Deborah Kennedy

Deborah Kennedy

Born: January 1, 1935
in Australia

Movies for Deborah Kennedy...

Title: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Character: Merle
Released: August 3, 2023
Type: TV
After losing her parents to a mysterious fire, nine-year-old Alice Hart is raised by her grandmother June on a flower farm where she learns there are secrets within secrets. But years on, an unearthed betrayal sees Alice forced to face her past.
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Cold Water
Title: Cold Water
Character: Joy
Released: March 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Set in St Kilda, Australia, an elderly woman’s peaceful retirement is interrupted when her husband takes up a bizarre new hobby.
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There Goes Our Neighbourhood
Title: There Goes Our Neighbourhood
Character: Narrator
Released: November 20, 2018
Type: Movie
The locals of Waterloo, Sydney, stand their ground and fight back as property developers and politicians try to take over the suburb.
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Ladies in Black
Title: Ladies in Black
Character: Myra's Mother
Released: October 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.
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Title: The Principal
Character: Val
Released: October 7, 2015
Type: TV
When history teacher Matt Bashir is promoted to Principal of a notoriously violent Boys' school in Sydney's south-west, his radical approach brings him into conflict and leaves his personal life dangerously exposed. But just when he seems to be making progress, a 17-year-old student is found dead on school grounds.
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Women He's Undressed
Title: Women He's Undressed
Character: Florence Kelly
Released: June 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Hollywood stars, historical footage and stylized reenactments tell the story of costume designer Orry-Kelly, who ruled Tinseltown fashion for decades.
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Title: A Place to Call Home
Character: Doris Collins
Released: April 28, 2013
Type: TV
A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, who lives in Inverness, NSW.
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365 Decision Time
Title: 365 Decision Time
Character: Gabriela
Released: November 12, 2012
Type: Movie
A family drama dealing with real life events. It tells the story of a typical middle class family living in the United States and the dramatic real-world issues they confront that threatens to break the family unity apart.
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Title: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Character: Georgina Charlesworth
Released: February 24, 2012
Type: TV
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.
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Title: E Dance Academy
Character: Miss Histead
Released: May 31, 2010
Type: TV
At Sydney's National Dance Academy, a few talented youngsters are recruited for the excruciatingly tough course. It follows Tara Webster, a sheepfarmgirl who's ambition is to be the next best ballerina. Jewish long line of doctors' heir Samuel 'Sammy' and minor juvenile offender Christian are the outsiders but gradually fit in, making new kinds of friends. Star ballerina's daughter Kat also introduces them in the circle of last-year brother Ethan, who already aspires a career as choreographer. Also Abigail, a smart young girl who'll walk over dead bodies to reach the stars tries to sabotage everything and everyone.
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Title: The Jesters
Released: September 8, 2009
Type: TV
The Jesters is an Australian comedy series produced for Movie Extra subscription television channel. The series is a satire about the day-to-day battles of a sketch comedy veteran turned producer.
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Charlie & Boots
Title: Charlie & Boots
Character: Miles Waitress
Released: September 3, 2009
Type: Movie
Paul Hogan plays Charlie McFarland and Shane Jacobson plays his estranged son, Boots. After a family tragedy Charlie and Boots try and put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula - they overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the northern most tip of Australia.
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Closed for Winter
Title: Closed for Winter
Character: Dorothy
Released: April 3, 2009
Type: Movie
An emotional and poetic story of Elise, a beautiful young woman haunted by a tragic event in her youth. As Elise attempts to piece together the mystery of her sister's disappearance at the beach, twenty years before when both were children, she must face dark family secrets that have remained unspoken. As the past is revealed, Elise at last finds the courage to begin to live.
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Title: Bastard Boys
Released: May 13, 2007
Type: TV
Bastard Boys is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute. The script, published by Currency Press, won the 2007 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Television Script.
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Small Claims: White Wedding
Title: Small Claims: White Wedding
Character: Trudy Duffy
Released: August 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Jo has a family wedding to attend, but the wedding is in crisis. Chrissy and Jo face the twin tasks of bringing the wedding to a successful conclusion, whilst at the same time, investigating a murder in which all the suspects are key figures in the wedding party.
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The Brush-Off
Title: The Brush-Off
Character: Trish
Released: September 5, 2004
Type: Movie
The political adviser to Australia's Minister of the Arts investigates the suspicious death of a disgruntled artist.
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Stiff
Title: Stiff
Character: Trish
Released: June 19, 2004
Type: Movie
An amusing and entertaining film, "Stiff" showcases David Wenham as Murray Whelan, political fixer and amateur investigator. An adaption of a Shane Moloney book it provides a view into the political workings (or lack thereof) of a Brunswick (Melbourne, Australia) Local Member's office.
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Thunderstruck
Title: Thunderstruck
Character: Matron of Honour
Released: May 20, 2004
Type: Movie
