Tony Barry

Tony Barry

Рождение : 1941-08-28, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

Смерть : 2022-12-21

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tony Barry is an Australian actor who has performed in 55 feature films and 45 television series, across a four-decade career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Barry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Профиль

Tony Barry

Фильмы

Grace
Mr. Symonds
A teenage girl living in an extreme Christian sect, is driven into psychological turmoil by her Elders, when she strikes up an innocent relationship with a boy.
Nobody's Child
Hank
Lolly has always searched for her father who abandoned her and her sister DeDe, believing that finding him will right all wrongs. Her quest leads her into an adult world, which it seems, is no place for a child. The answers Lolly seeks are secreted in the unspoken past. As the doors close on her efforts, Lolly is faced with the harshest of realities. Nobody’s Child is a coming of age story about a young girl searching for her identity.
Таинственный путь
Sarge
Джей Сван, детектив, возвращающийся в свой родной город в глубинке и начинающий расследовать одно жестокое преступление. Ему предстоит найти виновников убийства молодой девушки, чье тело было найдено в дренаже под шоссе…
One Answer to Cancer
Narrator
This is a story about two cancer salves. One makes cancers worse, and can even kill. Yet it is legal. The other has been curing cancer for 2000 years, yet it is illegal, denounced by BIG PHARMA, BIG GOVERNMENT and BIG MEDICINE. Why? So they can hang on to their obscene profits.
Rest for the Wicked
Murray
Ex-cop Murray(Tony Barry), is compelled to come out of retirement for one last case, when he finds out his old nemesis Frank (John Bach) is now in the Knightsbridge Gardens Retirement Village. In order to catch his man, Murray goes undercover by becoming a resident. He also discovers a world of sex, drugs and rocking chairs where life is lived and being old does not mean feeling past it. However Murray discovers that things are not always what they may seem to be.
Home by Christmas
Ed
A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II experiences, reconstructed with actor Tony Barry as Ed Preston. Weaving strands of poetic imagined drama, and archival footage into the interview, Preston presents both sides of her parents' wartime marriage: the horror and hardship of battlefield and prison camp juxtaposed with the loneliness and grief of a young wife struggling with a newborn baby and a husband declared missing.Ed Preston, on his way home from rugby practice in 1940, joins the New Zealand Army to go to World War II. His new wife, Tui, is pregnant and distraught, but he tells her not to worry, he'll be home by Christmas. And so he is - four years later - after escaping from a prison camp in Italy. But while Ed is away, Tui has fallen in love with another man.
Австралия
Sergeant Callahan
В основе сюжета положена история английской аристократки, получающей в наследство огромное ранчо на севере австралийского материка. Перед началом Второй мировой войны она приезжает в имение для того, чтобы оберечь его от попыток английских скотоводов заполучить ранчо под названием «Faraway Downs» в свою собственность, и сталкивается с необходимостью при помощи героя Джекмена перегнать 1500 голов скота через тысячи миль в город Дарвин. Там двое попадают под массированные бомбардировки со стороны японского Императорского флота.
The Ballad of Betty & Joe
Joe
Every morning Betty tramps alone through the big city to join her fellow buskers in the pedestrian tunnel below, trying to earn a living. But her earnings are meager, and to make things worse, the new security guard, Joe, is trying to confiscate her fiddle. While Betty dreams of fame and fortune, Joe dreams of earplugs – something’s got to give!
Cross Life
Bill
Ten fragments of life. Three days until Christmas. Cross Life is a tale of ordinary people pained by the desire for love amidst the sensual delights of Sydney's red light district, Kings Cross.
Пропавшие
UTE Driver
Прибыв в Австралию, британцы Софи и Алекс знакомятся с загадочным Тейлором и, вместо того чтобы оставаться на песчаных пляжах побережья, решают направиться в глубь материка. Но, по мере того, как солнце становится жарче, а асфальт дорог сменяется красной глиной, Алекс начинает подозревать, что совместная поездка с Тейлором - не такая уж хорошая мысль…
Тишина
Dennis Riordan
Полицейский детектив Ричард временно отстранён от работы, после того как на его глазах убили полицейского информатора. Он устраивается на работу в музей полиции. Увидев фотографию с убитой женщиной которая была сделана в 1964 году, чье убийство было не раскрыто, он решает провести свое расследование.
