John Meillon
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Meillon (1 May 1934 – 11 August 1989) was an legendary Australian actor, most widely known outside Australia for his role as Walter Reilly in the films Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Dundee II. He also voiced Victoria Bitter beer commercials until his death. Meillon was born in Mosman, Sydney. He began his acting career at the age of eleven in the ABC's radio serial "Stumpy", and made his first stage appearance the following year. He joined the Shakespeare Touring Company when he was sixteen. Like many actors of his generation from 1959 to 1965 he worked in England. He had a recurring role in the TV series My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?. He featured in two episodes of "Skippy" in 1968 and 1969 appearing as "Nimble Norris". In 1976 he won the AFI Award for Best Actor for his role of 'Casey' in the film The Fourth Wish (1976). With his rich baritone, Meillon was used extensively in voice over work- the most famous being his work as the "you can get it any old how" Victoria Bitter narrator. He married Australian actress June Salter in 1958. They were divorced in 1971. They had one son, John Meillon, Jr. He then married actress Bunny Gibson ("Rita the Eta Eater") on 5 April 1972: they also had a son. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Meillon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birthday: May 01, 1934
Deathday: August 11, 1989
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Gender: Male
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Billy Budd
Overview: Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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They're a Weird Mob
Overview: Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and '60s.... and assimilate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-18
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Wake in Fright
Overview: A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-21
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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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Crocodile Dundee II
Overview: Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-19
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Crocodile Dundee
Overview: When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. He proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-26
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The Picture Show Man
Overview: A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-05
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Walkabout
Overview: Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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633 Squadron
Overview: When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-06
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The Cars That Ate Paris
Overview: After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as the guest of the mayor, who hopes he will become a permanent member of the Paris population. Arthur soon realizes the quaint hamlet has a sinister secret: they orchestrate car accidents and rob the victims. Survivors are brought to the local hospital, lobotomized, and used for a local doctor's experiments.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-10
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Heatwave
Overview: During a Christmas heatwave, a community activist attempts to stop a redevelopment project that is displacing residents in the Kings Cross section of Sydney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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Ride a Wild Pony
Overview: Scott, a poor farm boy, is given a wild pony from a wealthy ranch owner's herd to ride to and from school. Scott and his pony soon become an inseparable team, until one day the pony suddenly disappears. Soon after, the ranch owner's handicapped daughter Josie has a wild pony especially trained to pull her cart. But Scott is convinced that Josie's pony is actually his, which leads to a court battle that divides their small Australian town. One child must ultimately lose the pony when true ownership is decided.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-02
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Offbeat
Overview: When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Dove
Overview: 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham aims to become the youngest person to sail around the world in a 23-foot sloop named "The Dove". On his journey, he meets and falls in love with Patti Ratteree, who is also traveling around the world. As Robin sails around the world to many beautiful locales, he grows from a boy to a man, finds himself, and finds the love of his life.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-16
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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 Wild Duck
Overview: Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-05
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The Camel Boy
Overview: Young Ali and his camel-driver grandfather Moussa take part in an expedition through the Australian Outback. Faced with prejudice, Moussa's knowledge and the hardiness of his camels in the punishing conditions quickly prove vital to both the success of the expedition and the survival of its members.
Genres: Animation Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-08
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Rope
Overview: Australian television adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-21
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Sunstruck
Overview: Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, decides to emigrate to Australia for a better life but ends up working in a school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs. He forms a school choir and decides to compete in a singing competition in Sydney
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-22
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The Valiant
Overview: Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-13
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The Fourth Wish
Overview: The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-16
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Bullseye
Overview: In the 1860s, two friends, Harry and Bluey, steal a thousand head of cattle and trek it across country from Queensland to Adelaide.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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Guns at Batasi
Overview: An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-30
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Shimmering Light
Overview: 1978 Australian television film about an American surfer who travels to Australia in search of the perfect wave. It was one of six TV movies made in Australia by Transatlantic Enterprises.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-12
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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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Dead Man's Chest
Overview: Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-27
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Death Trap
Overview: A young woman commits suicide. Her sister is not ready to let the death go without someone answering a few questions. Namely, was it really suicide, and where is the large amount of money her sister withdrew from the bank the day before her death.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-01
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Outback Bound
Overview: A girl from Beverly Hills tries to find her fathers opal mine in the Australian outback.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-11
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The Blue Lightning
Overview: Harry Wingate, a rugged adventurer, is hired by a gem collector to retrieve a priceless opal, known as "The Blue Lightning," from Lester McInally, a super-criminal with an army of killers operating in the Australian outback.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-07
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Sucker Bait
Overview: An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a teenager raised to be a kind of human computer, able to make connections between different specialisms.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-15
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Tripe
Overview: A black comedy about a family terrorised by their father who feeds his family tripe at every meal, every day. Eventually, the kids revolt, but it isn't long before the eldest son steps into his father's shoes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-28
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On the Beach
Overview: In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-16
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King Solomon's Mines
Overview: Deep within a remote mountain somewhere in Africa lies the fold and endless riches of the legendary King Solomon. Many have tried to find the treasure - but none have succeeded! Now, Alan Quartermaine's determined to locate the bounty, but first he must battle the wilds of Africa and the ferocious Kukuwana trive - who are intent on keeping the treasure for themselves! It's an expedition in excitement and adventure that will have your whole family on the edge of their seats!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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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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The Dunera Boys
Overview: At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the Dunera.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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Cairo
Overview: An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-17
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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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Watch It, Sailor!
Overview: Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-14
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The Longest Day
Overview: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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The Long and the Short and the Tall
Overview: Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-28
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Born to Run
Overview: Journey to the land down under for a warm, thrilling story of a once proud racehorse stableowner, his adventurous grandson, and their dream to revive the golden days of horse racing glory.
Genres: Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-13
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The Running Man
Overview: An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-01
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Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee
Overview: Nearly 40 years on, Crocodile Dundee remains Australia’s biggest film—what made it a cultural icon, and why does it still mean so much today?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-27
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