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Martin Lewis (Australian Actor)
Martin Lewis (born 1970) has appeared in various films and shows including ''Danny Deckchair'', ''Fatty Finn'' and the series ''Five Mile Creek''. In 1985 he won a Young Artist Award - 'Best Young Actor in a Foreign Film' for his role in ''Five Mile Creek''. Lewis traveled and danced with the Australian Ballet Company after he quit acting. Lewis was also a presenter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation children's ecological program ''Earthwatch''. Filmography * 1980 ''Fatty Finn'' - Skeet * 1981–82 ''A Country Practice'' - Luke/Peter * 1983–85 ''Five Mile Creek'' - Sam Sawyer * 1986 ''Platypus Cove'' - Peter Nelson * 1988 ''Two Brothers Running'' - Silas Bornstein * 2003 ''Danny Deckchair ''Danny Deckchair'' is a 2003 Australian comedy film written and directed by Jeff Balsmeyer. The majority of Danny Deckchair was shot in Bellingen, New South Wales, Bellingen, a town on the Mid North Coast in New South Wales. It was inspired b ...'' - Macadamia Ball Man External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Deckchair
''Danny Deckchair'' is a 2003 Australian comedy film written and directed by Jeff Balsmeyer. The majority of Danny Deckchair was shot in Bellingen, New South Wales, Bellingen, a town on the Mid North Coast in New South Wales. It was inspired by the story of the Lawnchair Larry flight. Plot Danny Morgan (Ifans) works as a concrete maker driver and construction worker who lives in Sydney with his girlfriend but is unhappy with his life. Danny yearns for the simple life while girlfriend Trudy (Clarke) fantasizes about bright lights and fast times. While Danny plans for their annual camping trip, Trudy tells him she has to work, so the trip is off. In reality, Trudy is using her work connections at a local real estate agency to set up a meeting with a handsome local sports reporter, Sandy Upman (Muldoon). Danny sees them together while he is shopping for a weekend barbecue, leaving him even more disenchanted with their relationship. During the barbecue in his backyard, Danny, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatty Finn (film)
''Fatty Finn'' is a 1980 Australian film, directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Ben Oxenbould with Rebecca Rigg. It is based on the 1930s cartoon-strip character, ''Fatty Finn'', created by Syd Nicholls and is loosely based on the 1927 silent film, ''The Kid Stakes''. Plot Set in inner-city Woolloomooloo in Sydney, New South Wales in 1930, the neighbourhood nice guys are led by Fatty (real name Hubert Finn), an ambitious 10-year-old with an eye for making a quid. From shady frog jumping contests to a fixed goat race, Fatty uses his enterprise to raise enough money to buy a crystal set (radio without a separate power supply) that's worth seventeen shillings & sixpence (17/6), more than his Dad is able to save up in a year. Bruiser Murphy the bully and his gang try to stop him. Fatty uses his brains against his enemies' brawn to eventually triumph. Cast * Ben Oxenbould as Hubert 'Fatty' Finn * Rebecca Rigg as Tilly * Jeremy Larsson as Headlights * Martin Lewis as Skeet * Hug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Mile Creek
''Five Mile Creek'' is a western television drama series adapted from Louis L'Amour's novel ''The Cherokee Trail'' and produced in Australia. It starred Liz Burch, Louise Caire Clark, Rod Mullinar, Jay Kerr, Michael Caton, Peter Carroll, Gus Mercurio, Martin Lewis, Priscilla Weems and Nicole Kidman. It also featured a then-unknown Asher Keddie in her film debut. Jonathan Frakes was a guest star as Maggie's estranged husband, Adam Scott. The series aired on the Disney Channel in the US in the 1980s. Main cast * Louise Caire Clark ... Maggie Scott *Liz Burch ... Kate Wallace *Jay Kerr ... Con Madigan *Rod Mullinar ... Jack Taylor *Michael Caton ... Paddy Malone *Gus Mercurio ... Ben Jones *Priscilla Weems ... Hannah Scott * Martin Lewis ... Sam Sawyer *Nicole Kidman ... Annie * Peter Carroll ... Charles Withers * Scott McGregor ... Edward Armstrong Production The first two seasons cost $12 million to make. The show was popular on the Disney Channel in the US but stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Artist Award
