Ray Barrett
Also Known As: not available
Biography: From IMDb: Ray Barrett studied music and elocution and began acting at the age of eleven. He was the first actor put under contract by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Drama section. He worked for several years on radio in Sydney, before working successfully in Britain between 1958 and the mid-1970s, when he returned to Australia. He has received two AFI (Australian Film Industry) awards as an actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Birthday: May 02, 1927
Deathday: September 08, 2009
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Gender: Male
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The Desperate Women
Overview: The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Where the Green Ants Dream
Overview: The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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Thunderbirds Are GO
Overview: When the launch of a mission to Mars goes awry due to sabotage, International Rescue is requested to assist in the mission's second attempt.
Genres: Animation Family Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-15
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Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
Overview: Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-20
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The Reptile
Overview: Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young woman Anna whose tyrannical father controls her life and, as they discover that others in the village have suffered a similar fate, their investigations lead to Anna. What they uncover is a victim of the most terrifying legacy... a destiny of mutilation and murder.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-06
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Touch of Death
Overview: A criminal gang pull off a big robbery, unaware the cash has been infected with toxic poison. The thieves hide out on a Thames houseboat and terrorise its female occupant, before they start dying.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Don's Party
Overview: On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath. The Hendersons and their nine guests drink, joke, make love, and fight, all while coming to terms with their individual struggles in life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-10
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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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Visitors
Overview: The story of Georgia Perry, the first woman to sail around the world solo.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-27
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Heaven's Burning
Overview: In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage. Her lover is supposed to meet her, but fails to appear. She goes to a bank to get some cash, only to become a hostage in an unfolding robbery, until the getaway driver, Colin, saves her from his fellow robbers. They hit the road together, with the cops, her husband and the robbers in pursuit.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-06
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Blood Oath
Overview: On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War Crimes Tribunal to pass judgement on the Japanese men and officers who ran the Ambon camp. In an added twist, a high ranking Japanese admiral is implicated, and politics become involoved with justice as American authorities in Japan lobby for the Admiral's release. Written by Anthony Hughes
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-26
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Hotel Sorrento
Overview: Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir in Sorrento and in her family when it is supected that the book is not as fictional as she claims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-20
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The Incredible Voyage of Stingray
Overview: Adventures of the super-sub Stingray and the World Aquanaut Security Patrol and their battles against Titan, leader of the underwater city of Titanica.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Hotel de Love
Overview: 10 years ago at a party, Steven thinks he sees the girl of his dreams, Melissa. Just as he's about to make his move, his twin brother Rick gets to her first and they fall in love. Steven watches his brother's relationship bloom, longing for Melissa all the while. Eventually, Melissa leaves to go to college and the brothers go on with their lives. Steven becomes a workaholic to block out his feelings about Melissa and Rick becomes a spineless bellboy at the Hotel de Love, after a later girl friend stood him up at the altar. Enter Steven and Rick's warring parents visiting the Hotel de Love for their anniversary. Re-enter Melissa with her current boyfriend, Norman. Suddenly Rick and Steven have a second chance at Melissa. Also there's Alison the palm reader, Susie behind the counter, the owner/piano player, and the freshly married couple.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-19
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Revenge
Overview: A British family takes revenge into its own hands in avenging their recently slain daughter.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-26
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After the Deluge
Overview: Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age, all three must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his disturbing memories of the war and his first love, as a part of his experiences of the present . Through all four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-15
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In the Winter Dark
Overview: Fear of an unidentified livestock predator unites an Australian couple, an outcast, and an abandoned woman.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-10
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80,000 Suspects
Overview: A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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Goodbye Paradise
Overview: The plot centres on Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-21
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Brilliant Lies
Overview: Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should entitle her to a compensation payment of $40,000.00.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-08
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A Dangerous Summer
Overview: Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator comes nosing around, whom Howard's partner deals with in a drastic manner. By the time Lloyds of London's senior investigator George Engels (James Mason in one of his last roles) arrives on the scene, Howard (Tom Skerritt) is anxious to set things to rights.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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Dalkeith
Overview: Tells the true story of the residents at Dalkeith Residential Home who sit around every day just waiting to die until staff buy them a greyhound. Naming the dog Dalkeith after the home, they discover she is a phenomenal runner and she is soon entered into the greyhound races. Soon residents are betting on the outcome of the races, and they are given a new reason to live. But the board of trustees learn what is going on, through the disgruntled daughter of one of the residents, and heavily handedly put an end to the fun and games. After the board's intervention the residents sink into a new form of despair as life becomes even duller and more boring than before. That is until the aloof pensioner, played by Ray Barrett, reveals he was once a high profile barrister and challenges the decision in court.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-22
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The Hostages
Overview: Children on lonely farm outwit escaped Dartmoor prisoners.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-07
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Invaders from the Deep
Overview: A compilation of four episodes from the Supermarionation series Stingray. When aquatic aliens plot to take over the planet, the world aquanaut security patrol are called in to battle the aliens.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Let the Balloon Go
