Roger Newcombe

Roger Newcombe

Movies for Roger Newcombe...

Wastelander Panda: Exile
Title: Wastelander Panda: Exile
Character: Arcayus
Released: September 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Banished to the Wasteland, anthropomorphic panda Isaac sets out to find a young girl and reinstate his family into the Tribe of Legion in this feature-length version of the Australian web series.
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Disappearance
Title: Disappearance
Character: Lester
Released: April 21, 2002
Type: Movie
A family driving through Nevada decides to take some snapshots at an out-of-the-way ghost town named Weaver, and horrible things start happening.
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The Battlers
Title: The Battlers
Character: Burning Angus
Released: July 14, 1994
Type: Movie
Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
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Luigi’s Ladies
Title: Luigi’s Ladies
Character: American Newsreader
Released: May 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Shaken by the stockmarket crash of ’87 … plus a few other distractions like attempted murder, flirtatious affairs and a lunatic, knife wielding chef … their friendship is put to the test! But, rest assured, these resilient women-of-the-world will pull through and enjoy many more entrées together at Luigi’s!
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Vietnam
Title: Vietnam
Character: American
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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The Return of Captain Invincible
Title: The Return of Captain Invincible
Character: Newscaster
Released: January 28, 1983
Type: Movie
In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Australia in disgrace. Cut to the present, when a US super secret super weapon is stolen and he's asked to come back to the States in order to help stop evil and restore his sterling reputation. Unfortunately, Captain Invincible is a drunk now...
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Doctors & Nurses
Title: Doctors & Nurses
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
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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The Odd Angry Shot
Title: The Odd Angry Shot
Character: Lieut. Clifford
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.