John Brumpton

John Brumpton

Historia

Brumpton has performed in over 60 short films including the 2006 Tropfest finalist - Silencer. Last Ride and The Loved Ones screened in competition at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, where The Loved Ones won the Midnight Madness Audience Award. Brumpton portrays Eric Stone ("Daddy") in the Australian horror film The Loved Ones.[1] Brumpton's second film in a leading role, Dance Me to My Song (1998) was screened in competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. His third film in a leading role, Redball (1999) won the Grand Jury Prize, at the 1999 Chicago Independent Film Festival.

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John Brumpton

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Widowers
An oddly comical and touching meditation on suburban masculinity as two burly, aging men negotiate grief, rage and forgiveness without exchanging a word. It’s a tale of two men bound together by a death but dealing with it in very different ways.
Measure for Measure
Percy
An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.
The Diver
Malcolm
Callan is twenty and is overcome with impulses that he finds it increasingly difficult to control. In order to protect others from his strange behavior, Malcolm, his father, tries to channel his son's attention by every means possible.
Lost Gully Road
Brian
Kucy viaja a una cabaña aislada de la civilización para esperar a su hermana. Pero no tardará en hacer su aparición una siniestra presencia.
The Menkoff Method
Security Guard #2
David Cork (Lachlan Woods) is a lowly data processor slaving away in the cubicle wasteland of Endo Bank's notorious Data Processing Centre, the DPC. But his real passion is manga. David is obsessed with the superhero Foxy Chaos - and he aspires to meet her creator, Takuya Fujimoro. David's manga dreams are shattered when a sinister Russian HR guru arrives at the DPC. Max Menkoff (Noah Taylor) has big plans and no worker is safe from his "method". Murder, chaos and office zombies take hold! Only David, in alliance with the brilliant and determined Ruby Jackson (Jessica Clarke), can stand in Menkoff's way. But what is the Menkoff Method? And what does it mean for David Cork?
Scare Campaign
George
El programa de televisión sobre bromas Scare Campaign ha entretenido al público durante los últimos 5 años con su mezcla de cámara oculta y sustos de la vieja escuela. Pero a medida que entramos en una nueva era de la televisión online, los productores se enfrentan a una nueva y cruda web-serie que hace que su programa parezca anticuado. Es hora de subir la apuesta, pero ¿irá el equipo demasiado lejos esta vez, y estará a punto de gastar una broma a la persona equivocada?
Welcome Home Allen
A group of soldiers return home to a world that no longer recognises them.
Sucker
Elmsley
When Chinese-Australian teenager Lawrence cheats at and fails his high-school exams, destroying his dreams of a medical degree, he's banished to the country for the summer. There, he meets wily old conman the Professor and his cynical daughter Sarah, and learns that even the sneakiest scam can't conjure up love. Is it a true story? That might be another of Leung's tricks.
Pawno
Les Underwood
Pawno is a character driven ensemble film set in the diverse and multicultural suburb of Footscray in Melbourne, Australia.
Black Chook
They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had the strength.
Charlie's Country
Policeman Brum
Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
We Keep On Dancing
Danny
Two distinctly disparate characters come together over a broken down Volkswagen Beetle in this sweet, amusing tale of love, loss and... car trouble.
Crawlspace
Elvis
Una tropa de elite se infiltra en una base militar subterránea. El encuentro con una joven amnésica que deambula por los pasillos y que padece amnesia alterará el curso de su misión original; pero poco importará eso cuando descubran que en el lugar se realizan experimentos que van más allá del limite de lo imaginable. Apadrinada nada más y nada menos que por Greg Mclean (Wolf Creek, El territorio de la bestia), Crawlspace es un sólido e intenso thriller de ciencia-ficción. Una muestra más del buen ojo con que los australianos suelen aproximarse al género fantástico. (FILMAFFINITY)
El último cazador
Publican
Basada en una novela de Julia Leigh. Martin es un mercenario que debe viajar desde Europa a Tasmania para capturar al último tigre de ese país. En contra de sus deseos, se ve obligado a compartir el campamento base con la mujer y los hijos de un zoólogo desaparecido.
Red Hill
Rex
Cuando un joven oficial de policía, el alguacil Shane Cooper, se traslada a la pequeña ciudad de Red Hill con su esposa embarazada, lo hace con la esperanza de comenzar una nueva familia. Pero cuando la noticia de un periodo de prisión en la ciudad envía a los oficiales de policía locales en un pánico, el primer día de Shane en servicio rápidamente va de mal en peor. Jimmy Conway, un asesino condenado a perpetuidad en la cárcel, regresa a la estación aislada en busca de venganza. Ahora, atrapado en medio de lo que se convierte rápidamente en un baño de sangre horripilante, Shane se verá obligado a tomar la ley en sus propias manos si es que quiere sobrevivir. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Beautiful and Damned
Twenty something trust fund kid Anthony Patch and his party girl wife Gloria Gilbert are disinherited by their wealthy benefactor grandfather and their lives spiral out of control in a blizzard of drugs, sex and eventual violence. Based on the novel by F.Scott Fitzgerald.
