John Waters
Рождение : 1948-12-08, London, England, UK
История
John Waters is one of Australia's most recognised and respected film and theatre actors. He was born in London England on December 8 1948, the middle of five children of Scottish actor, Russell Waters. As a child John often hung around film studios while dad worked and even starred in a few young parts. He first faced a live audience as a singer and bass player with 60s R & R Band The Riots and appeared in Macbeth before travelling to Australia in 1968 with only a guitar and $90. He soon heard a US film called Adam's Woman, starring Beau Bridges, was being filmed in NSW so he managed to get himself cast in a small role. Fellow cast members recommended he try auditioning for a musical. He did, and landed the lead role of Claude in Sydney's 1969 production of the landmark rock musical, Hair. This was followed by the role of Judas in Godspell. This led to an acting career on stage, film and television that elevated him to his current status as Australia's most versatile leading man. From the brooding Sgt. McKellar Of ABC TV's Rush in 1974 which earned him a Logie Award for Best New Talent, through the Australian film boom that followed with films such as End Play, Summerfield, Breaker Morant, and on to the mini-series of the 80's, All The Rivers Run, Nancy Wake and Alice To Nowhere. Not to be forgotten was his ten year stint as host of childrens ABC program PlaySchool. John has always intrigued audiences with his diversity. Since collecting Australia's highest accolade as the Australian Film Institute's Best Actor Award in 1988 for the film Boulevard of Broken Dreams, John has re-embraced musical theatre as Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady, and They're Playing Our Song, and in productions of The Hunting of the Snark for Mike Batt, and A Little Night Music for the Sydney Theatre Company. He has also appeared in Love Letters at the Sydney Opera House and Children of a Lesser God. In 1995 he appeared in ReUnion a rock musical written and financed by himself and Stewart D'Arrietta. He won unanimous acclaim in the role of Pontius Pilate in the 1992 concert version of Jesus Christ Superstar with John Farnham, Kate Ceberano, Jon Stevens and Angry Anderson which successfully toured the nation. He has made guest appearances in various TV series, including Good Guys Bad Guys, The Man From Snowy River, All Together Now and Young Lions. John's self written one man show Looking Through a Glass Onion, based on the life of John Lennon, toured nationally and regularly since 1992 and also played six months in London's West End in 1995. IMDb Mini Biography By: Karina
Norris
When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan, a small-town cop, seeks answers from a volatile hermit who was the last person to see his friend alive. As Dan gets closer to the truth, he must confront his own personal demons and he discovers that hope can be found in unlikely places.
Magistrate
Став свидетелем жестокого преступления, 12-летняя девочка переживает сильную травму и пытается осмыслить увиденное. Ответы подросток ищет в мире своих фантазий. Отец стремится защитить и поддержать дочь в ее поисках.
Professor Linnaeus
Освободив молодую бедуинскую девушку Ширин из несправедливого заключения в Иерусалимской тюрьме, леди-детектив Фрайни Фишер берется за разгадку тайны прошлого, касающуюся бесценных изумрудов, древних проклятий и правды о подозрительном исчезновении забытого племени Ширин. Британские аристократы, на жизни которых отразились печальные события Первой мировой войны в Палестине, также оказались втянутыми в эту тайну.
Eamon
Set over three summers at The Westival, a fictional West Australian rural folk festival redoubtable local radio personality ‘Queenie' describes as "Australia in a tent". Two young musicians fall in love against a wider collection of tales dealing with a microcosm of contemporary discussion points, including Indigenous, immigration and refugee issues.
Bill
2:22 по полудню. Безоблачное небо внезапно озаряет мощная световая вспышка. Приборы навигации выходят из строя. Два пассажирских самолета неизбежно должны столкнуться в воздухе. В последнее мгновение опытный авиадиспетчер Дилан успевает развести маршруты, но с этой минуты его жизнь не может быть прежней. В поисках страшной правды Дилан знакомится с таинственной девушкой по имени Сара, вместе с которой он открывает зловещую тайну пересечения судеб…
Booker
14-летняя Ним по-прежнему настроена более чем решительно — она твердо намерена защитить свой остров и его лесных обителей от устроителей курорта и браконьеров. Но теперь героиня понимает, что в столь трудном деле, как спасение ее дома, она не может рассчитывать на помощь лишь одних животных. Так у Ним появляется друг-человек — Эдмунд, который сбежал на остров с материка.
Mark Frettlby
Кучер кэба думал, что везет домой подгулявшего джентльмена, но доставил его труп. Скорее всего, вдрызг пьяного мужчину отравил снотворным знакомый, покинув двуколку на полпути. Мельбурн смакует подробности сенсации: здесь давно не слышали о подобном. На скамье подсудимых - молодой представитель высшего света, вместе с убитым претендовавший на руку богатой наследницы. Казалось бы, исход ясен, следователь, представив железные доказательства, потирает руки в ожидании смертного приговора. Но к делу привлечен второй сыщик, привыкший ставить палки в колеса своему коллеге. Его версия стремительно обрастает столь же неоспоримыми уликами...
