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Seeing Red (1992 Film)
''Seeing Red'' is a 1992 Australian film directed by Virginia Rouse and starring Zoe Carides, Anne-Louise Lambert, Peta Toppano, and David Wenham.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p138 Plot summary Cast * Tony Llewellyn-Jones as Duncan Banks * Anne-Louise Lambert as Amanda * Peta Toppano as Vivien * Zoe Carides as Red Sessions * Henri Szeps as Louie Leeds * George Spartels as Mark * Hugh Llewellyn-Jones as Hugh Banks * David Wenham as Frank No 2 * David Field as William * Anthony Brandon Wong as Nyguen (as Anthony Wong) * Jean Heard as Clarice * Peter Sumner Peter Malcolm Sumner-Potts (29 January 1942 – 22 November 2016), professionally known as Peter Sumner, was an Australian actor, director, and writer. He had a long career in theatre, television, and film. Career His credits include parts in su ... as Gorman References External links * * Australian television films 1992 films 1990s English-language films [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Llewellyn-Jones
Tony Llewellyn-Jones is a British-born Australian actor. He was nominated for the 1976 AFI Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in '' Picnic at Hanging Rock''. Born in London, England, Llewellyn-Jones lived in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Zimbabwe before moving to Australia in 1965. He is the son of Dr Derek Llewellyn-Jones and Elisabeth Kirkby. He has performed in films, such as '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'', on TV, such as a long running role on '' G.P.'', and on stage, working with Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare Bell Shakespeare is an Australian theatre company specialising in the works of William Shakespeare, his contemporaries and other classics. It is based in Sydney. The Bell Shakespeare vision is to create theatre that allows audiences of all wal .... References External links * Biographical cuttings on Tony Llewellyn-Jones, actor, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journalsat the Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Pulvers
Roger Pulvers (born 4 May 1944) is an Australian playwright, theatre director and translator. He has published more than 45 books in English and Japanese, from novels to essays, plays, poetry and translations. He has written prolifically for the stage and has seen his plays produced at major theatres in Japan, Australia and in the U.S. Pulvers has also directed widely in Australia and Japan, both in English and Japanese. He has written original scripts for radio documentaries and dramas that have been produced by ABC (Australia), as well as television scripts for NHK (Japan) and screenplays for feature films. Early years Pulvers was born into a Jewish-American family in Brooklyn, New York on 4 May 1944. Soon after birth, his family moved to Los Angeles, where he grew up, attending Burnside Ave. Elementary School, Louis Pasteur Junior High School (now LACES and Alexander Hamilton High School (1961), at which he was Student Body President. Pulvers took part in the Democra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Carides
Zoe Carides (born 19 February 1962) is an Australian actress of film and television, who is best known for her roles in '' Death in Brunswick'' as Sophie, ''G. P.'' as Dr. Sonia Kapek and ''Grass Roots'' as Liz Murray. Family Carides was born in London, UK. She has a daughter. Her sister is actress Gia Carides who also appeared in ''Police Rescue''. Her brother-in-law was actor Anthony LaPaglia. Acting roles Carides has made cameos in many successful Australian television shows, such as '' All Saints'', ''Acropolis Now'', ''White Collar Blue'', ''Crownies, Janet King, Rake'', and '' Top of the Lake: China Girl''. Carides appeared in the 1980s advertisement for the State Bank of Victoria where, as she sits in her bed with her partner, she turns and says "it's your money, Ralph". This saying became part of the Australian lexicon for many years with people quoting it when talking about any monetary issue. Carides' first major role was the 1991 film '' Death in Brunswick'' as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne-Louise Lambert
