Bille Brown
Nacimiento : 1952-01-11, Biloela, Queensland, Australia
Muerte : 2013-01-13
Historia
Bille Brown (11 January 1952 - 13 January 2013) was an Australian Shakespearean actor and acclaimed writer of plays.
After Bille graduated his drama at the University of Queensland, he began with the Queensland Theatre Company and, later, was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Strathford and London. While with the RSC, he was one of its few commissioned writers.
Bille Brown AM has been recognised twice in the Australian Honours System. On 1 January 2001 he was granted the Centenary Medal "for distinguished service to the arts" and on 26 January 2011, Bille was named as a Member of the Order of Australia "for service to the performing arts as an actor and playwright, and to education". The latter honour is denoted by the post-nominal "AM" after his name.
Writer
Celeste is a renowned opera diva who retired early for the man she loved to live on a crumbling and beautiful estate in the heart of a rainforest in Far North Queensland. Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Mateos, in a boating accident, Celeste is set to return to the stage for her final performance. Her husband’s son Jack, still haunted by the past, arrives amidst the preparations for the performance and finds Celeste is as he remembered – beautiful, intoxicating and dangerous. Celeste wants Jack to stay at the estate, but needs him to perform one last request.
Colonel Fitz
Tres antiguos miembros de las fuerzas especiales son contratados por un jeque árabe para matar a tres miembros del SAS (Servicio Especial Aéreo británico), culpables de la muerte de tres de sus hijos durante unos disturbios en Omán diez años antes. Dos de ellos aceptan por dinero, mientras que el tercero (Jason Statham) lo hace para salvar la vida de un amigo. Pero llevar a cabo tan peligrosa misión no será nada fácil, pues, aunque son profesionales, están bajo el control de una organización formada por antiguos miembros del SAS, denominada The Feather Men.
Dudley
Elizabeth Hunter, una mujer de extraordinaria belleza, ejerce un férreo control sobre todo lo que la rodea: hijos, servicio, actos sociales; pero pronto tendrá que hacer frente al mayor reto de su vida: decidir el momento para morir.
Coriakin
Tercera entrega de la saga literaria creada por C.S. Lewis. En esta ocasión, los hermanos Edmund y Lucy Pevensie y su primo Eustace embarcan en la nave "El Viajero del Alba" para buscar a los siete caballeros que han sido expulsados del reino por Miraz, el usurpador del trono de Narnia.
James Hall
An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get to investegate it further, before the danish recluse Severin has shot them down. A danish special enforcement with a psychiatrist in front is sent off, and they find out, that Severin claims, that he is 129 years old, and it's the flower, which keeps him young. Soon all hunts the white flower, which apparently gives eternal life.
George Ritchie
In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. This true story resulted in one of Australia’s most sensational murder trials of the 1930’s and catapulted Upfield’s name onto the world stage.
Harvey / Rowan
Cuatro personas están realizando una investigación acerca del tigre de Tasmania cuando se convertirán en las víctimas de los descendientes de una tribu caníbal...
Bob Potter
An Outback farmer takes in an Afghani woman who has fled from a brothel.
Robert Menzies
1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and a furious battle with Churchill over the deployment of Australian troops. This is a raw and intimate story of a driven and inspirational leader - a man who struggles to battle his own personal demons while serving and protecting a country at war.
Tez Miller
Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some part to play in the mystery?
Hedley Marston
From 1957 to 1978, scientists secretly removed bone samples from over 21,000 dead Australians as they searched for evidence of the deadly poison, Strontium 90 - a by-product of nuclear testing. Silent Storm reveals the story behind this astonishing case of officially sanctioned "body-snatching". Set against a backdrop of the Cold War, the saga follows celebrated scientist, Hedley Marston, as he attempts to blow the whistle on radioactive contamination and challenge official claims that British atomic tests posed no threat to the Australian people. Marston's findings are not only disputed, he is targeted as "a scientist of counter-espionage interest". Now, questions are being raised about the health repercussions for generations of Australians.
Thomas Playford
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.
Gerry Ryan
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.
Pastor Hoffman
Set in the 1890s in the central desert region of Australia, 'Serenades' tells the tale of Jila who is conceived when her Afghan cameleer father wins her Aboriginal mother in a card game.
Prime Minister
Un pequeño pueblo de Australia se revoluciona al ser el encargado de que su telescopio retransmita la llegada del hombre a la Luna.
John Grainger
Passion concentrates on Grainger's unusual relationship with his mother and his sexual peculiarities (especially his obsessive self-flagellation, though homosexuality is also hinted at) which affect his relationship with a woman who comes to love him. It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger's mother Rose was ill (she would later jump to her death in New York, upset by ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).
Percy Smith
Oscar Lopkins y Lucinda Leplastier son una extraña pareja que arriesga su futuro, su reputación y su bienestar económico por dos pasiones: el amor y el juego. Oscar, un hombre de fuertes convicciones religiosas, vuelca su vida en el juego y reparte las ganancias entre los pobres. Lucinda es una mujer de mundo, de convicciones feministas, que comparte con Oscar la pasión por las cartas.
Neville Coltrane
Un hombre de negocios norteamericano compra un zoo en Gran Bretaña. Su falta de escrúpulos y su desmedido afán de lucro se ponen de manifiesto cuando decide vender algunos animales muy queridos por los empleados del zoo.
