John Hargreaves
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Biography: John William Hargreaves (28 November 1945 - 8 January 1996) was an Australian film actor, but is well-remembered by Australian audiences for the title role in the TV drama Young Ramsay in the 1970s and worked in a number of stage productions. Hargreaves had roles in The Removalists (1975), Don's Party (1976), The Odd Angry Shot (1979), and Malcolm (1986). He played the love interest of Nicole Kidman's character in Emerald City (1988).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia
Birthday: November 28, 1945
Deathday: January 08, 1996
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Gender: Male
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The Great Gold Swindle
Overview: The true story of a half million dollar gold robbery which took place in Perth Western Australia in 1982.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-01
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Malcolm
Overview: Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-20
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The Odd Angry Shot
Overview: A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
Genres: War Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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Don's Party
Overview: On the night of the 1969 federal election, Don Henderson invites a group of friends to celebrate a predicted Labor Party victory, much to the dismay of his wife, Kath. The Hendersons and their nine guests drink, joke, make love, and fight, all while coming to terms with their individual struggles in life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-10
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Long Weekend
Overview: When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-29
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Emerald City
Overview: A comedy of life's temptations - lust, greed and power. The city in question is Sydney and the colour green signifies greed and envy in David Williamsons amusing satire on its film and publishing industries. The story centers around the Rogers family, loosely modelled on Williamson's own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-09
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Comrades
Overview: The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-23
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The Heroes
Overview: Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the north of Australia, a team of 14 men, most barely out of their teens, set sail from Cairns on board a leaky old fishing boat called 'The Krait'. Their mission, code-named Operation Jaywick, became a tense voyage through thousands of kilometres of Japanese held territory to launch a daring attack on Singapore Harbour. The raid is a success but within sight of safety they encounter a Japanese destroyer, and all prepare to die rather than be taken prisoner.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Hoodwink
Overview: Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a labor-saving plan. Hargreaves pretends to be totally blind, thus lightening his work load....and carries off the hoax for years.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-05
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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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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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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Overview: A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-31
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Sweet Revenge
Overview: An attorney plays match-maker for her ex-husband, by hiring an actress to seduce him - all in an attempt to try and rid herself of alimony payments.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-09
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My First Wife
Overview: My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also a film about our children and the future we offer them. Helen has decided to leave, and it is John who lacks the inner resources to cope with the impending tragedy. Slowly he is sucked into a tunnel of despair – fighting his conservative nature and the romantic memories of his married life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-12
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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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Boundaries of the Heart
Overview: A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at her father's hotel and bar. She receives annual New Year's marriage proposals from rodeo rider Andy Ford (John Hargreaves), who talks himself into asking her one more time. Stella's father Billy (Norman Kaye) is a former cricket star whose career ended early when he was involved in a sex scandal. She spends the night with vacationing Arthur (Michael Siberry) when his car breaks down. Andy elects not to pop the question to Stella in lieu of her one-night stand with the stranger. When Billy elects to marry June Thompson (Julie Nihill), the local gossipmongers have a field day recalling the woman's promiscuous past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Blackfellas
Overview: Young Aboriginal Doug has done his time for petty theft, but quickly drifts back under the bad influence of ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd. Doug knows where he’s heading – he’s seen it all before, in the hard life of his father. Returning to his traditional country and the love of girlfriend Polly is the way out. But Floyd’s mateship is hard to shake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-04
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The Place at the Coast
Overview: Teenager Ellie is distressed by forces that threaten the special family holidays she shares with her widowed father. These threats are posed by a new coastal development and her father's new relationship with a local woman. Ellie desperately clings to memories and places that preserve the memory of her late mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-17
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No Worries
Overview: A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-31
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The Killing of Angel Street
Overview: Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father's mysterious death, she joins forces with local residents and a union leader against corrupt forces. Based on the real life mysterious disappearance of Juanita Nielsen.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Careful, He Might Hear You
Overview: Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest existence, PS is happy with them. However, his contentment is derailed when Lila's wealthy sister, Vanessa, returns from England and takes an interest in PS.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-22
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Rome Roméo
Overview: David, 50 years old, returns to Rome for an appointment made 20 years earlier. The passion that bound him to the Countess Clara Orsini had ended with a flight to the other side of the world. The woman he finds on the day of the appointment is not the one he loved, but another, his double, his own daughter who bears the same name of Clara. Intimate ties are formed between them as they wander through Rome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-04-22
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Little Boy Lost
Overview: The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers, the boy cannot know that the boisterous hordes of volunteers are his saviors and not his enemies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-16
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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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Cry Freedom
Overview: A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-06
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Country Life
Overview: Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-law Alexander as a (supposedly brilliant) literary critic in London. Action begins when Alexander returns with his beautiful young wife Deborah, revealing himself as an arrogant failure and wanting to sell the farm out from under Jack. Blakemore introduces themes about Australia's separation from England, as well as expanding the pacifist and ecological philosophies espoused by the local Doctor Max Askey.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-27
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Lust and Revenge
Overview: This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-28
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Hotel Sorrento
Overview: Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir in Sorrento and in her family when it is supected that the book is not as fictional as she claims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-20
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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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The Lizard King
Overview: A woman travels from France to Australia in search of her missing son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-28
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