Narrator
On April 24, 1951, following a rout of the South Korean army, the Chinese People Volunteer Army pursued their enemy to the lines of Australian and Canadian troops still digging fall-back defences, 39 kilometres to the rear. Here, sometimes at the length of a bayonet, often in total darkness, individual was pitted against individual in a struggle between a superpower and a cluster of other nations from across the world. They fought for a valley, the ancient and traditional invasion route to Seoul. If it fell the southern capital and the war, was lost. The United Nations troops had the military advantage of the high ground and artillery support: the Chinese relied entirely on vastly superior numbers. As a result, young men from both sides found a battle which was very close and very personal. The Battle of Kapyong became the turning point of China's Fifth Offensive in that Korea spring... Written by John Lewis
Jack Houghton
Centre Place is a sophisticated romantic drama featuring Melbourne's style, fashion and culture. Set in the very European boutiques, cafes and bars of Melbourne's inner lane-ways the film focuses on the highs and lows of aspiring artist Lizzie Baxter. Lizzie is a lost soul living in denial. At 28, she would prefer to stay in a shallow relationship than take charge of her own life. This is Lizzie's unique story but also the story of an entire generation; living in limbo and not ready to grow up.
Self
Документальный фильм об австралийских малобюджетных фильмах с рейтингом R, содержащие немало насилия, секса, «экшна» и ужасов. И всё это с австралийской спецификой.
Narrator
This heart-warming film traces the extraordinary story of Australia's 'Ten Pound Poms' and their families from the post-war era through to the 1960s.
Narrator
A gastronomical, phantasmagorical nightmare from another time about a little-known condition brought on by carnivorous gorging and excess. This ghastly phenomenon sweeps a restaurant during a gargantuan meat-eating feast attended by all those important, resulting in a bout of explosive indigestion. Like a cut-and-paste cautionary tale, "Carnivore Reflux" is the original ode to overeating.
Black Ops Doctor
На военно-морскую авиабазу доставлен искусственный интеллект, который должен обучиться у настоящего пилота управлению боевым самолетом. По мере роста боевой и политической подготовленности, ИскИн приобретает также некоторые идеи, определенно вредные для мира во всем мире.
Professor Arkin
After his wife is brutally murdered, a policeman transfers to patrol duty at a college, only to discover that the now-executed murderder may be brought back to life as part of a professor's experiment.
Sam Lejeune
With his distinctive voice and unusual view of life, Harris takes us through his story: a harrowing journey of humour, grief, resolution and redemption. Harris, as a child of five, sits underneath his house amongst the cobwebs making 'sugar' by pounding sandstone rocks into fine grains and wrapping them into bags. Harris at 17 falls in love with Helen and when a tragic accident leads to a breakdown he ends up at 'The Cottage'... Thrust up against the lives of other innocent victims, Harris begins to make sense of his own guilt, grief and the secret of his past.
Henry Kubica
In this sequel to the made-for-TV sci-fi thriller Chameleon, Bobbie Phillips returns as Kam, a beautiful but deadly (and genetically altered) government agent who is called into action when a criminal genius stages a daring raid, taking the clientele of an exclusive casino hostage.
Dr. Lance Hagen
An ancient talking macaw named Mac becomes the saving grace for an elderly man threatened with a nursing home, when it is discovered that the talking bird knows the whereabouts of a buried treasure from its days with a pirate. His grandson decides to go off on the hunt only to discover that a resort now exists where the treasure is buried.
John Stamford
John Stamford, an expatriate Australian, now a private detective in Singapore, becomes involved in a fake pharmaceuticals case and a dangerous love triangle.
Michael Suresch
Lawyer Jeff Warren takes over a compensation case after the sudden death of one of his legal partners. His subsequent investigations, and growing obsession with the enigmatic Ellen Fielding, compromise his values and his view of himself as a winner. His attempts to solve the complex intrigues lead him to be accused of the murder of Ellen's husband, Harry, and even his longtime partner and friend, Alison, finds it difficult to believe that he is innocent. His moral dilemma leads him into a final graphic confrontation, with unexpected results.
Pontius Pilate
The 1992 Australian Cast Concert Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar was a phenomenal success with fans of stage and the artists involved. To date, the only keepsake fans have had of this production is the Official Cast Recording CD which at the time, debut at #1 and remained at #1 for 10 weeks (4× Platinum). It also went on to be awarded 'Highest Selling Album' at the 1993 ARIA Awards.
Steve Hannah
An American nurse is determined to smuggle a group of orphans out of Cambodia in the late 1970s, assisted by an Australian boat operator.