The Young Artist Award (originally known as the Youth in Film Award) is an accolade presented by the Young Artist Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1978 to honor excellence of youth performers, and to provide scholarships for young artists who may be physically disabled or financially unstable. First presented in 1979, the Young Artist Awards was the first organization established to specifically recognize and award the contributions of performers under the age of 18 in the fields of film, television, theater, and music. The 1st Youth In Film Awards ceremony was held in October 1979, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Hollywood to honor outstanding young performers of the 1978/ 1979 season. Young Artist Association The Young Artist Association (originally known as the Hollywood Women's Photo and Press Club, and later, the Youth in Film Association) is a non-profit organization founded in 1978 to recognize and award excellence of youth performers, and to provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Ballet Company
The Australian Ballet is the largest classical ballet company in Australia. It was founded by J. C. Williamson Theatres Ltd and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1962, with the English-born dancer, teacher, repetiteur and director Dame Peggy van Praagh as founding artistic director. Today, it is recognised as one of the world's major international ballet companies. History The roots of the Australian Ballet can be found in the Borovansky Ballet, a company founded in 1940 by the Czech dancer Edouard Borovansky. Borovansky had been a dancer in the touring ballet company of the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and, after visiting Australia on tour with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet, he decided to remain in Australia, establishing a ballet school in Melbourne in 1939, out of which he developed a performance group which became the Borovansky Ballet. The company was supported and funded by J. C. Williamson Theatres Ltd from 1944. Following Borovansky's death i ... [...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] |
A Country Practice
''A Country Practice'' is an Australian television soap opera which broadcast on the Seven Network from 18 November 1981 until 5 November 1993, airing at 7:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Altogether, 14 seasons and 1,058 episodes were produced. The show was produced at the ATN-7's production facility at Epping, New South Wales, Pitt Town and Oakville, suburbs on the outskirts of northwest Sydney, Australia, where used for most of the exterior filming, with the historic heritage-listed Clare House, built in 1838, serving as the location of the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital. Many other fictional locations, including Dr. Terence Elliot's (Shane Porteous) medical practice, Frank and Shirley Gilroy's house Brian Wenzel and Lorrae Desmond, the Wandin Valley Church and Burrigan High School where filmed in the Hawkesbury. Several of the regular cast members became popular celebrities as a result of their roles in the series. It also featured a number of native Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platypus Cove
''Platypus Cove'' is a 1983 Australian television film about a tugboat.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p121 Cast *Tony Barry as Frank Nelson * Carmen Duncan as Margaret Davis *Simone Buchanan as Jenny Nelson * Paul Smith as Jim Mason * Martin Lewis as Peter Nelson *Aileen Britton as Grandma Mason *Henri Szeps as Winston Bell *Mark Hembrow as Paddy O'Neil *Dennis Miller as Sergeant Don Bailey *Bill Kerr as Mr. Anderson * Brian Anderson as Shop Manager * Allen Bickford Allen Bickford is an Australian actor of film and TV. He has appeared in classic Australian TV series such as ''Matlock Police'' and ''Homicide (Australian TV series), Homicide'' as well as the British series ''Man at the Top (TV series), Man at th ... as Ted Finch * Robin Bowering as Dr. Rinaldi * Robert Carne as Boxing Second * John Chedid as Michael Peters * Tim Grogan as Boxing Second * John Ley as Leo Baldwin * Patrick Mansfield as Boat Seller References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Brothers Running
''Two Brothers Running'' is a 1988 Australian comedy film directed by Ted Robinson and starring Tom Conti, Elizabeth Alexander, Ritchie Singer, and Asher Keddie.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p318 The film never obtained a cinema release.Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p156 References External links''Two Brothers Running''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, ...Two Brothers Runningat Oz Movies Australian comedy films Films directed by Ted Robinson (TV director) 1980s English-language films 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Male Film Actors
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Australian Male Television Actors
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) Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia may also refer to: Places * Name of Australia relates the history of the term, as applied to various places. Oceania *Australia (continent), or Sahul, the landmasses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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