Wendy Hughes
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Biography: Wendy Hughes (29 July 1952 – 8 March 2014) was an Australian actress known for her work in theatre, film and television. Hughes was an award-winning actress. Her career spanned more than forty years and established her reputation as one of Australia's finest and most prolific actors. Her biggest role was in Lonely Hearts, played in 1982 (this film was the beginning of a long collaboration with director Paul Cox). In her later career she acted in Happy New Year along with stars Peter Falk and Charles Durning. In 1993 she played Dr. Carol Blythe, M. E. in Homicide: Life on the Street. In the late 1990s, she starred in State Coroner and Paradise Road. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendy Hughes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Birthday: July 29, 1952
Deathday: March 08, 2014
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Gender: Female
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Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
Overview: Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the headmistress at a brothel, talks her into living and working at her establishment. She decides to leave the business and lead a normal life. Elle is hellbent to see that she never has one.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-31
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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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The Man Who Sued God
Overview: A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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Princess Caraboo
Overview: Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not at all convinced she is what she claims to be and investigates. Is Caraboo really a princess?
Genres: Comedy Drama History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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My Brilliant Career
Overview: A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Duet for Four
Overview: A middle aged man, Ray Martin, faces a series of problems – his wife is cheating on him, his mistress wants to get married and Americans want to take over his toy business.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-26
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Hoodwink
Overview: Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a labor-saving plan. Hargreaves pretends to be totally blind, thus lightening his work load....and carries off the hoax for years.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-05
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The Heist
Overview: Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-16
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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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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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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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Lonely Hearts
Overview: In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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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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The View from Greenhaven
Overview: A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-15
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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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Salvation
Overview: Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her brand of easy-to-swallow self-help Christianity. In dire need of an outlet he turns to Irina, a Russian immigrant and prostitute. Seeking better lives, both Barry and Irina find strength in each other as they seek mutual salvation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-19
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Kostas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-02
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Shadows of the Peacock
Overview: The love story between an Australian woman and a Balinese dancer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-16
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An Indecent Obsession
Overview: Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing a sexual attraction for a new patient.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-23
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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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Careful, He Might Hear You
Overview: Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest existence, PS is happy with them. However, his contentment is derailed when Lila's wealthy sister, Vanessa, returns from England and takes an interest in PS.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-22
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Is There Anybody There?
Overview: A beautiful woman, Kate (Tina Grenville), is released from a sanatorium unaware that while she was away her husband John (George Lazenby) has begun an affair with her sister Marianne (Wendy Hughes). The two sisters live together in a creepy apartment block while John is away, and find themselves stalked by some mysterious strangers.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-24
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I Can't Get Started
Overview: Stalwart aussie actor John Waters is wannabe-novelist Robert Marks. No one can fault his persistence and application in the past - he really wants the big-time bad. The day comes however when he realises his dream and with the royalties flooding in, new friends, a ramp-up in status and not the least, recognition as a precocious new talent, his life style changes. It's not the only thing to change however. He finds he's lost his creativity, the adrenalin has dried up. Is it writer's block or is he simply a one-hit wonder? Very capable supporting cast keep the story moving and the underplayed nature of the film itself makes it thoroughly watchable. Many worse than this to be sure!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Remember Me
Overview: A woman recently returned to work is contacted by her former husband who has been in a mental institution. She is torn between her still strong desire for him, and her fear, which comes from events in their past. She cannot control his intrusion into both her current life and her second marriage, and tragedy ensues.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Luigi’s Ladies
Overview: Shaken by the stockmarket crash of ’87 … plus a few other distractions like attempted murder, flirtatious affairs and a lunatic, knife wielding chef … their friendship is put to the test! But, rest assured, these resilient women-of-the-world will pull through and enjoy many more entrées together at Luigi’s!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-11
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Puzzle
Overview: Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-05
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Not Quite Hollywood
Overview: As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-28
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Touch and Go
Overview: Three attractive socialites working for charity turn to robbery to keep a special primary school for underprivileged children open.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-12
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My First Wife
Overview: My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also a film about our children and the future we offer them. Helen has decided to leave, and it is John who lacks the inner resources to cope with the impending tragedy. Slowly he is sucked into a tunnel of despair – fighting his conservative nature and the romantic memories of his married life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-12
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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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The Caterpillar Wish
Overview: A young girl's view on belonging and loss.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-08
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Donor
Overview: Dr. Kristine Lipton finds that something strange is happening in the hospital she works for when a friend is strangled by an elderly patient, who runs away but has an accident and dies. Kristine tries to find out more about this man, but discovers that all the personnel (including the hospital's director), are hiding something.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-09
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The Alternative
Overview: Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take leave from her job. Caught between her ex-lover and a colleague who wants to marry her, Melanie must find a solution or an alternative to her problem. When she falls in love with a woman, she questions the value of the traditional value unit.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-20
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Happy New Year
Overview: Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighboring antique store and things get a little complicated.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-07
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