John Ewart

AKA:
0.345

1928-02-26

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {40}

Ricketts

1986-05-01 5.539

Frog Dreaming

American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive and inquisitive. He comes accross some strange events happening in Devil's Knob national park associat ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, Family

Turner

1984-04-19 5.9

Razorback

In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community. ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller

Paddy Reilly

1976-01-01 5.8

Caddie

Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Freddie Graves

1977-05-05 6

The Picture Show Man

A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Uncle Harry

1981-12-28 7

Save the Lady

A ragtag group of kids set out to save derelict steam ferry Lady Hope from destruction. ...
Genre :Adventure, Family, Drama

Steven Weatherley

1984-07-13 0

Super Sleuth

Novelty movie which seems like just another people-gathered-in-a-country-house-murder-mystery but then lets the viewers choose the ending. ...
Genre :

Utterson (voice)

1986-01-01 5.4

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

This is a animated adaptation of the famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. ...
Genre :Animation, Horror, TV Movie

Peter

1974-01-01 2.75

Jock Petersen

Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful ...
Genre :Drama

Mickey O'Riordan

1949-12-16 5

Sons of Matthew

The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Hughes

1983-07-01 8

A Slice of Life

Toby Morris enters hospital to remove a cyst from his hand. He wakes up to find not only has the cyst been removed but he's been given a vasectomy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Hart

1989-11-22 0

Dear Cardholder

Hec, a sacked taxation clerk, seeks fame and fortune using the world of credit cards. Unfortunately for him, and the banks, he has no concept of credit card limit. ...
Genre :Comedy

1986-01-01 3

The Big Hurt

A reporter looking into the death of a research scientist finds more deaths connected to the man, including some dubious "suicides". He discovers that the scientist may have been killed to cover up a ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

David Griffiths

1992-01-31 4.278

Hurricane Smith

An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Bill

1983-12-22 5.7

Bush Christmas

In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children ...
Genre :Family, Adventure, Drama

PC Baird

1976-12-16 0

Let the Balloon Go

In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother. ...
Genre :Drama

Charlie

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

1975-01-03 2.6

The Love Epidemic

This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone — whether young or old, gay or straigh ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary

Steadman Senior

1990-12-10 6.2

The Returning

A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly wom ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller

(voice)

1987-11-09 7.667

The Odyssey

After the Trojan War a legendary hero Odysseus makes his valiant voyage at sea, trying to reach the shores of his beloved home. While he and his crew are protected by the goddess Athena, the sea god P ...
Genre :Animation

Mr. Peters

1977-12-09 6.5

Blue Fire Lady

Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to ride horses, after her mother had died from a hors ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Tommy

1984-01-12 0

Kindred Spirits

A young dancer on the Sydney club circuit finds her life falling apart after she witnesses the drowning of a young man at Bondi. His presence continues to haunt her. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Horror

Billy Harris

1983-01-01 10

Skin Deep

Drama and tensions rise as two determined partners in a successful Australian fashion empire will stop at nothing to achieve individual success. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Ugly

1975-06-01 6.4

Sunday Too Far Away

The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the position of 'top shearer' amid the boozy world of men ...
Genre :Drama

Clarence Quint

1982-11-24 4

Fluteman

When the small town of Minyaka suffers from a drought, a kind and mysterious stranger offers to make it rain by playing his flute; under the condition that he be paid. But after Fluteman makes it rain ...
Genre :Drama

1978-10-30 0

Cass

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. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1982-01-01 0

Island Trader

An island boy battles an evil ship's captain over the wreckage of a downed plane that was transporting gold bullion. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Family

Voice

1976-10-23 6

Master of the World

April 1910. Inspector John Strock travels to Morganton, North Carolina. There, the government entrusts him with a mission of the utmost importance: to climb and inspect a mountain called the Eagle's N ...
Genre :Animation, Adventure

Ferguson

1991-01-28 2.7

Which Way Home

An American nurse is determined to smuggle a group of orphans out of Cambodia in the late 1970s, assisted by an Australian boat operator. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

The Train Driver

1983-02-18 2

Kitty and 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 Bagm ...
Genre :Crime

Stollier

1982-10-08 4.714

Crosstalk

A computer genius is confined to a penthouse after a car accident, with only a nurse to look after him. But the advanced computer systems designed to make his life easier appear to be taking control. ...
Genre :Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror, Crime

Sam O'Bannon

1982-01-01 6

Deadline

A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion - part of an extortion threat that has the governme ...
Genre :Thriller, TV Movie

Minister for Immigration

1981-01-01 5

Run Rebecca, Run!

Simone Buchanan plays a young camera fanatic who is marooned on a desert island. Here she is threatened by a refugee from South America (Henri Szeps) who isn't keen on having his whereabouts known. Ho ...
Genre :Family

Fred Daley

1988-06-28 0

The True Believers

The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. It was co-wr ...
Genre :War & Politics, Drama

1978-07-31 0

The Truckies

Genre :

Ralph

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

Henry Dingwell

1986-11-03 7

The Last Frontier

Following a whirlwind courtship, a single mother from Los Angeles marries an Australian cattle rancher. He returns to Australia ahead of her and her two children but dies before they arrive, leaving h ...
Genre :Drama

George Burwood

1987-02-12 6

Rafferty's Rules

Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Comedy

Editor

1978-06-25 5

Father, Dear Father

The hugely successful British television series Father Dear Father is transplanted to Australia when novelist Patrick Glover and his assistant Nanny trek down under to write the great Australian crime ...
Genre :Comedy

Halliday

1987-02-12 6

Rafferty's Rules

Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Comedy

Mack

1976-08-13 0

Alvin Purple

Alvin Purple was an Australian television situation comedy series made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1976. The series followed continued adventures of the title character, previously ...
Genre :Comedy