Vincent Ball
Also Known As: Vincent Martin Ball
Biography: Vincent Martin Ball OAM (born 4 December 1923) is an Australian-born retired character actor of radio, stage and screen, active in the industry for nearly 55 years (with a brief return) firstly in Britain and then his native Australia. He has also authored a number of books. He is best known for film roles in British and Australian films and TV movies, including A Town Like Alice, Breaker Morant, Phar Lap, Muriel's Wedding and The Man Who Sued God. He appeared in numerous TV roles, primarily in cameo guest roles, but had recurring roles in serials like Rush, The Young Doctors, A Country Practice and Home and Away. Vincent Ball has also worked variously in theatre, including Shakespeare, with productions of Henry IV and Romeo and Juliet and a musical based on Charles Dickens famous novel Great Expectations. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: December 04, 1923
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
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The Long Arm
Overview: Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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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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Sea of Sand
Overview: A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-04
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Where Eagles Dare
Overview: World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-04
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Carry On Cruising
Overview: Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-12
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Breaker Morant
Overview: During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-11
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The Black Rider
Overview: When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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The Stolen Airliner
Overview: Three air cadets foil Revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Phar Lap
Overview: Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.
Genres: Drama Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-11
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Blood of the Vampire
Overview: A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crippled assistant Carl, the 'anemic' Mad Scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-25
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Clinic Exclusive
Overview: A beautiful massage parlor/sex clinic owner financially & emotionally mistreats her customers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Sirens
Overview: In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visit noted painter Norman Lindsay, whose planned contribution to an international art exhibit is considered blasphemous. While Campion and Lindsay debate, Estella finds herself drawn to the three beautiful models sitting for the painter's current work, freethinking Sheela, sensual Pru and virginal Giddy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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Menace In The Night
Overview: A woman (Lisa Gastoni) witnesses the theft of soiled banknotes from a mail delivery truck, then is threatened by the perpetrators of the crime.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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Devil's Point
Overview: A Thames River barge operator finds a mysterious package dropped by smugglers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-07
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A Town Like Alice
Overview: In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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Middle Course
Overview: During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making life difficult for German-occupying forces in a Canadian pilot they rescue after he crash-lands in the vicinity and ends up in the hands of the Nazis. As the villagers grow increasingly dependent on the flyer's training and smarts, the Germans grow more determined to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance. [Netflix]
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-10
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Feet of Clay
Overview: Newly graduated defense attorney David Kyle (Vincent Ball) is stymied by his first case: to represent youthful criminal Jimmy Fuller (Brian Smith), who refuses to explain his involvement in the murder of the revered Diana White (Angela Douglas), a probation officer seemingly devoted to her work. As he investigates, David learns that Diana's partners may not be as respectable as they appear and that Jimmy's girlfriend is in grave danger from them. [Netflix]
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-18
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Blonde Blackmailer
Overview: A man (Richard Arlen) wants answers when he gets out of prison after spending seven years for a murder he did not commit.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-01
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The Night We Called It a Day
Overview: Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-14
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Dangerous Voyage
Overview: A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost ship?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-03
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Stop Press Girl
Overview: A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-02
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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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The Drayton Case
Overview: During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Dentist in the Chair
Overview: The misfortunes that befall three dental students when they become unwitting accessories to a burglary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-08
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Robbery Under Arms
Overview: During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-10
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Highway to Battle
Overview: Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two Gestapo agents searching for the missing man causes the ambassador and his family to rethink their Nazi allegiance but is it too late to escape from Hitler's evil grasp?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-21
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The Interrupted Journey
Overview: When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-11
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Love In Limbo
Overview: Ken Riddle (Craig Adams), to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work, Arthur (Russell Crowe) and Barry (Aden Young), on a trip to Kalgoorlie’s infamous red light street in a fumbling attempt to collectively lose their virginity. Puffing on Lucky Strikes lit by Zippos, driving Studebakers adorned with tailfins, all the while shaking, rattling and rolling, the characters in Love in Limbo are innocent of greed, unaware of the world’s looming crisis, free of flower power and safe from sex. Love in Limbo is a good time comedy flick about love, zits and rock’n’roll!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-20
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Not Tonight, Darling
Overview: A lonely 'Stay-at-Home' Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a 'Peeping Tom', who is being put up to it by his friend. She eventually finds out and gets her revenge on them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-23
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Paradise Road
Overview: A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-11
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Talk of a Million
Overview: A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-12
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Echo of Diana
Overview: When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-01
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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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The Secret of the Forest
Overview: Two children dig up an old Viking treasure ship and become involved with crooks who have buried their loot on the site. Specially made for children.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Identity Unknown
Overview: Two reporters, a youth and a girl, find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of passengers in an ill-fated airliner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Dead Lucky
Overview: Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. But when he and his columnist girlfriend, Jenny Drew, finally manage to infiltrate one of them, it leads quickly to trouble. The party's organiser is found murdered the next morning, and a number of suspects begin to emerge. But which of them killed Lucky Lewis?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Deathcheaters
Overview: Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Overview: The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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Call Me Mr. Brown
Overview: Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extortion scam, he steals $500,000 in cash from Australian airlines company Qantas. This begins the start of a major international manhunt to catch a thief who is now living the high life from the spoils of his heist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-31
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Carry On Follow That Camel
Overview: Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there's trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-10
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Encore
Overview: Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-11
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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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Muriel's Wedding
Overview: A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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Double Sculls
Overview: A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-09
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Vietnam
Overview: The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-23
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Danger Within
Overview: Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-17
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The Man Who Sued God
Overview: A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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A Matter of WHO
Overview: Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-03
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The Mouse on the Moon
Overview: Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-07
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Black and White
Overview: Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Frauds
Overview: The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks. Eventually he becomes involved in an escalating vendetta with a couple who make an unusual insurance claim.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-04
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Deadline
Overview: A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion - part of an extortion threat that has the government fearing nuclear blackmail. With the help of local reporters, and despite the harassment of the security agencies, he sets out to avert the crisis.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Baby and the Battleship
Overview: After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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