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Paradise (1975 Film)
''Paradise'' is a 1975 Australian TV movie produced by Robert Bruning and directed by Bill Hughes. Plot Faulkner, a private detective on the Gold Coast, investigates a murder. Cast * Michael Beecher as Faulkner * Tina Grenville * Eric Oldfield *Ingrid Mason *Alan Wilson *Sheila Helpmann *George Haywood *Donald Dale *Peter Dair *William Evans *Leo Wockner *Will Fehres *Frank Geary *Elaine Rees *Pete Windsor *Hazel Howson *Robert Bruning Production It was produced by Robert Bruning an actor who had produced several TV series. He wanted to move into TV movie production and succeeded in selling ''Paradise'' to Channel Nine, who were considering making it a 26-episode series. According to the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' the network hoped the film "to be a slick, glossy offering along the lines of '' Banacek''." It was shot in Surfers Paradise, with Bruning using several collaborators he had worked with on his TV shows such as director Bill Hughes. Bruning called the final movie "a ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bruning
Robert Bruning (27 May 1928 – 4 March 2008) was an Australian actor and film producer, who was the founder of film production firm Gemini Productions Biography Bruning was born as Robert Bell in Dongara, Western Australia in 1928. He worked as an amateur actor at the New Theatre in the Sydney suburb of Newtown in the 1940s and 1950s. Bruning also was a regular guest performer in ''Homicide'', ''Division 4'', ''The Sullivans'' and ''A Country Practice''. He also had substantial roles on Australian films such as 1970's ''Ned Kelly'' and his production credits, on sitcoms, variety, and drama add up to more than 200 hours of television. Of his production career, he is notable for his creation of Australia's first telemovie, '' Is There Anybody There?'', of which 21 more were made. Gemini Productions Bruning set up Gemini Productions in 1971; others in the company were Bill Huges (director), David Hannay (production manager), Michael Lawrence (director) and Alister Smart (dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce A
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a Scottish surname since medieval times; it is now a common given name. The variant ''Lebrix'' and ''Le Brix'' are French variations of the surname. Actors * Bruce Bennett (1906–2007), American actor and athlete * Bruce Boxleitner (born 1950), American actor * Bruce Campbell (born 1958), American actor, director, writer, producer and author * Bruce Davison (born 1946), American actor and director * Bruce Dern (born 1936), American actor * Bruce Gray (1936–2017), American-Canadian actor * Bruce Greenwood (born 1956), Canadian actor and musician * Bruce Herbelin-Earle (born 1998), English-French actor and model * Bruce Jones (born 1953), English actor * Bruce Kirby (1925–2021), American actor * Bruce Lee (1940–1973), martial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Oldfield
Eric Oldfield is an Australian actor, musician and former model, who remains best known for his role in the soap opera ''The Young Doctors'' as Dr. Ben Fielding. TV credits include: ''The Godfathers'', ''Airhawk'', ''Chopper Squad'', ''The Bluestone Boys'', ''Waterloo Station'', ''Possession'', ''Paradise Beach'', '' Water Rats'' and ''Murder Call ''Murder Call'' is an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and broadcast on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The series was inspired by the ''Tessa Vance'' novels by Jennifer Rowe, bot ...''.Albert Moran and Chris Keating Filmography References External links * Australian male television actors Living people 1948 births Fellows of the American Physical Society {{Australia-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Beecher (actor)
Michael Beecher (20 November 1939 – 4 March 1993) was an Australian-based model and actor. He was the son of Rear Admiral Otto Humphrey Becher and Valerie Chisholme Baird. Beecher had originally wanted to train and work as a diplomat. His highest-profile role was as debonair hospital superintendent Dr. Brian Denham in Australian soap opera ''The Young Doctors'', a role he played from the programme's inception in 1976 until leaving the series (shortly before its demise) in 1982. Prior to ''The Young Doctors ''The Young Doctors'' is an Australian early-evening soap opera originally broadcast on the Nine Network and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation, it aired from Monday, 8 November 1976 until Wednesday, 30 March 1983. The series is primar ...'' he had worked as a photographic model. Filmography Film Television References External links * 1939 births 1993 deaths Australian male television actors 20th-century Australian male actors {{Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Grenville
