Vincent Ball

Vincent Ball

Nacimiento : 1923-12-04, Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia

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Vincent Ball

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The Night We Called It a Day
Rex Hooper
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
Black and White
Chief Justice Napier
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 Man Who Sued God
Cardinal
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.
La boda de Muriel
Priest
Muriel es una chica con sobrepeso que vive en un mundo de fantasía, canciones de ABBA y catálogos nupciales. Sueña con un príncipe azul que algún día la liberará de su odiosa familia y de sus burlonas amigas. Cansada de esperar su llegada, decide irse a la ciudad y buscarlo. Uno de los mayores éxitos del cine australiano de los noventa.
Sirenas
Bishop of Sydney
A principios de los 30, en Sidney, la jerarquía eclesiástica se escandaliza ante un grabado del célebre y libertino pintor Norman Lindsay, que muestra a una voluptuosa mujer en inequívoca postura sobre una cruz. Anthony Campion, un joven clérigo recién llegado de Inglaterra con su esposa, es el encargado de convencer a Lindsay para que no exhiba esa obra en una próxima exposición en Londres. Convertidos en huéspedes del pintor, pronto el reverendo Campion y su mujer se verán envueltos en el clima provocador y erótico que impera en el lugar.
Los impostores
Judge
El investigador de seguros Roland Copping (Phil Collins) manipula y estafa sin pudor incluso a sus familiares y amigos. Pero un día sufre la venganza de una pareja que presenta una inusual reclamación.
The Year My Voice Broke
Headmaster
Australia, 1962. Un niño ve cómo su amiga de toda la vida, hasta hace poco compañera inseparable de juegos, se está haciendo una mujercita que se enamora de un jugador de rugby.
Vietnam
Dave the Spook
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
Double Sculls
Stuart
A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.
Call Me Mr. Brown
Captain Ritchie
Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extortion scam, he steals $500,000 in cash from Australian airlines company Qantas. This begins the start of a major international manhunt to catch a thief who is now living the high life from the spoils of his heist.
Phar Lap
Lachlan McKinnon
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.
The Dismissal
Justin O'Byrne
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.
Fuerzas especiales-z: Plan Lyon
Lieutenant Commander Hubert Marsham
Un joven australiano (Capitán Page), enrolado en las Fuerzas Especiales Z, es nombrado para llevar a buen fín el "Plan Lyon". Con el fín de establecer una ruta de escapada hacia Sumatra. En una arriesgada aventura el comando que dirige el Capitán Page lleva acabo su peligrosa misión y distribuyen minas en el lugar donde se almacena cargamento militar y tanques japoneses. La playa rápidamente se convierte en un inmenso infierno y las 40.000 toneladas de material son destruidas. Tras este éxito, se planea un segundo ataque, pero las cosas van mal esta vez. Trece miembros de las Fuerzas Z resultarán muertos y los 10 restantes son capturados y encarcelados en Singapur, entre ellos Page. Aquí comienzan seis meses de torturas e interrogatorios y de caballerosos gestos de amistad entre presos y carceleros. Todos ellos, hombres de honor.
Alison's Birthday
Dr. Jeremy Lyall
On her 16th birthday, Alison Findlay and two of her friends make contact with a spirit, who warns Alison of impending doom on her 19th birthday. Three years later, on the eve of turning 19, Alison returns home and makes a strange discovery in her family's backyard.
Consejo de guerra
Col. Ian (Johnny) Hamilton
Sudáfrica, 1901. Tres lugartenientes australianos son sometidos a un consejo de guerra por asesinato. El oficial encargado del proceso lee las notas preliminares que implican a Harry Harbord ‘Breaker’ Morant, George Witton y Peter Handcock de la muerte de un misionero alemán y de varios prisioneros Boer confinados en una prisión custodiada por el ejército inglés. El oficial defensor, el Comandante Thomas, entiende que el proceso presenta ciertas irregularidades. (FILMAFFINITY)
Demolition
When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repetition, discovers chordation that completely erases all memory, it is obvious that such a cleansed mind may be programmed to perform any type of action. Erstwhile agent Peter Clarke inactive for years, is chosen as courier to transport an audio tape of the tones to his native Australia.
Not Tonight, Darling
Alex / Karen's lover
A lonely 'Stay-at-Home' Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a 'Peeping Tom', who is being put up to it by his friend. She eventually finds out and gets her revenge on them.
Clinic Exclusive
Bernard Wilcox
Aventuras homosexuales y heterosexuales en una supuesta clínica.
¡Oh, qué guerra tan bonita!
Australian Soldier
Musical basado en una obra del mismo título que retrata a la famlia Smith durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). (FILMAFFINITY)
El desafío de las águilas
Carpenter
En plena Segunda Guera Mundial, John Smith es el jefe de un grupo de élite, cuya misión es infiltrarse en las líneas enemigas alemanas para rescatar a un general americano, prisionero de los nazis, para evitar que hable del plan de invasión de Normandía.
Carry on Follow That Camel
Ship's Officer
Bertram Oliphant West (also known as Bo West) wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation. He joins the Foreign Legion, with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there is trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise...
Un ratón en la luna
