Allan Penney
Also Known As: Alan Penney
Biography: Allan Penney (19?? - September 26, 1996) was an Australian actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: Not available
Age: Not available
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 26, 1996
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The Year My Voice Broke
Overview: Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, changing the lives of everyone involved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-15
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Backroads
Overview: Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-27
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Harbour Beat
Overview: Neal McBride is a Glasgow cop who likes to go undercover - the rest of the police wish he would stay there. When he arrests a politician he gets reassigned to where they used to send criminals: Australia. Lancelot Cooper is a Sydney cop but a country boy at heart; he is as trusting as McBride is suspicious. The two are partners on a case where death, deception and betrayal propels them into a desperate fight for survival.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-23
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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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Around the World in Eighty Ways
Overview: Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Afraid to Dance
Overview: An out-of-luck youth gets a lift from a shoplifter whose car he had planned to steal. They become involved in crime and romance together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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Resistance
Overview: Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Tim
Overview: Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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Gone to Ground
Overview: A man is brutally beaten so he and 4 others head to the beach for refuge and relaxation. It soon becomes clear that they've been imprisoned by person or persons unknown. Then an unknown mad killer begins picking off the vacationers, one by one.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-13
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Matchless
Overview: The film looks at the life and lot of three disturbed and lonely people, misfits and outcasts making an uphill attempt to live together in a condemned house in Sydney: a young epileptic Cynthia (Sally Blake), a middle-aged alcoholic Victor (Allan Penny) and a schizophrenic Annie (Denise Otto). When various doctors, social workers and freaks interfere in their lives without real understanding, a dangerous imbalance is created.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-01
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Demolition
Overview: When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repetition, discovers chordation that completely erases all memory, it is obvious that such a cleansed mind may be programmed to perform any type of action. Erstwhile agent Peter Clarke inactive for years, is chosen as courier to transport an audio tape of the tones to his native Australia.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-21
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The Earthling
Overview: Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, a man returns home to Australia to die in the wilderness. His plans become complicated when he comes across a young boy whose parents have been killed and decides to take him under his wing.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-24
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