Anne-Louise Lambert (born 21 August 1955) (also credited as Anne Lambert) is an Australian actress whose acting career began with her role in '' Number 96'' in 1973. She is well known and quite popular since her role of Miranda in the Peter Weir's film "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975). Life and career Born Anne Louise Lambert in Brisbane, Australia she later moved to Sydney. Under the name Anne Lambert, she first gained recognition on Australian television with roles in three soap operas. In 1973, she played nymphomaniac Sue Marshall in '' Number 96''. The following year, she was an original cast member in a school-based drama, '' Class of '74'', playing student Peggy Richardson. Director Peter Weir saw her in a television commercial for Fanta playing the fancy Nancy character and felt she was perfect for the lead role in '' Picnic at Hanging Rock''. In 1976, she had a six-month role in adult soap opera '' The Box'' as the "sexy and promiscuous" Trish Freeman. During 1975, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peta Toppano
Peita Margaret Toppano (born 1951)GRO Birth Index EnglandLawson, Valerie. , ''Sydney Morning Herald'' (13 December 2003): "They fell in love and married in 1950 in a church at Golders Green, London. Their daughter, Peta, was born a year later." stage name Peta Toppano is an English-born Australian of stage and screen actress, singer and dancer, who is known for her series roles in ''The Young Doctors'', ''Prisoner,'' as Karen Travers, ''Home and Away'' as Helen Poulos, ''Heartbreak High'' and ''Return to Eden'' as Jilly Stewart. Toppano was married to her ''Prisoner'' co-star Barry Quin and subsequently to TV executive and business mogul Kerry Stokes. Early life Toppano was born in Finsbury Park, London, England and grew up in Cammeray, New South Wales. The daughter of musicians Enzo Toppano and Peggy Mortimer, she has two younger brothers: Lorenzo and Dean and is of Italian descent. At 16 she won a ballet scholarship to study in Cannes, Southern France. She returned to Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Brandon Wong
Anthony Brandon Wong (born 12 May 1965), often credited simply as Anthony Wong, is an Australian actor. His roles include Ghost in ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions''. Career His role of Ghost from ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions'' was greatly expanded in the video game ''Enter the Matrix'', in which he starred alongside Jada Pinkett Smith as the lead. Prior to landing his role as Ghost, he originally auditioned for Tank in the first film, but lost out to Marcus Chong. Wong's other roles include ''Jumping Ship'' as the leader of modern-day pirates, '' Little Fish'', two stints on ''Home and Away'', Mek – a scientist in '' Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord'', the 2004 film '' Flight of the Phoenix'' and as Tasuke Kogo in the 2008 six-part miniseries, '' Samurai Girl''. He played the role of Danny Law in the 2016 comedy TV series ''The Family Law ''The Family Law'' is an Australian comedy television program created by Benjamin L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wenham
David Wenham (born 21 September 1965) is an Australian actor who has appeared in film, television and theatre. He is known for his roles as Faramir in ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy, Friar Carl in ''Van Helsing'', Dilios in ''300'' and its sequel '' 300: Rise of an Empire'', Al Parker in ''Top of the Lake'', Lieutenant John Scarfield in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales'', and Hank Snow in ''Elvis''. He is known in his native Australia for his role as Diver Dan in ''SeaChange'' and Price Galese in ''Les Norton''. Early life Wenham was born on 21 September 1965 in Marrickville, New South Wales, the son of Kath and Bill Wenham. He has five older sisters; Helen, Anne, Carmel, Kathryn, and Maree; and one older brother, Peter. He was raised in the Roman Catholic faith and attended Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham, Sydney. Career Wenham started his career as an actor after graduating from Theatre Nepean at the University of Western Sydney with a B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Szeps
