Briony Behets
Biography: Briony Behets (born 21 July 1951) is an English-Australian former actress who found fame acting in Australian television soap operas of the 1970s and 1980s. At age 17 she was accepted into the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, studying there for two years. After completing the course she travelled to the United States as part of a student exchange project, working there as a nightclub dancer. Behets subsequently enjoyed several high-profile television roles in Australia. She was an original cast member of soap opera Number 96 playing Helen Eastwood in 1972 but her character was written out of the serial after only a few months. She was subsequently a member of the original cast of another adult soap The Box starting in 1974 and her role in that series lasted 14 months. After leaving The Box she appeared for a short stint in Bellbird before taking an ongoing role in the school-based teen soap Class of '75. Film roles included the joint lead with Judy Morris in The Trespassers (1976) for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Award, Raw Deal (1977), Inside Looking Out (1977), Long Weekend (1978). In the 2000s she also guest starred in some US drama series such as JAG. She returned to Neighbours in July 2008, in another role as Kate Newton a romantic interest for Harold Bishop. She had also starred alongside Ian Smith in Neighbours 21 years earlier in 1987 when she played a different character. Her latest role saw her as a regular on The Saddle Club series three as the second actor to portray Mrs. Reg.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 21, 1951
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Allie & Me
1997-10-01
Allie & Me
Overview: Beverly Hills wife Michelle catches her husband in bed with her best friend Allie, who works at Michelle's favorite beauty salon. Shortly thereafter, Michelle and Allie embark on a life of crime, robbing the homes of the salon's wealthy patrons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Alvin Rides Again
1974-12-16
Alvin Rides Again
Overview: Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-16
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Long Weekend
1979-03-29
Long Weekend
Overview: When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-29
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The Heroes
1988-01-01
The Heroes
Overview: Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the north of Australia, a team of 14 men, most barely out of their teens, set sail from Cairns on board a leaky old fishing boat called 'The Krait'. Their mission, code-named Operation Jaywick, became a tense voyage through thousands of kilometres of Japanese held territory to launch a daring attack on Singapore Harbour. The raid is a success but within sight of safety they encounter a Japanese destroyer, and all prepare to die rather than be taken prisoner.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Trespassers
1976-08-18
The Trespassers
Overview: In 1970, political journalist Richard lives with Penny but is having an affair with actress Dee. The two woman meet and become friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-18
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Inside Looking Out
1977-11-24
Inside Looking Out
Overview: The marriage of Robert and Elizabeth is collapsing, both concentrating on their jobs (journalist, mother) rather than each other. The film looks at a week in their lives. Robert sleeps with their babysitter, Marianne, while Elizabeth talks with their friends, Juliet and Alex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-24
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Night of Fear
1973-03-16
Night of Fear
Overview: A young girl who has just spent an afternoon playing tennis and making love with a man, gets accidentally run off the road by a truck. Ending up on a dead-end dirt road, her car gets stuck in a ditch, where she starts getting terrorized by a drooling, gibbering psycho, who also has a colony of rats.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Nightmares
1980-10-30
Nightmares
Overview: A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-30
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Skin Deep
1983-01-01
Skin Deep
Overview: Drama and tensions rise as two determined partners in a successful Australian fashion empire will stop at nothing to achieve individual success.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Cassandra
1987-05-12
Cassandra
Overview: A young woman has eerie flashes of recovered memories of her brother committing a murder, despite her parents assurance that all is well.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-12
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Not Quite Hollywood
2008-08-28
Not Quite Hollywood
Overview: As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-28
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