Bruce Venables
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Biography: Bruce Venables (born 1949) is a former Australian television and film actor, and now an author. He has been married to a former actress and currently internationally renowned best-selling author Judy Nunn since 1988.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Birthday: January 01, 1949
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Male
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You Can't Stop the Murders
Overview: Australian small-town cop Gary enjoys his nearly pastoral existence, with traffic violations providing the major excitement to his normally low-key days. While away from work, Gary spends a good deal of time fantasizing about local news reporter Julia, who would just as soon relocate to the thriving metropolis of Sydney. Soon, however, a motorcyclist is found decapitated, with a construction worker, a sailor, and a cowboy and Indian also meeting the same fate. With some murderous weirdo with some sort of Village People fixation terrorizing the town, Gary -- with the help of big-wig city detective and Don Johnson-wannabe Tony Charles -- begins to realize that a cop is the last remaining victim to be murdered in order for the killings to be complete. ...
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-12
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The Crop
Overview: The Crop, set in the early '80s, is about a larrikin nightclub owner, Ronnie (Blade) Gillette, and his barmaid girlfriend Geraldine. Two months after random breath testing has been introduced, Blade realises he's going broke. Afraid of driving under the influence, his customers are not buying his grog-they're going out to the carpark to smoke dope. Like any good businessman, Blade decides he needs a strategy. He decides to grow some dope as a way out of his financial hole. Diversify and expand-beauty!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-14
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Spider and Rose
Overview: A young ambulance driver befriends an elderly woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-14
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Emerald City
Overview: A couple move to Sydney from Melbourne, and soon become lured by the bright lights of the big city. Colin, the scriptwriter husband, is corrupted by his editor and then falls for the girlfriend of his writing partner, while Colin's wife Kate begins to lose sight of her ideals in a new world of hustlers and cynics.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-09
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Heaven Tonight
Overview: The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the leader of a band making rock-music from the 60s but his son becomes a star of techno-pop music.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-12
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Daydream Believer
Overview: A struggling actress with an affinity for horses meets wealthy rock music promoter and stable owner Digby Olsen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-07
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River Street
Overview: Ben, an arrogant, hustling property developer is wrongly arrested and things from bad to worse when he accidentally punches a policeman at the station. Sentenced to community service at a local day centre, Ben's influence with a young tearaway forces him to question his values and he learns to see life from a different angle when he falls in love with Wendy, the centre's formidable and devoted manager...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-17
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Paperback Hero
Overview: An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. Will they remain friends or...?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-25
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Crimetime
Overview: Policemen Robin Decker and John Little begin to realise they are probably the only two honest cops on the force.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
Overview: The fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had traveled to Australia by ship during the time of the Roman Emperor, Nero.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-28
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Evil Angels
Overview: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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Mr. Reliable
Overview: All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officers come around to disturb this, a misunderstanding quickly becomes out of control, resulting Wally, Beryl and her child being trapped in their house, surrounded by armed police under the impression that Wally is holding everyone hostage. Events quickly spiral into a media circus as, through the siege, Wally - inadvertently - manages to become a symbol for the anti-war movement.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-22
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My Husband, My Killer
Overview: Based on the true story of an Australian woman that was murdered in bed next to her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-13
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The Roly Poly Man
Overview: Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an incident he caught on tape, where a man seemed about to murder his mistress with an axe. Delving deeper, the film enters some seldom-trodden territory as it slips easily into horror and sci-fi, while still maintaining the hilarious dialogue
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-01
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Singapore Sling
Overview: John Stamford, an expatriate Australian, now a private detective in Singapore, becomes involved in a fake pharmaceuticals case and a dangerous love triangle.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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Big ideas
Overview: Selling compost brings a boy inventor (Justin Rosniak) and his widowed mother (Gosia Dobrowolska) into conflict with their neighbor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Honourable Wally Norman
Overview: A meat worker is accidentally nominated to run for Parliament and realises that to save the meat works he has to get elected. All that stands in his way is every other politician in the country and his own fear of public speaking.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-12
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