Frank Whitten

Frank Whitten

Born: November 15, 1942
Died: February 12, 2011
in Waikato, New Zealand

Movies for Frank Whitten...

Outrageous Fortune: The Movie
Title: Outrageous Fortune: The Movie
Character: Ted West
Released: December 26, 2006
Type: Movie
The West family goes to Tutaekuri Bay for their annual summer holiday.
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Title: Outrageous Fortune
Character: Grandpa Ted West
Released: July 12, 2005
Type: TV
After her husband is incarcerated, matriarch Cheryl decides that her career criminal family should go straight and abide by the law.
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Hell Has Harbour Views
Title: Hell Has Harbour Views
Character: Giles Taffy QC
Released: January 30, 2005
Type: Movie
Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.
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Peter Pan
Title: Peter Pan
Character: Starkey
Released: December 18, 2003
Type: Movie
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
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The Man Who Sued God
Title: The Man Who Sued God
Character: Primate
Released: October 25, 2001
Type: Movie
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
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Airtight
Title: Airtight
Character: Escher
Released: November 26, 1999
Type: Movie
Set in the nuclear war-torn world of 2040, a congested city is shrouded in a deadly smog, where breathable air is obtainable only through labyrinth shafts that transport the precious gas from high in the atmosphere. These passages are kept functioning by an elite 'Air Force'. The team risk annihilation to expose a deadly blackmail scheme.
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Accidents
Title: Accidents
Character: Ron
Released: July 22, 1999
Type: Movie
A gang of construction workers try to relieve tension by taunting their newest member.
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Chameleon
Title: Chameleon
Character: Newton
Released: October 22, 1998
Type: Movie
A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this science fiction tale set in the year 2028.
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Napoleon
Title: Napoleon
Character: Koala (voice)
Released: June 30, 1995
Type: Movie
The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
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The Roly Poly Man
Title: The Roly Poly Man
Character: Dr. Henderson
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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Title: Heartbreak High
Character: Bob
Released: April 1, 1994
Type: TV
The ins and outs of the classroom lives of a group of students who attend the fictional Hartley High School in Sydney.
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Title: The Leaving of Liverpool
Released: July 8, 1992
Type: TV
The Leaving of Liverpool is a 1992 television mini-series, an Australian–British co-production between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and British Broadcasting Corporation. The series was about the Home Children, the migration scheme which saw over 100,000 British children sent to Commonwealth realms such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.
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The Leaving of Liverpool
Title: The Leaving of Liverpool
Character: Brother Jerome
Released: July 8, 1992
Type: Movie
A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.
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Greenkeeping
Title: Greenkeeping
Character: Dad
Released: June 1, 1992
Type: Movie
An ex-convict pays for his wife's marijuana by keeping the green at a lawn-bowling club
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Title: Phoenix
Character: Stan Cutler
Released: February 13, 1992
Type: TV
Phoenix is an Australian police drama television series. Phoenix screened as two thirteen-part series on Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1992 and 1993. The first series of Phoenix in 1992 recounted the investigation of the bombing of the Victorian state police headquarters, loosely based on a real case in the mid-1980s, the Russell Street Bombing. It was aided by extensive research into police techniques and was lauded as one of the most realistic depictions of police investigation techniques, including both surveillance and forensics, as well as having an involving storyline. The series was notable for its dark visual tone and for its no-holds-barred attitude to violence and language. It spawned a second thirteen-part series, Phoenix II, in 1993 as well as a spin-off series, Janus, in 1994 devoted to the machinations of court cases. The series was created and produced by Tony McDonald and Alison Nisselle and screened by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The ABC have released Series 1 and 2 on DVD as a 4 DVD box set.
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Waiting
Title: Waiting
Character: Michael
Released: July 25, 1991
Type: Movie
A teenage boy wants to leave his home town.
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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Glasel
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 Returning
Title: The Returning
Character: Mr Spiggs
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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The Shrimp on the Barbie
Title: The Shrimp on the Barbie
Character: Blue
Released: August 31, 1990
Type: Movie
Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée.
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Zilch
Title: Zilch
Character: Engineer
Released: December 18, 1989
Type: Movie
Sam works on the tolls and likes to listen. He overhears more than he bargains for and becomes embroiled in a mishmash of corruption and blackmail. Anna is a hooker who specializes in throwing tomatoes at ageing weirdos. Sam and Anna's paths cross as he works to expose shady maneuvrings by the CEO of Infacorp, who is out to land a contract to build a tunnel under Auckland harbour.
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Chill Factor
Title: Chill Factor
Character: Frank Robertson
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
After a day of filming her popular "Window On The World" television series, hostess Katherine returns to her hotel room to find Clifford, an ex-CIA agent who reveals a saga of a worldwide organization that seeks to destroy the economic stability of every major country. Katherine seizes this opportunity to become a "real journalist" like star reporter Jerry, against the direct orders of news director Carl.
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The Clean Machine
Title: The Clean Machine
Character: Premier John Morgan
Released: May 22, 1988
Type: Movie
A new Premier is elected promising to clean up corruption. He sets up a taskforce headed by a traffic cop thinking he won’t get far. But Inspector Riordan opens up a can of worms and won’t let it go – all the way to the top.
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Arriving Tuesday
Title: Arriving Tuesday
Character: Farmer
Released: September 24, 1986
Type: Movie
Monica arrives back from her big overseas experience to find her boyfriend Nick unchanged. Although Nick styles himself an artist, he is really something of a cultural redneck, and when the couple head up north for a break, and they meet up with Riki, a poet, who is rather less shallow and charming.
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Vigil
Title: Vigil
Character: Ethan Ruir
Released: October 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Toss lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss's father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job by her grandfather. Toss's fairly innocent relationship with Ethan is severed when he forms a relationship with her mother.
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Trespasses
Title: Trespasses
Character: Stan Gubbins
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes of her darkly possessive widowed father. The tensions of small town New Zealand and individual conflicts generated by intolerance and fear, unleashes forces of violence and betrayal.