John Flaus

AKA:

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1934-01-01

Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Crew Roles

To Have and to Hold

Script Editor

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {64}

Old Man Williamson

2005-04-21 6.9

Three Dollars

Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten ...

Genre :Drama

Old Man

2006-07-16 0

Welcome Stranger

A strange day begins for 18 year old Adam with a phone call from an old school friend. After several years without any contact, Luke is eager for a reunion. Bewildered, Adam sets off to meet up with h ...

Genre :Drama

Carmichael

1990-08-01 2

Breakaway

When Joey, a prisoner on the run, takes Reginald, an accountant, as his hostage, he gets more than he bargained for. ...

Genre :Comedy, Action, Drama

Frank

1996-05-09 4.429

Lilian's Story

For forty years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a 'loony bin' by her father. Her release is eventually secured by her eccentric Aunt Kitty and her brother, John. Lilian starts to carve out a place ...

Genre :Drama

Father Coughlan

1978-07-29 5.333

Newsfront

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live. ...

Genre :Drama

Neil Bradshaw

1988-10-26 4.75

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

Steve/Self

1974-10-09 0

Yackety Yack

A classic Australian underground comedy in which a group of people fight over how to make the truly collective/revolutionary/existential movie. Original intentions get sidetracked but all attempts to ...

Genre :Comedy

Narrator (voice)

1996-04-09 0

The Legend of Fred Paterson

The story of Fred Paterson, member for Bowen in the Queensland parliament in the 1940s and the only Communist Party member ever elected to any Australian parliament. ...

Genre :History, Documentary

Doug

1976-01-02 4

Queensland

The allure of pleasant weather, a carefree lifestyle and better job prospects in Queensland appeal to Doug, a downtrodden factory worker from Melbourne. ...

Genre :Drama

Priest

2006-10-19 4.8

BoyTown

They were the hottest thing in the eighties, the pin-up boys on every teenage girl’s wall. And with hits like “Tough Titties” and “BoyTown”, they cemented their reputation as the biggest boy band on t ...

Genre :Comedy

Priest

1996-02-22 0

Point of No Return

The story of Grady, a former soldier who is in prison for his part in a major money-laundering operation. Whilst inside, he learns of the brutal, yet mysterious, murder of his brother, Christian. Desp ...

Genre :Thriller

Doug

1987-04-16 0

Feathers

Conflicts of interest arise when a country couple are visited by a couple from the city. ...

Genre :Drama

2021-08-01 0

The Last Days of Loneliness

A younger man encounters the old. Both fearful and aware of the impending end. The clock is almost striking 12, it has passed 5 to 12. Celebrating love between two humans they spend time together, unt ...

Genre :Drama

1993-10-01 0

Open City

A newspaper journalist in Bosnia returns home to find that things are and are not as they seem. ...

Genre :

Pete Shields

1980-10-23 4

Blood Money

A dying criminal takes his younger brother on one final job so that when the final hour comes, his brother and his brother's wife and daughter who he himself may have fathered, will be financially sec ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Narrator (voice)

1990-01-01 0

Tatlin

Made as an exercise in my animation class at Swinburne University in 1990, Tatlin is rumination on the life & work of Vladimir Tatlin. ...

Genre :

Goethe

1990-01-01 0

Puppenhead

Berlin, 1934: John Flaus plays Goethe, the puppeteer whose mechanical clockwork knife-throwing act is under surveillance by a slimy SS agent (Heinz Boeck). The showdown comes at a New York presentatio ...

Genre :

Narrator (voice)

2001-01-01 0

The Secret History of Brisbane

A one off 7 minute documentary film commissioned in 2001 ...

Genre :

1977-01-02 6

The Love Letters from Teralba Road

A violent man (Bryan Brown), who ostensibly has a slight mental illness due to fillings in his teeth, continues to write letters to his estranged girlfriend, Kris McQuade. She sees that he expresses h ...

Genre :Drama

Himself

2009-01-01 0

Flausfilm

A portrait of the actor, film teacher, critic, and legendary cinephile, John Flaus, in a unique film mosaic structured around cryptic crossword clues and solutions suggesting the content of the twelve ...

