Don Reid

Don Reid

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Men's Group
Title: Men's Group
Character: Cecil
Released: September 18, 2008
Type: Movie
What lies in the hearts of men.
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Solo
Title: Solo
Character: Chief Superintendent
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm of the Sydney Underworld. Standover tactics, prostitution, illegal gambling, creative importation - you name it, "The Gentlemen" are into it. And Barrett enforces it for them. Old school muscle for hire. Now 53 years old, he's tired of having to throw away perfectly good suits because you can't dry-clean the blood off. He needs to get out of Sydney. Out of the game. Which is, of course, easier said than done.
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Title: Fireflies
Character: Mick
Released: February 1, 2004
Type: TV
Fireflies is an Australian television show which aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia and RTÉ One in Ireland. It debuted on 7 February 2004 and screened as 22 episodes. The series was set in the fictional country town of Lost River, population 487. It was centred on the lives of a group of volunteer firefighters, during the hottest, driest summer in decades. The theme song "Beautiful Feeling" was written and performed by Paul Kelly.
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Moulin Rouge!
Title: Moulin Rouge!
Character: Character Rake
Released: May 24, 2001
Type: Movie
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
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The Nostradamus Kid
Title: The Nostradamus Kid
Character: 'General Booth Enters Heaven' Strolling Player
Released: October 14, 1993
Type: Movie
The spiritual and sexual coming of age of a Seventh-Day Adventist boy in 1950s Australia. Ken Elkin is a "randy young man" who is told that the world is about to end. In a race against time, there's only one goal Ken wants to accomplish: bedding the love of his life, who just happens to be the local pastor's daughter.
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Dead to the World
Title: Dead to the World
Character: Lyons
Released: June 7, 1991
Type: Movie
Two women battle for control of an inner-city boxing school.
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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Harry Morgan
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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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Superintendent Jim Bailey
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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Grievous Bodily Harm
Title: Grievous Bodily Harm
Character: Headmaster
Released: October 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
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The Riddle of the Stinson
Title: The Riddle of the Stinson
Character: Dr. Lawlor
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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Rikky and Pete
Title: Rikky and Pete
Character: Mr. Menzies
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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Vietnam
Title: Vietnam
Character: Paul Hasluck
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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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: George Worthing
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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After Hours
Title: After Hours
Character: John Phillips
Released: July 20, 1985
Type: Movie
The difficulty of separating sexual fantasy and reality becomes apparent in an investigation of an alleged sexual harassment case.
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Title: Scales of Justice
Character: Asst. Commissioner
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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Flight to Holocaust
Title: Flight to Holocaust
Character: Tom Lewis
Released: March 26, 1977
Type: Movie
A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.
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That Lady from Peking
Title: That Lady from Peking
Character: Spronsky
Released: November 13, 1975
Type: Movie
Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape, the diplomat must turn over to Foster a diary revealing the true events taking place in China. While making his escape, the defector is killed ant the diary vanishes. The reporter sets off on a search for it, from Hong Kong to Australia. The chase ends in an action-filled climax, with the journalist finally meeting up with "That Lady from Peking" (Nancy Kwan) - the diplomat's daughter.
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Billy and Percy
Title: Billy and Percy
Released: July 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Australian docudrama based on the relationship between Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his private secretary Percy Deane during World War I. It was based primarily on Deane's diaries.