Ray Barrett
Nacimiento : 1927-05-02, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Muerte : 2009-09-08
Historia
From IMDb: Ray Barrett studied music and elocution and began acting at the age of eleven. He was the first actor put under contract by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Drama section. He worked for several years on radio in Sydney, before working successfully in Britain between 1958 and the mid-1970s, when he returned to Australia. He has received two AFI (Australian Film Industry) awards as an actor.
Ramsden
Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), una aristócrata inglesa, se ha pasado la vida persiguiendo la perfección superficial, pero un matrimonio sin amor y sin hijos le ha privado de cualquier cosa importante que no sea su cuadra de caballos. Convencida de que su marido le es infiel, la empecinada Sarah viaja desde Londres hasta el remoto reducto tropical de Darwin (Australia) para enfrentarse a él. Su reacio guía a través del inmenso e inmisericorde terreno del territorio septentrional es Drover (Hugh Jackman), un ganadero tan tosco y basto como refinada es Sarah. Su profunda antipatía mutua se ve aminorada por la tragedia cuando Sarah, de repente, se halla cuidando a un encantador y joven huérfano llamado Nullah (Brandon Walters), un muchacho mestizo a la deriva en una sociedad segregada que le trata como un paria.
Bill Perry
Georgina intenta batir el record mundial de viaje en velero. La travesía marcha sin incidentes hasta que un día, en mitad del Océano Índico, el barco se adentra en una espesa niebla y el viento deja de soplar... (FILMAFFINITY)
Old Cliff
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love, as a part of his experiences of the present . Through all four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.
Tarquin St John Smythe
Tells the true story of the residents at Dalkeith Residential Home who sit around every day just waiting to die until staff buy them a greyhound. Naming the dog Dalkeith after the home, they discover she is a phenomenal runner and she is soon entered into the greyhound races. Soon residents are betting on the outcome of the races, and they are given a new reason to live. But the board of trustees learn what is going on, through the disgruntled daughter of one of the residents, and heavily handedly put an end to the fun and games. After the board's intervention the residents sink into a new form of despair as life becomes even duller and more boring than before. That is until the aloof pensioner, played by Ray Barrett, reveals he was once a high profile barrister and challenges the decision in court.
Maurice Stubbs
Fear of an unidentified livestock predator unites an Australian couple, an outcast, and an abandoned woman.
Cam
Un hombre y una mujer se aman en un universo de violencia y de caos.
Jack Dunne
10 years ago at a party, Steven thinks he sees the girl of his dreams, Melissa. Just as he's about to make his move, his twin brother Rick gets to her first and they fall in love. Steven watches his brother's relationship bloom, longing for Melissa all the while. Eventually, Melissa leaves to go to college and the brothers go on with their lives. Steven becomes a workaholic to block out his feelings about Melissa and Rick becomes a spineless bellboy at the Hotel de Love, after a later girl friend stood him up at the altar. Enter Steven and Rick's warring parents visiting the Hotel de Love for their anniversary. Re-enter Melissa with her current boyfriend, Norman. Suddenly Rick and Steven have a second chance at Melissa. Also there's Alison the palm reader, Susie behind the counter, the owner/piano player, and the freshly married couple.
Brian Connor
Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should entitle her to a compensation payment of $40,000.00.
Dwyer
Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament
Wal Moynihan
Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir in Sorrento and in her family when it is supected that the book is not as fictional as she claims.
Old Burkey
A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.
Frank
A teenage boy wants to leave his home town.
President of the Bench
Año 1945. Poco después de finalizar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un fiscal del ejército australiano tiene que juzgar a los responsables japoneses del campo de concentración en la isla de Ambon, en Indonesia, en la que fueron ejecutados cientos de prisioneros de guerra australianos. (FILMAFFINITY)
A surfer abandoned in the middle of the Australian Outback encounters an alien who time-travels in a ship that looks like a 1950s greasy spoon restaurant and embroils the hero in a chase that involves him sorting out a time paradox so that he can wind back time to prevent the Japanese winning World War II.
Bael
A real estate agent is lured to a run-down mansion only to be trapped and tortured by ghosts.
Harry Benson
El auto de una mujer australiana se descompone en el país, y cuando va a buscar ayuda, regresa en el tiempo a 1944 y es testigo de un asesinato. Regresando a su auto, el tiempo vuelve a la normalidad, pero no puede convencer a nadie de su historia, ella misma investiga el crimen.
Robert McCullough
The story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New York Yacht Club, after an unbroken 132 year winning streak.
Bubbles
This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from Australia. He becomes infatuated with a local singer, Kathy and pursues her. Kathy is married and initially is not interested in him, but later begins to love Rebel. Kathy receives a letter advising her that her husband was killed in battle. The local police and the U.S. Military are searching for Rebel as an AWOL soldier. Rebel arranges to escape Austalia by a cargo ship, but eventually allows himself to be arrested in order to keep the local police from arresting Kathy for harboring him
MacLeary
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.
Geoffrey
A family reunion among the squattocracy leads to conflict as various members assert their egos.