Overview: In 1917 rural New South Wales, a young boy with polio struggles to break free of his overprotective mother.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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Waiting
Overview: Friends meet at a farm house to await the birth of a baby.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-25
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No Worries
Overview: A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-31
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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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To Have and to Hold
Overview: A young woman is harassed by a man and seeks help from the police. The officer who visits her falls in love with her, but shortly after she is murdered.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-01
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The Sundowners
Overview: In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-08
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Rebel
Overview: This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from Australia. He becomes infatuated with a local singer, Kathy and pursues her. Kathy is married and initially is not interested in him, but later begins to love Rebel. Kathy receives a letter advising her that her husband was killed in battle. The local police and the U.S. Military are searching for Rebel as an AWOL soldier. Rebel arranges to escape Austalia by a cargo ship, but eventually allows himself to be arrested in order to keep the local police from arresting Kathy for harboring him
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-05
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Little Laura and Big John
Overview: Based on a true story, this action-packed, hard-hitting depiction of the infamous Ashley gang - who terrorized the southeast in the 1920's - also illustrates a desperate love between two people destined for destruction.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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As Time Goes By
Overview: A surfer abandoned in the middle of the Australian Outback encounters an alien who time-travels in a ship that looks like a 1950s greasy spoon restaurant and embroils the hero in a chase that involves him sorting out a time paradox so that he can wind back time to prevent the Japanese winning World War II.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-29
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Just Like a Woman
Overview: Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewis produces. But while Lewis copes by picking up a passing starlet, Scilla indulges her passion for bathrooms by getting one custom-designed by an ex-Nazi architect!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-26
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Thunderbirds in Outer Space
Overview: Calling International Resuce… a runaway rocket carrying three astronauts is heading for a collision course with the Sun… Impact imminent!
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-09
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Thunderbirds to the Rescue
Overview: A compilation of two episodes from the Supermarionation series Thunderbirds. A new super satellite has gone into orbit. Permanently manned, it is now in space to help humanity as the monitor station always on the alert to spot trouble, receive messages for help and set in motion the world's most exciting organisation, International Rescue...
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-13
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Jackals in the Desert
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Valley of the Kings
Overview: Two children on a holiday with archaeologist parents expose the villainy of Arab workmen and help their father find the treasure he is after.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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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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Jigsaw
Overview: A woman is found murdered in a seaside house along the coast from Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England. Local D.I. Fred Fellows and D.S. Jim Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield. _-= Based on the novel "Sleep Long My Love" by Hillary Waugh and Inspired by the Brighton Trunk Murders of the late 1930's =-_
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-21
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Relatives
Overview: A family reunion among the squattocracy leads to conflict as various members assert their egos.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Earthling
Overview: Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents have been killed and decides to take him under his wing.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-24
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Contagion
Overview: A real estate agent is lured to a run-down mansion only to be trapped and tortured by ghosts.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-01
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Aussie Assault
Overview: Australian sport documentary about the first ever winning of the America's Cup by a non-US country. Shows the background story of the preparation, design, construction, testing, and trials of Australia's winning yacht, the Australia II. Documents the preliminary races, elimination of British yacht Victory '83 and the final main race itself where Australia is victorious over the Americans on 26 September 1983.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-26
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Frenchman's Farm
Overview: An Australian woman's car breaks down in the country, and when she goes to get help, she's whisked back in time to 1944 and witnesses a murder. Returning to her car, time reverts to normal, but unable to convince anyone of her story, she investigates the crime herself.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-17
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The Empty Beach
Overview: Before shady businessman John Singer disappeared off Bondi Beach, his name meant money--big and small, clean and dirty--a man absorbed in a world of greed and dishonesty. Singer's widow, Marlon, believes he's still alive and she employs the investigative skills of the tough, no-nonsense private eye, Cliff Hardy (Bryan Brown) to find him. Battered and bruised, Hardy battles through the filth of corruption and the stench of political blackmail. He comes face to face with the crime bosses, who feed off human misery and eliminate their rivals without thinking twice. From the high life and low life of Sydney, to the seediness and splendour of Bondi Beach, Cliff Hardy uncovers the ultimate truth.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-12
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No Room to Run
Overview: Concert promoter Nick Loomis is sent to Sydney by his ex father-in-law and boss Garth Kingswood, and asked to deliver a briefcase to a foreigner. When the man is killed in the airport, Loomis ends up entangled in corporate spying and is forced to fight for his life with the help of Terry McKenna, a woman from Austin working for the Sydney Opera House.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-18
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Waterfront
Overview: Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Doctor Who: The Rescue
Overview: On the planet Dido, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara meet two survivors from a crashed spaceship who are terrorised by the monster Koquillion.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-09
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Countdown to Disaster
Overview: International Rescue sends the incredible Thunderbirds on the most dangerous rescue missions yet. They must save the Empire State Building from collapsing on New York City and at the same time battle a deadly fire blazing out of control in a mid-Atlantic oil station.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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