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John Hargreaves (Australian Actor)
John William Hargreaves (28 November 1945 – 8 January 1996) was an Australian actor. He won three Australian Film Institute Awards and was nominated six times. Background Hargreaves was educated at Marist College Kogarah.Marist College Kogarah- Famous Ex-students (accessed:17-07-2007) He taught in , but moved to Sydney in the 1960s. He graduated from the in 1970. Hargreaves was mainly a film actor, but is also well-rememb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murwillumbah
Murwillumbah ( ) is a town in far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire, on the Tweed River. Sitting on the south eastern foothills of the McPherson Range in the Tweed Volcano valley, Murwillumbah is 848 km north-east of Sydney, 13 km south of the Queensland border and 132 km south of Brisbane. The town's name is often abbreviated to M'bah or Murbah. At the 2016 census, Murwillumbah had a population of 9,245. Many of the buildings are Art Deco in style and there are cafes, clothes shops and antique shops in the town. History The first people to live in the area were Kalibai people. The name Murwillumbah may derive from an Aboriginal compound meaning either "camping place" – from ''murrie'', meaning "aboriginal people", ''wolli'', "a camp", and ''bah'', "place" – or alternatively from ''murra'', "big", ''willum'', "possum", and ''bah''. Nearby Mount Warning and its attendant national park are known as Wollumbin, meaning "Cloud Catcher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They're A Weird Mob (film)
''They're a Weird Mob'' is a 1966 Australian film based on the 1957 novel of the same name by John O'Grady under the pen name "Nino Culotta", the name of the main character of the book. It was the penultimate collaboration of the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Plot Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia. He expected to work for his cousin as a sports writer for an Italian language magazine. However, on arrival in Sydney, Nino discovers that the cousin has abandoned the magazine, leaving a substantial debt to Kay Kelly. Nino declares that he will get a job and pay back the debt. Working as a labourer Nino becomes mates with his co-workers, despite some difficulties with Australian slang and culture of the 1960s. Nino endeavours to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians, and assimilate. A romantic attraction builds between Nino and Kay despite her frosty exterior and her conservativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deathcheaters
''Deathcheaters'' is a 1976 Australian action adventure film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring John Hargreaves and Grant Page. Plot Steve and Rodney are two ex-Vietnam commandos who do stunt work for television. They are hired by the government to raid the island stronghold of a Filipino racketeer and secure papers from his safe. The two men make the raid and escape using a hang-glider. Cast * John Hargreaves as Steve Hall *Grant Page as Rodney Cann *Margaret Trenchard-Smith (as Margaret Gerard) as Julia Hall *Noel Ferrier as Mr Culpepper *Judith Woodroffe as Gloria *Ralph Cotterill as uncivil servant *John Krumme as Anticore director *Drew Forsythe as battle director *Brian Trenchard-Smith as hit and run director *Michael Aitkens as police driver *Roger Ward as police sergeant *Wallas Eaton as police sergeant *Dale Aspin as lady car driver *Peter Collingwood as Mr Langham *Chris Haywood as butcher *Ann Semler as Lina *Max Aspin as bank robber *David Bracks as bank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluey (1976 TV Series)
''Bluey'' is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network in 1976. The series was another police drama from Crawford Productions, but was different from their previous series—''Homicide'', ''Division 4'' and ''Matlock Police''—in that it focused on a single detective rather than an ensemble, and that the characters were not stock standard archetypes usually seen in police dramas. Stand-up comedian Lucky Grills was cast as the titular Det. Sgt. "Bluey" Hills who, in contrast to the relatively straight detectives seen in Crawford's previous shows, was obese, drank heavily (even on duty), smoked heavily, visited local prostitutes, and would often enact physical violence to criminals. Overview ''Bluey'' was set at Melbourne's Russell Street Police Headquarters, with "Bluey" Hills heading his own squad ("Department B"), due to his inability to work within the existing police squads. Department B was given cases that the other departments c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Dog Morgan
''Mad Dog Morgan'' is a 1976 Australian bushranger film directed by Philippe Mora and starring Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson (actor), Jack Thompson and David Gulpilil. It is based upon the life of Dan Morgan (bushranger), Dan Morgan. Plot Dan Morgan witnesses the (fictitious) bloody massacre of Chinese on the goldfields and turns into a robber. He is arrested and sent to prison for six years where he is tormented and raped. He is let out on parole and becomes a bushranger, befriending an Aboriginal man, Billy. Morgan fights against the vicious Superintendent Cobham and is eventually killed. Cast *Dennis Hopper as Dan Morgan (bushranger), Dan Morgan *Jack Thompson (actor), Jack Thompson as Detective Manwaring *David Gulpilil as Billy *Frank Thring as Superintendent Cobham *Michael Pate as Superintendent Winch *Wallas Eaton as Macpherson *Bill Hunter (actor), Bill Hunter as Sergeant Smith *John Hargreaves (actor), John Hargreaves as Baylis *Martin Harris as Wendlan *Robin Ramsay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Without Glory
''Power Without Glory'' is a 1950 historical novel written by Australian author Frank Hardy, following the life and ambitions of John West, a politician born into a working-class family who rises to prominence in Australian federal politics. Following the novel's publication, Ellen Wren, the wife of bookmaker and businessman John Wren sued Hardy for libel, claiming that the characters of John West and his wife Nellie were modelled on the Wrens, and that Nellie's affair in the novel was libellous to Ellen Wren. Ultimately Hardy was cleared and publication allowed. Publication The work was originally self-published, with illustrations by Hardy's friend "Amb" Dyson, with the subtitle "a novel in three parts by Frank J. Hardy, Ross Franklyn". "Ross Franklyn" was the pseudonym Hardy had always used prior to ''Power Without Glory''. This combination of real name and pen name was also used in Hardy's 1961 book ''The Hard Way'' which describes the difficulties "Ross Franklyn" had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Too Far Away
