Joanne Samuel
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joanne Samuel (born 1957 in Camperdown, Sydney, Australia) is an actress who remains best known for her role as the screen wife of Mel Gibson in the 1979 film Mad Max. Prior to her appearance in the film, Samuel had made guest appearances in police procedurals Matlock Police and Homicide. She was then a regular cast member in television soap operas Class of '74, The Sullivans and The Young Doctors. She left The Young Doctors very suddenly – the producers kindly wrote her out of the show quickly as she was offered the Mad Max role after a fellow Young Doctors actress who had been due to take the role fell ill. Samuel later returned to television in the regular role of Kelly Morgan-Young in Skyways (TV series). Samuel later guest starred in Hey Dad! as Jeanette Taylor and All Saints, and played the school principal in The Wiggles in their film The Wiggles Movie. Samuel is married to Tony Ahern. They have several children. They live in the Blue Mountains suburb of Blackheath and Samuel has retired from acting. Samuel is active in the local Baptist church. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Samuel, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Birthday: August 05, 1957
Age: 67 years old
Gender: Female
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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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Mad Max 2
Overview: Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-24
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Mad Max Exposed
Overview: Step into the world of the original Mad Max movie and take a rare behind the scenes look at the making of this groundbreaking film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-01
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Nightmaster
Overview: Robbie and his girlfriend, Amy, are among a group of students who play their private night games in the romantic thriller that catapulted Kidman to center stage. On screen throughout, Kidman discovers what will happen when a friendly game becomes real life ... and real life becomes a deadly game.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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What About Sal?
Overview: With his mother dying of lung cancer, Sal, in his 30's and with Down Syndrome, embarks on a journey to find his father - a rock band singer that his mother had a one-night stand with - 30 years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-25
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Spook
Overview: Something is out there - in the bush - near the dilapidated old cabin, which a family from Sydney has rented for their vacation.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Queen of the Road
Overview: A school teacher quits her job and starts a new life for herself as a truck driver
Genres: Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Alison's Birthday
Overview: During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyond the grave not to go home for her birthday three years later.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Gallagher's Travels
Overview: When reporter Danny Gallagher and photographer Sally Woodrow team-up to crack an international animal smuggling racket, the gang behind the operation leads the reckless pair on a chase across Australia straight into the jaws of fatal danger.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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My Pet Dinosaur
Overview: When a young boy named Jake accidentally makes a new friend in an experiment gone wrong a troubled town is plunged into chaos. But with the creature rapidly evolving every day, Jake finds it increasingly difficult to keep his new pet secret. Jake's friends and new girl Abbie realize they are not the only ones interested in this strange, mischievous little dinosaur and soon discover that the only thing more mysterious than what it is, is who is looking for it.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-22
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Early Frost
Overview: Private Detective Mike Hayes (Guy Doleman), is working on a divorce case, when he stumbles upon a series of cover-ups that leads to a corpse. His investigation takes him into the lievs of two families living in the Sydney suburbs. Although they look like ordinary people, one of them is the killer. Hayes meets the strange teenager David Prentice (David Franklin), who keeps a violent crime scrapbook, and Val Meadows (Diane McLean), the mistress who believes that someone is trying to kill her. The more the investigation deepens, the more twisted and complex it becomes. It appears the only people who hate Val enough to want her dead, are her own family. Could it be her two sons, alienated by her dominant nature, her lover, or even her best friend?
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Christmas Down Under
Overview: Tightly wound Ellie flies to Australia and enlists the help of an Aboriginal Tour Guide and a YouTubefamous Uber driver to find her husband and his eclectic family, and along the way, find her true self. All before Christmas.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-21
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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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Smoke Between Trees
Overview: An intimate portrait of a reluctant grandfather on a heart-warming journey of transformation – one that will lead him back to a home unlike any he ever imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-10
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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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Acute Misfortune
Overview: The film adaptation of Erik Jensen's award-winning biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the biographer and his subject, as it descends into a dependent and abusive relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-04
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The Wiggles Movie
Overview: As the Wiggles prepare a surprise party for their friend Dorothy the Dinosaur, she goes after a magician who has stolen Greg's magic wand.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-18
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