Johnny Dysart
The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the leader of a band making rock-music from the 60s but his son becomes a star of techno-pop music.
Morris Martin
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
Tom Garfield
A successful Australian writer discovers he has cancer and returns home to Melbourne to be with his estranged wife and daughter.
Frank
A young deaf boy who calls himself "Captain Johnno" befriends Tony, an Italian fisherman in the small Australian fishing town they live in. Both feel outcast by the town and both share a great love of the sea. When Johnno's beloved sister leaves to go to boarding school, he is so upset he runs away to an island hiding place, causing much distress in the town. His friend Tony helps him understand how much he is loved and missed by the townsfolk and his family.
Patrick O'Day
In the Australian outback, a small boy determines to see that a nasty, curmudgeonly miser gets the Christmas spirit.
Henri Fiocca
The 'White Mouse' was at one point top of the Gestapo's Most wanted list in France. A saboteur who went on to lead 7,000 resistance members and rescued over 200 Allied airmen, the 'White Mouse' was also a woman. The New Zealand born Australian; Nancy Wake.
Martin Brown
A business executive leaves his wife and family when he discovers that he only has a short time left to live.
Leslie Gaitland
The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Williamson plays the wealthiest man in Southeast Asia. Barbara Hershey is his married antagonistic daughter who starts an affair with an ambitious American banker (Bruce Boxleitner) and who also seems to have the attention of her father.
Stuart Gunn
Barbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as housewife and start to study. Against the will of her husband she employs babysitter Eric while she attends university. Steward reacts increasingly nervous about the presence of another man in his family and brings their marriage into a crisis.
Stalwart aussie actor John Waters is wannabe-novelist Robert Marks. No one can fault his persistence and application in the past - he really wants the big-time bad. The day comes however when he realises his dream and with the royalties flooding in, new friends, a ramp-up in status and not the least, recognition as a precocious new talent, his life style changes. It's not the only thing to change however. He finds he's lost his creativity, the adrenalin has dried up. Is it writer's block or is he simply a one-hit wonder? Very capable supporting cast keep the story moving and the underplayed nature of the film itself makes it thoroughly watchable. Many worse than this to be sure!
Ben Lomax
Following the death of his wife, mountain cattleman, Ben Lomax leaves the high country but is forced to return when he learns his prize stallion is to be run in a race that will break him.
Ted King
Январь 1945 года. На оккупированном японцами острове в Тихом океане разбивается самолет с представителями американского правительства и японским перебежчиком на борту. На остров высаживается австралийский десант – отряд специального назначения «Группа «Z». Отряду дается сверхсекретное задание: найти обломки самолета и доставить уцелевших пассажиров в Соединенные Штаты. В ходе операции капитана «Группы «Z» Хола Келли (Мэл Гибсон) судьба сводит с руководителем местного сопротивления, Лином Чанг-Лангом (Ку Джань Зинг), который владеет важной информацией. Китаец знает, где упал самолет и как до него добраться короткой дорогой. Но эта дорога будет стоить «Группе «Z» очень дорого…
Cpt. Alfred Taylor
Во время бурской войны, три австралийских лейтенанта были преданы суду для расстрела заключенных. Хотя они действовали по приказу, они использовались в качестве козлов отпущения в Генеральном штабе, который надеялся дистанцироваться от нерегулярных практик войны. Но неожиданно у обреченных на смерть людей появилась сильная защита.
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.
Host
An examination of the prophecies and predictions of the 16th-century mystic Michel Nostradamus.
Mike
Torn by the conflict between society and her own life, as well as her failing marriage and love for another woman, Cass desperately tried to pull together the pieces of her shattered life.
Rabbit
In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
Why is everyone out to sabotage him? Cliff Rowan has been hired to recover a stolen payroll hidden in the rugged Australian hills and mountains near his boyhood town. But instead of a warm welcome and helping hand, his former sweatheart, his old school friends, and in fact, practically the whole town...want him out! When his friend, Riley, is needlessly killed, Cliff realizes the buried strongbox holds more than cold cash. The mystery unfolds.
David Abbott
When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeared without a trace - and that nobody seems too concerned about it. As Simon probes deeper into the disappearance, the inhabitants of a forbidding estate called "Summerfield" take on more and more significance - until events reach a tragic, shattering and unforeseen climax.
Rev. Shepherd
The Getting of Wisdom is based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson (born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson). Her novel is thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. The film is about a young girl, Laura Tweedle-Rambotham who grew up in the outback, and at around the age of 14, is sent off by her poor mother who has scrimped and saved for her to go to a prestigious women’s private college in Melbourne, the Presbyterian Ladies College.
David Bracefell
An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
Mark Gifford
And just when you believe there is nothing more to fear, you will begin to experience the ultimate terror of the END PLAY.