Solo
Louis
Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm of the Sydney Underworld. Standover tactics, prostitution, illegal gambling, creative importation - you name it, "The Gentlemen" are into it. And Barrett enforces it for them. Old school muscle for hire. Now 53 years old, he's tired of having to throw away perfectly good suits because you can't dry-clean the blood off. He needs to get out of Sydney. Out of the game. Which is, of course, easier said than done.
Сочувствие госпоже Месть
Jenny's Adoptive Father
Кэм Чжа Ли в 19 лет попадает в тюрьму за похищение и убийство ребенка по ложному обвинению. В тюрьме она вынашивает план мести и завоевывает сердца заключенных собственной добротой, получив имя «Сердечная госпожа Кэм Чжа». Отсидев 13 лет, Кэм Чжа отправляется разыскивать предателя с помощью ее давних тюремных товарищей
Hell Has Harbour Views
Frank Flannery
Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.
The Widower
Neville and Blake, a father and son coming to terms with the loss of their wife and mother Mary. When Neville is diagnosed as terminally ill his son Blake returns from boarding school and their unresolved feelings of loss re-surface. An unconventional and unique film that uses music and poetry as the narrative rather than dialogue, creating an emotionally insightful human drama.
Ночь, которую мы назвали днем
Ralph Blue
Род Блю – австралийский промоутер, от которого отвернулась удача. Он изо всех сил пытается провернуть что-нибудь такое, что изменит его жизнь и бизнес в лучшую сторону. Он очень ценит завязывающиеся отношения с его ассистенткой Одри, а также подвернувшееся дело, которое разом должно решить все его проблемы – австралийское турне Фрэнка Синатры. Вначале у него идет все как по маслу, но затем, общаясь с прессой, Фрэнк обзывает местную журналистку двух долларовой шлюхой, и все начинает рушиться, как карточный домик. 114 профсоюзов объявляют забастовку. Синатра и его свита просыпаются заложниками: нет воды, нет телефона, нет еды, нет топлива для самолета, пока он не принесет извинений. Но существуют две вещи, которые Синатра никогда не делает: не зевает в присутствии дам и никогда не извиняется... Этот фильм отображает самые негативные стороны жизни легендарного певца и артиста. В центре сюжета – гастроли Синатры в австралийском Сиднее в 1974 году.
BlackJack
Joe Bueneroti
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.
Mullet
Col
Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ex-girlfriend Tully and brother Pete.
La spagnola
Dr. Knuckey
Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn't like or understand, Lola's quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.
Fresh Air
Bob
Fresh Air, which focuses on ordinary moments of everyday life, is an original hybrid of urban comedy and kitchen-sink drama. It is also a realistic depiction of relationships among lovers, friends, and family in the multi-cultural environment of a big city. The protagonists are three thirty-something housemates with artistic aspirations.
Герой ее романа
Водитель мощного грузовика Джек Уиллис выглядит ну очень крутым мужиком… и при этом он — один из самых популярных сочинителей любовных романов. Понимая, что с ним будет, если об этом узнают его коллеги, Джек заимствует псевдоним у своей знакомой Руби Вэйл — молодой и озорной летчицы. И когда в их пыльном городишке появляется знаменитая издательница Зигги Кин, желающая подписать крупный контракт с «Руби Вэйл». Джеку ради сохранения тайны приходится «пуститься во всетяжкие». Для начала он должен уговорить Руби подыграть ему и отправиться вместе с ним в рекламное турне. Что явно не приводит в восторг ни жениха Руби, ни любвеобильную Зигги, успевшую «положить глаз» на симпатичного водилу.
Change Of Heart
Mervyn
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Dwayne
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful country/western singing career will hopefully begin. However, fate and his naivety find him hitchhiking with a psychotic drug thief named Boyd, and Boyd's mesmerising girlfriend, Patsy. The plot then splits into a series of parallels, flash forwards and flashbacks. One depicts Ralph’s imprisonment after being framed for drug trafficking. The other follows the dramatic ascent of his career to hype status and the pairing between the dynamic Patsy and himself.
The Last of the Ryans
Father Brosnan
Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he and a priest aim for redemption.
Последняя татуировка
James Carroll
1943 год. 100,000 американских морских пехотинцев посланы в Новую Зеландию, чтобы отразить возможное вторжение японцев. Во время этой долгой и тяжелой войны американский офицер и медсестра из Новой Зеландии разыскивают загадочную девушку с татуировкой…
Jack Be Nimble