Tina Grenville is a New Zealand actor, model, presenter and writer. She attended Wellington Girls' College and moved into modelling becoming the 1964 Model of the Year. She also acted, in New Zealand and Australia. Her first husband went missing at sea when she was 20 years old. She was then married to Robert Bruning with whom she frequently collaborated. She returned to New Zealand where she hosted a show ''Good Morning'' and was a panellist on ''Beauty and the Beast''. Select Credits *''The Godfathers'' (1971–72) (TV series) *''The People Next Door'' (1973) (TV series) *''Is There Anybody There?'' (1976) (TV movie) *''The Restless Years'' (1977–78) (TV series) References External linksTina Grenvilleat New Zealand fashion museumTina Grenvilleat NZ on ScreenTina Grenvilleat 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 – inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banacek
''Banacek'' is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating '' NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie'' anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows, but was the only one of them to last beyond its first season. Premise Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a Polish-American freelance, Boston-based private investigator who solves seemingly impossible thefts. He collects from the insurance companies 10% of the insured value of the recovered property. One of Banacek's verbal signatures is the quotation of strangely worded yet curiously cogent "Polish proverbs" such as: * "An old Polish proverb says, 'A wolf that takes a peasant to supper probably won't need any breakfast.'" * "If you're not sure that it's potato borscht, there could be orphans working in the mines." * "When an owl comes to a mouse picnic, it's not there for the sack races." * "Though the hippopotamus has no sting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian Women's Weekly
''The Australian Women's Weekly'', sometimes known as simply ''The Weekly'', is an Australian monthly women's magazine published by Mercury Capital in Sydney. For many years it was the number one magazine in Australia before being outsold by the Australian edition of '' Better Homes and Gardens'' in 2014. , ''The Weekly'' has overtaken '' Better Homes and Gardens'' again, coming out on top as Australia's most read magazine. The magazine invested in the 2020 film '' I Am Woman'' about Helen Reddy, singer, feminist icon and activist. Editor-in-chief Nicole Byers told Film Ink "Helen’s story of adversity and triumph is nothing short of inspirational. ''The Weekly'' has been telling stories of iconic Australian women for more than 80 years and we're delighted to be supporting the film production". History and profile The magazine was started in 1933 by Frank Packer and Ted Theodore as a weekly publication. The first editor was George Warnecke and the initial dummy was laid out b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Is There Anybody There? (film)
''Is There Anybody There?'' is a 1976 Australian TV movie directed by Peter Maxwell and produced by Robert Bruning. It has been called the first colour tele movie made in Australia and its success led to Bruning being commissioned to make a series of TV movies, including ''The Newman Shame'' which also starred Lazenby. Synopsis A fragile woman, Kate, is released from a sanatorium run by a man called Redwood into the arms of her husband John. While she was away John has begun an affair with Kate's sister Marianne. The two sisters live together in an apartment block while John is away, and find themselves stalked by some mysterious strangers, Rosa and Duncan. Marianne believes that she is being confused with Kate - but it turns out the whole thing is a plot by Kate to revenge herself on Marianne and John. Marianne accidentally shoots John to death and then Kate shoots Marianne and escapes with John's money and her lover, Duncan - who has murdered Rosa. Cast *George Lazenby as Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film And Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day. The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra. History of the organisation The work of the Archive can be officially dated to the establishment of the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Television Films
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** Bangladesh revolutionary leader Siraj Sikder is killed by police while in custody. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , killing 12 people. * January 7 – OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%. * January 10–February 9 – The flight of '' Soyuz 17'' with the crew of Georgy Grechko and Aleksei Gubarev aboard the '' Salyut 4'' space station. * January 15 – Alvor Agreem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Films
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films North America The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: International The highest-grossing 1975 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1975. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1975. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Events *March 26: The film version of The Who's ''Tommy'' premieres in London. *May: In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, ''Star Wars'', George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic. *June 20: ''Jaws'' is released and becomes the highest-grossing movie of all-time and the highest-grossing movie of the year and the first movie to earn $100 million in US and Canadian theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s English-language Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