Pilot
Grand Fenwick es un país pequeño que tiene graves problemas en sus instalaciones de abastecimiento de agua. La necesidad de renovar todas las tuberías es casi desesperada: no hay agua caliente y el descontento de la población crece a medida que se aproxima el invierno. Así, el gobierno idea un plan: pedir ayuda a EE.UU. para un presunto programa espacial. Una vez que los americanos les envían fondos, los rusos también deciden ayudarlos. En Grand Fenwick ya hay dinero suficiente para solucionar los problemas internos. Ahora el problema consiste en mostrar al mundo algún resultado de su ficticio programa espacial. Es entonces cuando entra en escena un excéntrico científico, que ha inventado un combustible que se fabrica a partir de vino.
Echo of Diana
Bill Vernon
When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.
Carry On Cruising
Jenkins
Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.
Middle Course
Cliff Wilton
During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making life difficult for German-occupying forces in a Canadian pilot they rescue after he crash-lands in the vicinity and ends up in the hands of the Nazis. As the villagers grow increasingly dependent on the flyer's training and smarts, the Germans grow more determined to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance. [Netflix]
A Matter of WHO
Dr. Blake
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
Highway to Battle
Ransome
Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two Gestapo agents searching for the missing man causes the ambassador and his family to rethink their Nazi allegiance but is it too late to escape from Hitler's evil grasp?
Feet of Clay
David Kyle
Newly graduated defense attorney David Kyle (Vincent Ball) is stymied by his first case: to represent youthful criminal Jimmy Fuller (Brian Smith), who refuses to explain his involvement in the murder of the revered Diana White (Angela Douglas), a probation officer seemingly devoted to her work. As he investigates, David learns that Diana's partners may not be as respectable as they appear and that Jimmy's girlfriend is in grave danger from them. [Netflix]
Dentist in the Chair
Michaels
The misfortunes that befall three dental students when they become unwitting accessories to a burglary.
Dead Lucky
Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. But when he and his columnist girlfriend, Jenny Drew, finally manage to infiltrate one of them, it leads quickly to trouble. The party's organiser is found murdered the next morning, and a number of suspects begin to emerge. But which of them killed Lucky Lewis?
Identity Unknown
Ken
Two reporters, a youth and a girl, find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of passengers in an ill-fated airliner.
Danger Within
Capt. Pat Foster
En un campo de prisioneros de guerra italiano, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de soldados ingleses ve frustrados sus planes de escapar por culpa de un misterioso traidor que hay en sus filas.
Comando de la muerte
Sgt Nesbitt
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Un grupo de soldados ingleses, que son enviados al Norte de África, deben realizar una misión previa a una acción de mayor envergadura. Una vez en el desierto, descubren que los alemanes están preparando un ataque por sorpresa.
La sangre del vampiro
Dr. John Pierre
Callistratus es un un científico que realiza experimentos con los criminales encarcelados en una prisión. Dichos experimentos tienen que ver con la transfusión de sangre. Callistratus es en realidad un vampiro muy particular, ajusticiado hace tiempo pero que ha regresado a la vida gracias a un trasplante de corazón, el cual le ha creado una infección en la sangre, por lo que su supervivencia depende de las mencionadas transfusiones hasta que encuentre las células adecuadas que le permitan curar la infección.
Menace In The Night
Bob Meredith
A woman (Lisa Gastoni) witnesses the theft of soiled banknotes from a mail delivery truck, then is threatened by the perpetrators of the crime.
Robbery Under Arms
George Storefield
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
The Long Arm
P.C. at Hospital (uncredited)
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Mi vida empieza en Malasia
Ben
Un grupo de mujeres inglesas, hechas prisioneras por los japoneses durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), tiene que ser trasladado de un campo de concentración a causa del elevado número de prisioneros. Custodiado por soldados japoneses, el grupo se pone en marcha a través de selvas pantanosas. Las enfermedades y el cansancio harán estragos tanto en las prisioneras como en los soldados nipones. En una aldea, de manera inesperada, encuentran a un aviador australiano que es un luchador nato.
The Secret of the Forest
Two children dig up an old Viking treasure ship and become involved with crooks who have buried their loot on the site. Specially made for children.
Blonde Blackmailer
Johnson
A man (Richard Arlen) wants answers when he gets out of prison after spending seven years for a murder he did not commit.
Dangerous Voyage
John Drew
Intrigue and smuggling in the English Channel.
The Drayton Case
Henley's Assistant
During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
Encore
Young Husband
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
Talk of a Million
Jack Murnahan
A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception!
A mitad de camino
the first workman
Un hombre casado se fuga con su amante. Pero cuando ella muere en un accidente ferroviario, él se convierte en el principal sospechoso.
Stop Press Girl
Hero in cinema sequence
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.