredited extra in the debut episode of Homicide (1964). He is best known as playing the title character in the 70's sex-comedy film Alvin Purple. He has written extensively in The Australian newspaper as well as writing biographies of Brett Whiteley (Brett Whiteley: An Unauthorised Life, 1996, with his then wife Margot Hilton), and Graham Kennedy (King, 2003).

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Title: Screen
Character: Host
Released: March 7, 2018
Type: TV
Australia’s favourite film critic Margaret Pomeranz alongside actor and writer Graeme Blundell. This widely respected duo will continue to do what they do best; critique cinema releases and premium TV dramas as well as interview the who’s who of screen talent from in front of and behind the camera.
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Title: Laid
Character: Graham McVie
Released: February 9, 2011
Type: TV
Roo McVie is placed in an uncomfortable situation when her former lovers start dying in strange circumstances. With her best friend EJ, Roo sets out to find a pattern and stop any more deaths.
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In Her Skin
Title: In Her Skin
Character: Ivan
Released: March 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
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Not Quite Hollywood
Title: Not Quite Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: August 28, 2008
Type: Movie
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
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Title: The Hollowmen
Character: Geoff
Released: July 9, 2008
Type: TV
The Hollowmen is set in the offices of the Central Policy Unit, a special think tank personally set up by the Prime Minister to help him in the most important job of all - getting re-elected. Their brief is "long term vision"; to stop worrying about tomorrow's headlines, and focus on next week's.
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Title: Underbelly
Character: Jack Lang
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: East West 101
Character: Shock Jock
Released: December 6, 2007
Type: TV
Zane Malik and the Major Crime Squad investigate crime and murder in all quarters of multicultural Sydney.
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Title: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Character: Ruwee Naberrie
Released: May 17, 2005
Type: Movie
The evil Darth Sidious enacts his final plan for unlimited power -- and the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.
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Title: Through My Eyes
Character: Rex Kuchel
Released: October 23, 2004
Type: TV
The true life story of Lindy Chamberlain and her recount of a dingo taking her baby
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Title: Marking Time
Character: Ralph Dare
Released: November 9, 2003
Type: TV
Marking Time was an Australian television mini-series, consisting of four one-hour episodes. It first aired on 9 and 10 November 2003 on ABC-TV. Directed by Cherie Nowlan and written by John Doyle, it was the first mainstream television/film project to address the issue of the Australian government's refugee policy, a topic it approaches by chronicling the emotional journey of one young man during his year off after graduation, in his fictional rural home-town of Brackley, Australia. The storyline of Marking Time was inspired by the real-life experiences of Afghan refugees and their hosts in the rural town of Young, New South Wales; however much of the outdoor scenes of the series were actually shot at Singleton, New South Wales, in the Hunter Region.
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Title: Ocean Star
Character: Clive 'Swampy' Marsh
Released: February 10, 2003
Type: TV
Ocean Star is an Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten on 10 February 2003 until 2003.
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The Love of Lionel's Life
Title: The Love of Lionel's Life
Character: Stan
Released: July 9, 2000
Type: Movie
Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Keeping it a secret, particularly from his mates, Lionel strikes up a video relationship with Lena.
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Idiot Box
Title: Idiot Box
Character: Detective Eric
Released: March 6, 1997
Type: Movie
Mick and Kev – bored, unemployed and aimless in the western suburbs of Sydney – decide to rob a bank, more or less for the fun of it.
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Title: Medivac
Released: September 10, 1996
Type: TV
Medivac was an Australian television drama series that ran on Network Ten from 1996 to 1998. There were 48 episodes produced. Medivac is an abbreviation of the term medical evacuation. The series was also known as Adrenaline Junkies overseas. Medivac was set in the emergency department of Brisbane's fictional Bethlehem West Hospital, where a dedicated medical team work in the demanding world of emergency medicine. The team specialises in the evacuation of disaster areas, journeying by helicopter to remote areas inaccessible by ambulance. They also work in the city streets and the suburbs involving themselves with the patients, their families and the police.
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Joh's Jury
Title: Joh's Jury
Character: Nicholas Cowdery
Released: February 16, 1993
Type: Movie
Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
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The Distant Home
Title: The Distant Home
Character: Dr. Chambers
Released: June 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Government authorities incarcerate a girl whose extraterrestrial origin is discovered after an accident with a car.