Genre :Documentary

Gordon

1992-01-23 5.4

Spotswood

Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Great Grandfather

2016-01-06 0

The Weatherman's Umbrella

When the Weatherman puts on his boots it gets frosty, when he puts on his scarf it gets windy, and when he puts on his hat it gets warm. The problem is, the Weatherman's lost his umbrella. Without an ...

Genre :Fantasy, Family

1988-09-11 5.3

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

The world is a blazing atomic hell. Civilisation is dying in agony... What do you do? ...THROW A PARTY! The Third World War has happened. Bombs are dropping everywhere, even Elwood, Melbourne, Austra ...

Genre :Comedy

Sallay

2013-12-19 6.926

Tracks

Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean. ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama

Narrator (voice)

2015-06-23 7.2

Ernie Biscuit

The world of a lonely deaf Parisian taxidermist is turned upside down and back to front when a dead pigeon arrives on his doorstep. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Animation

Uncle (voice)

1997-06-06 6.7

Uncle

A nephew recalls the sometimes-lonely and often-eccentric life of his beloved uncle. ...

Genre :Animation, Drama

Grandad

2012-02-19 5

Lemonade Stand

Benny and Grandad are best friends and never leave each other's side. They also run the most successful light refreshment stand in town. Yet all could change when an old neighbour decides to get in th ...

Genre :

Larry Kent

1980-03-06 1

Palm Beach

The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days. ...

Genre :Drama

Harvie (voice)

2003-10-23 7.389

Harvie Krumpet

The odd biography of Harvie Krumpet, a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck - but still optimistically lives ow ...

Genre :Animation, Comedy, Drama

Harvey Krumpet / Ken / Len Hislop (voice)

2009-04-09 7.88

Mary and Max

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. ...

Genre :Animation, Comedy, Drama

1985-05-10 0

Bootleg

A detective tracking down anti-nuclear terrorists gets involved with prostitutes and rogue government agents. ...

Genre :

Bob

2015-11-26 5.081

A Night of Horror Volume 1

Whether you’re a fan of Sydney's iconic genre film festival A Night of Horror, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema, you can’t afford to miss this fright-filled anthology. Zomb ...

Genre :Thriller, Horror

Wilbur

2012-10-24 6.738

Jack Irish: Black Tide

Jack Irish has no shortage of friends, but family members are few and far between. His wife was murdered by an ex-client and his father is a fading photo on the pubs football wall of fame. So when Des ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Seadog

2018-01-25 4.5

The BBQ

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 inte ...

Genre :Comedy

Landrover owner

1983-06-03 0

The Plains of Heaven

Two technicians manning a tracking station on the Victorian High Plains pursue opposite ways of coping with isolation. The ageing Cunningham seems to be rejuvenated by and obsessed with the landscape, ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Policeman

1990-06-18 6

Nirvana Street Murder

Two brothers become conflicted after one goes on the run and the other has an affair with a Greek woman and takes care of an old rich lady who could be their way out. ...

Genre :Comedy

Old Man

2021-09-01 4.1

Lone Wolf

Through various modes of surveillance we observe an overprotective young woman, Winnie, and her disabled brother, Stevie, caught in a web of intrigue involving a bomb plot, inept anarchists, ambitious ...

Genre :Drama

Mr. Fetish

1992-01-01 2.5

Bloodlust

Three vampires wander the streets of Melbourne killing, screwing and taking drugs. They decide to carry out a heist, stealing three million and attracting the attention of various psychotics, who chas ...

Genre :Horror, Action

Doctor

2010-07-22 0

Pinion

Suffering from a mysterious affliction, a young boy is taken to a secluded hospital by his fearful parents. Lloyd soon learns that more harm is being done than good. ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Sergeant Mick Kennedy

1997-04-10 7.107

The Castle

The quirky Kerrigan family lives together in a makeshift home they built themselves – with great pride and a bizarre attention to detail – a few yards from the edge of Melbourne, Australia's busy Tull ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Wilbur

2012-10-14 6.445

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

Wilbur

2014-04-13 6.819

Jack Irish: Dead Point

Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Helen's Father

2006-07-16 0

Blue Notes

A multi-layered narrative drama about ordinary people and their struggles and joys with life. Blue Notes is composed of five tales about people who are "blue": a married man struggles by with depressi ...