Henri Szeps OAM, (born 2 October 1943) alternatively Henry Szeps, is an Australian character actor of theatre and television. He has also featured in films and worked in voice roles, and has worked in productions in the United Kingdom. Early life Szeps was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to Polish parents. Due to the German invasion of Poland during World War II, his parents fled to France in 1938. His father left the family to join the French Resistance. In 1943, his mother and three-year-old sister made their way to a refugee camp in Lausanne, where Henri was born. At 1 months he was fostered to a Swiss couple in Blumenstein. His mother reclaimed him when he was three years old, and returned to the Swiss couple when he was 4. He was reclaimed by his mother to Paris, and due to her illness, at the age of six was placed at the Rothschild Orphanage. He came to Sydney, Australia at the age of eight in 1951 or 1952 with his mother and sister. Career Szeps studied acting at Ensem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Spartels
George Bernard Spartels (born 25 April 1954) is an Australian actor, presenter, director, playwright and children's musician of Greek descent on his father's ancestry, and English and Irish on his mother's. He remains best known for his role on the television soap opera ''Neighbours'', playing family patriarch Benito Alessi, along with Prisoner and Bellbird star and soap veteran Elspeth Ballantyne as his wife Cathy Alessi, two sons Felice Arena And Dan Falzon, the Alessi family of Italian descent were added to the series in mid-1992, as a new family, joining already cast cousins, the Blakeney sisters. Spartels was also a children's television presenter, having had a long tenure on ABC's '' Play School'', over 14 years between 1985 and 1999. Other roles include ''Cop Shop'' in 1978, ''Prisoner A prisoner (also known as an inmate or detainee) is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will. This can be by confinement, captivity, or forcible restraint. The term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Llewellyn-Jones
Hugh may refer to: *Hugh (given name) Noblemen and clergy French * Hugh the Great (died 956), Duke of the Franks * Hugh Magnus of France (1007–1025), co-King of France under his father, Robert II * Hugh, Duke of Alsace (died 895), modern-day France * Hugh of Austrasia (7th century), Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia * Hugh I, Count of Angoulême (1183–1249) * Hugh II, Count of Angoulême (1221–1250) * Hugh III, Count of Angoulême (13th century) * Hugh IV, Count of Angoulême (1259–1303) * Hugh, Bishop of Avranches (11th century), France * Hugh I, Count of Blois (died 1248) * Hugh II, Count of Blois (died 1307) * Hugh of Brienne (1240–1296), Count of the medieval French County of Brienne * Hugh, Duke of Burgundy (d. 952) * Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (1057–1093) * Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy (1084–1143) * Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (1142–1192) * Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (1213–1272) * Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (1294–1315) * Hugh Capet (939–996), King of France * Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Field (actor)
David Field (born 6 June 1961) is an Australian character actor and film director who has appeared in numerous film and television roles, including '' Chopper'', '' Two Hands'' and ''Gettin' Square''. In 2009, Field made his directorial debut with ''The Combination''. He is also known for his role in advertisements for Oak as part of the Hungry/Thirsty campaign and as the ex prison inmate uncle in the mini series '' A Moody Christmas''. Filmography Film (directing) *''The Combination'' (2009) *''Convict'' (2014) Film (acting) *'' Expired'' (a.k.a. ''Loveland'') (2022) as Sam *'' Mortal Kombat'' (2021) as Referee *''Moon Rock For Monday'' (2021) as Detective Lionell *''Dark Art'' (2020) (short film) as Simon *''The Translator'' (2020) as Chase *''The Wrong Barber'' (2020) (short film) as The Barber *''High Ground'' (2020) as Kurtz *'' The Combination: Redemption'' (2019) as White hero *''The Pretend One'' (2017) as Roger *''Monoliths'' (2017) (short film) as The Driver *''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Heard
Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jean Pierre Polnareff, a fictional character from ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' Places * Jean, Nevada, USA; a town * Jean, Oregon, USA Entertainment * Jean (dog), a female collie in silent films * "Jean" (song) (1969), by Rod McKuen, also recorded by Oliver * ''Jean Seberg'' (musical), a 1983 musical by Marvin Hamlisch Other uses * JEAN (programming language) * USS ''Jean'' (ID-1308), American cargo ship c. 1918 * Sternwheeler Jean, a 1938 paddleboat of the Willamette River See also *Jehan * * Gene (other) * Jeanne (other) * Jehanne (other) * Jeans (other) * John (other) John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |