John Clayton
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Biography: John Clayton (7 April 1940 – 25 September 2003) was an Australian television and film character actor, primarily in drama series and soap operas. Clayton's most prominenr roles included that of Inspector Bill Adams on Police Rescue and Maurie Barnard on Echo Point. He also had recurring roles on Big Sky as Roland 'Riley' Watson, and on Grass Roots as Harry Bond.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birthday: January 01, 1940
Deathday: September 25, 2003
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Gender: Male
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Dawn!
Overview: Dawn! is a 1979 Australian sports biopic about the three-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Dawn Fraser.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-07
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Sidecar Racers
Overview: You're going to get us both killed with your grandstanding...! Two guys, one girl, and no brakes! Death defying daredevils burning up the track in thrill-a-minute action. Burning the track like its never been burned before!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-30
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Newsfront
Overview: Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-29
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High Tide
Overview: A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following her husband's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-30
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Sebastian and the Sparrow
Overview: The story of the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys from vastly different cultural backgrounds. Sparrow is a working-class street kid and Sebastien a middle-class boy of privilege. One day, they meet at a video-game arcade. Together, they become friends and embark on a journey of self-discovery to locate Sparrow's long-lost mother, an immigrant Vietnamese woman.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-12
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Boundaries of the Heart
Overview: A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at her father's hotel and bar. She receives annual New Year's marriage proposals from rodeo rider Andy Ford (John Hargreaves), who talks himself into asking her one more time. Stella's father Billy (Norman Kaye) is a former cricket star whose career ended early when he was involved in a sex scandal. She spends the night with vacationing Arthur (Michael Siberry) when his car breaks down. Andy elects not to pop the question to Stella in lieu of her one-night stand with the stranger. When Billy elects to marry June Thompson (Julie Nihill), the local gossipmongers have a field day recalling the woman's promiscuous past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Far East
Overview: A cynical Australian Vietnam War veteran runs a sleazy bar in the Philippines. His old flame enters his life again asking for help when her husband, an investigative journalist, is prosecuted by the junta for discovering too much.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-30
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Unfinished Business
Overview: Maureen's biological clock is ticking, and she wants a baby. Her husband George is unable to oblige. When Maureen bumps into Geoff, a former lover from years ago she decides he might be able to supply the wanted seed. But the scientific controls on their weekend encounter soon give way to natural urges and the consummation is concluded with tenderness.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Shotgun Wedding
Overview: Shotgun Wedding is a 1993 Australian film based on the Wally Melish siege.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-26
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The Challenge
Overview: The story of the 1983 America's Cup challenge, where the Australian team financed by business tycoon Alan Bond, finally wrests the cup from the New York Yacht Club, after an unbroken 132 year winning streak.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-29
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Cappuccino
Overview: The story is told through the eyes of Max, a stand-up comedian and taxi driver, who gets involved in a blackmail case and lands in prison. Max uses his time in prison to tell the story of his friends' lives. He also writes a script for himself and the other four actors, with unexpected results.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-14
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Strangers
Overview: A married man meets a stunning brunette at an airport and has an affair with her. After a while though he wants to break it off but realises the woman will do anything to stay with him no matter who gets hurt.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-02
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High Rolling
Overview: Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is fulfilled when they encounter a dope-peddler and two exotic nightclub dancers.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-04
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Freedom
Overview: Ron, a young man in his late teens or early 20s, but emotionally younger, has no visible, employable assets, yet rails at his status in life -- blaming everyone for the fact that his dreams are not coming true.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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After Hours
Overview: The difficulty of separating sexual fantasy and reality becomes apparent in an investigation of an alleged sexual harassment case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-20
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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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Out of the Body
Overview: An invisible force is killing women in Sydney and stealing their eyes.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-14
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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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The Irishman
Overview: Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-28
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To Make a Killing
Overview: Damon Kennedy (Tamblyn Lord, The River Kings) is an impressionable young man ready to begin university life. On the other side of the tracks live Terry (Craig Pearce, co-author of Strictly Ballroom), Felix (John Godden) and Benny (Kelly Dingwall) — who get their kicks out of robbing houses and chasing girls. But they're broke and all out of cash. During a routine burglary the gang discover an innocent Damon. Brushing off the intrusion and pretending they are looking for some mates, the gang flee the scene but bored Damon follows them and joins their group for the day, hoping to find some fun.When the gang picks up two girls, things become unhinged as a drunk Damon brags about some of his family's many affluent friends. Forced to take them to one of his cash-rich contacts, Damon's nightmare has only just begun. As Terry discovers that the wealthy don't always carry cash, what starts as a burglary soon turns into a killing spree.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-01
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The Time Game
Overview: 13 year old Tony Johnson and computer wizard, is of falsely accused of setting fire to his school. He is sent to stay with his grandparents over Christmas. Tony's grandfather invents things. He has designed a game called "The Time Game"...
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Police Rescue: The Movie
Overview: A narcotics detective, suspected of corruption, gets a transfer to the Police Rescue Squad. An unstable man holds a daycare center hostage.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-16
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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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Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
Overview: A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cross-country night sleeper. She makes sure she is in control of each encounter until one client reaches her more than she expects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-10
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...Maybe This Time
Overview: Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town she grew up in and has a fling with an old flame, Alan. She also begins sleeping with Paddy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-19
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Breaking Loose
Overview: A young man leaves home in search of his fathers backgound in a small country town and gets mixed up with all sorts of weird and wild characters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-17
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