Graeme Blundell
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Graeme Blundell (born 1945) is an Australian actor, director, producer, writer and biographer. Blundell was born in Melbourne; he grew up in Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne. He was educated at University High School and the University of Melbourne. In his early years, Blundell worked at La Mama Theatre, the Pram Factory, Hoopla, the Playbox Theatre Company, and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He directed and acted in the premiere performance of Jack Hibberd's play Dimboola at La Mama. His first television appearance was as an uncredited extra in the debut episode of Homicide (1964). He is best known as playing the title character in the 70's sex-comedy film Alvin Purple. He has written extensively in The Australian newspaper as well as writing biographies of Brett Whiteley (Brett Whiteley: An Unauthorised Life, 1996, with his then wife Margot Hilton), and Graham Kennedy (King, 2003). Description above from the Wikipedia article Graeme Blundell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: July 08, 1945
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Idiot Box
1997-03-06
Idiot Box
Overview: Mick and Kev – bored, unemployed and aimless in the western suburbs of Sydney – decide to rob a bank, more or less for the fun of it.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-06
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Alvin Purple
1973-12-20
Alvin Purple
Overview: Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-20
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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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Don's Party
1976-11-10
Don's Party
Overview: On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath. The Hendersons and their nine guests drink, joke, make love, and fight, all while coming to terms with their individual struggles in life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-10
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The Year My Voice Broke
1987-10-15
The Year My Voice Broke
Overview: Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-15
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Stork
1971-12-27
Stork
Overview: Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-27
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Pacific Banana
1981-02-04
Pacific Banana
Overview: The story of a pair of Australian pilots working for a small South Pacific airline. Paul, a wildly successful womanizer, leaving conquests at every port and Martin, sad and lonely in his search for a true love. Together, they... well, they don't do much of anything besides chase girls on various Polynesian islands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-04
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The Naked Bunyip
1970-02-02
The Naked Bunyip
Overview: A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transvestites, prostitution, and strip clubs along with every other variant on the "norm". While doing his interviews he meets celebrities, self proclaimed sex experts, prostitutes, female impersonators, pop stars, actors, and legislators as well as self appointed morals guardians.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-02
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Weekend of Shadows
1978-06-28
Weekend of Shadows
Overview: In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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In Her Skin
2009-03-13
In Her Skin
Overview: Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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Those Dear Departed
1987-08-13
Those Dear Departed
Overview: A disturbed woman murders her husband, and others, so that she can be haunted by their "wronged" spirits.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-13
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Brake Fluid
1971-01-01
Brake Fluid
Overview: This self-funded verité comedy starring John Duigan is something of a swan song for the “Carlton ripple” and reflects the movement’s characteristic vacillation between intensely local and distantly international influences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005-05-17
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Overview: The evil Darth Sidious enacts his final plan for unlimited power -- and the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-17
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Australian Dream
1987-01-02
Australian Dream
Overview: Dorothy is living out the Australian dream and has fantasies to escape the boredom. She rebels against her expected role and gets involved with selling sex aids to housewives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-02
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The Odd Angry Shot
1979-03-01
The Odd Angry Shot
Overview: A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
Genres: War Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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The Best of Friends
1982-10-09
The Best of Friends
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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Mad Dog Morgan
1976-07-09
Mad Dog Morgan
Overview: The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-09
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Melvin, Son of Alvin
1984-12-20
Melvin, Son of Alvin
Overview: A shy young man is irresistible to women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-20
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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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Vietnam
1987-02-23
Vietnam
Overview: The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-23
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Midnite Spares
1983-02-17
Midnite Spares
Overview: After discovering that a group of car thieves may have something to do with his father's untimely death, Steve pursues the criminals and attempts to capture them as well as prove his prowess as a racecar driver.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-17
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Doctors & Nurses
1981-12-26
Doctors & Nurses
Overview: Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-26
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The Distant Home
1992-06-06
The Distant Home
Overview: Government authorities incarcerate a girl whose extraterrestrial origin is discovered after an accident with a car.
Genres: Family Fantasy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-06
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Joh's Jury
1993-02-16
Joh's Jury
Overview: Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-16
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The Love of Lionel's Life
2000-07-09
The Love of Lionel's Life
Overview: Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Keeping it a secret, particularly from his mates, Lionel strikes up a video relationship with Lena.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-09
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Watt's Last Voyage
1965-01-01
Watt's Last Voyage
Overview: A tale told with humour and pathos; a yarn spun between decks about an old salt whose bitter experiences one friendless dawn persuade him to abandon wayfaring for wading.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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