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The Battlers (film)
''The Battlers'' is a 1994 Australian mini series about two drifters during the Great Depression, based on the novel of the same name by Kylie Tennant.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p176 Cast * Gary Sweet - Snow Grimshaw * Jacqueline McKenzie - Dancy Smith * Marcus Graham - Busker * Peter Stonham - Jimmy * Audine Leith - Dora Chester-Phipps * Richard Piper - Apostle * Amanda Cross - Millie * Anne Phelan - Ma Tyrell * Lois Ramsey References External links''The Battlers''at IMDb''The Battlers''at AustLit AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration betwee ... Seven Network original programming English-language television shows Television shows based on Australian novels 1990s Australian television miniseries 1994 Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylie Tennant
Kathleen Kylie Tennant AO (; 12 March 1912 – 28 February 1988) was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer, and historian. Early life and career Tennant was born in Manly, New South Wales; she was educated at Brighton College in Manly and Sydney University, though she left without graduating. She was a publicity officer for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, as well as working as a journalist, union organiser, reviewer (for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''), a publisher's literary adviser and editor, and a member of the Commonwealth Literary Fund advisory board. She married L. C. Rodd in 1933; they had two children (a daughter, Benison, in 1946 and a son, John Laurence, in 1951). Her work was known for its well-researched, realistic, yet positive portrayals of the lives of the underprivileged in Australia. In a video interview filmed in 1986, three years before her death, for the Australia Council's Archival Film Series, Tennant told ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Australian Television Series Debuts
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa's first president, and which effectively brought Apartheid to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada, the United States, and Mexico; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened Channel tunnel; The 1994 FIFA World Cup is held in the United States; Skulls from the Rwandan genocide, in which over half a million Tutsi people were massacred by Hutus., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1994 Winter Olympics rect 200 0 400 200 Northridge earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Sinking of the MS Estonia rect 0 200 300 400 Rwandan genocide rect 300 200 600 400 Nelson Mandela rect 0 400 200 600 1994 FIFA World C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990s Australian Television Miniseries
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandr .... At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 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 * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new Roman legion, legions, Legio I Parthica, I Parthica and Legio III Parthica, III Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Shows Based On Australian Novels
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English-language Television Shows
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Seven Network Original Programming
7 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 7 or seven may also refer to: * AD 7, the seventh year of the AD era * 7 BC, the seventh year before the AD era * The month of July Music Artists * Seven (Swiss singer) (born 1978), a Swiss recording artist * Seven (Korean singer) (born 1984), a South Korean recording artist * Se7en (American singer) (born 1986), the former stage name of Sevyn Streeter * Mick Thomson or #7, an American recording artist * Seven (band), a British AOR band * The Seven (band) a late 1960s rock band from Syracuse, New York * Seven (record producer) (born 1980), an American producer * S Club 7, a British pop band * SVN, a British pop band featuring Aimie Atkinson and Jarnéia Richard-Noel from the cast of ''SIX'' * Sevendust, a hard rock band from Atlanta, Georgia Albums * ''7'' (Apoptygma Berzerk album), 1996 * ''7'' (Beach House album), 2018 * ''7'' (Bushido album), 2007 * ''7'' (Con Funk Shun album), 1981 * ''7'' (David Guetta album), 2018 * ''7'' (David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, led by the University of Queensland (UQ), designed to comprehensively record the history of Australian literary and story-making cultures. AustLit is an encyclopaedia of Australian writers and writing. BlackWords is a landmark research project by and within AustLit that details the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. History AustLit was founded in 2000, when several independent databases on a variety of themes related to literary studies was created from work done by research groups at eight universities. The first dataset comprised about 300,000 fairly simple biographical and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Ramsey
Lois June Ramsey (; 18 June 1922 – 22 January 2016) also billed as Lois Ramsay, was an Australian actress, best known for her regular roles on television series '' The Box'' and ''Prisoner'' as two different characters. As a character actress of both drama and comic roles in numerous serials, she often played quirky, eccentric old ladies on television soap operas. Career The Box and Prisoner She was a major cast member of the 1970s soap opera ''The Box'' as tea lady Mrs. Hopkins, appearing for the entire run of the serial. She also had 2 prominent stints in ''Prisoner''—firstly as dotty social worker Agnes Forster in 1980 in 1985 as an elderly inmate Ettie Parslow, who thought that the Second World War was still going on. Television and film roles She had numerous roles in TV soap opera/serials including ''Crawford Productions'' serials ''Homicide'' , ''The Sullivans'', ''Cop Shop'', as well as ''A Country Practice'', '' E Street'', ''Home and Away'', and ''Blue Heelers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Yeldham
Peter Alan Yeldham (25 April 1927 – 20 September 2022) was an Australian screenwriter for motion pictures and television, playwright and novelist. Biography Peter Yeldham was born in Gladstone, near Smithtown, New South Wales, in 1927. Leaving Knox Grammar School at 16, Yeldham briefly became a jackaroo in Queensland. Then he returned to Sydney to join Radio 2GB, first as a messenger boy and then became junior scriptwriter. He wrote several scripts and a weekly column for the magazine ''The Listener In'' before being called up for the army at 18, going to Japan with the Occupation Force, where he served with the radio unit. After returning to civilian life he married and worked freelance, writing ''Famous Trials'', ''Medical File'', ''Night Beat'', ''The Golden Cobweb'', ''For The Defence'', and many other programs that he largely originated for Grace Gibson Productions. He also attempted to join the Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet journalist but was told they only accept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Phelan
Anne Mary Phelan (2 August 1948 – 27 October 2019) was an Australian actress of stage and screen who appeared in many theatre, television and film productions as well as radio and voice-over. Her television soap opera roles included '' Bellbird'' as Kate Ashwood, in ''Prisoner'' (1980–1985) as Myra Desmond and Monica Taylor in ''Something in the Air'' (2000–2002) as Monica Taylor, for which she won the 2000 AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama, having previously won the 1988 AFI Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries for ''Poor Man's Orange''. She received the Equity Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. She was also an activist for humanitarian causes. Early life Phelan was raised in Fitzroy, Victoria. She was reported as saying that she had no formal study or qualifications for acting or singing, but instead had trained through 15 years work in amateur theatre. Aged 16, she became pregnant and gave her daughter up for adoption, seeing her agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Graham
Marcus Graham (born 11 October 1963) is an Australian film, television (including both serials and mini-series) and stage actor and director, with roles including ''Mulholland Drive'' and '' Josh Jarman''. He was known as a teenage heartthrob in the early 1990s while starring in the Australian TV soap '' E Street'' as the character Stanley "Wheels" Kovac. He is also known for his role as Harvey Ryan in ''Home and Away'' Biography Marcus Graham was born in Perth, Western Australia as the son of English-Australian actor Ron Graham, whom was a character actor of numerous theatre and television roles. He graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1983, before making his professional debut in 1986. 2006 saw Graham win an Australian Film Institute award for a guest role on the Channel 7 drama ''Blue Heelers''. Other television credits include ''Good Guys, Bad Guys'', '' All Saints'', ''Shadows of the Heart'', ''The Secret Life of Us'', and most recently in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
