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Dusty (film)
''Dusty'' is a 1983 Australian film about the friendship between a drover (Bill Kerr) and his part-dingo dog, Dusty. Based on the popular novel by Frank Dalby Davison Frank Dalby Davison (23 June 1893 – 24 May 1970), also known as F. D. Davison and Freddie Davison, was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Whilst several of his works demonstrated his progressive political philosophy, he is be ..., it was shot on location in northern Victoria.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p73 Television series The film led to a mini series which cost $3 million.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 153 References External links * *''Dusty''at Oz Movies 1983 films Australian drama films Films about dogs 1980s English-language films 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Brealey
Gilbert John Brealey (9 April 1932 – 1 April 2018) was an Australian television and film director, producer and writer. Brealey was born in Melbourne, and studied at the University of Melbourne, where he made his first amateur films around the age of 20. He was a member of the Melbourne University film society and was a speaker at the Eisenstein Weekend organised by the WEA Film Study Group in October 1963. He began his directing career in television in the 1960s with the Australian Broadcasting Commission (later the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), where he worked for approximately eight years. His notable credits there include Australia's first science fiction TV series '' The Stranger'' (1964–65) and the 1965 TV miniseries adaptation of the George Johnston novel '' My Brother Jack''. He wrote and directed a satire ''Say Bow Wow''. He directed three films for the Intertel series on Japan, Israel, and Malta. He had a brief exchange visit with Universal Pictures in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Borg
Sonia Ingeborg Borg (20 February 1931 – 4 February 2016) was an Austrian-Australian writer and producer, one of the leading screenwriters of Australian films and TV in the 1960 and 70s. After extensive experience in theatre in Germany, India and South-East Asia she moved to Australia in 1961 and worked as a stage and television actress before becoming joining Crawford Productions in Melbourne. She wrote, produced and acted at Crawfords until the mid-1970s and worked on most of the company's dramas of the period in a range of roles. In the late 1970s she also became known for writing children's films, often about animals, such as '' Storm Boy ''and ''Blue Fin'' both based on books by Colin Thiele.Paul Davies, "Sonia Borg", ''Cinema Papers'', Oct–Nov 1978 p109-111, 162 In 1985 Borg was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for her services to the film and television industry. Select Writings *'' Homicide'' (1964–73; TV series) *''Division 4'' (1970–75; TV series) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Kerr
William Henry Kerr (10 June 1922 – 28 August 2014) was a British and Australian actor, comedian, and vaudevillian. Born in South Africa, he started his career as a child actor in Australia, before emigrating to Britain after the Second World War, where he developed a career as a performer in comedy, especially gaining notice in the radio version of ''Hancock's Half Hour''. In 1979 Kerr returned to Australia and developed a second career as a character actor. Biography Kerr was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 10 June 1922Obituary: Bill Kerr ''Daily Telegraph, 29 August 2014 to an Australian performing arts family, growing up in , |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Dalby Davison
Frank Dalby Davison (23 June 1893 – 24 May 1970), also known as F. D. Davison and Freddie Davison, was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Whilst several of his works demonstrated his progressive political philosophy, he is best known as "a writer of animal stories and a sensitive interpreter of Australian bush life in the tradition of Henry Lawson, Joseph Furphy and Vance Palmer."Wilde et al. (1994) p. 221 His most popular works were two novels, ''Man-shy'' and ''Dusty'', and his short stories. Life Davison was born in Hawthorn, Victoria, and christened as Frederick Douglas Davison. His father was Frederick Davison, a printer, publisher, editor, journalist and writer of fiction; and his mother was Amelia, née Watterson. He was their eldest child.Darby (1993) He went to Caulfield State School, but left when he was 12, and worked on his father's land at Kinglake in the mountain range north of Melbourne,Smith (1980) p. 172 before moving to the United States wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Misto