Clarrie
Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has been somewhat better, has developed extra-sensory powers which tell her that Jack's in danger and drives her to search for him.
Absent Without Leave
Peter
In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she. Ed is suddenly drafted into the army and is to be sent overseas to battle while Daisy is sent to her father in Auckland. When Ed's leave is cancelled at the last minute he takes the dangerous decision to go absent without leave to be with Daisy on her journey home. As a deserter, Ed is hunted, captured and imprisoned. Life inside is bad enought without the worry of what is going on outside. The film is based upon a true story.
Rose Against the Odds
Jack Rennie
The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until his first title fight in Japan.
Old Scores
Barry Brown
Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial 1966 All Blacks/Wales rugby match - with the original teams. The now old men pull on their jerseys one more time while Morgan deals with his past on his return home. (from IMDB)
The Real Charlotte
Director
When the man she's long loved is widowed, flinty, fortyish, but financially secure Charlotte sees her chance to end her spinsterhood at last - but then her impoverished young cousin Francie arrives.
Shadow of the Cobra
Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who preyed on Western tourists throughout South East Asia during the 1970s.
Never Say Die
Insp. Evans
Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside Alf's house, it explodes. It is soon apparent that persons unknown want them dead, but the police are either skeptical or in the pay of those responsible. They play hide and seek around New Zealand with the stalkers, all the while coping with car chases, plane crashes, bullets and explosions.
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
Mad Mile
When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweather, who never returned on a stamp for 75 years.
The Man From Snowy River II
Jacko
After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.
Shame
Tim Curtis
Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But Cadell's relaxing ride turns tense when her motorcycle malfunctions and she makes a pit stop in a remote town. Cadell meets teen Elizabeth Curtis, who confides that she has just been raped, and Cadell helps the young woman report the crime to the authorities. When police corruption stands in the way of justice, she takes matters into her own hands.
Initiation
After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in Australia, where he lives with a girlfriend and her daughter Stevie. The farm has been going bad lately, so Matt starts smuggling Marijuana for a drug connection. When Danny joins him on one of his flights, the two-seater crashes in the middle of nowhere. Since his father is wounded, he has to conquer the jungle alone in search for help.
Two Friends
Charlie
The story of the end of a friendship between two teenage girls, told backwards over the course of nine months.
Отвязные каникулы
Gaza
Американский мальчик Коди, чьи родители умерли, живет с опекуном в Австралии. Коди очень творческий, изобретательный и любознательный. Узнав о странных событиях, происходящих в национальном парке, которые связаны c мифами аборигенов, он решает начать расследование.
The Surfer
Calhoun
Sam Barlow (Gary Day) is a Vietnam veteran who runs a small store that caters to surfers in this action thriller. When his best friend is murdered, Sam takes on the mobsters to avenge the death. With the help of a beautiful blonde (Gosia Dobrowolska), Sam uncovers a sex scandal involving a high-ranking government official. Also implicated are a sadistic soldier of fortune (Rod Mullinar), and a corrupt cop (Tony Barry) who tries to impede the investigation. Although the hero sells surfing-related items, he is never actually seen surfing in the feature.
BabaKiueria
Father (Mr. Smith)
Imagine what it would be like if black settlers arrived to settle a continent inhabited by white natives? In 1788, the first white settlers arrived in Botany Bay to begin the process of white colonisation of Australia. But in Babakiueria, the roles are reversed in a delightful and light-hearted look at colonisation of a different kind. This satirical examination of black-white relations in Australia first screened on ABC TV in 1986 to widespread acclaim with both critics and audiences alike. This is the story of the fictitious land of Babakiueria, where white people are the minority and must obey black laws. Aboriginal actors Michelle Torres and Bob Maza (Heartland) and supported by a number of familiar faces from the time, including Cecily Polson (E-Street) and Tony Barry, who starred in major ABC-TV hits such as I Can Jump Puddles and his Penguin award-winning Scales of Justice. Babakiueria was awarded the United Nations Media Peace Prize in 1987.
