''Image of Death'' is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a woman who likes to live off other people's money.
[Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p85]
It was produced by Robert Bruning's Gemini Productions. Director
Kevin Dobson
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recalled it as an attempt by Bruning and Grundys "to make mid-Atlantic films for the US market. It was pretty ill-fated."
Plot
A woman kills her friend and takes over her identity.
Cast
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* Morgan Cathey (born 1984), American soccer player
*Key Glock
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as Yvonne Arthur
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Penne Hackforth-Jones
Penne Hackforth-Jones (5 August 194917 May 2013) was an American-born Australian actress and biographer.
Early life
Penelope Beatrix Hackforth-Jones was born in August 1949 in Greenwich, Connecticut, to Paul and Susan Felicity (née Gullett) H ...
as Maureen
*Cheryl Waters as Barbara Shields
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Sheila Helpmann as Lidia
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Barry Creyton
Barry Creyton (born 1939, Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian actor and playwright. Creyton began his professional career in radio and revue in Melbourne, Australia and became well known in Sydney starring in and writing popular comedy-melod ...
as TV producer
*Barry Pierce as Mark
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Tony Bonner
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as Carl
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Queenie Ashton
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as Mrs Brooks
*Max Meldrum as Gallery owner.
Production
Cheryl Waters was an Australian actor living in LA when cast. Cathey Paine was American.
References
External links
''Image of Death''at Peter Malone website
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National Film and Sound Archive''Image of Death''at the
British Film Institute
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Australian television films
1978 television films
1978 films
Films directed by Kevin James Dobson
1970s English-language films
1970s Australian films
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