John Misto (born 13 October 1952) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. He graduated with an Arts/Law degree from the University of New South Wales, and then practised as a lawyer before changing his career to concentrate on working as a recognized theatre and television writer. Select credits *''A Country Practice'' (1981) *''Waterloo Station'' (1983) *'' The Young Doctors'' (1983) *'' Starting Out'' (1983) *'' Palace of Dreams'' (1985) -2 episodes *''Natural Causes'' (1985) *''Dancing Daze'' (1986) *'' The Last Frontier'' (1986) *''Dusty'' (1988) (TV series) *''Touch the Sun: Peter and Pompey'' (1988) (TV movie) *''The Dirtwater Dynasty'' (1988) *''The Fremantle Conspiracy'' (1988) *''G.P.'' (1989–91) – 3 episodes *''Butterfly Island'' (1993) (TV movie) *''The Damnation of Harvey McHugh'' (1994) – creator, 13 episodes *'' The Day of the Roses'' (1998) *''Finding Hope'' (2001) (TV movie) *'' Heroes' Mountain'' (2002) (TV movie) *'' MDA'' (2002) – 1 episode *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris McQuade
Kris McQuade (born 1952) is an Australian actress who has had many film, television and theatre roles. Career Her film credits include ''The Love Letters from Teralba Road'', '' Kostas'', '' Fighting Back'', '' Lonely Hearts'', ''Goodbye Paradise'', ''The Coca-Cola Kid'', '' Strictly Ballroom'', ''Billy's Holiday'', ''December Boys'' and ''Cargo''. McQuade's television credits include episodes of '' Fields of Flame'', '' Fields of Fire'', '' Scales of Justice'', ''Palace of Dreams'', '' Certain Women'', ''Skyways'', '' Punishment'', '' A Country Practice'', '' Home and Away'', ''The Flying Doctors'', ''Boys From The Bush'', ''Love Thy Neighbour in Australia'', '' The Last Resort'' (1988), '' Wildside'', ''Grass Roots'', ''Blue Heelers'', '' Stingers'', '' Supernova'', ''Wentworth'', '' The Kettering Incident'', and ''Rosehaven ''Rosehaven'' is an Australian television comedy series created and written by Celia Pacquola and Luke McGregor, who also star in the lead roles. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asher Keddie
Asher Keddie (born 31 July 1974) is an Australian actress. Beginning her career in the television series ''Five Mile Creek'' in the mid 1980s, Keddie received wide recognition for her role in the television series ''Offspring''. Her significant repertoire in television has led to her being dubbed as the 'Golden Girl of Australian Television'. Keddie also had a small role in the film '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'', as Dr. Carol Frost. Aside from television and film work, she has several theatre credits, including in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of ''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' as Madame de Tourvel. She won the Logie Award for Most Popular Actress five times in a row between 2011 and 2015. Keddie won the 2013 Gold Logie award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, for her role as Dr Nina Proudman in the Network Ten drama ''Offspring''. She had previously been nominated twice for the award. Keddie has a total of seven Logie Awards. Early life Keddie was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jarratt
John Jarratt is an Australian television film actor, producer and director and TV presenter who rose to fame through his work in the Australian New Wave. He has appeared in a number of film roles including '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975), '' Summer City'' (1977), ''The Odd Angry Shot'' (1979), '' We of the Never Never'' (1982), '' Next of Kin'' (1982), and ''Dark Age'' (1987). He portrayed the antagonist Mick Taylor in the '' Wolf Creek'' franchise. He voiced the protagonist's father, Jack Hunter, in an audio drama adaptation of ''The Phoenix Files''. He is also known for his recurring role in the drama series ''McLeod's Daughters''. Early life Jarratt was born in what was then a small coal-mining village, now the Wollongong suburb of Wongawilli, New South Wales on the 5th August 1951, where he would grow up, before the family later moved to the Snowy Mountains area. His father was a coal miner, and later a concreter working on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. Jar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Films
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Drama Films
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 ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...'', 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) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
