Frank Wilson
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Biography: Frank Wilson (11 April 1924 - 24 October 2005) was an Australian film, stage and television actor; musical comedy singer and director; and television game show and variety host. Wilson joined the Australian Army in 1943, to escape the wartime Manpower Directorite and being placed in a "useful" job, becoming a signalman in the 7th Division, 2nd AIF. Served in Papua New Guinea and Borneo, being discharged in late 1945. He started acting in 1948, acting up to his death in 2005.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Northcote, Victoria, Australia
Birthday: April 11, 1924
Deathday: October 24, 2005
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Gender: Male
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The Well
Overview: A young girl named Katherine and her older friend Hester live on an isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to leave because there's too much work. Hester, however, becomes attracted to Katherine and holds her there, promising to give her less work in the future. When Francis dies, Hester decides to sell the farm for cash. They move to a small cottage on the edge of the farm and plan to go to Europe, but a tragic accident and the theft of their money changes their plans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-14
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Alvin Rides Again
Overview: Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-16
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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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Black Robe
Overview: Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Money Movers
Overview: A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-24
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Crackerjack
Overview: When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club a prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-11
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The Club
Overview: The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-18
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Empire of Ash
Overview: In post-nuclear "New Idaho," a lone warrior teams up with a girl to help rescue the girl's sister from a hostile warrior clan.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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Going Sane
Overview: A business executive leaves his wife and family when he discovers that he only has a short time left to live.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-30
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Moon Over Harlem
Overview: Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta Wilcois). Sue meanwhile, is in love with Bob (Carl Hough), an idealist fond of looking out over the skyline and saying "Harlem... there's so much to be done here--it's fairly screaming for leadership." When Bob decides to organize the community against local racketeers he little realizes would-be father-in-law Dollar Bill is one of them. Bill meanwhile has problems of his own: A vicious white mob from lower Manhattan is muscling in on his action, and bullets are about to fly.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-12
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Fatty Finn
Overview: The 10-year-old Hubert Finn, known as "Fatty", lived in poor conditions in Australia in the 1930s. He and his friends stick together as they often have to defend themselves against the villain Bomer and his gang. Fatty wants a detector radio, but can't afford it. He has to raise money for it within a week, otherwise he won't get the radio ...
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-18
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News Report on a Journey to a Bright Future
Overview: The wife of a reporter, who turned up missing while investigating reports of illegal toxic dumping, teams up with a photographer to find her husband.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Overview: Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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The Call of Siva
Overview: Fourth release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series. Nayland Smith saves the life of Graham Guthrie, the British Resident in Bhutan, while on a visit to London from a plot by Dr. Fu-Manchu.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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The Clue of the Pigtail
Overview: Third release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series, where the police has to investigate the clue of the pigtail wig.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-24
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The Queen of Hearts
Overview: Based on Sax Rohmer’s third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917), this sensational episode sees Fu-Manchu partly paralysed by a bullet wound. The Devil Doctor snatches eminent surgeon Sir Baldwin Frazer to carry out the delicate operation he needs. Dr Petrie, abducted by Fu-Manchu’s scheming assistant, Zarmi, must assist – and choose a playing card to determine whether he lives or dies...
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-26
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The Cry of the Nighthawk
Overview: n this episode of adventure serial The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie investigate the strange death of a man from Forest Hill found with his face covered with scratches; their enquiries lead them once more to the Devil Doctor, Fu-Manchu. Meanwhile, Petrie’s stiff upper lip begins to quiver, as he grows dangerously fond of Fu-Manchu’s slave girl, Karamaneh...
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-29
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The Fiery Hand
Overview: In this exciting adventure based on the second Fu-Manchu novel, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie investigate a haunted house, but get more of a fright than they expected. Caught by the evil Dr Fu-Manchu, Nayland Smith faces a plague of ravenous Cantonese rats - a torture known as 'The Six Gates of Joyful Wisdom'. Will Petrie end his agony, with the razor-sharp ‘Friend’s Sword’?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-12
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The Fungi Cellars
Overview: Fu-Manchu’s slave girl Karamaneh leads sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie to her evil master’s lair, where they fall prey to another of the Devil Doctor’s traps. Bound hand and foot, they watch helplessly as a party of policemen are imprisoned in a subterranean vault and poisoned with vile fungal spore vapour, while Fu-Manchu cackles with maniacal glee. Can our heroes escape to save the day?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-15
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The Man with the Limp
Overview: This action-packed episode features one of the Devil Doctor's most enjoyably silly schemes to do away with his nemesis Nayland Smith. When Smith goes missing, it's up to Dr Petrie to continue the hunt for the Si-Fan, Fu-Manchu's secret society. On the trail of a mysterious man with a limp, Petrie disguises himself as a rough bargee to investigate a smoky riverside drinking den, the Joy-Shop Club.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-19
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The Miracle
Overview: Nayland Smith restores a `dead' man to life.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-08
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The Knocking on the Door
Overview: The evil Dr Fu-Manchu proves to be a master of disguise as well as villainy in this thrilling episode of the popular adventure serial. Adopting the persona of a long-bearded professor, Fu-Manchu pays a visit to London's Madame Tussauds waxworks. Elsewhere, there's something horribly uncanny going on at a remote country cottage: sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie leave the capital to investigate.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-22
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The Silver Buddha
Overview: Our hero Dr Petrie is caught by evil Fu-Manchu and imprisoned near the British Museum, where he risks a daring escape, high above the London streets.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-03
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The Sacred Order
Overview: When sleuth Nayland Smith steals evil Dr Fu-Manchu's 'Sacred Order', the Devil Doctor himself faces death at the hands of the Si-Fan organisation.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-10
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The Riddle of the Stinson
Overview: A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-25
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Ultimate Desires
Overview: Samantha Stewart is a successful public defender whose life gets turned upside-down one night when a prostitute named Vicki gets thrown out of a limo at Samantha's feet. Vicki slips a brooch into Sam's hand before disappering, then turns up the next day, dead. Sam soon finds herself the target of an international conspiracy who will stop at nothing to get back the brooch and silence Sam for good. To get to the bottom of the mystery (as well as to save her own skin), Sam makes the natural decision to disguise herself as a prostitute, but will it be enough?
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-31
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Slow Burn
Overview: A veteran cop is after a Mafia hitman, who killed his partner. Unbeknownst to him, a rookie cop has gone undercover to also catch the hitman, who murdered his parents. In order to get close to the hitman, the rookie has cozied up to the hitman's boss, who is in the middle of a gang war with a rival Chinese mob.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-31
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