Colin Friels

AKA:
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1952-09-25

Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {75}

Det. Eddie Walenski

1998-02-27 7.334

Dark City

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans. ...
Genre :Mystery, Science Fiction

Morris Goodman

1995-10-26 6.6

Angel Baby

Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere... ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Tom White

2004-08-19 4.9

Tom White

Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not everything is as it appears at work. Tom chooses a diff ...
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Doug Lamont (as Colin Friel)

2008-11-14 6

The Informant

McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the tr ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

Louis Strack Jr.

1990-08-24 6.435

Darkman

Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an e ...
Genre :Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

David Myers

2001-10-25 6.4

The Man Who Sued God

A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registe ...
Genre :Comedy

Malcolm Hughes

1986-07-20 6.6

Malcolm

Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's h ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime

Morgan Leafy, 1st Secretary of the High Commissioner

1994-07-14 4.925

A Good Man in Africa

Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ray Gill

2005-03-03 6

The Illustrated Family Doctor

Gary Kelp (Samuel Johnson) is losing the plot. As he edits a medical journal called The Illustrated Family Doctor, his life and his body seem to be falling apart. A black comedy about coping with the ...
Genre :Comedy

Dr. Clements

2010-08-08 6.155

Tomorrow, When the War Began

Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return, the youths find that their town has been overrun ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

1981-11-05 4.4

Hoodwink

Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

John Anderson

1991-06-02 5.2

Dingo

Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Narrator (voice)

2013-09-25 5.6

The Turning

Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping ...
Genre :Drama

Jack Kempson

2005-09-11 5.8

BlackJack: In the Money

Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some part to play in the mystery? ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Crime

Jack Kempson

2004-11-07 5.7

BlackJack: Sweet Science

Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Crime

Errol

1996-03-04 6.218

Cosi

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the pati ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance

Mayor Riddick

2011-03-11 4.3

A Heartbeat Away

A young aspiring rock guitarist is forced to become the musical director of the local marching band when his father is hit by a bus just four weeks before a major competition. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

The Captain

2016-06-18 0

The Crossing

A tender fable of an ageing sea captain, who risks the lives of his men when he decides to change course, taking his ship through a violent storm. ...
Genre :Animation

Jack Barrett

2006-07-27 5.5

Solo

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, prosti ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Javo

1982-06-17 5.3

Monkey Grip

Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when she's drawn into a passionate affair with a heroin a ...
Genre :Drama

Harvey Denton

1987-10-01 6.3

Ground Zero

A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret t ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Action

Man

1987-05-10 4.4

Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cross-country night sleeper. She makes sure she is in ...
Genre :Drama

Mike

1983-06-23 5.5

Buddies

Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Tom Stewart

1988-10-26 5.1

Grievous Bodily Harm

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. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Drama

Justice Moynihan

2012-06-10 7.6

Mabo

The remarkable life story of Eddie 'Koiki' Mabo; a Torres Strait Islander who left school at the age of 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie, History

Frank Collins

2022-05-26 6.056

Interceptor

A U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack threatens her remote missile interceptor station. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Adventure

Adam Lucas

1984-11-22 5

The Coolangatta Gold

Steve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to live in his brother's shadow. His brother Adam, is burdened by his father's desire for glory, and must w ...
Genre :Drama

Connor

1995-11-02 5.5

Back of Beyond

A garage mechanic out in the middle of the outback gets involved with the girl friend of a jewel smuggler who is on the run. ...
Genre :Thriller

Mick Corby

2014-03-11 3.9

Schapelle

A 27-year-old beauty school dropout, Schapelle, was arrested at Bali airport with 4.2kg of marijuana. At first, her arrest was barely noticed by the media, but it soon sparked a frenzy and attracted a ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Crime

Bob Inkster

2001-11-13 4

My Husband, My Killer

Based on the true story of an Australian woman that was murdered in bed next to her husband. ...
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Richard Muir

1990-11-29 1

Weekend with Kate

This breezy sex comedy follows ex-journalist turned rock promoter Richard Muir (Colin Friel), who is pulled in two different directions by the women in his life -- his vivacious wife, Catherine (Cathe ...
Genre :Comedy

American Preacher

1993-10-14 4.6

The Nostradamus Kid

When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Wally Mellish

1996-11-22 6.2

Mr. Reliable

All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officers come around to disturb this, a misunderstanding ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Mark Bryce

2003-06-08 0

Max's Dreaming

A hospitalized amnesiac boy, victim of an abduction gone wrong, brings police detective Mark Bryce (Friels) and nurse Rose (Picot) together. Both have 'baggage' -- she a recently widowed and somewhat ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Father Tom Dixon

2002-10-31 5.5

Black and White

Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system com ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator

2008-01-01 6.5

Australia: Land of Parrots

Discover the beauty, brilliance and behaviour of Australia's most conspicuous birds - parrots and cockatoos in Australia: Land of Parrots. Multi-award winning, natural history filmmakers David Parer a ...
Genre :Documentary

Athol Shreve

2011-09-15 5

The Eye of the Storm

In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and ...
Genre :Drama

Olsen

2006-07-29 5.3

The Book of Revelation

An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self. ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Michael Grazier

1991-03-15 6.288

Class Action

A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, History

Nick Gurdin

2004-02-10 5.3

The Mystery of Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood marries Robert Wagner and faces inner conflicts about her Hollywood persona. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

Professor Nelson

2010-08-19 6.1

Matching Jack

A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explan ...
Genre :Drama

George Temple

2001-12-18 6.7

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story

As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts of moviegoers around the world. ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Mick

1987-07-30 6.6

High Tide

A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following her hus ...
Genre :Drama

