Sheila Florance
Also Known As: Sheila Florence
Biography: Sheila Florance (1916-1991) was an Australian actress, known for her role of Lizzie Birdsworth in TV series' Prisoner (1979-1984), Mad Max (1979) and A Woman's Tale (1991). Died of cancer in Melbourne, Australia at age 75, 9 days after winning Australian Film Institute's Best Actress award for A Woman's Tale (1991), a film where she played a woman dying of cancer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Kilda East, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Birthday: July 24, 1916
Deathday: October 12, 1991
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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A Woman's Tale
Overview: Uplifting and intimate look at the last days of an elderly cancer victim. The film is even more relevant as it was written specifically for the lead actress, Sheila Florance, who was in fact dying of cancer as she created what is essentially a self-portrait.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-26
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The Tale of Ruby Rose
Overview: The year is 1933. Ruby Rose (Melita Jurisic) is an Australian woman living with her Welsh immigrant husband Henry (Chris Haywood) in the Tasmanian highlands. Cut off from her superjudgmental family, for whom Henry had once worked as a humble farm hand, Ruby remains isolated in her tiny house. Superstitiously terrified of the dark, she begins developing her own folklore about the inky blackness that surrounds her each night; this folklore eventually develops into Ruby's own personal religion, created to ward off the evils that she imagines lurk in every corner. Only by venturing out of her house and rekindling her relationship with her embittered father is Ruby able to exorcise her fears. Almost hypnotic in its stark beauty, Tale of Ruby Rose is proof enough that writer/director Roger Scholes deserves to be far better known.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-25
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Illuminations
Overview: A couple living together have a tense relationship. The woman's father dies and she becomes preoccupied with death. She almost drowns in the bath but then recovers her enthusiasm for life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-07
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End Play
Overview: And just when you believe there is nothing more to fear, you will begin to experience the ultimate terror of the END PLAY.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Clay
Overview: A killer on the run is found lying flat on his face in a wet clay bank. He is rescued by potters who shelter him within their community. There he falls in love with a woman. Unfortunately, another man who has been calling upon the woman gets jealous and turns the fugitive in to the cops. The woman gets revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-08
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Nirvana Street Murder
Overview: Two brothers become conflicted after one goes on the run and the other has an affair with a Greek woman and takes care of an old rich lady who could be their way out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-18
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Mad Max
Overview: In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-12
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Summerfield
Overview: When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeared without a trace - and that nobody seems too concerned about it. As Simon probes deeper into the disappearance, the inhabitants of a forbidding estate called "Summerfield" take on more and more significance.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-30
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The Devil's Playground
Overview: A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-12
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