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Ripkin
''Ripkin'' is a 1978 Australian television film directed by Frank Arnold and starring David Nettheim David Cosman Nettheim (10 July 1925 – 11 March 2008) was an Australian actor and stage writer, he acted on stage and film, but was best known for his roles in numerous television series. Early life Born in Sydney, New South Wales, and broug ..., Olivia Hamnett, Vince Martin, and Belinda Giblin. The screenplay concerns an industrial scientist and his wife, who suspect each other of infidelity.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p131 References External links * Australian television films 1978 films 1970s English-language films Films directed by Frank Arnold 1970s Australian films {{1970s-Australia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Arnold (director)
Frank Arnold (born 1938) is an Australian director of television series. Career He has been credited with: ;As director: *''Behind the Legend'' episodes for ABC, endorsed by historian Manning Clark. 1972 *'' Ben Hall'' episodes for ABC, BBC and 20th Century Fox. 1975 *''Butterfly Island'' episodes for Independent Productions Pty Ltd. Series One purchased by ABC; Series Two by Seven Network. 1985 children's series *'' The Castaways'' episodes for Castaway Productions and ABC. 1974 *'' Dynasty'' episodes for ABC 1970 *'' Five Mile Creek'' episodes for Valstar. Series One purchased by Seven network; all three series screened in America by Disney cable channel. 1984—1986 *''The Haunted School'' for ABC and Revcom (France), writer Helen Cresswell 1986 *''Menotti'' episodes for ABC, starring Peter Gwynne, Ivan Kants, Geoffrey Rush 1981 *''Over There'' episodes for ABC; concept by Colin Free 1972 *'' Patrol Boat'' episodes for ABC; two series: 1979, 1983 *''Runaway Island'' episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belinda Giblin
Sue Belinda Giblin (born 2 March 1950) professionally billed as Belinda Giblin, is an Australian actress. Prominent in theatre and television soap operas, and several feature films. Giblin's small screen roles include '' The Box'' as Kay Webster (1974-1975), ''The Sullivans'' (1977–1978) as Sister Sue Marriott, '' Sons and Daughters'' (1985-1987), as Alison Carr and her two stints in ''Home and Away'', firstly as Cynthia Ross in 1991, and then Martha Stewart, the long-presumed dead wife of Alf Stewart, a role she played on a recurring basis from 2018 to 2022. Biography Early life Giblin was born in Tamworth, New South Wales, to Phyllis and Ted, she has two older brothers Ted Jn. and Graham and a younger sister Allison. Her father Ted was a doctor at the Tamworth Base Hospital. Her mother ran the dramatic society, and acted and directed in productions but then died of breast cancer when she was 23, her dad died when he was 83. Giblin was offered a scholarship to the Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Hamnett
Olivia Jane Hamnett (1942/1943 – 2 November 2001) was an English actress known for numerous television roles in Australia, primarily in soap operas and miniseries. including '' The Sullivans'' as Meg Fulton in 1979, in ''Prisoner'' as Dr. Kate Peterson, who was a supporting cast member in 1981–82 and in '' Return to Eden'' 1983 & 1985 as Joanna Randall Biography Hamnett was born c. 1942/1943,Daily Mirror, 15 September 1964, p3. The article states that she is "21 years old", suggesting she was most likely born in 1943 but possibly late in 1942. in St Helens, Lancashire, England. She started her acting career in her native England in theatre, and moved into television roles in the early 1960s, she had numerous guest roles on television programs including '' Department S'' and ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'' in 1969. However she found greater success in Australia in television and film after emigrating there in the 1970s. Hammett initially had small roles in series su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Free
Colin Free (1 September 1925–26 May 1996) was an Australian writer best known for his work in TV. Biography Colin Free was born on 1 September 1925 in Sydney, Australia. He died on 26 May 1996 in Goulburn, Australia. He wrote for the theatre, notably Hamlet in shadow – Sydney in 1954. Free wrote scripts for the BBC and the ABC, as well as for radio. Assessment Leslie Rees called him: An author of remarkable facility and flexibility of mind" who in his stage plays "showed a rich gift for words in dramatic and lyrical contiguity, a derisive sense of characterization, a volatile and inventive calling-up of scene both past and present, and what Alexander Archdale described as “‘Pirandellian ingenuity”—all this without quite being able to draw his reins together and spin the horse past the winning-post, meanwhile murmuring in its ear something really striking. Similar qualities of flair, energy, but inadequate clearness of line marked some of Free’s ever-ranging, elus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Nettheim
David Cosman Nettheim (10 July 1925 – 11 March 2008) was an Australian actor and stage writer, he acted on stage and film, but was best known for his roles in numerous television series. Early life Born in Sydney, New South Wales, and brought up in Cremorne Point the eldest son of actor (Leslie) Roy Nettheim (who hosted a classical music programme on radio 2GB and its Macquarie Radio Network) and the actress Mary Hosking, he was introduced to the theatre when his parents joined Doris Fitton's Independent Theatre. Career He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and joined 2GB as an office boy in 1941. He took on occasional writing and announcing roles and was involved in production of John Dease's ''Quiz Kids''. He helped Sir Charles Mackerras (an old schoolfriend) prepare classical music programmes for radio. He adapted Xavier Herbert's ''Capricornia'' as a radio serial. He was involved with the Metropolitan Theatre, Mercury Theatre and Phillip Street Theatre, where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vince Martin (actor)
Vince Martin (born July, 3, 1955), is a Dutch-Australian actor, editor, director, jazz singer and musician. Born in the Netherlands, he was raised in Australia where he started his career. Early life Martin was born as Vincent Markesteijn in the Netherlands about 1955, and raised in Australia from the age of 7. Career Martin began as a film editor on police drama series '' Homicide''. His editing career had begun at the age of 16 at Crawford Productions. He quickly moved on to directing television series for the same company. Starting in the 1970s he became a regular face on Australian television, with both guest starring television series roles, and regular roles in several soap operas as well as films with Gerard Kennedy, Judy Morris, Nicole Kidman and Carmen Duncan amongst others. He played two different characters (who were neither related nor lookalikes), in teen soap '' Class of '74'', then completed stints in soaps ''Number 96'' (as David Palmer), ''The Restless Years'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Television 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'', 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] |
1978 Films
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1978 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows: Events * February 6 – David Begelman resigns as president of Columbia Pictures. * March 1 – Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery three months after burial. After recovery a few weeks later, the casket is sealed in a concrete vault prior to reburial. * March – Leigh Brackett completes the first draft for ''The Empire Strikes Back'', but dies only two weeks later. * June – Daniel Melnick becomes head of Columbia Pictures after the David Begelman scandal. * June 4 – '' Grease'', starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, has its world premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. It becomes the highest-grossing musical ever and Paramount Pictures' highest-grossing film. * July 20 – Alan Hirschfield is fired as president and CEO of Columbia Pictures. ... [...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] |
Films Directed By Frank Arnold
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
