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Ronald Falk
Ronald "Ron" William Thompson Falk (born 23 August 1935 – 27 June 2016) was an Australian actor and production designer. He was perhaps best known as the voice of the Coruscant Diner chef, Dexter Jettster in '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones''. His other works included roles in ''Jack Irish, Secret City'', ''The Damnation of Harvey McHugh'' and ''ITV Play of the Week''. Early life Falk was born on 23 August 1935 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. In his early years, he was educated at the Geelong Grammar School. Career Falk's acting career began in Melbourne at the Union and National theatre. He played alongside the late Monica Maughan and Barry Humphries in ''The Front Page'' and other classical theatre roles. He soon moved to England where he spent ten years to participate in other theatre productions. He later moved back to Australia where he continued his acting career well into his senior citizen years. Personal life Falk took a two-year break from acting to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episode II – Attack Of The Clones
An episode is a narrative unit within a larger dramatic work or documentary production, such as a series intended for radio, television or streaming consumption. The noun ''episode'' is derived from the Greek term ''epeisodion'' (), meaning the material contained between two songs or odes in a Greek tragedy. It is abbreviated as '' ep'' (''plural'' eps). An episode is also a narrative unit within a ''continuous'' larger dramatic work. It is frequently used to describe units of television or radio series that are broadcast separately in order to form one longer series. An episode is to a sequence as a chapter is to a book. Modern series episodes typically last 20 to 50 minutes in length. The noun ''episode'' can also refer to a part of a subject, such as an “episode of life” or an “episode of drama”. See also * List of most-watched television episodes This page lists the television broadcasts which had the most viewers within individual countries, as measured by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mourning Becomes Electra
''Mourning Becomes Electra'' is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before closing in March 1932, starring Lee Baker (Ezra), Earle Larimore (Orin), Alice Brady (Lavinia) and Alla Nazimova (Christine). In May 1932, it was unsuccessfully revived at the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatre) with Thurston Hall (Ezra), Walter Abel (Orin), Judith Anderson (Lavinia) and Florence Reed (Christine), and, in 1972, at the Circle in the Square Theatre, with Donald Davis (Ezra), Stephen McHattie (Orin), Pamela Payton-Wright (Lavinia), and Colleen Dewhurst (Christine). Characters and background Main characters * Brigadier General Ezra Mannon * Christine Mannon, ''his wife'' * Lavinia Mannon – ''their daughter'' * Orin Mannon – ''their son, First Lieutenant of Infantry'' * Captain Adam Brant – ''of the clipper "Flying Trades"'' * Captain Peter Niles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Births
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 miles. * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Saar (League of Nations), Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly (game), Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holding The Man (film)
''Holding the Man'' is a 2015 Australian romantic drama film adapted from Timothy Conigrave's 1995 memoir of the same name. It was directed by Neil Armfield and stars Ryan Corr and Craig Stott, with supporting performances from Guy Pearce, Anthony LaPaglia, Sarah Snook, Kerry Fox and Geoffrey Rush. The screenplay was written by Tommy Murphy who also adapted the memoir for the stage play. Plot In 1993, Timothy Conigrave ( Ryan Corr) is in Lipari, Italy, and he calls his childhood friend Pepe Trevor (Sarah Snook) in a panic, asking her where his deceased partner John Caleo (Craig Stott) was sitting at a dinner party they had when they were teenagers. The time expires before Pepe can tell him. Later, a concierge at the hotel Tim is staying at passes on a message from Pepe to Tim. In 1976, Tim and John are students at Xavier College in Melbourne, Australia. They have geography together. Tim falls in love with John, and invites him to the school play of ''Romeo and Juliet'', wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Hill (film)
''Red Hill'' is a 2010 Australian Neo-Western thriller film, thriller film written and directed by Patrick Hughes (director), Patrick Hughes in his directorial debut. The film stars Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley and Tom E. Lewis. Plot Shane Cooper (Ryan Kwanten), a young police officer, relocates to the small town of Red Hill with his pregnant wife Alice (Claire van der Boom). On his first day on the job, he is shown hostility from William "Old Bill" Jones (Steve Bisley), the head of the police force, for being unable to find his gun and getting shot on duty when he could not bring himself to fire his weapon on an armed boy. Shortly afterwards, the police learn that Jimmy Conway (Tom E. Lewis), a convicted murderer who was arrested by Old Bill for killing his wife, has escaped from prison. Knowing that Jimmy will return to town to seek revenge, Old Bill orders his officers and a group of civilians to arm themselves and shoot Jimmy on sight. Old Bill's men prove to be no match for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Angels (film)