Sam

2010-05-02 0

Lest We Forget

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Jack Kempson

2006-08-20 5.1

BlackJack: Ace Point Game

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 transfer ...
Genre :TV Movie, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Geoff Brewster

2009-08-01 0

Blind Company

Geoff Brewster has retreated to the family’s isolated, coastal shack to die in peace. He is also going blind. Geoff spends his days walking on the beach and leaving tape-recorded confessions to his es ...
Genre :

Phillipe

1985-12-31 6

The Man in the Iron Mask

Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him to replace the king, but in a way that no one find ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Animation

Tom Cooper

2000-01-01 0

The Farm

After the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot of money. When disaster strikes, the loan cannot be repaid. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Garth Bruce

2012-10-14 6.435

Jack Irish: Bad Debts

Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, p ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

Richard Somers

1986-07-24 6

Kangaroo

A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trad ...
Genre :Drama

Jack Kempson

2003-03-16 7

BlackJack

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 met ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, TV Movie

Jack Kempson

2006-08-27 4

BlackJack: Dead Memory

A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's offsider Sam, details of the crime mirror the disa ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime, TV Movie

Jack Kempson

2006-09-24 7

BlackJack: At the Gates

Ten years ago, a baby was killed in a house arson fire after a violent home invasion. The parents used the tragedy as a motivation to help build an evangelical community church but now the mother has ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery, TV Movie

Jack Kempson

2007-12-02 7

BlackJack: Ghosts

Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for the murder is about to be paroled. Jack has two miss ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

George K

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Underbelly: Vanishing Act

Inspired by the real-life mystery that captivated the nation, Underbelly: Vanishing Act tells the story of the bizarre disappearance of Melissa Caddick, the high-roller who allegedly embezzled over $4 ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Self

2015-08-04 5.3

Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life

The story of singer-songwriter Colin Hay, former front-man of Men At Work. We follow Hay from his earliest days in Scotland, through his family's emigration to Australia, to the massive, worldwide suc ...
Genre :Music, Documentary

Lt. Col. Fouts

1995-09-24 7.209

Space: Above and Beyond

Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, a ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama

2007-05-13 0

Bastard Boys

Bastard Boys is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute. The script, published by Currency Press, won the 2007 Qu ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Frank Holloway

1996-02-12 6.6

Water Rats

Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Baz

2021-04-18 7

Wakefield

Nikhil Katira is a psychiatric nurse working at Wakefield, a facility perched on the edge of Australia's spectacular Blue Mountains. There's one problem - while his patients are getting better, he's g ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Sly Morgan

1993-12-08 5.8

Stark

The greenhouse effect has plunged the near-future world into recession and the Stark Corporation is making billions from the crisis; an eco protester ends caught up in a global conspiracy involving so ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy

2003-12-21 8

BlackJack

BlackJack is a series of Australian television movies created by Shaun Micallef and Gary McCaffrie, and starring Colin Friels. The movies began airing on Network Ten in 2003 and concluded in 2007. The ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

2009-02-11 0

Gangs of Oz

Gangs of Oz is an Australian television documentary series on the Seven Network narrated by actor Colin Friels. The show looks at real stories of Australia's criminal underworld with accounts from cri ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself - Narrator

2007-05-31 10

Air Australia

Australia's aviation history is a saga of daring feats, can-do attitude, pig-headed visionaries, iron-fisted politicians and warring pilots; of humble beginnings and mega deals. ...
Genre :Documentary

Jack Ramsey

2019-10-13 5.889

Total Control

A local Indigenous politician is recruited to the senate by the Australian Prime Minister after a contentious video goes viral. ...
Genre :Drama

Jack Norton

2016-10-03 5.5

The Secret Daughter

A part-time country pub singer has a chance meeting with a wealthy city hotelier which triggers a series of events that will change her life forever. Explore the worlds of 'the haves' and 'the have no ...
Genre :Drama

George K

2022-04-03 5.8

Underbelly: Vanishing Act

The story of Melissa Caddick, a woman who disappeared after swindling over $40 million from her most trusted clients. ...
Genre :Crime

Lew

1991-02-14 6.4

Police Rescue

Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to tr ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Nick Gurdin

2004-03-01 8

The Mystery of Natalie Wood

The story of Natalie Wood and how she began acting at a young age, making the transition from a child actress to a serious actress, dating top Hollywood celebrities. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Richard Devine / Rufus Dawes

1983-05-23 5.9

For the Term of His Natural Life

In 1830s England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Diemen's Land where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while fall ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime

Tony Ballantyne

2018-06-03 6.951

Mystery Road

When there is a mysterious disappearance on an outback cattle station, Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate. Working with local cop Emma James, Jay’s investigation uncovers a past injustice t ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Terry (voice)

2015-03-09 0

Sydney Sailboat

Young Sydney Sailboat explores the waters of Bubble Bath Bay, going on adventures with his nautical friends, including best bud Zip the Water Taxi. They learn about life under the command of Terry the ...
Genre :Family, Kids, Action & Adventure, Animation

Narrator (voice)

2016-05-22 0

DNA Nation

Who are we? And where do we come from? Australia's greatest Olympian Ian Thorpe, iconic Indigenous actor Ernie Dingo, and TV presenter and Queen of Eurovision Julia Zemiro set off on an epic journey ...
Genre :Documentary

Kevin Tait

1994-10-09 6.2

Halifax f.p.

Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halifax, a forensic psychiatrist investigating cases in ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Lewis Moran

2011-11-02 5.2

Killing Time

Killing Time is an Australian television drama series on TV1 subscription television channel which first screened in 2011. It is based on the true story of disgraced lawyer Andrew Fraser. In New Zeala ...
Genre :Drama, Crime