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Run Rebecca, Run! (1981)
Character: Manuel Cortes
Simone Buchanan plays a young camera fanatic who is marooned on a desert island. Here she is threatened by a refugee from South America (Henri Szeps) who isn't keen on having his whereabouts known. Hostility melts into friendship before the rescue boats arrive.
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Vietnam (1987)
Character: Harold Holt
The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
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Do I Have to Kill My Child? (1976)
Character: Doctor
A disturbing drama about a young mother who physically abuses her baby. Feeling overwhelmed and aware that she's not coping after the birth of her third child, she sends desperate cries for help. But her mother, husband, neighbour and clinic sister do not recognise the seriousness of the situation until the baby ends up in hospital with a fractured skull. A heart-wrenching film that illustrates the experiences of many women who suffer from post-natal depression.
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The Girl From Moonooloo (1983)
Character: Bert
Set in the 1940s, the story of a post office clerk and part-time pianist (Jacki Weaver) who inadvertently becomes the star of a national radio serial. Featuring 12 Australian songs from that period.
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Warming Up (1985)
Character: Sergeant Peter Sullivan
When a group of macho footballers who haven't won a match in two years take on a private coach and start winning, the team have only one problem. They don't want anyone to know that their coach is the town's newly-arrived ballet teacher.
Juliet has come in search of a new life with her young son and finds the place less sympathetic than she had bargained for. This lively comedy takes the lid off Australia's macho image and discovers that it's not quite as tough as it likes to imagine.
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The Best of Friends (1982)
Character: Lilo
The Best of Friends is a 1982 Australian romantic comedy about two best friends who have an affair one night, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant.
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Mystery at Castle House (1982)
Character: Mr. Wilberforce
A trio of kids have many exciting adventures while exploring a spooky mansion in the hope of finding their missing friends.
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Platypus Cove (1986)
Character: Winston Bell
After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a deckhand.
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A Tale of Two Cities (1984)
Character: voice
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
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Edge of Power (1989)
Character: Steve Traynor
The worlds of journalism and politics collide in this story about an experienced journalist who desperately needs to scoop a big story in order to revamp his career. Deciding he'll take matters into his own hands, he frames a politician and arranges to be there when the story is leaked to the public. What he doesn't realize is that his own devious behavior is about to get him caught in the middle of a dangerous web of lies and murder.
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Seeing Red (1992)
Character: Louie Leeds
A mystery, a comedy with an undercurrant of terror, about the expose of scandal in big business transactions and how a three year-old boy and his father lost each other.
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You Can't See 'round Corners (1969)
Character: Peter
Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is a born loser from the Sydney suburb of Newtown, and a gambler and a bit of an SP bookie. When he's conscripted into the army to fight in the Vietnam war, he deserts, but in pursuit of money, he falls into debt with SP bookies at the local pub. This film, shot at Kapooka camp, contains one of the only depictions in Australian cinema of soldiers training for Vietnam.
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South Pacific (2001)
Character: Benoit
During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. The war is tearing them apart.
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Travelling North (1987)
Character: Saul
Travelling North tells the story of Frank, a crotchety old man with an unending zest and passion for life and Frances his much younger companion travelling to Queensland to enjoy their retirement and each other. Unfortunately the North cannot calm Frank's complex personality and Frances watches helplessly as Frank struggles to understand his own emotional and physical limitations.
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Fatty Finn (1980)
Character: Mr Zilch
The 10-year-old Hubert Finn, known as "Fatty", lived in poor conditions in Australia in the 1930s. He and his friends stick together as they often have to defend themselves against the villain Bomer and his gang. Fatty wants a detector radio, but can't afford it. He has to raise money for it within a week, otherwise he won't get the radio ...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear (1983)
Character: (voice)
Holmes & Watson receive a letter from an informant who known by the pseudonym Fred Porlock. Porlock is a man well connected with criminals. The letter is written in code, and Holmes determines that the code comes from the words in a book. They decipher the code by page and column and find that John Douglas of Birlstone House is in danger.
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Les Patterson Saves the World (1987)
Character: Charles Herpes
Fat middle aged 24/7 drunkard Les Patterson represents Australia at the UN where his fart literally incinerates an Arab ambassador. Patterson is reassigned to the Middle East so he can be tortured to death by the country he insulted. Patterson's arrival is the prefect distract of a coup and he is spared. At a bar Patterson meets a bio weapons scientist who's developed a horrific disease for the KGB whom plan to distribute it to the Pentagon via toilet seats. Patterson of course is far too drunk to understand anything happening and teams up with Dane Edna to save the world.
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Now and Forever (1983)
Character: Barry York
A couple's seemingly "perfect" marriage is shaken when the husband is charged with rape.
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The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
Character: Chief Security Officer
In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis and was hailed as a hero. But when he was accused of treason, he retired to Australia in disgrace. Cut to the present, when a US super secret super weapon is stolen and he's asked to come back to the States in order to help stop evil and restore his sterling reputation. Unfortunately, Captain Invincible is a drunk now...
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Bathing Franky (2012)
Character: Rodney
Haunted by his relationship with a fellow inmate, Steve struggles to reconnect with his girlfriend and the world around him. In an attempt to re-integrate with society Steve takes a Meals On Wheels job, only to befriend a seasoned clown who cares for his elderly mother that lives in an extravagant world of make-belief.
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The Plumber (1979)
Character: David Medavoy
A young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.
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