Alan Cassell

Alan Cassell

Nacimiento : 1932-02-16, Manchester, UK

Muerte : 2017-08-30

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Cassell (born 1932) was an Australian actor, born in the UK and best known for his roles in film and television. Cassell was one of the actors who worked in Bruce Beresford's early Australian films. Film credits include:Money Movers, Cathy's Child (for which he was nominated for "Best Actor"), Squizzy Taylor, Breaker Morant, Puberty Blues and The Club. His most recent films are The Honorable Wally Norman and Strange Bedfellows. TV roles include: Taurus Rising, Special Squad, The Flying Doctors, The Power, The Passion, Blue Heelers, SeaChange, Stingers and MDA. Cassell commenced his acting career in WA and worked for many years as a stage Actor. Winning "Best Actor of the Year" for his role in "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" He later worked for the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He was in the original cast of "Away" which toured to New York and appeared in "Sweet Bird of Youth" with Lauren Bacall for the Sydney Theatre Company. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Cassell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

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Alan Cassell

Películas

Strange Bedfellows
Stan Rogers
Dos veteranos "muy heterosexuales" tienen que aprender a pasar como una pareja gay cariñosa después de afirmar falsamente el estado del mismo sexo para tomar ventaja de las leyes fiscales recientemente legisladas.
The Honourable Wally Norman
Willy Norman
Wally Norman, runs for election to help save the local meatworks from being shut down.
Touch the Sun: Princess Kate
Bob McLelland
Kate McLelland's life is a normal one of a girl her age in the eastern suburbs, until her discovery that she is adopted. This is the story of her search for her natural mother and the resulting relationship.
Midnight Dancer
Belinda's Father
16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and worst of times.
Vietnam
John Gorton
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
The Big Hurt
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 Fire in the Stone
Robbie
Teenager Ernie lives with his alcoholic father in the harsh and lawless opal fields of Coober Pedy in outback South Australia. When his cache of precious opals is stolen, Ernie and his best friend are determined to find the thief.
The Settlement
Lohan
Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to swindle a few pounds from the locals. After a not-too-friendly reception, the pair decide to move into an abandoned shack on the outskirts of town. They are soon joined in their new home by Joycie, another town outcast with a shady past. While the three manage to start a rather happy life together, they soon find that others in the town strongly disapprove of their living arrangements.
Squizzy Taylor
Det. Brophy
This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive, yet cunning and determined small-time hoodlum Squizzy Taylor rises to prominence and popularity in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920's. Squizzy romances brash moll Dolly and works for bookie Henry Stokes before branching out on his own while being hounded by the police and courted by the press the whole time.
The Dark Room
Ray Sangster
A slightly disturbed young amateur photographer finds that his father has been secretly having an affair with his co-worker. Thus begins a spiral into blackmail, stalking, and voyeurism.
Fuerzas especiales-z: Plan Lyon
Lieutenant Ted Carse
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.
Puberty Blues
Mr. Vickers
Sue is an Australian teenager in the late '70s, and her life mainly consists of doing what all the other girls do: watching the surfing boys and having sex with those same surfing boys. The girls have to follow lots of strange customs, e.g. do not eat or go to the bathroom when a boy is around. Ugly girls have two choices - being bitches and hating boys, or being generally cheap and looked down upon by everyone. The afternoons are spent on the beaches, in the backseats of cars, or at home-alone parties where sex and alcohol are the main ingredients. Parents and teachers are trying to straighten the kids out, but it's not easy.
The Club
Gerry Cooper
The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.
Consejo de guerra
Lord Kitchener
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)
Más allá de la reencarnación
Mr. Porter
Tras curar la leucemia del hijo de un importante senador, un hombre misterioso va, poco a poco, adentrándose en su vida y en la de su esposa que acaba sintiéndose atraída por él. Son muchos los que temen que este curandero milagroso no sea más que un charlatán que sólo busca manipular al político.
Cathy's Child
Dick Wordley
Cathy Baikas is a woman of Greek heritage who lives in Sydney, Australia with her three-year-old daughter. When her daughter's father kidnaps the child and takes her back to Greece, Cathy discovers the authorities can do little to help her. She turns to the media. The editor of a major daily newspaper proves sympathetic to Cathy's problem and begins giving her case press coverage. The film is based on a true story.
Asalto al furgón blindado
Sammy Ross
Un grupo de ladrones planea un atraco para robar veinte millones de dólares de una empresa de seguridad.
Plugg
A sleazy private detective named Horatio Plugg is hired to keep watch over a brothel. Inspector Closer is onto him though.