''Sunday Too Far Away'' is a 1975 Australian drama film directed by Ken Hannam. It belongs to the Australian Film Renaissance or the "Australian New Wave", which occurred during that decade. The film is set on a sheep station in the Australian outback in 1955 and its action concentrates on the shearers' reactions to a threat to their bonuses and the arrival of non-union labour. Acclaimed for its understated realism of the work, camaraderie and general life of the shearer, Jack Thompson plays the knock-about Foley, a heavy drinking gun shearer (talented professional sheep shearer), and while he makes a play for the station owner's daughter Sheila (Lisa Peers), the film is a presentation of various aspects of Australian male culture and not a romance; the film's title itself is reputedly the lament of an Australian shearer's wife: "Friday night e'stoo tired; Saturday night too drunk; Sunday, too far away". ''Sunday Too Far Away'' won three 1975 Australian Film Institute awards: B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Rites (1975 Film)
''Last Rites'' is a 1975 Australian television play. It later aired in 1977 as an episode of '' Stuart Wagstaff's World Playhouse''. Premise Industrialist Eric Cordett, arranges a meeting with an Asian consortium at his country house miles out of Sydney. It is seven years since his wife, Viola, was kidnapped from the house, never to be seen again, and Cordett has not been there since. He now has control of his wife's assets. Ex-chief inspector Beecham, an investigator associated with the case, turns up.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p99 Cast * Michael Craig as Eric Cordett * Cornelia Frances as Elaine * Nigel Lovell Nigel Tasman Lovell (27 January 1916 – 13 December 2001) was an Australian stage, radio, film and television actor, and producer of opera and both stage and radio drama. History Lovell was born in Sydney, a son of Tasman Lovell, Professor of ... as Beecham * John Hargreaves as Bennett *John Derum as Dy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homicide (Australian TV Series)
''Homicide'' was an Australian television police procedural drama series made by production firm Crawford Productions for the Seven Network. It was the television successor to Crawfords' radio series ''D24''. The "Consummate ''Homicide'' cast" includes the four characters that are the best known: Det. Snr. Sgt. David "Mac" MacKay (Leonard Teale), Det. Sgt. Peter Barnes ( George Mallaby), Inspector Colin Fox (Alwyn Kurts) and Sen. Det. Jim Patterson (Norman Yemm). Synopsis The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victorian Police force and the various crimes and cases the detectives are called upon to investigate. Many episodes were based directly on real cases, although the characters (including the detectives) were fictional. 510 episodes were produced and aired from 20 October 1964 to January 1977 (12 years and 6 months), making it the longest-running Australian weekly primetime drama in history. With 510 episodes produced (the last episode is numbered 509, due to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essington (film)
''Essington'' is a 1974 TV film about a convict named Squires who arrives with a detachment of Royal Marines at Port Essington.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p52 According to the ''Canberra Times'' "it is both an historical narrative and an allegorical treatment of Australian history." Plot In the 1840s, the settlement of Port Essington is run by Governor Macarthur. The inhabitants include Macarthur's wife, Private Evans, and a convict, Bob Squires, who has good relations with the local aboriginal population. Private Evans falls for an aboriginal woman and goes missing from the settlement. Cast *Chris Haywood as Bob Squires *Jacqueline Kott *Sandra McGregor *Wyn Roberts * Michael Craig *Cornelia Frances *Melissa Jaffer * John Hargreaves *Ralph Cotterill *Hugh Keays-Byrne * Justine Saunders *Wendy Hughes * Steve Dodd Reception Thomas Keneally won Best Script at the 1976 Logie Awards. Chis Haywood won Best Performance by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And The Big Men Fly
''And the Big Men Fly'' is an Australia-based play by Alan Hopgood, written in 1963, and has been adapted to numerous media including a TV series and film. Its primary subject is the fictional Australian rules football team, the Crows. Plot summary The coach of the Crows football team, J.J Forbes, sends his assistant, Willy, out to find a new player for the big season championship which was to start in 2 weeks. J.J thought that they would never have a chance, as Wally couldn't seem to find anyone with some decent talent. J.J was getting very upset at Wally and told him on the phone to do anything to get someone, as he says, "I don't care if you have to rewrite the law books. That's what we put you through university for!" A little while later, Wally bursts into the room yelling and screaming. "J.J… I've got him! I've got him! Oh, you've never seen anything like him, he's beautiful, he's a Greek god." At this point, J.J starts to think that Wally has gone mad and needs to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spyforce
''Spyforce'' is an Australian television series that aired from 1971 to 1973 on Nine Network. The series was based upon the adventures of Australian Military Intelligence operatives in the South West Pacific during World War II. It was produced by Nine Network in conjunction with Paramount Pictures. The series centres on the action and adventures of lead actor Jack Thompson's character Erskine, and his main support character, Peter Sumner's Gunthar Haber. It was the first lead role for Jack Thompson. The two are part of an elite unit of special operatives, the Special Intelligence Unit, and their adventures are loosely based upon those of the real Services Reconnaissance Department who often operated behind Japanese-held lines during the war. Unlike most previous war films, ''Spyforce'' deliberately steered away from the notion that the United States was solely responsible for Japan's defeat, and highlights the important role Australian forces played in the defeat of the Imperi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
