John Stanton

Nascimento : 1944-10-28, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Filmes

Miss Fisher e a Cripta das Lágrimas
Crippins
Depois de libertar uma jovem da sua prisão injusta em Jerusalém, Phryne Fisher começa a desvendar um mistério sobre esmeraldas inestimáveis, maldições antigas e a verdade por trás do desaparecimento suspeito da tribo esquecida de Shirin.
The BBQ
Herbert
Dazza's passion in life is barbecuing, but unfortunately he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning. To make amends, he receives tutelage from a Scottish chef, and together they enter an international barbecue competition.
Anzacs: In the Face of War
Narrator
Archive footage of Australia and New Zealand forces during WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam conflict. Plus home life between the wars, especially focusing on the homage we pay to those who so bravely sacrificed themselves on our behalf. This is all held together by a wonderful script narrated by John Stanton.
Pelotão de Elite
General Lambert
A extraordinária história real de Oliver Woodward. É 1916 e Woodward deve rasgar-se de seu novo amor jovem para ir para a lama e carnificina da Frente Ocidental. Nas profundezas das linhas alemãs. Woodward e seu pelotão segredo de Scaleface australiano luta para defender um vazamento, o sistema de túnel labirinto repleto de explosivos suficientes para mudar o curso da guerra.
Big Brother of Christmas Island
Narrator (voice)
Twenty years ago, a hard-drinking, fiery British immigrant called Gordon Bennett, came to the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island to become General Secretary of the Union of Christmas Island Workers. By the time he died in 1991, he was known as 'Tai Ko Seng' which, roughly translated, means "big brother who delivers". Every year since his death, people gather on 30 July at the Island's Chinese cemetery, to pay tribute to Bennett as they would to their honoured ancestors. Big Brother of Christmas Island tells the moving story of how the legend of the "Tai Ko Seng" was born.
Reprisal
McTaggart
Sixteen years after returning home, three disillusioned Australian Vietnam conscripts use their army skills to plan and execute the country's biggest bank robbery. And they get away with it. Seven years pass and a petty criminal convicted as the driver in the heist is released from gaol. When his body is fished out of the harbour the grim murder reignites the case.
Vacant Possession
Frank
Following the death of her mother Tessa (Pamela Rabe), a young woman, returns after many years to the weather-beaten family home on the shores of Sydney's Botany Bay. But the old family home begins to bring old wounds more and more to life. The story unfolds through flashbacks yet as it progresses the flashbacks merge into the present as it becomes apparent that the situation Tessa has returned to is very much the result of that which passed before.
Strike of the Panther
William Anderson
Jason Blade is a man who can't bring himself to commit fully to his woman, and who spends all his time with a special crime task force taking on assignments to fight crime and right wrong do-ers. When his love is kidnapped by his arch-enemy the race is on to get into the power station where she is being held and battle an army of ninjas. Only then can he face Baxter, his arch-enemy, and stop a bomb from exploding to save his sweetheart, and show her that he is a man. A man who can commit. A man who is strong.
Day of the Panther
William Anderson
A martial-arts expert goes after a criminal gang and its boss, who were responsible for the death of his partner.
Um Tira de Aluguel
Alexander
Burt Reynolds e Liza Minnelli são os astros deste eletrizante filme de ação e suspense. Tony Church (Reynolds) é um detetive profissional de Chicago, que está suspenso depois de uma batida policial num hotel onde traficantes de drogas atuavam. Na ação, seis pessoas são mortas. A única testemunha do caso é uma prostituta de luxo Della (Liza Minnelli), que agora é ameaçada de morte por bandidos. Church tem em Della a oportunidade de limpar seu nome. Ao ajudar a garota entra numa grande fria. Entre tiroteios e perseguições ele tem uma certeza. Sua vida nunca mais será a mesma.
Great Expectations: The Untold Story
Abel Magwitch
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Tai-Pan
Tyler Brock
The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.
The Naked Country
Lance Dillon
Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to eke out a living from their cattle herd. When the aborigines kill the Dillon's prize bull a chase begins that will culminate in bloody tragedy with Lance pitted against Mandaru - an aborigine struggling to maintain his cultural way of life
Phar Lap
Eric Connolly
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.
Dusty
Railey Jordan
The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out shepherd, played by Bill Kerr. The dog gives Kerr a reason for living, and vice versa. Be sure to have plenty of Kleenex handy for some of the mistier passages of Dusty.
A demissão
Malcolm Fraser
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.
Kitty and the Bagman
The Bagman
Notorious Australian flop set in the Roaring 20s Sydney follows Kitty O'Rourke who, after her thug husband ends up in jail, becomes a tough gangster on her own, befriends a crooked cop called The Bagman and takes on the competition.