Peter Cummins
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Peter Cummins (born 2 June 1931) is an Australian retired character actor of stage and screen and chorister who was especially prominent in the 1970s and appeared in some of the most famous Australian films of the period.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: June 02, 1931
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
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The Man From Snowy River II
Overview: After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison, Jim Craig returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-24
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Storm Boy
Overview: Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-28
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Sky Pirates
Overview: Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5,000 miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-16
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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!"
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Rikky and Pete
Overview: Rikky and her brother Pete struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-09
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Alvin Purple
Overview: Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-20
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The Removalists
Overview: An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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Dead Easy
Overview: A student of criminology is completing a thesis on Melbourne mass murderers. With the aid of a German professor he visits the scenes of the crimes of Frederick Deeming, Norman List, Arnold Sodeman and Edward Leonski and reconstructs them.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-01
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Bonjour Balwyn
Overview: Kevin leaves a job in insurance to start his own magazine. As his debts mount, Kevin’s prospects begin to look brighter in the criminal world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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Twelfth Night
Overview: Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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Slate, Wyn & Me
Overview: Meandering drama of Brothers Burke and Sacks, who rob a bank, kill a cop and kidnap Thornton, a witness to their crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-13
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Mad Dog Morgan
Overview: The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-09
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Double Deal
Overview: Wealthy Peter Sterling and his younger wife Christine have an existence of little excitement so when a stranger comes into their lives, she is intrigued. An affair turns into much more and they are soon plotting to rob Peter of a precious gemstone.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-15
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Blue Fire Lady
Overview: Jenny Grey a horse loving country girl leaves her widowed father to move to the city after her father's frustrations towards Jenny and her desires to ride horses, after her mother had died from a horse-riding accident. Jenny finds work at a country race track and becomes obsessed with a troublesome horse called "Blue Fire Lady". "Blue Fire Lady" shows promise in Jenny's hands, but around everyone else misbehaves and shows no discipline. When "Blue Fire Lady" is put up for auction it is up to Jenny to either buy her or prove her.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-09
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Sunday Too Far Away
Overview: The harsh, competitive world of Australian sheep-shearers provides the setting for this powerful film. Foley and 'Black Arthur' do battle for the position of 'top shearer' amid the boozy world of men isolated from civilisation. After weeks of work they are confronted with non-union labour undercutting them - a situation which leads to a violent conclusion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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Who Killed Jenny Langby?
Overview: Traces the events leading up to the suicide of an Adelaide mother of five children.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-27
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Dimboola: The Stage Play
Overview: A recording of the Australian Performing Group's performance of their first professional production season of Jack Hibberd's play "Dimboola" staged at the Pram Factory in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-22
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Ground Zero
Overview: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Stork
Overview: Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-27
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Dalmas
Overview: Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale of a violent ex-cop searching for the man who killed his partner, the film takes an unexpected turn when he encounters drug lord Plastic Man and a tribe of LSD enthusiasts. What follows is both literal and metaphorical mayhem as the boundaries of the film start collapsing and our idea of what's real is pushed to its very limits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-15
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The Firm Man
Overview: Businessman Gerald Barker is invited to join a mysterious super corporation known as The Firm. His work in the organisation turns out to be of a unique and somewhat disturbing nature. But Gerald finds no comfort with his wife Melissa and friend Barry - his relationships with both collapse. In a surreal and strange fashion, Gerald eventually comes to understand what The Firm is about. Made on a tiny budget of $15,000 the film is a mix of naturalism and stylisation which the filmmaker hoped would work on 'a simple, surrealistic level'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-09
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Kangaroo
Overview: A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trade unions and fascist groups.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-24
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The Good Wife
Overview: In pre-WWII Australia, a love triangle develops between a man, his wife and the man's brother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-14
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Robbery Under Arms
Overview: Fourth adaptation and first made for television of the classic Australian bushranger novel "Robbery Under Arms" by Rolf Boldrewood. Made by the South Australian Film Corporation during the mini-series boom of the 1980s and lensed in the Flinders Ranges, it stars Sam Neill as the infamous Captain Starlight.
Genres: Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-28
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