Wallas Eaton
Also Known As: Wallace Eaton, Wallis Eaton
Biography: Wallas Eaton (18 February 1917 – 3 November 1995) was an English film, radio, television and theatre actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his voice roles between 1949 and 1960 in the BBC radio-comedy serial Take It from Here. Eaton's favourite pastime was sailing, and he made a trip to Australia in 1975 to pursue his interest, after which he settled there permanently. He featured in the Australian soap The Young Doctors in 1979 as Roland Perry, a rich friend of principal character Ada Simmonds. He also made a few appearances in later episodes of the television drama serial A Country Practice.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 18, 1917
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 03, 1995
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Let's Go Crazy
Overview: Let's Go Crazy is a 1951 comedy film marking an early appearance of Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers playing multiple roles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-01
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Lock Up Your Daughters
Overview: Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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Around the World in 80 Days
Overview: English Lord Phileas Fogg has just become the main suspect in a daring bank robbery. Meanwhile, he has made a wager with several other lords that he will be able to travel around this world in a mere 80 days. Joined by his butler Passepartout, Fogg begins his journey. However, hot on his heels is Scotland Yard detective Mr. Fix.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-25
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Do Be Careful Boys
Overview: A BAFTA award nominated animated Industrial safety film featuring a clumsy fruit porter who learns the error of his ways, told as a mini-operetta.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: One twenty-year old boy, driven by what is right and just, overcomes the forces of unconscionable greed. This classic tale of human nature is brought to the screen in this entertaining animated feature.
Genres: Animation Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-16
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Oliver Twist
Overview: This animated version of the classic Charles Dickens book faithfully follows the adventures of the young orphan Oliver Twist.
Genres: Animation Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-15
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Operation Cupid
Overview: A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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Robin Hood
Overview: With good King Richard away at war, the greedy Sheriff has forced the residents of Nottingham to pay all their money to him. But Robin Hood, with the help of his friend Maid Marion, a spy in the Sheriff's castle, is out to thwart the evil Sheriff and return the Kind to his rightful throne.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Wind in the Willows
Overview: Based on Kenneth Grahame's classic children's yarn, this charming animated tale follows four colorful talking critters: the blithe Mr. Toad, the sensible Mole, the urbane Rat and the cranky but insightful Badger. When Mr. Toad's passion for cars lands him in dutch, it's up to his three woodland cohorts to bail him out and restore his reputation by outfoxing a horde of underhanded weasels.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Science Fiction Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-12
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: The classic fictional tale of Little Nell and her grandfather, animated by Burbank Films Australia.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Horror of Darkness
Overview: A studio-based drama by John Hopkins focusing on a trio of people at the point of crisis, with an underlying theme of homosexuality a couple of years before legalisation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-10
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The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: An animated version of James Fenimore Cooper's classic wilderness adventure during the French and Indian War in colonial America. Hawkeye is in his prime as the famous scout who rescues the daughters of the Commander of a frontier fort. Produced by Burbank Films Australia.
Genres: Animation TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-31
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Treasure Island
Overview: Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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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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O Lucky Man!
Overview: An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Genres: Comedy Music Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-25
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Plunge Into Darkness
Overview: An ex-pro athlete runner and his wife find a strange boy in the middle of nowhere along with a murdered couple. He runs to a nearby town for help while she keeps the boy company. Meanwhile, escaped convicts are heading to their location.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Inspector Clouseau
Overview: Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-19
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Overview: Teenage boy from a small village learns that he is in fact the secret twin brother of the current corrupt king of France. The four musketeers ask him to replace the king, but in a way that no one finds out about the switch. Burbank Films Australia animated release.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-31
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This Sporting Life
Overview: In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-07
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Springtime for Samantha
Overview: Samantha, beloved by Spring, is captured by a butterfly hunter.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-21
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Deathcheaters
Overview: Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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Demolition
Overview: When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repetition, discovers chordation that completely erases all memory, it is obvious that such a cleansed mind may be programmed to perform any type of action. Erstwhile agent Peter Clarke inactive for years, is chosen as courier to transport an audio tape of the tones to his native Australia.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-21
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The Last Wave
Overview: Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of Aboriginal people charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes danger may come from his own involvement with the Aboriginal people and their prophecies.
Genres: Drama Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-15
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A Clean Sweep
Overview: George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never to gamble again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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A Man's Affair
Overview: A miner, played by Scottish singer Hamish Menzies, meets a holidaying secretary on the Kent coast and love blossoms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Two Way Stretch
Overview: Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-20
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Isadora
Overview: A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-14
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Adventure in the Hopfields
Overview: A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-06
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Kidnapped
Overview: Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-21
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Minnamurra
Overview: Underrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fahey plays a handsome, athletic businessman who vies for the hand of rancher's daughter Tushika Bergen. Our hero must not only contend with his romantic rival, a dashing but dangerous cattleman, but also with a villainous creditor who craves the land left to Bergen by her late father. By nature of its plotline and setting, Wrangler can't help but invite comparisons to the popular The Man From Snowy River. Still, the stars and director Ian Barry keep up the appearances of freshness and originality
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-17
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Deadline
Overview: A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion - part of an extortion threat that has the government fearing nuclear blackmail. With the help of local reporters, and despite the harassment of the security agencies, he sets out to avert the crisis.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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