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Ken Cameron
Ken Cameron (born 1946) is an Australian film and television director and writer. Cameron was born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia and graduated from Sydney University with BA in 1968. He has won two AFI Awards for directing. Filmography * ''The Strip'' (2008) TV * ''White Collar Blue'' (2002) TV * ''My Brother Jack'' (2001) (TV) * ''Halifax f.p: A Person of Interest'' (2000) TV * ''Secret Men's Business'' (1999) TV * '' Miracle at Midnight'' (1998) TV * ''Payback'' (1997) TV * ''Dalva'' (1996) TV * ''Bordertown'' (1995) TV mini-series * ''Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All'' (1994) TV * ''Joh's Jury'' (1993) TV * ''Brides of Christ'' (1991) TV mini-series * '' Police Crop: The Winchester Conspiracy'' (1990) TV * ''Bangkok Hilton'' (1989) TV mini-series * ''The Clean Machine'' (1988) TV * ''Stringer'' (1988) TV series * ''The Umbrella Woman ''The Umbrella Woman'' (released in some areas as ''The Good Wife'') is a 1987 film directed by Ken Cameron and starr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Bisley
Steve Bisley (born 26 December 1951) is an Australian writer, film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in the films ''Mad Max'' and ''The Great Gatsby''. On TV, some of his better-known roles include Detective Sergeant Jack Christey on '' Water Rats'' and Jim Knight on '' Doctor Doctor''. Early life Bisley was born at Lake Munmorah, New South Wales and grew up on a small farm called Stillways. The son of schoolteachers, he moved to Sydney just after his seventeenth birthday. After a few years of working in various jobs, he enrolled in the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), graduating with a degree in acting in 1977. Other actors in his class included Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Debra Lawrance and Sally McKenzie. Career While still training at NIDA, Bisley and his friend Mel Gibson made their film debuts in '' Summer City'' (1977). Towards the end of the course, they were approached by director George Miller and asked to audition for parts in ''Mad Max'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Mann
Tracy Mann (born 1957) is an Australians, Australian actress and voice artist. After appearing in a number of television series, she won an Australian Film Institute award in 1980 for movie ''Hard Knocks (1980 film), Hard Knocks'' . She has also won awards in her home country for her work in mini-series ''Sword of Honour (Australian TV), Sword of Honour'' and 2005 movie comedy ''Hating Alison Ashley (film), Hating Alison Ashley''. Early life Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1957, Mann got her first big break playing Tina Harris in 1970s soap opera ''The Box (Australian TV series), The Box''. She is possibly best remembered to audiences for playing a character who ended up behind bars, deaf biker's moll Georgie Baxter in ''Prisoner (TV series), Prisoner''. Mann played the lead role of guitarist / singer Carol Howard in the 1984 ABC Television (Australian TV network), ABC-TV series ''Sweet and Sour (1984 TV series), Sweet and Sour'', and also played the lead role in polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Ginger Meggs
''Ginger Meggs'', Australia's most popular and longest-running comic strip, was created in the early 1920s by Jimmy Bancks. The strip follows the escapades of a red-haired prepubescent mischief-maker who lives in an inner suburban working-class household. While employed at ''The Bulletin'', Bancks submitted cartoons to the ''Sydney Sunday Sun'', where he began his ''Us Fellers'' strip in 1921 in the "Sunbeams" section of the ''Sunday Sun''. Ginger first appeared in ''Us Fellers'' on 13 November 1921, drawn by Bancks. When Bancks died on 1 July 1952 from a heart attack, Ron Vivian took over the strip (1953–1973), followed by Lloyd Piper (1973–1982), James Kemsley (1983–2007), and Jason Chatfield since 2007. Publication history Bancks created, wrote, drew, and syndicated ''Ginger Meggs'' from 1921 until 1952, when he died unexpectedly of a heart attack. After Bancks's death, there was a year's worth of strips to run while another artist was found. Ron Vivian wrote and dre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Kelly
Edward Kelly (December 1854 – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police. Kelly was born in the then- British colony of Victoria as the third of eight children to Irish parents. His father, a transported convict, died shortly after serving a six-month prison sentence, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household. The Kellys were a poor selector family who saw themselves as downtrodden by the Squattocracy and as victims of persecution by the Victoria Police. While a teenager, Kelly was arrested for associating with bushranger Harry Power and served two prison terms for a variety of offences, the longest stretch being from 1871 to 1874 on a conviction of receiving a stolen horse. He later joined the " Greta Mob", a group of bush larrikins known for stock theft. A violent confro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 400 Blows
