John Ewart

John Ewart

Born: February 26, 1928
Died: March 8, 1994

Movies for John Ewart...

Hurricane Smith
Title: Hurricane Smith
Character: David Griffiths
Released: January 31, 1992
Type: Movie
An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.
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Which Way Home
Title: Which Way Home
Character: Ferguson
Released: January 28, 1991
Type: Movie
An American nurse is determined to smuggle a group of orphans out of Cambodia in the late 1970s, assisted by an Australian boat operator.
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The Returning
Title: The Returning
Character: Steadman Senior
Released: December 10, 1990
Type: Movie
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
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Dear Cardholder
Title: Dear Cardholder
Character: Mr. Hart
Released: November 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Hec, a sacked taxation clerk, seeks fame and fortune using the world of credit cards. Unfortunately for him, and the banks, he has no concept of credit card limit.
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Title: The True Believers
Character: Fred Daley
Released: June 28, 1988
Type: TV
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-written by Bob Ellis who focused on three characters "Chifley, the unlettered man of great dignity; Menzies, who used to stand for something but eventually stood only for Menzies; and Evatt, the grand idealist... It's almost like Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. It's a chunk of national history during Australia's great era of change after the war."
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The Odyssey
Title: The Odyssey
Character: (voice)
Released: November 9, 1987
Type: Movie
After the Trojan War a legendary hero Odysseus makes his valiant voyage at sea, trying to reach the shores of his beloved home. While he and his crew are protected by the goddess Athena, the sea god Poseidon is avenging the harm done to his son, the giant Cyclops, by inflicting such wrathful enemies as Circe and Scylla upon the men.
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Title: The Last Frontier
Character: Henry Dingwell
Released: October 5, 1986
Type: TV
Following a whirlwind courtship, a single mother from Los Angeles marries an Australian cattle rancher. He returns to Australia ahead of her and her two children but dies before they arrive, leaving his widow to deal with a debt-ridden ranch and land-grabbing neighbors.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Ralph
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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Frog Dreaming
Title: Frog Dreaming
Character: Ricketts
Released: May 1, 1986
Type: Movie
American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive and inquisitive. He comes accross some strange events happening in Devil's Knob national park associated with an aboriginal myth about "frog dreamings". Cody tries to investigate...
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The Big Hurt
Title: The Big Hurt
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that the scientist may have been killed to cover up a secret government plot concerning mind-control drugs that have been tested on unknowing civilians, and he becomes involved with the scientist's daughter, who is trying to clear her father's name.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Utterson (voice)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
This is a animated adaptation of the famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Super Sleuth
Title: Super Sleuth
Character: Steven Weatherley
Released: July 13, 1984
Type: Movie
Novelty movie which seems like just another people-gathered-in-a-country-house-murder-mystery but then lets the viewers choose the ending.
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Razorback
Title: Razorback
Character: Turner
Released: April 19, 1984
Type: Movie
In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
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Bush Christmas
Title: Bush Christmas
Character: Bill
Released: December 12, 1983
Type: Movie
In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him back.
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A Slice of Life
Title: A Slice of Life
Character: Hughes
Released: July 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Toby Morris enters hospital to remove a cyst from his hand. He wakes up to find not only has the cyst been removed but he's been given a vasectomy.
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Kitty and the Bagman
Title: Kitty and the Bagman
Character: The Train Driver
Released: February 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Notorious Australian flop set in the Roaring 20s Sydney follows Kitty O'Rourke who, after her thug husband ends up in jail, becomes a tough gangster on her own, befriends a crooked cop called The Bagman and takes on the competition.
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Skin Deep
Title: Skin Deep
Character: Billy Harris
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Drama and tensions rise as two determined partners in a successful Australian fashion empire will stop at nothing to achieve individual success.
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Fluteman
Title: Fluteman
Character: Clarence Quint
Released: November 24, 1982
Type: Movie
When the small town of Minyaka suffers from a drought, a kind and mysterious stranger offers to make it rain by playing his flute; under the condition that he be paid. But after Fluteman makes it rain, and even stops it; the town council, blind by their greed and pride, refuse to pay him. Fluteman stands before the town and warns them of a curse he would bring; and so the next day the school playground fades into silence as all the children disappear into the bush... except one.
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Crosstalk
Title: Crosstalk
Character: Stollier
Released: October 8, 1982
Type: Movie
A computer genius is confined to a penthouse after a car accident, with only a nurse to look after him. But the advanced computer systems designed to make his life easier appear to be taking control.
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Island Trader
Title: Island Trader
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
An island boy battles an evil ship's captain over the wreckage of a downed plane that was transporting gold bullion.
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Save the Lady
Title: Save the Lady
Character: Uncle Harry
Released: December 28, 1981
Type: Movie
A ragtag group of kids set out to save derelict steam ferry Lady Hope from destruction.
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Cass
Title: Cass
Released: October 30, 1978
Type: Movie
Torn by the conflict between society and her own life, as well as her failing marriage and love for another woman, Cass desperately tried to pull together the pieces of her shattered life.
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Title: The Truckies
Released: July 31, 1978
Type: TV
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Newsfront
Title: Newsfront
Character: Charlie
Released: July 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
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Blue Fire Lady
Title: Blue Fire Lady
Character: Mr. Peters
Released: December 9, 1977
Type: Movie
Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to ride horses, after her mother had died from a horse-riding accident. Jenny finds work at a country race track and becomes obsessed with a troublesome horse called "Blue Fire Lady". "Blue Fire Lady" shows promise in Jenny's hands, but around everyone else misbehaves and shows no discipline. When "Blue Fire Lady" is put up for auction it is up to Jenny to either buy her or prove her.
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The Picture Show Man
Title: The Picture Show Man
Character: Freddie Graves
Released: May 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
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Let the Balloon Go
Title: Let the Balloon Go
Character: PC Baird
Released: December 16, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother.
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Master of the World
Title: Master of the World
Character: Voice
Released: October 23, 1976
Type: Movie
April 1910. Inspector John Strock travels to Morganton, North Carolina. There, the government entrusts him with a mission of the utmost importance: to climb and inspect a mountain called the Eagle's Nest from which alarming flaming trails escape...
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Caddie
Title: Caddie
Character: Paddy Reilly
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her.
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Sunday Too Far Away
Title: Sunday Too Far Away
Character: Ugly
Released: June 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.
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The Love Epidemic
Title: The Love Epidemic
Released: January 3, 1975
Type: Movie
This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone — whether young or old, gay or straight. Factual segments are interspersed with humorous skits depicting how people of varying degrees of innocence can contract awful but treatable diseases.
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Jock Petersen
Title: Jock Petersen
Character: Peter
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of his students after class. Petersen and the professor's wife talk about having a baby. But then she accepts an appointment to Oxford, provoking a rage in Petersen...
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Sons of Matthew
Title: Sons of Matthew
Character: Mickey O'Riordan
Released: December 16, 1949
Type: Movie
The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country.