Simon Chilvers

Simon Chilvers

Nacimiento : 1939-04-05, England, UK

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Hell Has Harbour Views
George Hancock
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.
Civilisations: The Gardens of Babel
Narrator (voice)
Mesopotamia was the site of the Sumerian civilisation, which flourished at the confluence of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. From 5000 to 2000 BC, the Sumerians flourished in a hostile environment by developing agriculture and irrigation and they opened up the trade routes of the ancient world. It was the Sumerians who invented writing and the wheel, and they first divided time into minutes and seconds. In the end however the Babylonian civilisation took the place of the Sumerians. However their heritage and myths live on in the Mediterranean and Western worlds to this day.
The Farm
Phil Reynolds
After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be repaid.
Mushrooms
Instep
In the tradition of Arsenic and Old Lace, comes this morbidly funny Australian tale of murder and mayhem at the hands of two charming old ladies.
Garbo
Detective
Comedy about two Australian garbage collectors starring Los Trios Ringbarkus.
El juego del tiempo
George Johnson
Tony Johnson, un niño de trece años aficionado a los ordenadores, es acusado de prender fuego a su escuela. Los padres de Tony deciden pasar las fiestas navideñas en casa de los abuelos. Su abuelo, un genio de la electrónica, ha creado el juego del tiempo.
Zona cero, alerta nuclear
Commission president
Un operador de cámara de segunda generación en Australia encuentra las evidencias de que su padre había filmado una prueba nuclear que permitía la exposición a la radiación de los aborígenes, que terminaron muriendo. El cámara comienza a investigar sobre un secreto que si es cierto, implica que su gobierno ha asesinado a personas para que no se sepa nada.
Windrider
Howard
A rock star falls for a rich man's son who competitively board-sails the coast of Western Australia.
Sky Pirates
Rev. Mitchell
La fuerza aérea, el teniente Harris, comienza a volar a Boa Boa, a bordo del Reverendo Mitchell, con una caja que contiene una parte de una llave extraterrestre de alto secreto. Se pierden en una tormenta sobrenatural y se encuentran después de un aterrizaje de emergencia en una especie de triángulo de las Bermudas, a 5,000 millas de su curso. Otra vez en casa, nadie cree la historia de Harris, y su tripulación lo niega con sospecha. Harris es lanzado a la cárcel, pero logra escapar. Junto con la hija de Mitchell, busca la parte perdida de la llave y su secreto.
The Big Hurt
Algerson
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.
The Dunera Boys
Col. Berry
At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the Dunera.
The Naked Country
Inspector Poole
Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to eke out a living from their cattle herd. When the aborigines kill the Dillon's prize bull a chase begins that will culminate in bloody tragedy with Lance pitted against Mandaru - an aborigine struggling to maintain his cultural way of life
Waterfront
Cross
Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.
High Rolling
Sideshow Boss
Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is fulfilled when they encounter a dope-peddler and two exotic nightclub dancers.