''The 400 Blows'' (french: Les Quatre Cents Coups) is a 1959 French coming-of-age drama film, and the directorial debut of François Truffaut. The film, shot in DyaliScope, stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, and Claire Maurier. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement. Written by Truffaut and Marcel Moussy, the film is about Antoine Doinel, a misunderstood adolescent in Paris who struggles with his parents and teachers due to his rebellious behavior. Filmed on location in Paris and Honfleur, it is the first in a series of five films in which Léaud plays the semi-autobiographical character. ''The 400 Blows'' received numerous awards and nominations, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director, the OCIC Award, and a Palme d'Or nomination in 1959, and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1960. The film had 4.1 million admissions in France, making i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Loach
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is a British film director and screenwriter. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (''Poor Cow'', 1967), homelessness ('' Cathy Come Home'', 1966), and labour rights ('' Riff-Raff'', 1991, and '' The Navigators'', 2001). Loach's film '' Kes'' (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'' (2006) and ''I, Daniel Blake'' (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only nine filmmakers to win the award twice. Early life Kenneth Charles Loach was born on 17 June 1936 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the son of Vivien (née Hamlin) and John Loach. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and at the age of 19 went to serve in the Royal Air Force. He read law at St Peter's College, Oxford< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkey Grip (film)
''Monkey Grip'' is a 1982 Australian drama film directed by Ken Cameron. It is based on the novel, also titled '' Monkey Grip'' (1977), by Helen Garner. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The film was produced by Patricia Lovell and stars Noni Hazelhurst and Colin Friels, and featured an original soundtrack by Australian rock band the Divinyls. Plot Nora, a single-mother in her thirties living in Melbourne is engaged in an on-again off-again relationship with the heroin addict Javo, who can never quite decide whether he wants his freedom, or romantic commitment. The further their relationship progresses, the harder they find it to let go. Cast * Noni Hazlehurst as Nora * Colin Friels as Javo * Alice Garner as Gracie * Harold Hopkins as Willie * Candy Raymond as Lillian * Michael Caton as Clive * Tim Burns as Martin * Christina Amphlett as Angela * Don Miller-Robinson as Gerald * Lisa Peers as Rita * Cathy Downes as Eve * Justin Rid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Truswell
Christopher Truswell (born 31 January 1966), is an English-born Australian actor, musician and voice-over best known as Gerald "Nudge" Noritas in the Australian TV sitcom '' Hey Dad..!'' He voiced the character of Rune Haako in the film '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' which was filmed in Sydney, Australia. Truswell got his first acting role at aged 17, in the Australian film ''Fast Talking'' playing the character Moose. Truswell also had a guest role in an episode of Australian hospital drama '' All Saints'' and ''Packed to the Rafters''. Truswell also appeared in the third installment of the TV series ''Underbelly''. Selected filmography *''Fast Talking'' (1984) - Moose *''Candy Regentag ''Candy Regentag'' is a 1989 Australian film directed by James Ricketson about a young woman who works in a brothel. The movie was fully funded by the Australian Film Commission The Australian Film Commission (AFC) was an Australian governm ...'' (1989) - Leo *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balmain High School
Balmain may refer to: Places * Balmain, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Electoral district of Balmain, an electoral division in New South Wales, Australia * Balmain East, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Balmain House and country estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland People with the surname * Allan Balmain, Distinguished Professor of Cancer Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) * Louis Balmain (1858–1904), New Zealand cricketer * Pierre Balmain (1914–1982), French fashion designer * William Balmain (1762–1803), Scottish-born surgeon at the first European settlement in Sydney Other * Balmain bug, a crustacean, slipper lobster * Balmain (fashion house), founded by Pierre Balmain * Balmain Colliery Balmain Colliery was a coal mine located in Birchgrove in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It produced coal from 1897 until 1931 and natural gas from 1937 to 1950.Peter Reynolds, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Doinel
Antoine Doinel () is a fictional character created by François Truffaut and portrayed by actor Jean-Pierre Léaud in five films directed by Truffaut. Doinel is to a great extent an alter ego for Truffaut; they share many of the same childhood experiences, look somewhat alike and are even mistaken for one another on the street. Although Truffaut did not initially plan for Doinel to be a recurring character, he eventually returned to the character in one short and three features after introducing him in his debut film ''The 400 Blows'' (1959). In all, Truffaut followed the fictional life of Antoine Doinel for over 20 years, depicting his romance with Christine (Claude Jade) in ''Stolen Kisses'', then Antoine and Christine's marriage in '' Bed and Board'' and their subsequent divorce in '' Love on the Run''. Recurring characters Doinel was played in all five movies by Jean-Pierre Léaud. Doinel's lover and later wife, Christine Darbon, was portrayed by Claude Jade in three films: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