The Loved Ones (Cita de sangre)
Daddy Stone
Brent, un joven de diecisiete años, rechaza la invitación de Lola, una de las chicas más apacibles del instituto. Lo que no puede ni siquiera imaginar es que ella y su padre lo secuestrarán y tendrá que luchar desesperadamente para sobrevivir a la macabra celebración que le han preparado.
Largo fin de semana
Old Timer
Una pareja en crisis viaja a un recóndito lugar: ella sólo piensa en largarse, él atropella a un canguro, tira una colilla en el bosque, una botella al mar y dispara por doquier. Remake del film "Largo fin de semana" (Colin Eggleston, 1978).
El ultimo viaje
Max
Un hombre, perseguido por la justicia tras cometer un crimen violento, huye desesperadamente junto a su hijo de diez años por la carretera y el desierto.
The Combination
Mr. Roberts
Set in the maligned western suburbs of Sydney, Lebanese-Australian John gets out of gaol to discover his younger brother Charlie is caught up with drugs, hookers and crime. Charlie oscillates between the streets and school. Daily clashes between Scott and Charlie's gang escalate. This feud spills into the streets in a territory and identity battle that turns bloody.
Aviso de tormenta
Poppy
Lo que pretendía ser un viaje de aventura, se convierte en una pesadilla cuando una pareja se ve obligada a resguardarse de una tormenta en una aislada granja de unos pantanos australianos. Allí serán atacados por unos desconocidos.
BlackJack: Ace Point Game
Andy Margate
After wearing a wire to catch a dirty colleague selling confiscated drugs, detective Jack Kempson is hated by his colleagues. He also gets 'promoted away' to the basement, where old files get transferred to the national computer database. Thus he comes across fingerprints, now identifiable, in the 30 year old case of Ashley, the kidnapped son of lottery winners. Although he's too late to help him now, he tracks the perpetrators down behind his boss's back.
El desquite (Gettin' Square)
Lenny Morrison
Barry Wirth acaba de salir de prisión y está decidido a reinsertarse y no apartarse del camino recto. Pero al igual que su compadre Johnny “Spit” Spiteri y que Dabba, un gángster rehabilitado convertido en hostelero, descubre por las malas que quedan viejas cuentas y algunas nuevas por ajustar, y que por todo ello, saldar deudas resultará mucho más difícil de lo que llegó a creer...
BlackJack
Andy Margate
Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral barometer. He turns a blind eye to the dubious methods employed by some of his contemporaries — prepared to let dodgy means be justified by the noble end.
Trojan Warrior
Saunders
When a comical mob bag-man rats out the local mob boss, the bagman's cousin must rescue him from both the mob and the cops so he can testify at the grand jury.
Redball
Det. Robbie Walsh
Two detectives are assigned to solve a series of grisly murders of children. However, when their investigation leads them towards someone in their own squad room as the killer, the female detective edges on a total breakdown as she loses faith in her fellow officers. The film explores the decadence and corruption that exists in the police force.
Dogwatch
Heckle
Adrift in hostile waters, during the last vicious battles of the Triad societies after explusion from mainland China, The Captain, William, is ruined. He has a shady past, a drinking problem and a dirty job to do - at the lowest ebb of his career, William has agreed to sink the Arabella for an insurance scam. A tale of lost men adrift on the high seas in a battle for survival
Dance Me to My Song
Eddie
The story of Julia, a disabled woman in a wheelchair and voice synthesizer, who's trapped psychologically by a cruel, manipulative caregiver. After the arrival of a mysterious man, Julia begins to question the day-to-day dramas and frustrations she's tolerated for years. An achingly genuine and profoundly moving drama about a woman born with cerebral palsy.
Life
Des
A highly cinematic adaptation of John Brumpton’s play about a group of inmates incarcerated in an isolated HIV-positive section of a prison.
Life
Writer
A highly cinematic adaptation of John Brumpton’s play about a group of inmates incarcerated in an isolated HIV-positive section of a prison.
The Rat Tamer
Officer Gilbert
In this Aussie prison drama directed by Kate Woods, no one can explain why inmate Kevin Jones (Hugh Jackman) arrived at Blackstream Penitentiary with brain damage and horrible bruises on his body -- least of all Kevin. Can a jailhouse psychologist (played by Deborra-Lee Furness) help Kevin regain his memory, or will it take an act of violence to bring out the truth? This "Correlli" TV series pilot "The Rat Tamer" was later released separately on DVD as a feature.
Silent Number
Man at Door
A young woman takes a babysitting job during a bad thunderstorm. She begins to receive frightening phone calls from a young boy who claims he needs help. It seems that the boy's abusive father has locked him up somewhere, and he can't get out. The woman calls the police so they can trace the boy's call, and then they all learn the shocking truth about the boy's whereabouts.
Romper Stomper
Magoo
Hando es el líder de una banda de skinheads que impone el terror en el centro de Melbourne apaleando a la población local vietnamita, por considerarla un claro ejemplo de la impureza racial en Australia. Finalmente, los vietnamitas deciden hacer frente a sus agresores para demostrarles que no están dispuestos a sucumbir al miedo.