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Back Of Beyond
''Back of Beyond'' is a 1995 Australian film. According to Ozmovies: "The film was released in Sydney and Melbourne on 2nd November 1995, but quickly disappeared." It was released on VHS in Australia and laserdisc in the United States but is now very difficult to find. at Ozmovies. Retrieved 2019-12-21. Plot Reclusive mechanic, Tom McGregor operates a garage in the outback. Tom's quiet existence is disturbed by the arrival of a group of thugs, lead by the psychopathic Connor, when their car breaks down. The gang, who are on the run from the law are hoping to stash some stolen diamonds, but things go pear-shaped when Connor's girlfriend Charlie becomes attracted to Tom.Cast * |
Michael Robertson (filmmaker)
Michael Robertson is an Australian film director and producer. Select credits *'' The Reef: Stalked'' (2022) – Producer, Second Unit Director *''Great White'' (2021) – Producer *'' Black Water: Abyss'' (2020) – Producer *'' The Pack'' (2015) – Producer *''Inner Demon'' (2014) – Executive Producer *''Road Train'' (2010) – Producer *'' The Reef'' (2010) – Producer *'' Black Water'' (2007) – Producer *''Back of Beyond'' (1995) – Director *''Going Sane ''Going Sane'' is a 1987 Australian comedy starring John Waters John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his Cinema of Transgression, transgress ...'' (1985) – Director *'' The Best of Friends'' (1982) – Director External links *Prodigy Movies website – Michael Robertson's company Australian film producers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Film-producer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Mercurio
Paul Joseph Mercurio (born 31 March 1963) is an Australian actor, dancer, TV presenter and politician. Mercurio is best known for his lead role in '' Strictly Ballroom'' 1992 and his role as a judge on TV series '' Dancing with the Stars''. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2022, representing the electorate of Hastings. Early life Mercurio was born in Swan Hill, Victoria in March 1963, his father was character actor Gus Mercurio. Paul began ballet at nine. He later moved to Perth, Western Australia, where he attended John Curtin Senior High School, now known as John Curtin College of the Arts where there is a theatre named after him. He credits his theatre arts teacher for inspiring him to follow his dream. Mercurio focussed on acting during his high school years but after he graduated, he caught the Indian Pacific train from Perth back to Melbourne where he studied at the Australian Ballet School. By the age of 19 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dee Smart
Dierdre Claire Smart (born 9 July 1966) is an Australian actress, model, singer, dancer and painter. After giving up on being a dancer, she rose to prominence portraying Lucinda Croft in the popular soap opera ''Home and Away'' from 1991 to 1992. After leaving the show she appeared in a handful of television guest spots, plays and films, including the 1997 comedy ''Welcome to Woop Woop'', and was known for her appearances as Lady Luck on the variety programme '' The Footy Show'' before returning to regular television in the police procedural '' Water Rats'', where she portrayed Detective Senior Constable Alex St. Clare from 1999 to 2001. Her more recent roles include having appeared in the 2011 TV movie ''Panic at Rock Island'' and the television shows ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'' in 2013 and ''Winter'' in 2015. She is also known in Australia for being a permanent fixture in the country's tabloids and for her close friendship with billionaire businessman James Packer, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Friels
Colin Friels (born 25 September 1952) is a Scottish-born Australian actor of theatre, TV and film and presenter Early life Friels was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland.Interview with Colin Friels, ''George Negus Tonight'' (ABC Television), 26 August 2004. http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/profiles/Transcripts/s1186644.htm , retrieved May 2007. His mother was a mill worker and French polisher, and his father a carpenter. He lived in Kilbirnie until 1963, when his family moved to Australia, arriving in Darwin, Northern Territory before settling in the Melbourne suburb of Bentleigh. He worked as a bricklayer's labourer before studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), graduating in 1976 along with Linden Wilkinson and Michael Siberry. Acting career Friels career began with work mostly in theatre and television. In 1980 Friels was a presenter on the Australian version of '' Play School'', the series for young children. His first film role was in the unreleased ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebekah Elmaloglou
Rebekah Sophie Elmaloglou (born 23 January 1974) is an Australian actress, known for her roles as teenage tearaway Sophie Simpson on ''Home and Away'' and Terese Willis on ''Neighbours''. She also made guest appearances in ''E Street (television show), E Street'', ''A Country Practice'' and ''Pacific Drive''. Her film appearances include ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (1985), ''Touch the Sun (Australian TV series), Princess Kate'' (1988) and ''The Sum of Us (film), The Sum of Us'' (1994). Two of her brothers, Dominic and Sebastian Elmaloglou, have also appeared on ''Home and Away''. Life Elmaloglou was born at the Royal Women's Hospital, Paddington, New South Wales, Paddington, New South Wales, to a Greek people, Greek father, Gregory, who was principal cello in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and an English mother, Theresa, who was a kindergarten teacher. Her father was born in France. Elmaloglou left school at the age of 15 and trained at the Keane Kids studios in Sydney, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Polson
