Arthur Dignam
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arthur Dignam (born 9 September 1939) is an Australian character actor, born on Lord Howe Island. He attended Newington College (1955–1956) as a boarder. He is possibly best known for one of his early roles, that of Brother Francine in Fred Schepisi's The Devil's Playground (1976). While he has worked mainly in film and television, he has also worked in theatre, including musical theatre. He played Pontius Pilate in the Australian production of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1972–73, and appears on the original Australian cast recording. His son is the actor Nicholas Gledhill. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Dignam, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia
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Birthday: September 09, 1939
Age: 85 years old
Gender: Male
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Moulin Rouge!
Overview: A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-18
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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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Strange Behavior
Overview: When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-16
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We of the Never Never
Overview: Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for a new life on her husband's isolated ranch, Jeannie's feisty, good-natured attitude soon wins over the misogynistic stockmen, but she faces a much tougher challenge in trying to change their racist attitudes towards the indigenous aboriginal population.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-04
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Summer of Secrets
Overview: A scientist on a secluded island uses revolutionary brain surgery to revive his dead wife.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-24
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Comrades
Overview: The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-23
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Jock Petersen
Overview: Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of his students after class. Petersen and the professor's wife talk about having a baby. But then she accepts an appointment to Oxford, provoking a rage in Petersen...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Burke & Wills
Overview: A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-30
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The Right Hand Man
Overview: A stagecoach driver goes to work for a dying, one-armed aristocrat in 1860s Australia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-02
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The Wild Duck
Overview: Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-05
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The Return of Captain Invincible
Overview: 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...
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-28
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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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The Dreaming
Overview: When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia's Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot, evading police and taken to a local hospital, where the doctor attending to her experiences strange visions relating to violent events from the past.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-13
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The Nostradamus Kid
Overview: When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-14
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The Everlasting Secret Family
Overview: A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-10
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Australia
Overview: Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-18
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Isabelle Eberhardt
Overview: The true story of explorer, journalist and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, originally from Switzerland. She moved to Annaba in Algeria in 1897 with her mother, who preferred to live in the Algerian neighborhoods rather than the European neighborhoods that she hated, and converted to Islam. Her lifestyle shocked the French colonialists: she dressed like a man, frequented cafes and smoke shops. Fascinated by the desert, she traveled the Sahara under the identity of Si Mahmoud, she published articles and books on the world she discovered in southern Algeria, strongly criticizing the colonial authorities. Arriving in El Oued, the soldiers prevent him from continuing his journey. She disobeys and overhears officers shooting Arab prisoners. Arrested, she was accused of espionage and was expelled from Algeria. She married Slimane, a Muslim non-commissioned officer in 1901. Having become French through this marriage, she could now reside in Algeria.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-11-21
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Libido
Overview: Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-06
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Paradise Road
Overview: A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-11
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Dating the Enemy
Overview: Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their first anniversary, under a full moon, a frustrated Tash declares her wish that they could swap lives. The next morning, Brett and Tash awaken to find Tash's wish has come true. Forced to confront the unfamiliar sensations of their "new" bodies, both must navigate strange new experiences with friends and co-workers.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-19
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The Hero
Overview: Australian ABC TV children's educational program shows how a TV show actor is cast and works to create an episode of a TV program.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-20
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King Solomon's Mines
Overview: Deep within a remote mountain somewhere in Africa lies the fold and endless riches of the legendary King Solomon. Many have tried to find the treasure - but none have succeeded! Now, Alan Quartermaine's determined to locate the bounty, but first he must battle the wilds of Africa and the ferocious Kukuwana trive - who are intent on keeping the treasure for themselves! It's an expedition in excitement and adventure that will have your whole family on the edge of their seats!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Shadow of the Cobra
Overview: Dramatisation of the story of notorious Indian serial killer Charles Sobhraj (b. 1944), who preyed on Western tourists throughout South East Asia during the 1970s.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-18
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Overview: The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-21
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The Duellists
Overview: In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-31
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Gods and Monsters
Overview: It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper, Hannah, hires a handsome young gardener, the flamboyant director and simple yard man develop an unlikely friendship, which will change them forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-12
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Grendel Grendel Grendel
Overview: This is an animated story covering the ancient legend of Beowulf, as narrated by Grendel himself, the "monster" in the legend. Aimed more at adults than children, this version holds some interesting twists on the traditional tale, and is based on a novel by American critic and academic John Gardner.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-01
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Warm Strangers
Overview: A man tries to reconnect with his father who works at a laundrette.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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