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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Coleman
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 Year My Voice Broke
Title: The Year My Voice Broke
Character: Nils Olson
Released: October 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.
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Those Dear Departed
Title: Those Dear Departed
Character: Dr. Howie
Released: August 13, 1987
Type: Movie
A disturbed woman murders her husband, and others, so that she can be haunted by their "wronged" spirits.
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Vietnam
Title: Vietnam
Character: Miles
Released: February 23, 1987
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
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Australian Dream
Title: Australian Dream
Character: Geoffrey Stubbs
Released: January 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Dorothy is living out the Australian dream and has fantasies to escape the boredom. She rebels against her expected role and gets involved with selling sex aids to housewives.
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Melvin, Son of Alvin
Title: Melvin, Son of Alvin
Character: Alvin Purple
Released: December 20, 1984
Type: Movie
A shy young man is irresistible to women.
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Midnite Spares
Title: Midnite Spares
Character: Sidebottom
Released: February 17, 1983
Type: Movie
After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver.
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The Best of Friends
Title: The Best of Friends
Character: Tom
Released: October 9, 1982
Type: Movie
The Best of Friends is a 1982 Australian romantic comedy about two best friends who have an affair one night, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant.
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Doctors & Nurses
Title: Doctors & Nurses
Character: Mr X
Released: December 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
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Pacific Banana
Title: Pacific Banana
Character: Martin
Released: February 4, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of a pair of Australian pilots working for a small South Pacific airline. Paul, a wildly successful womanizer, leaving conquests at every port and Martin, sad and lonely in his search for a true love. Together, they... well, they don't do much of anything besides chase girls on various Polynesian islands.
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Title: Water Under the Bridge
Character: Ralph
Released: September 25, 1980
Type: TV
Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott.
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The Odd Angry Shot
Title: The Odd Angry Shot
Character: Dawson
Released: March 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
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Weekend of Shadows
Title: Weekend of Shadows
Character: Bernie
Released: June 28, 1978
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
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Don's Party
Title: Don's Party
Character: Simon
Released: November 10, 1976
Type: Movie
On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath. The Hendersons and their nine guests drink, joke, make love, and fight, all while coming to terms with their individual struggles in life.
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Title: Alvin Purple
Character: Alvin Purple
Released: August 13, 1976
Type: TV
Alvin Purple was an Australian television situation comedy series made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1976. The series followed continued adventures of the title character, previously featured in successful sex comedy feature films Alvin Purple and Alvin Purple Rides Again. Graeme Blundell reprises the role of Alvin in the series. Alvin cohabitates with a new character, flatmate Spike. As in the films various women inexplicably lust after Alvin. The women were played by a stream of recognisable Australian actors in guest starring roles including Tina Bursill, Jackie Weaver, Belinda Giblin, June Rich, Jane Harders, Pamela Gibbons, Kirrily Nolan, Peta Peita, Judy Lynne, Suzanne Church, Carla Hoogeveen, Chantal Contouri, Anya Saleky. Dawn Lake and Leonard Teale also acted in the series.
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Mad Dog Morgan
Title: Mad Dog Morgan
Character: Italian Jack
Released: July 9, 1976
Type: Movie
The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
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Alvin Rides Again
Title: Alvin Rides Again
Character: Alvin Purple / Balls McGee
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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Alvin Purple
Title: Alvin Purple
Character: Alvin Purple
Released: December 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.
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Stork
Title: Stork
Character: Westy
Released: December 27, 1971
Type: Movie
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins....
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Brake Fluid
Title: Brake Fluid
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
This self-funded verité comedy starring John Duigan is something of a swan song for the “Carlton ripple” and reflects the movement’s characteristic vacillation between intensely local and distantly international influences.
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The Naked Bunyip
Title: The Naked Bunyip
Character: Graeme
Released: February 2, 1970
Type: Movie
A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transvestites, prostitution, and strip clubs along with every other variant on the "norm". While doing his interviews he meets celebrities, self proclaimed sex experts, prostitutes, female impersonators, pop stars, actors, and legislators as well as self appointed morals guardians.
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Title: Homicide
Character: Bank Customer (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1964
Type: TV
Homicide was an Australian television police drama series The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based on real life crime cases.