Anne Phelan
Also Known As: Annie Phelan
Biography: Anne Phelan (2 August 1944 - 27 October 2019) was an Australian actress of stage and screen who appeared in many theatre, television and film productions as well as radio and voice-over.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Birthday: August 02, 1944
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 27, 2019
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The Craic
Overview: When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-29
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I Live With Me Dad
Overview: Peter Hehir plays full-time loser Sid McCall, professional vagrant and alcoholic on the skids. Haydon Samuels is his young son Christopher who lives with him. At the insistence of those who seek to help, child welfare workers are called-in to retrieve the lad from what authorities classify as "inappropriate living conditions." Someone seems to have overlooked the fact that Christopher does not consider his plight as distressing however and with each visit to the home, all the social workers can get in the way of co-operation, is Christopher's stock-standard reply to their questions..."I live with me dad!"
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Inanimate Objects
Overview: A man is constantly thwarted by the presence of inanimate objects.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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The Making of 'Habit (1981)'
Overview: Documentary short for Larry Fessenden's 1981 short film, HABIT.
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Original Language: en
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Habit
Overview: An alcoholic falls in love with a woman who might be a vampire. Remade in 1995 by the same director.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-31
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Poor Man's Orange
Overview: Like its predecessor The Harp In The South, Poor Man's Orange was also adapted for Australian television by the Ten Network in 1987. It continues the story of the Darcy family, living in the Surry Hills area of Sydney. Originally a novel by New Zealand-born Australian author Ruth Park, the book was published in 1949. The Darcys a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock - Mumma (Anne Phelan), dad Hughie (Martyn Sanderson), Roie (Anna Hruby) and the younger daughter Dolour (Kaarin Fairfax), through whose eyes we hear their story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-14
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The Harp in the South
Overview: We first meet The Darcys, a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock through whose eyes we hear their story. A story that centres on the bittersweet first and last loves of Roie, who becomes a woman too quickly living among the tenement houses, razor gangs, brothels and sly-grog shops of inner city Sydney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-11
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Hard Knocks
Overview: A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society are juxtaposed against the confusion and frustration she feels as she struggles to become part of a community that has no place for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-23
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Charlie & Boots
Overview: Paul Hogan plays Charlie McFarland and Shane Jacobson plays his estranged son, Boots. After a family tragedy Charlie and Boots try and put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula - they overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the northern most tip of Australia.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-03
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The Battlers
Overview: Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-14
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The Balanced Particle Freeway
Overview: Welcome to the far-famed and most reliable Balanced Particle Freeway, a magical adventure that can take you anywhere in the world in no time at all! That's what the dragon Mizuchi tells Lili and Bede when he unexpectedly crash lands in their backyard. The children discover that there is an entrance to the Balanced Particle Freeway just outside their back gate and it catapults them from school holiday boredom into high adventure.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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