Steve Bisley
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Biography: Steve Bisley (born 26 December 1951) is an Australian film and television character actor, who attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lake Munmorah, New South Wales, Australia
Birthday: December 26, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Male
TMDb-Id: 45211
IMDb-Id: nm0001950
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The Stranger
Overview: When a stranger arrives at an isolated farmhouse in the middle of the night, the farmer's wife is convinced he is a murderer. In the light of day, she is forced to confront her prejudices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-13
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Summer City
Overview: Four friends take a road trip to kick back, hit the pubs, and go surfing. Tension builds among the group between Sandy, a quiet young man who is angered by the obnoxious, womanizing Boo who seduces a teenaged girl while on their trip in one of his usual one night stands. Meanwhile, the girl's psychotic dad is also looking for Boo out of revenge for what he did to his daughter. Boo is in for a major wake up call.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-22
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Mad Max
Overview: In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-12
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The King
Overview: The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise from working class Balaclava kid, through radio, TV, film, and back to TV again. It also tracks Kennedy's personal tragedies - the loneliness, the unrealised ambitions and the terrible pressures of being Australia's first homegrown superstar in the 1950s and 60s.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-20
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The Chain Reaction
Overview: Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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Red Hill
Overview: Young police officer Shane Cooper's first day on duty, after relocating to the small town of Red Hill, rapidly turns into a nightmare. News of a prison break, involving convicted murderer Jimmy Conway, sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic and leads to a terrifying and bloody confrontation.
Genres: Action Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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The Great Gatsby
Overview: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-09
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The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular
Overview: Jim Ryan and Kate Conroy love each other, but John Conroy stands in the way of their happiness until Jim Ryan recaptures a prized colt.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-25
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Subdivision
Overview: Based on the change a rapidly growing town faces when southern developers take over.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-20
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The Wedding Party
Overview: When Steve's secret marriage of convenience is discovered by his family, he finds himself at the centre of the world's most farcical wedding, the only problem is, he is in love with somebody else.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Same Time Monday
Overview: A man pleads with his estranged daughter to come back home, however nothing is ever what it seems.
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Original Language: en
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The Clean Machine
Overview: A new Premier is elected promising to clean up corruption. He sets up a taskforce headed by a traffic cop thinking he won’t get far. But Inspector Riordan opens up a can of worms and won’t let it go – all the way to the top.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-22
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Squizzy Taylor
Overview: This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. Wormy and diminutive, yet cunning and determined small-time hoodlum Squizzy Taylor rises to prominence and popularity in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920's. Squizzy romances brash moll Dolly and works for bookie Henry Stokes before branching out on his own while being hounded by the police and courted by the press the whole time.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-07
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Taxi!
Overview: Taxi driver Terry Dean picks up a sheila and they're run off the road, she takes off leaving her bag behind and he goes on an adventure trying to track her down concerned about her. An Aussie film noir.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-08
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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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Silver City
Overview: After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years while they worked off the government's payment of their passage. Even though he is married to Anna and has a son, Julian falls in love with Nina and she with him. As they and others face the new situations and prejudices that await immigrants and as they take on aspects of Australian culture, old-country values reassert themselves. Julian decides what to do about love and family, and Nina must find a way to move on.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-27
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In the Red
Overview: Dymo, a respected man-about-town, is the charismatic gang leader. His headstrong, unpredictable lover, Carli, has a penchant for magnums and fur. This is a pair that believes if you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space. Together they take on rival gang leader Jack Hand - and the local law enforcers, Blondine Dimaggio, a cop who has seen too much, and her partner Peter Dasha, whos police badge has an axe-like impact... in his own mind! It's the quick or the dead in a city where only the fast survive. The chosen form of transport is the new breed of turbo charged 2 litre all wheel drive technowiz rocket ships from the land of the rising sun. The gangs are taking over the streets in a high performance wizardry war-on-wheels that exists between those that were and the new nitrous injected generation - it's gonna be hell on wheels!
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-13
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The Highest Honour
Overview: After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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Hard Knuckle
Overview: In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australia, the most popular sport is Hard Knuckle, a bloodier form of pool. Harry is a pool hustler, wants to beat Knuckle champ Top Dog, to get his bike back.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-09
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The Winds of Jarrah
Overview: Australia 1946. A young woman escapes from an unhappy affair to become tutor to three children who are being raised by their uncle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-01
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Fast Talking
Overview: A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-16
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Hell Has Harbour Views
Overview: Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-30
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Sanctuary
Overview: Bob, a well-known Australian journalist, already wealthy working for US TV, is offered a $3 million dollar deal to stay in the US, for mysterious reasons he returns home. John, an obsessive young academic has spent years writing a book about Bob’s life, loathing him, he demands the truth why Bob returned to Australia. The encounter ignites the most basic emotions in both characters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-01
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Nazi Supergrass
Overview: This documentary explores the life and times of Russell Dean Willey, a neo-Nazi supergrass, in order to explain the presence of Jack Van Tongeren's Australian Nationalists Movement in Australia, and its spread, especially in difficult economic times.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-21
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The Brush-Off
Overview: The political adviser to Australia's Minister of the Arts investigates the suspicious death of a disgruntled artist.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-05
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The Big Steal
Overview: Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After he is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-20
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The Little Feller
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Last of the Knucklemen
Overview: In the tradition of Sunday Too Far Away, this independent film is based on the classic Australian play by John Power. Pic tells the story of a group of miners living in a camp in outback Australia. They swear, brawl, gamble, and drink heavily. Central to the story is the conflict between Tarzan, the authoritarian group leader and cocky loud-mouth wisecracking Pansy. This results in a bare-knuckle punch-up for the movie's denouement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-01
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Boar
Overview: In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic savagery unlike any have seen before.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-17
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I Love You Too
Overview: Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-06
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Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Overview: Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-14
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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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Over the Hill
Overview: Alma can't stand to have one more birthday without seeing her estranged daughter, Elizabeth, who lives in Sydney, Australia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-30
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Big Reef
Overview: A story of romance and humour set in Australia's far North East. Former journalist Tom Stopple escapes Brisbane and heads north to find himself immersed in a world of immense beauty, bounty hunting and a three-way fight for the girl of his dreams.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-24
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The Madness of Max
Overview: The Madness of Max is a feature-length documentary on the making of arguably the most influential movie of the past thirty years. With over forty cast-and-crew interviews, hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs and never-before-seen film footage of the shoot, this is without a doubt the last word on Mad Max (1979).Interviews include: George Miller, Byron Kennedy, Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Roger Ward, Joanne Samuel, David Eggby, Jon Dowding and many more. From the Producers to the Bike Designers to the Traffic Stoppers, this is the story of how Mad Max was made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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Thrills and Nuclear Spills: The Making of 'The Chain Reaction'
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-24
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Two Friends
Overview: The story of the end of a friendship between two teenage girls, told backwards over the course of nine months.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-13
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