After a near death experience, five Boys, all devoted AC/DC fans, make a pact to bury their best friend next to the grave of Bon Scott. 12 years later, having gone their different ways, they come together to fulfill the promise.
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Swimming Upstream
Title: Swimming Upstream
Character: Billie
Released: February 27, 2003
Type: Movie
A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment towards him as the father deals with his own demons.
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Thank God He Met Lizzie
Title: Thank God He Met Lizzie
Character: June
Released: November 20, 1997
Type: Movie
The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.
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Idiot Box
Title: Idiot Box
Character: Detective Leanne
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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The Roly Poly Man
Title: The Roly Poly Man
Character: Chantal
Released: December 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an incident he caught on tape, where a man seemed about to murder his mistress with an axe. Delving deeper, the film enters some seldom-trodden territory as it slips easily into horror and sci-fi, while still maintaining the hilarious dialogue
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The Sum of Us
Title: The Sum of Us
Character: Joyce Johnson
Released: July 28, 1994
Type: Movie
A widowed father has to deal with two complex issues: while he is searching for "Miss Right," his son, who is in his 20s and gay, is searching for "Mr. Right."
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Death in Brunswick
Title: Death in Brunswick
Character: June
Released: April 24, 1991
Type: Movie
A reserved man in need of a job, Carl Fitzgerald finds employment at a Greek restaurant. Upon meeting waitress Sophie, Carl begins dating the attractive woman. Though it seems things are improving for Carl, an unexpected situation leads to the death of Mustafa, a shady coworker, and Carl must figure out how to cover up the incident. Unsure of what to do, Carl enlists the help of his buddy, Dave, to get rid of Mustafa's corpse.
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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Bronwyn Catteau
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: Bronwyn
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: Chances
Character: Connie Reynolds
Released: January 29, 1991
Type: TV
Chances was an Australian evening soap opera, produced from 1991 to 1992. It told the story of the average middle-class Taylor family whose lives are transformed by winning $3 million in the lottery. The series was broadcast by the Nine Network, initially as two one-hour episodes each week. Principal cast members included John Sheerin and Brenda Addie as Dan and Barbara Taylor, Jeremy Sims as their mischievous son Alex, Deborah Kennedy as Dan's sister Connie Reynolds, Tim Robertson as Dan's brother Jack, Anne Grigg as his wife Sarah, and Michael Caton as neighbourhood friend Bill Anderson. Originally, creator Lynn Bayonas pitched the show as a family-oriented drama; however to help ensure the program's success, Channel Nine asked for nude scenes and risqué elements to also be included in the series. Initial publicity for the show focused on the sex angle, and it was for this that Chances was chiefly known.
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Title: Johnson & Friends
Character: Victoria
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
Johnson and Friends is an Australian children’s television programme broadcast on ABC from 12 November 1990 to 25 December 1995. It was produced by Film Australia and lasted seven seasons. In the UK it was shown in the 1993 on TCC, CBBC, and then on UK Living's Tiny Living strand for under-fives. It was aired in the United States as a segment on the Fox Cubhouse, an educational children's program on Fox, from 1993 to 1996.
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Grievous Bodily Harm
Title: Grievous Bodily Harm
Character: Madeleine Kovitch
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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Kadaicha
Title: Kadaicha
Character: Mrs. Millhouse
Released: May 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Teens of Kangaloola High are visited by a skull-faced Aboriginal apparition in their nightmares, and one by one they meet a violent end.
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Title: Home and Away
Character: Vet
Released: January 17, 1988
Type: TV
Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. During the early 2000s, the central storylines focused on the Sutherlands and later, the Hunters. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.
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The Empty Beach
Title: The Empty Beach
Character: Newspaper Librarian
Released: September 12, 1985
Type: Movie
Before shady businessman John Singer disappeared off Bondi Beach, his name meant money--big and small, clean and dirty--a man absorbed in a world of greed and dishonesty. Singer's widow, Marlon, believes he's still alive and she employs the investigative skills of the tough, no-nonsense private eye, Cliff Hardy (Bryan Brown) to find him. Battered and bruised, Hardy battles through the filth of corruption and the stench of political blackmail. He comes face to face with the crime bosses, who feed off human misery and eliminate their rivals without thinking twice. From the high life and low life of Sydney, to the seediness and splendour of Bondi Beach, Cliff Hardy uncovers the ultimate truth.
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Tim
Title: Tim
Character: Dawnie Melville
Released: July 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love.
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Temperament Unsuited
Title: Temperament Unsuited
Released: July 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A student teacher, Mark (Steve J. Spears) doesn't accept the teaching methods to be found in a traditional school situation, or the way the principal Ted 'Seedy' Yates (Ken Goodlet) runs the show.
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Jimpa
Title: Jimpa
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A mother takes her trans non-binary teenager Frances to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather Jimpa. But Frances' desire to stay with Jimpa for a year abroad means Hannah is forced to re-consider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past.