Platypus Cove
Frank Nelson
After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a deckhand.
Pallet on the Floor
Larkman
A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a drunk truck driver, Jack (Bach), attacks Sam's Maori wife Sue (O'Brien). In the struggle, Sam and friends end up killing Jack. None of them regrets this, but it has been observed by Miriam (Gruar) who decides to blackmail Sam. Jack's brother Joe (Napier) comes looking for revenge and ends up being killed by Basil (Spence). Their jobs at the freezer works are terminated, and Basil has his own idea about how to get out of their troubles.
Мельбурнский кубок
Squatter
В 1862 году австралийский клуб "Виктория Таф" объявил о проведении скачек высочайшего класса. Де Пауэр, молодой владелец фаворита скачек Арчера, собирается пересечь с конем 600 миль, отделяющие его городок от Мельбурна. Вместе они преодолевают множество препятствий и благополучно добираются до места назначения, но тут выясняется, что с жокеем, который должен был скакать на Арчере, произошел несчастный случай. Тогда Дейв решает сам принять участие в гонке. Дейв и Арчер становятся первыми победителями скачек, известных сегодня во всем мире как Мельбурнский кубок.
Парень из фирмы «Кока-Кола»
Bushman
Представитель компании «Кока-Кола» бывший морской пехотинец, настоящий американец, гордящийся компанией, как национальным флагом, приезжает в Австралию, чтобы продвигать там этот чудесный продукт. Он сразу же обнаруживает район, не охваченный божественной кокой, и отправляется туда лично. Там он находит крутого старика, производящего прохладительные напитки на фабрике из собственного сырья по технологии еще 30-х годов. Кокакольщик пытается перетащить упрямого старца на свою сторону, а заодно заводит роман с его дочерью.
The Settlement
The Sergeant
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.
The Dismissal
The Press Secretary
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.
Midnite Spares
Howard
After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver.
We of the Never Never
Mac
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for a new life on her husband's isolated ranch, Jeannie's feisty, good-natured attitude soon wins over the misogynistic stockmen, but she faces a much tougher challenge in trying to change their racist attitudes towards the indigenous aboriginal population.
Dead Easy
Ozzie
Three young friends trying to break into the entertainment business inadvertently anger a mob boss, setting in motion a chain of events that results in their being hunted by every thug and killer in town.
Goodbye Pork Pie
John
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, who's wife has just left him. The ultimate NZ roadtrip adventure.
Hard Knocks
Barry
A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society are juxtaposed against the confusion and frustration she feels as she struggles to become part of a community that has no place for her.
Землянин
Red
Проведя всю жизнь в путешествиях, смертельно больной мужчина решает встретить свои последние дни в австралийской долине, где он провёл детство. По дороге туда ему встречается мальчик-сирота, родители которого погибли, и он вынужден взять его с собой...
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Det. John Hughes
A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
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.
The Odd Angry Shot
Black Ronnie
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
Puzzle
Det. Const. Langdon
Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.
Little Boy Lost
Const. O'Day
The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers, the boy cannot know that the boisterous hordes of volunteers are his saviors and not his enemies. After four tense days, hopes wanes. At last, a group of searchers spot the young Stephen, and its members are able to convice him that they want to help him reach home and family. - Written by
Newsfront
Greasy
Surprisingly adventurous saga of an intrepid group of cinematographers and reporters who risk life and limb to capture footage of breaking news for the movie-going public.
The Irishman
Rob Dalgleish
Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way.
Wild Man
Dombey Morgan
The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.
I Own the Racecourse
Bert Hammond
A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Sydney racecourse for $20. Based on the classic Australian novel of the same name by Patricia Wrightson.
Typhon's People
The Minister
A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway to suppress or expose his secrets.