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3 Acts Of Murder
''3 Acts of Murder'' is a 2009 Australian television film directed by Rowan Woods. It is based on the true-life story of how author Arthur Upfield inadvertently inspired The Murchison Murders. The film starred Robert Menzies as Upfield and Luke Ford as Snowy Rowles. It also starred Emma Booth, Bille Brown and Anni Finsterer. It screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 14 June 2009 at 8.30pm and again in September 2013, October 2014 and August 2015. References External links ''Three Acts of Murder''at IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... Review at ''Sydney Morning Herald'' Australian films based on actual events Australian television films 2009 television films 2009 films Films set in Western Australia 2000s Australian films {{200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian David
Ian David is an Australian writer, best known for his work in television, particularly adaptations of true stories such as '' Police Crop: The Winchester Conspiracy'', ''Joh's Jury'' and '' Blue Murder''. accessed 22 July 2013 Select Credits *'''' *'' Police Crop: The Winchester Conspiracy'' (1990) – TV movie *'''' (1992) – TV movie *''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowan Woods
Rowan Woods (born 1959) is an Australian AACTA Award-winning film and television director, actor and screenwriter. Career Film Woods directed '' The Boys'' in 1998 and won an ACCTA Award for Best Direction. The film was also entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. His next film, '' Little Fish'' was released in September 2005 starring Cate Blanchett. His latest film, '' Fragments'' was released in 2009, and received mixed, but mostly negative reviews from critics. Television He has directed episodes of television series including ''Farscape'', ''Fireflies'', ''Police Rescue'', and '' Spartacus: Blood and Sand''. In 2012, he directed The Straits and some episodes of Rake between 2012 and 2016. In 2016, he directed the acclaimed The Kettering Incident, and also Nowhere Boys. In 2013, he directed The Broken Shore, a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple Peter Temple (10 March 1946 – 8 March 2018) was an Australian cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Menzies (actor)
Robert Menzies (born 4 November 1955) is an Australian actor, who is best known for starring in ''Three Dollars''. Menzies was nominated as Best Lead Actor in Television Drama in the 2009 AFI Awards for Television for his acting in the ABC TV production of ''3 Acts of Murder''. He is the grandson of former Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies and his wife, Dame Pattie Menzies Dame Pattie Maie Menzies GBE (2 March 189930 August 1995) was the wife of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies. Biography Menzies was born as Pattie Maie Leckie at Alexandra, Victoria, the eldest daughter of John Lec .... References External links''3 Acts of Murder'' official website * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bille Brown
William Gerald Brown AM (11 January 195213 January 2013) professionally known as Billie Brown was an Australian stage, film and television actor and acclaimed playwright. Early life Brown was born in Biloela, Queensland and studied drama at the University of Queensland. He began his career in the early 1970s at Queensland Theatre Company, working alongside Geoffrey Rush. He was openly gay. Abroad Brown's career took him abroad to Britain, where he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), and was the first Australian commissioned to write and perform in their own play – ''The Swan Down Gloves''. The show opened at the Barbican Theatre (RSC's home theatre from 1982 to 2002) and had a Royal Command Performance. As a member of the RSC (between 1976 and 1982, 1986–88 and 1994–96) Brown toured with their productions throughout Europe, playing Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Munich. He also appeared in the RSC's premiere production of ''The Wizard of Oz'' in the gender-bending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Ford (actor)
Luke Ford (born 26 March 1981) is a Canadian-Australian actor. His career began in television in 2000 and his first film role was in 2006 before being cast in '' The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' in 2008. Ford's regular television roles include those in the Australian series ''Underbelly'' in 2013, ''Cleverman'' in 2017, and ''Amazing Grace'' in 2021. Early life Ford was born on 26 March 1981 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada but raised in Sydney, Australia. He attended Parramatta Marist High School , motto_translation = Go Forth With Strength , location = 2 Darcy Road, Westmead, Greater Western Sydney, New South Wales , country = Australia , coordinates = , pushpin_map = Australia ... in Westmead, New South Wales, Westmead, Sydney, and once worked at the Winston Hills Hotel, and a short stint at Universal Magazines in North Ryde, New South Wales, North Ryde. Ford studied acting at The Actor's Pulse in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Booth (actress)
Emma Booth is an Australian model and actress from Perth, Western Australia. The former teen model and TV actress played a significant role in the 2007 film '' Clubland''. TV and film career After '' Clubland'' was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, many talent agencies solicited Booth for roles in upcoming films. Booth appeared in the 2009 horror film ''Blood Creek'', directed by Joel Schumacher. She worked on the unreleased 2007 production ''Hippie Hippie Shake'', an account of the Schoolkids OZ obscenity trials in the United Kingdom. Since 2009, Booth has appeared in '' Underbelly: The Golden Mile'' and had a supporting role in the 2013 ''Parker''. In 2017, she appeared in Ben Young's critically acclaimed debut ''Hounds of Love'' as the partner of a serial killer. In July 2017, Booth joined the hit ABC series ''Once Upon A Time'' in a recurring role for its rebooted season seven. She played the main antagonist, Mother Gothel, also known as Mother Nature, a powerful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Upfield
Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 – 12 February 1964) was an English-Australian writer, best known for his works of detective fiction featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte of the Queensland Police Force, a mixed-race Indigenous Australian. His books were the basis for a 1970s Australian television series entitled '' Boney'', as well as a 1990 telemovie and a 1992 spin-off TV series. Born in England, Upfield moved to Australia in 1911 and fought with the Australian military during the First World War. Following his war service, he travelled extensively throughout Australia, obtaining a knowledge of Australian Aboriginal culture that he would later use in his written works. In addition to writing detective fiction, Upfield was a member of the Australian Geological Society and was involved in numerous scientific expeditions. In ''The Sands of Windee'', a story about a "perfect murder", Upfield invented a method to destroy carefully all evidence of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Murchison Murders
The Murchison Murders were a series of three murders, committed by an itinerant stockman known as "Snowy" Rowles (born John Thomas Smith), near the rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia during the early 1930s. Rowles used the murder method that had been suggested by author Arthur Upfield in his then unpublished book ''The Sands of Windee'', in which he described a foolproof way to dispose of a body and thus commit the perfect murder. Rowles Rowles was born in 1905 in North Perth, Western Australia. His original name was John Thomas Smith. Prior to the murders, Rowles served three months in jail for theft. Upfield's search for a plot Upfield had already written three novels, but was working as a fence boundary rider on the rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia. He had decided to write another detective novel, but with a plot difference; there being no body for the detective to find. Unfortunately, he could not think of a way to dispose of a body. He mentioned this diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anni Finsterer
Anni Finsterer is an Australian actress. For her performance in ''3 Acts of Murder'' she won the 2009 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in Television Drama. Career Finsterer has had significant roles in ''Bigger Than Tina'' and '' To Have & to Hold''. Her lengthy stage career includes playing the title character in ''Sharon Lilly Screwdriver'' ( Stables Theatre, 1991), and producing and acting in ''East East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...'' (Bay Street Theatre, 1988). Filmography Film Television Theatre Personal life In the 1980s Finsterer was involved in two car accidents, having to undergo many operations including skin grafts, facial reconstruction, a hand replacement and an ear reconstruction from her rib car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Films Based On Actual Events
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Someth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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