Genre :

Egan the Blacksmith

1985-11-03 5

Archer's Adventure

During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of cou ...

Genre :Adventure, TV Movie, Drama

Zeppa's Voice (voice)

1997-01-01 6

The Balanced Particle Freeway

Welcome to the far-famed and most reliable Balanced Particle Freeway, a magical adventure that can take you anywhere in the world in no time at all! That's what the dragon Mizuchi tells Lili and Bede ...

Genre :TV Movie, Fantasy

O'Connell

1990-10-01 0

A Kink in the Picasso

Two crooked gallery officials swap a Picasso for a fake hoping to make a fortune. When thieves break into the gallery to steal the Picasso, an amusing chain reaction snowballs into a hilarious romp. ...

Genre :TV Movie, Comedy

Father Leach

0

The Debt Collector

Frank Vaughan is a debt collector pushed to breaking point. In a frenzy of revenge, he tracks down the priests who abused him in boarding school and stole his childhood. Not even prayers can save them ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama

1987-11-01 2

Bachelor Girl

Dorothy, single and one of the writers of the soap "The True World" hates living alone, but the guys she knows don't appeal to her. Her aunt Esther's attempts to match-make with random men just annoy ...

Genre :Comedy

Linc

1988-05-01 5

Devil's Hill

Set in Tasmania, a boy is sent to stay with cousins while his mother is ill and discovers a wilderness adventure. ...

Genre :Family

Self

2016-12-12 0

Running Wild: Australia's Camels

Robyn Davidson, famous for her solo expedition across the west Australian deserts by camel in the 1970s, presents this documentary telling the story of Australia's camels and the people who brought th ...

Genre :Documentary

Police Sergeant

1988-03-07 5

Always Afternoon

Always Afternoon is a 1988 Australian mini series about German internees in Australia. It was a co production between Germany and Australia. It inspired a series of paintings by Ross Watson. ...

Genre :

Mitch Rollins

2008-09-02 7.6

Rush

They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Reg Clark

1986-05-15 6.3

The Flying Doctors

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was ini ...

Genre :Drama

Reg

1986-05-15 6.3

The Flying Doctors

Genre :Drama

Masters

1994-09-23 6.8

The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series wa ...

Genre :Drama, Western

Nobby

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

Ralph Temple

1994-09-23 6.8

The Man from Snowy River

Genre :Drama, Western

Bert Gibson

1993-09-08 6

Snowy

The family lives of those working on Australia's Snowy Mountains dam in the 1950s. ...

Genre :Drama

Old Man

2014-06-29 7.647

The Leftovers

When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Bill

1991-08-10 10

Kelly

Kelly is a Australian children's television series that first screened on Network Ten in 1991. The series was produced by Jonathan M. Shiff Productions and featured the adventures of a former highly t ...

Genre :Family, Action & Adventure

Wilbur

2016-02-11 6.853

Jack Irish

Genre :Drama, Crime

Elderly Resident

2018-01-01 6.7

Romper Stomper

A high stakes drama that follows a new generation of far right activists, their Anti-Fascist counterparts, and its impact on today's multicultural society. ...

Genre :Drama

Dusty Beckinsdale

2007-08-27 5.4

City Homicide

City Homicide follows a group of detectives in the Homicide department of Melbourne's Metropolitan Police Headquarters. ...

Genre :Drama

Finbar Maginnis

1997-03-30 6.5

Good Guys, Bad Guys

Good Guys, Bad Guys was an Australian crime TV series that screened on the Nine Network between 1997 and 1998, with a telemovie and twenty-six episodes produced. A comedy/drama set in Melbourne. The ...