''Evil Angels'' (released as ''A Cry in the Dark'' outside Australia and New Zealand) is a 1988 Australian drama film directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay by Schepisi and Robert Caswell is based on John Bryson (author), John Bryson's 1985 book of the same name. It chronicles the case of Death of Azaria Chamberlain, Azaria Chamberlain, a nine-week-old baby girl who disappeared from a campground near Ayers Rock in August 1980 and the struggle of her parents, Michael Chamberlain and Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, Lindy Chamberlain, to prove their innocence to a public convinced that they were complicit in her death. Meryl Streep and Sam Neill star as the Chamberlains. The film was released less than two months after the Chamberlains were exonerated by the Court of Appeal of the Northern Territory of Australia, Northern Territory Court of Appeals of all charges filed against them. The film received generally favourable reviews, with Streep's performance receiving high praise and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My First Wife
''My First Wife'' is a 1984 Australian drama film directed by Paul Cox. The film won several AFI Awards in 1984. Plot The film follows the dissolution of John and Helen's marriage and the aftermath. Cast * John Hargreaves as John *Wendy Hughes as Helen *Lucy Angwin as Lucy *David Cameron as Tom *Anna Maria Monticelli as Hilary *Betty Lucas as Helen's Mother *Lucy Uralov as John's Mother *Robin Lovejoy as John's father *Charles 'Bud' Tingwell as Helen's Father *Jon Finlayson as Bernard *Julia Blake as Kirstin Production The film was based on the breakdown of Cox's marriage. He started writing the script, showed it to Bob Ellis and the two men wrote the screenplay together. (Ellis says they spent a day and a half on it.) The film was shot mostly at a house in Williamstown in Melbourne.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p99-100 Music Choir: Members of the Tudor Choristers directed by David Carolane C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonely Hearts (1982 Film)
''Lonely Hearts'' is a 1982 Australian film directed by Paul Cox which won the 1982 AFI Award for Best Film and was nominated in four other categories. Plot Shortly after the death of his mother, middle-aged, Peter, realizes how lonely he is. Hoping to find adventure, he signs on with a dating agency in search of a companion. Soon, Peter is introduced to a shy bank clerk Patricia. Patricia is younger than Peter, but is also lonely, having endured smothering parents. Cast * Wendy Hughes as Patricia Curnow *Norman Kaye as Peter Thompson * Jon Finlayson as George * Julia Blake as Pamela * Jonathan Hardy as Bruce *Irene Inescort as Patricia's mother * Vic Gordon as Patricia's father *Ted Grove-Rogers as Peter's father Production Paul Cox wrote the first two drafts, then Phillip Adams proposed the movie be the first of four films made by the Adams-Packer company. John Clarke was brought in to co-write and John Murray became producer. Cox was paid $30,000 which he says was the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dangerous Summer
''A Dangerous Summer'' (aka ''Flash Fire'') is a 1982 Australian crime film drama film directed by Quentin Masters and starring Tom Skerritt, Ian Gilmour, Guy Doleman and James Mason. Production The film was inspired by the Sydney bush fires of the 1979-80 summer. John Seale shot footage of the fire which Brian Trenchard-Smith Brian Medwin Trenchard-Smith (born 1946) is an English-Australian filmmaker and author, known for his idiosyncratic and satirical low-budget genre films. His filmography covers action, science fiction, martial arts, dystopian fiction, comedy, ... turned into a 25-minute film, ''That Dangerous Summer''. It was then announced this material would be used by Trenchard Smith in a feature version of the story, to be called ''Bushfire''. In the end, Trenchard-Smith did not direct, and Quentin Masters did. Actor Ian Gilmour broke his leg during filming.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMilla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best Friends (1982 Film)
''Best Friends'' is a 1982 American romantic comedy film starring Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn. It is based on the true story of the relationship between its writers Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin. The film was directed by Norman Jewison. Plot Richard Babson and Paula McCullen are a couple of Hollywood screenwriters who have lived and worked together for a number of years. Richard would like to get married, but Paula does not feel the need. Having just written a film script for producer Larry Weissman, the couple decides to get married without letting anyone else know. Paula can tell it is important to Richard, so she reluctantly agrees. They are wed in a Los Angeles marriage bureau by a man named Jorge Medina in heavily accented English, making for a comical moment. For a honeymoon trip, they travel cross-country by train to inform their parents back East about what they have done. The first stop is Buffalo, New York, where they are met in a winter wonderland by Paula's pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Little Convict
''The Little Convict'' (also known as ''Toby and the Koala'') is a 1979 Australian live-action/animated drama film produced and directed by Yoram Gross, and written by John Palmer based on a story by Gross. It was a rare leading role for Rolf Harris, who acts as a narrator, frequently interrupting the story with narratives and songs. Plot An old artist (Rolf Harris) sets up some paintings at Luna Park, Sydney, planning to sell them, but has trouble attracting any people, so he starts telling his granddaughter about their origins. British convict ship the "Northern Star" sails towards a tiny colony on Sydney Cove with sixty-four convicts on board. Six of these convicts are a young boy named Toby Nelson; his older sister Polly; "Big George" Tomkins, a blacksmith; Jake "Dipper" Davey, a professional pickpocket who has become old and slow; William Watts, a "village idiot" nicknamed "Silly Billy"; and Jack Doolan, a highwayman. The Northern Star sails into the harbour, and the convi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
