Ernie Dingo
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Biography: Ernest Ashley Dingo AM is an Indigenous Australian actor, television presenter and comedian, originating from the Yamatji people of the Murchison region of Western Australia. He is a designated Australian National Living Treasure. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ernie Dingo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bullardoo, Western Australia
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Birthday: July 31, 1956
Age: 68 years old
Gender: Male
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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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The Fringe Dwellers
Overview: The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-26
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Bran Nue Dae
Overview: In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished for an act of youthful rebellion, he runs away from the mission on a journey that ultimately leads him back home.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-09
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The Saint: Fear in Fun Park
Overview: Simon Templar thwarts a Hong Kong syndicate's takeover of a businessman's Australian fun park.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-16
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Dead Heart
Overview: Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives and white settlers are on the verge of erupting. When it's discovered that Kate, the white wife of local schoolteacher Les, has despoiled a sacred site by secretly meeting her aborigine lover, Tony, there, a shocking murder threatens to rip the small town apart.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-08
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Somewhere in the Darkness
Overview: In this Australian drama, a department store collapses, trapping an old man (Barry Jenkins) and a young boy (Rowan Whitt) underneath. In hopes of keeping the child calm, the man tells him a series of folk tales which teach a moral lesson while they entertain. Somewhere In The Darkness received its world premier at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival in the United States; it was later screened at Australia's Sydney Film Festival the same year. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-25
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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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Blackfellas
Overview: Young Aboriginal Doug has done his time for petty theft, but quickly drifts back under the bad influence of ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd. Doug knows where he’s heading – he’s seen it all before, in the hard life of his father. Returning to his traditional country and the love of girlfriend Polly is the way out. But Floyd’s mateship is hard to shake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-04
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The Echo of Thunder
Overview: Scenic settings in Australia enhance this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, a simple yet engaging tale about a teenage girl's adjustment to a new family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-19
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Mr Neal Is Entitled to Be an Agitator
Overview: In the last four years of his life, Lionel Murphy was at the centre of an historic battle to retain his position on the High Court in Australia. While the film concentrates on this period and the events leading up to it, in a wider sense, it uses the dramatic story of Murphy as a vehicle to consider some more fundamental issues about law. The film tackles the problem of police and security surveillance of the individual in Australian society and in particular, of prominent political and legal figures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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Mr. Electric
Overview: MR ELECTRIC is set in 1956. Bill, an Aboriginal electrician, returns to his home town to make peace with the racist, white-trash family who fostered him as a child and finds that his childhood sweetheart has married his best friend. Something has happened in the past which no one can forget. Bill offers to wire up their house and, in the process, wires up their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-15
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The Roast of Paul Hogan
Overview: Aussie comedy legends roast an Aussie comedy Icon in this hilarious, no holds barred special.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-22
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Oondamooroo
Overview: Documentary on Australian actor Ernie Dingo. As an actor, Ernie Dingo has played many parts, but many people see his major achievement as being a role model for other Aborigines. This film traces the life of the WA actor from his birth in a corrugated iron shed on Bullado station to early childhood in Mullewa, and his high school years in Geraldton to the beginning of his acting career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-01
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Until the End of the World
Overview: In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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Tudawali
Overview: Tells the story of Robert Tudawali who starred in the first ever Australian technicolour feature film, "Jedda". Station hand, actor and then Aboriginal activist, Tudawali died in 1967 at the age of 38 in tragic circumstances. Includes brief excerpts from "Jedda". Stars Ernie Dingo in the title role.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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A Waltz Through the Hills
Overview: When Sammy Dean and her older brother Andy are suddenly orphaned, they fear that they will be separated and placed in foster homes. So they set off along on foot, hoping to reach a ship that will take them to England and their only surviving relatives. The two young runaways must make their dangerous journey through some of the world’s harshest terrain-the wilds of the Australian outback.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Cappuccino
Overview: The story is told through the eyes of Max, a stand-up comedian and taxi driver, who gets involved in a blackmail case and lands in prison. Max uses his time in prison to tell the story of his friends' lives. He also writes a script for himself and the other four actors, with unexpected results.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-14
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88.9 Radio Redfern
Overview: An observational documentary which looks at Sydney’s first community Aboriginal radio station, 88.9 Radio Redfern. Set against a backdrop of contemporary Aboriginal music, 88.9 Radio Redfern offers a special and rare exploration of the people, attitudes and philosophies behind the lead up to a different type of celebration of Australia’s Bicentennial Year. Throughout 1988, 88.9 Radio Redfern became an important focal point for communication and solidarity within the Aboriginal community. The film reveals how urban blacks are adapting social structures such as the mass media to serve their needs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-20
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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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Clowning Around 2
Overview: Sim, now a member of the Winter Circus in Paris, befriends Eve, another young clown. Drawn to an experimental style of clowning used by Circus Oz and Cirque du Soleil, the techniques get them both fired, but when Sim returns home to Australia, he finds that he is now the inheritor of a share in the Rathnow Circus.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-01
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Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller
Overview: When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweather, who never returned on a stamp for 75 years.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-08
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Clowning Around
Overview: Follows a boy who realizes there is more to being a clown, than just clowning around.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-26
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Rainbow's End
Overview: Jack and Terri decide to run away from their foster parents to find their real dad, Tom, a merchant seaman. Their journey takes them through adventures and mishaps.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Kangaroo
Overview: Ex TV personality, Chris Masterman, becomes stranded in an Outback town outside Alice Springs. There, he teams up with 12-year-old Indigenous girl Charlie. The pair form an unlikely friendship and work together to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned joeys in the remote but stunning Outback community - an endeavour that proves to be life-changing for them both.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-08-28
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Horizon - Cosmic Dawn: The Real Moment of Creation
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-09
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One People Sing Freedom
Overview: One People Sing Freedom documents the largest gathering of Indigenous people since 1788, a protest march against the Bicentennial celebrations of 26 January 1988.
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Original Language: en
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