Marshall Napier

Marshall Napier

Nacimiento : 1951-10-22, New Zealand

Muerte : 2022-08-14

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marshall James Napier is a New Zealand actor. He is the father of actress Jessica Napier and the uncle of actor James Napier. Before becoming an actor, Napier worked variously as an art student, factory worker and truck driver. In 1988, he moved with his wife and two children, Reuben and Jessica, to Australia, to pursue a career in acting, and has worked in theatre, film, and television productions. In his 40's, he began writing plays. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marshall Napier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Marshall Napier

Películas

Northspur
Summers
In a violent, post-pandemic world, a peace-loving man is forced on a desperate journey to find life-saving drugs for his wife - but to get them he must first help an ornery old man defend his cabin against all-comers.
Bellbird
Ross
In the wake of the loss of his beloved wife, a rural community rallies around a farmer to help him deal with his grief.
La luz entre los océanos
Mr. Coughlan
Australia, 1926. Un bote encalla en una isla remota y a su encuentro acuden el farero Tom Sherbourne y su joven esposa Isabel. En el interior del bote yacen un hombre muerto y un bebé que llora con desesperación. Tom e Isabel adoptan al niño y deciden criarlo sin informar a las autoridades. Todo se complica cuando descubren que la madre biológica del bebé está viva.
Down Under
Graham Sheather
A black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, it is the story of two carloads of hotheads from both sides of the fight destined to collide.
Inside
The Visiting Doctor
Two doctors are observing a very "special patient" through the small window of her cell in the deep, dark corners of a mental asylum. Each morning, at exactly the same time, she performs the exact same extraordinary routine.
Jack Irish Bad Debts
Father Gorman
Jack Irish (Guy Pearce) es un hombre que recupera su vida juntos otra vez. Un ex abogado criminalista cuyo mundo implosionó, él ahora gasta sus días como un investigador de media jornada, cobrador, ebanista del aprendiz, jugador y algún día amante - el hombre completo realmente. Jack es un experto en el descubrimiento de aquellos que no quieren encontrarse - muertos o vivos. Echa una mano a sus compañeros evitando el pasado. Esto es hasta que el pasado le encuentre.
Griff the Invisible
Benson
La historia está protagonizada por Griff, un oficinista torpe y centro de mofa de sus compañeros de día, y luchador contra el crimen del vecindario por la noche. Lleva bastante bien su doble vida hasta que un día conoce a Melody y su mundo se vuelve patas arriba. Melody es una científica con un grado de torpeza similar al de Griff, además de compartir ambos una pasión elevada por lo imposible.
Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here
Chief Commissioner
Tell Them Lucifer Was Here depicts the tragic murders of Victorian police officers, Gary Silk and Rod Miller which occurred in 1998 and shows the enormous efforts of the Lorimer Task Force in leading the manhunt for their killer or killers.
Pánico en Rock Island
Paul Thorpe
Una isla en el espectacular puerto de Sydney. El sol de verano. Artistas internacionales. Decenas de miles de fans de la música de todo el mundo. ¿Idílico? Hasta que sucede un desastre inimaginable.
The Clinic
Marvin
Una pareja de novios,ella embarazada, emprende un viaje para visitar a los padres de ella. Se detienen a pasar la noche en un motel y al día siguiente, ella se despierta sola, en un lugar extraño y con una cicatriz en el vientre...
I'm Not Harry Jenson
Tom
Evoking the style and pace of the Noir genre, the film is essentially a murder mystery with Stanley (Gareth Reeves) the prime suspect. Stanley's success as a novelist has been largely due to his style where he writes from the first person perspective of the central characters, who are always the killers in real-life cases. Troubled with writer's block, his agent suggests a tramping trip "to clear his mind". However, when he wakes up on the first morning of his tramp, he finds his fellow tramper dead.
Sold Out
J. Edgar Crippen
The mystery of a vacant seat at a sold out cricket match.
Travelling Light
Don Ferris
Set in the early 70s, Travelling Light follows the story of two sisters growing up in surburban Adelaide.
Black and White
Prison Warder
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
The Shirt
Mike Hughes
A caustically funny account of addict monomania.
Muggers
Professor Charles Lawrence
When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transplant scam in order to save their lives. 'Muggers' is a twisted, hilarious, pitch-black comedy about friendship, poor choices and the drag of student debt.
The Farm
Peter Collins
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.
Airtight
Norscrum
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.
En una tierra salvaje
Sir Geoffrey Hallerton
Ambientada durante la II Guerra Mundial, tras el bombardeo japonés de Pearl Harbour, "In a Savage Land" narra la historia de un pareja de científicos recién casados que decide irse de Australia a las Islas Tobriand, en Papúa Nueva Guinea, con objeto de estudiar el comportamiento sexual de los habitantes de aquellas islas. Ella es una ambiciosa doctora, y su marido un famoso antropólogo que espera volver a destacar en su profesión. Pero pronto surgen los problemas. El doctor trata a Evelyn como una estudiante sin experiencia. Entonces aparece Mick, un traficante de perlas que explota a los nativos- pero por el que Evelyn se siente rápidamente atraída.
Strange Planet
Robert
Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their lives intersect with the trio of women to varying degrees. Will any of these young people finally find a satisfying relationship?
Diana y yo
Bank Manager
La australiana Diana Spencer gana un concurso en una revista femenina, y como premio obtiene un viaje para dos a Londres, donde quiere conocer a su ídolo y tocaya, la princesa Diana. Ella va allí con su prometido, Mark, pero durante la fiesta en el jardín a la que Princesa planea asistir, las cosas se mezclan y la Diana australiana es arrestada con el fotógrafo paparazzi Rob. Diana realmente quiere conocer a la Princesa y sigue a Rob mientras busca a la Princesa Di para tomar algunas fotos.
Lucky Break
George LePine
Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer investigating a jewel heist threaten their relationship.
Spider and Rose
Henderson
A young ambulance driver befriends an elderly woman.
Shotgun Wedding
Det. Dave Green
Shotgun Wedding is a 1993 Australian film based on the Wally Melish siege.
La primera experiencia
Mr. Rupert Elloitt
Australia, años sesenta. Danny Embling es un joven estudiante interno en una escuela privada para chicos que se enamora de Thandiwe, una alumna de raza negra hija de un diplomático de Uganda. El problema es que la timidez de Danny le impide mostrarle sus sentimientos.
The Big Steal
Desmond Clark
Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After he is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.
The Grasscutter
Detective Inspector Cross
An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a new life, leaving behind his eldest son. Although his wife and two young boys are also in New Zealand, they are no longer together, and he has a new love interest. After some eight years his past catches up with him when former comrades show up, intent on extracting revenge. After two nearly successful attempts by them (in Dunedin), the action moves to a final confrontation and shootout in the hills above Queenstown.
Georgia
Frank Le Mat
A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question is: was it murder, suicide or merely an accident?
Navigator, una odisea en el tiempo
Searle
Para salvar a un poblado medieval de la peste negra, un niño visionario encabeza, junto a cinco hombres, un viaje ingenuo y fantástico a través del centro de la Tierra hasta llegar, desde la Inglaterra del siglo XIV donde se encuentran, a la Nueva Zelanda del siglo XX.
The Clean Machine
Keith Reid
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.
Hotel Starlight
Det. Wallace
Durante la gran depresión, una niña neozolandesa huye de la casa donde vive con sus tíos en busca de su padre, un granjero que abandonó la granja para buscar trabajo. Durante su travesía, la chica se encuentra con un veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial que huye de la policía. Juntos recorren las tierras de Nueva Zelanda, viviendo como vagabundos, mientras una amistad muy especial se desarrolla entre ellos.
Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale
Hunk Murphy (voice)
Featuring the characters from Murray Ball's "Footrot Flats", (New Zealands most beloved local cartoon strip ). Questions to be answered include: Will Wal Footrot win the affections of Cheeky Hobson over the sleazy Spit Murphy? Will the Dog win the affections of the lovely Jess? Will Wal make a good impression on the All Black selectors at Saturdays rugby match? Can Rangi and Pongo save Cooch's prize stag from the depths of Blackwater station, home of the Murphy's, their vicious dogs and deadly croco-pigs? All this and more will be answered as the small town of Raupo comes to life on the big screen.
Pallet on the Floor
Joe Voot
A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a drunk truck driver, Jack (Bach), attacks Sam's Maori wife Sue (O'Brien). In the struggle, Sam and friends end up killing Jack. None of them regrets this, but it has been observed by Miriam (Gruar) who decides to blackmail Sam. Jack's brother Joe (Napier) comes looking for revenge and ends up being killed by Basil (Spence). Their jobs at the freezer works are terminated, and Basil has his own idea about how to get out of their troubles.
Came a Hot Friday
Sel Bishop
Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men to run a betting scam in a small town (Tainuea) already rife with illegal gambling corruption, and eccentricity.
Wild Horses
Andy
Amid the high country of the North Island interior, wild horse roam and breed. With the trees gone, Dan Mitchell and the Sullivan brothers, turn to the wild horses as a source of income. With rope and snare - and the help of an experienced horse catching team - Sam and Sara's example, the rough ex-loggers learn to respect a delicate balance between the wild horses and their catchers. The best stallions are left to breed and their riding horses are retired back into the wild herds.
Mala sangre
Trev Bond
En 1941 los Grahams mantienen malísimas relaciones con todos sus vecinos. Lo único que mantiene su equilibrio emocional a pesar de sus problemas económicos, era su afición a las armas. Cuando debido a la guerra, le confiscan su arma favorita, con las que quedaban aterrorizó a la comunidad, mató a siete hombres incluyendo a cuatro policias y fué objetivo de la mayor cazeria de hombres de la historia de Nueva Zelanda.
Destructor
Driver
Es el siglo 21, las Guerras del Petróleo han hecho un desastre del planeta y la tierra, fuera de las principales ciudades, no tiene ley. Después de que Hunter acude en ayuda de Corlie, quien escapó del malvado Straker, la lleva a la pacífica comunidad de Clearwater. Desafortunadamente para los ciudadanos de Clearwater, Straker tiene la plena intención de recuperar a Corlie.