John Polson (born 6 September 1965) is an Australian actor, director and founder of Tropfest. As an actor, Polson's best known role is probably starring opposite Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson in '' The Sum of Us'' (1994). In February 2001, Polson attended the 12th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in Hokkaidō, Japan, where his film ''Siam Sunset'' won the Minami Toshiko Award. In 2005 he directed the film ''Hide and Seek'', which achieved number one box-office status in America. He also directed the feature film '' Tenderness'' starring Russell Crowe and Laura Dern Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967) is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and five Golden Globe Awards. Born to actor Bruce Dern and a ..., which was released in 2009. Polson is the creative founder of Tropfest, the world's largest short film festival. In 2007, Tropfest partnered with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Maza
Robert Lewis Maza (25 November 1939 – 14 May 2000), known as Bob Maza, was an Aboriginal Australian actor, playwright and activist. Early life and education Robert Lewis Maza was born on Palm Island in North Queensland on 25 November 1939, to a Murray Islander (Torres Strait Islander) father and to a Yidinjdji (Australian Aboriginal) mother.Bob Maza on the website of the Australia Council for the Arts He was one of the first Aboriginal children in northern Queensland to complete secondary schooling, and described feelings of alienation and being caught between two cultures as a teenager. After finishing school in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Serio
Terry Serio is an Australian actor, director, musician and singer-songwriter. He has played recurring roles in several television series, including ''Blue Heelers'', ''Halifax f.p.'' ''Ocean Girl'', '' All Saints'', '' Young Lions'', ''Home and Away'' and '' Janet King''. He played the lead in the film '' Running on Empty''. He won a Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his performance in ''Keating! ''Keating!'' is a sung-through musical which portrays the political career of former Australian Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister Paul Keating. Keating was Prime Minister between 1991 and 1996; the musical follows him from his ascen ...'' (accessed 16 August 2016) References |
Aaron Wilton
According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Greek (Septuagint): Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Knowledge of Aaron, along with his brother Moses, exclusively comes from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, Bible and the Quran. The Hebrew Bible relates that, unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the eastern border-land of Egypt ( Goshen). When Moses first confronted the Egyptian king about the enslavement of the Israelites, Aaron served as his brother's spokesman ("prophet") to the Pharaoh (). Part of the Law given to Moses at Sinai granted Aaron the priesthood for himself and his male descendants, and he became the first High Priest of the Israelites. Aaron died before the Israelites crossed the Jordan river. According to the Book of Numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Miller-Porter
Amy is a female given name, sometimes short for Amanda, Amelia, Amélie, or Amita. In French, the name is spelled ''"Aimée"''. People A–E * Amy Acker (born 1976), American actress * Amy Vera Ackman, also known as Mother Giovanni (1886–1966), Australian hospital administrator * Amy Adams (born 1974), American actress * Amy Alcott (born 1956) – American Hall of Fame golfer * Amy Archer-Gilligan, (1873–1962), American serial killer * Amy Beach (1867–1944), American composer and pianist * Amy Birnbaum (born 1975), American voice actress * Amy Bishop (born 1965), American professor and mass shooter * Amy Braverman, American statistician * Amy Brenneman (born 1964), American actress * Amy Bruckner (born 1991), American actress and singer * Amy Callaghan (born 1992), British politician * Amy Carmichael (1867–1951), British missionary to India * Amy Castle (born 1990), American actress and internet personality * Amy Cimorelli (born 1995), American singer * Amy Carter (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenda Linscott
Glenda Linscott (born 1958) is an Australian actress and director, born in Rhodesia of English descent, she is best known internationally for her performance in cult drama series ''Prisoner'' as tough bikie inmate and top dog Rita "The Beater" Connors and series ''Murder Call'' Career Glenda was born in Rhodesia, before briefly immigrating to England, and finally to Adelaide, Australia, as a child. A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Linscott's most notable role is Network Ten prison drama ''Prisoner'', for which she first appeared towards the end of the seventh season in 1985, while the character became immensely popular during the final season in 1986, despite the show's decline in ratings at that time. Prior to appearing on the show, Linscott gained much research on women prisoners and approached the New South Wales Department of Correctional Services and organised to spend some time inside one of their maximum security prisons. She also did extensiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