Cole
En un remoto desierto de Australia, viven dos tribus aborígenes, los Worora y los Riratjingus, que se esfuerzan denodadamente por conservar una cultura de cuarenta mil años de antigüedad, con sus costumbres, ritos y leyendas sobre la creación del hombre y la naturaleza. El conflicto surge cuando un consorcio minero se propone extraer uranio dentro de su territorio, en un lugar sagrado para ellos llamado "Donde sueñan las hormigas verdes". Es la rebelión del mundo del espíritu contra una civilización groseramente materialista que lo quiere todo y que no comprende nada.
Narrator
Australian sport documentary about the first ever winning of the America's Cup by a non-US country. Shows the background story of the preparation, design, construction, testing, and trials of Australia's winning yacht, the Australia II. Documents the preliminary races, elimination of British yacht Victory '83 and the final main race itself where Australia is victorious over the Americans on 26 September 1983.
Sam Elliott
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.
Michael Stacey
The plot centres on Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup.
F.C.O. Webster
Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator comes nosing around, whom Howard's partner deals with in a drastic manner. By the time Lloyds of London's senior investigator George Engels (James Mason in one of his last roles) arrives on the scene, Howard (Tom Skerritt) is anxious to set things to rights.
Commander Sam Shore / Sub-Lieutenant John Horatio Fisher / King Titan / Gadeth / Power Plant technician / Chidora / Maritamis / Fragil
When aquatic aliens plot to take over the planet, the world aquanaut security patrol are called in to battle the aliens.
Parnell
Patrick Foley (William Holden), un hombre solitario y desconfiado, decide regresar al valle australiano donde se encuentra su pueblo natal. Antes de emprender viaje, se despide de su novia. Aunque el amor entre ambos sigue vivo, ella comprende que nada ni nadie detendrá a Patrick en su empeño por volver a la tierra que le vio nacer. Durante su viaje, Patrick conoce a Shawn (Rick Schroder), un niño de ciudad cuyos padres han muerto en un accidente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Farrell
Jimmie es un joven mestizo educado por un pastor metodista que vive en constante conflicto entre dos mundos muy distintos.
Jack Deakin
Concert promoter Nick Loomis is sent to Sydney by his ex father-in-law and boss Garth Kingswood, and asked to deliver a briefcase to a foreigner. When the man is killed in the airport, Loomis ends up entangled in corporate spying and is forced to fight for his life with the help of Terry McKenna, a woman from Austin working for the Sydney Opera House.
Dr. McLeod
En un pequeño pueblo australiano, vive John, un chico disminuido y sobreprotegido por su madre. El dicho de que un globo no es un globo mientras no le dejes volar, va emergiendo gradualmente, mientras John toma la determinación de liberarse de la dominación de su madre.
Mal
El Partido de Don protagoniza a John Hargreaves como Don Henderson, un maestro de escuela que vive con su esposa, Kath (Jeanie Drynan), en 1969. Por aburrimiento, invita a un pequeño grupo de amigos a celebrar una victoria electoral predicha del Partido Laborista Australiano (ALP), mucho para consternación de su esposa.
Joe Blake
Children on lonely farm outwit escaped Dartmoor prisoners.
Cates
Inspirada en “Bonnie and Clide”, esta historia sobre la pandilla “Ashley”, que aterrorizó el sudeste de los Estados Unidos en los años 20, se centra en el amor desesperado de dos personas marcadas por la destrucción y la violencia.
Harry
Los padres de una chica que fue asesinada luego de ser violada, se vengan de la persona que ellos creen es culpable.
Australian
A stressed television producer and his unhappy lounge singer wife are growing tired of each other.
John Tracy / The Hood (voice)
Zero-X es una nave construida para transportar navegantes vivos a Marte. Un viaje que estará lleno de aventuras y problemas. No sólo descubrirán algo muy extraño que habita en el lejano planeta, sino que, además, serán víctimas de un sabotaje. Afortunadamente para ellos el equipo de “Rescate Internacional” seguirá atentamente la misión
Harry George Spalding
Harry y Valerie llegan a un pequeño pueblo de Inglaterra porque Charles, el hermano de Harry, ha muerto en extrañas circunstancias. La gente del pueblo muestra recelo ante la llegada de extraños y parece ocultar algo. La verdad es que viven atemorizados por una serie de muertes producidas por mordedura de serpiente. El Dr. Franklyn y su hija Anna tienen la clave de ese misterio: una maldición procedente de un antiguo culto oriental que oculta un terrible secreto.
Bennett / Koquillion
On the planet Dido, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara meet two survivors from a crashed spaceship who are terrorised by the monster Koquillion.
Two children on a holiday with archaeologist parents expose the villainy of Arab workmen and help their father find the treasure he is after.
Henry Fraser
A young woman is harassed by a man and seeks help from the police. The officer who visits her falls in love with her, but shortly after she is murdered.
Sgt Gorman
A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
Man at Pub / Two-Up Game (uncredited)
Australia, 1920. Un matrimonio (Robert Mitchum y Deborah Kerr) y su hijo viven felices viajando por Australia y realizando diversos trabajos para sobrevivir. Llega, sin embargo, un momento en que la madre, apoyada por su hijo y movida por el instinto de conservación, plantea la necesidad de abandonar la vida errante que siempre han llevado y comprar una granja para establecerse definitivamente en algún lugar. Ahora bien, alcanzar ese sueño implicará muchos sacrificios.
Agent
The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.