Norman Kaye
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Biography: Norman James Kaye (17 January 1927 – 28 May 2007) was an Australian actor and composer. He was best known for his roles in the films of director Paul Cox. As an actor, he was strongly associated with the films of Paul Cox, appearing in 16 of them. He had small roles in Cox's Illuminations (1976) and Kostas (1979), and shared the lead with Wendy Hughes in Cox's 1982 film Lonely Hearts and the lead in Man of Flowers (1983), for which he won an AFI Award. Norman Kaye was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease prior to 1997. His inability to memorise scripts for the film Innocence led to the end of his collaboration with Paul Cox, as well as the end of his career in 2004. Kaye was in the advanced stage of the disease at the time of his death in Sydney on 28 May 2007. He had enjoyed a 35-year relationship with the opera director Elke Neidhardt, and she was at his side at his death.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Birthday: January 17, 1927
Deathday: May 29, 2007
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Gender: Male
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Moulin Rouge!
Overview: A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-18
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Where the Green Ants Dream
Overview: The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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I Own the Racecourse
Overview: A touching story of a likable, but somewhat slow, teenage boy who believes he has bought a major Sydney racecourse for $20. Based on the classic Australian novel of the same name by Patricia Wrightson.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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A Woman's Tale
Overview: Uplifting and intimate look at the last days of an elderly cancer victim. The film is even more relevant as it was written specifically for the lead actress, Sheila Florance, who was in fact dying of cancer as she created what is essentially a self-portrait.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-26
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Paws
Overview: A talking Terrier with impressive computer skills teams up with two youngsters to stop a million dollars from falling into the wrong hands.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-25
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Man of Flowers
Overview: An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-22
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Exile
Overview: When Peter Costello is exiled to a deserted island for stealing sheep, Mary, a maid, decides to join him there.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-13
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Cactus
Overview: A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-05
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Lonely Hearts
Overview: In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-01
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A Dangerous Summer
Overview: Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator comes nosing around, whom Howard's partner deals with in a drastic manner. By the time Lloyds of London's senior investigator George Engels (James Mason in one of his last roles) arrives on the scene, Howard (Tom Skerritt) is anxious to set things to rights.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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The Nostradamus Kid
Overview: When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-14
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Broken Highway
Overview: In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting. In the beginning of the film, Angel is traveling with his friend Max on a ship to Honeyfield, a town on the coast of Australia. He is coming home to die. Instead, he dies on board the ship, willing his boots to Angel, and an unopened package to someone called "The Dead Man," in Honeyfield. Also on the ship is a man named Tatts, a far less pleasant personality. When Angel gets off to head into Honeyfield, Tatts decides to follow along unseen. The package, Angel was told, contains something its intended recipient has been looking for without knowing it. On finding the recipient, a mean-spirited old man who is more or less the boss and owner of the town, he learns that the package contains opium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-02
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Illuminations
Overview: A couple living together have a tense relationship. The woman's father dies and she becomes preoccupied with death. She almost drowns in the bath but then recovers her enthusiasm for life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-07
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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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Buddies
Overview: Mike and Johnny are two mates who are mining sapphires in Emerald. Another bloke is trying to move in on their claim and things get ugly
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-23
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Unfinished Business
Overview: Maureen's biological clock is ticking, and she wants a baby. Her husband George is unable to oblige. When Maureen bumps into Geoff, a former lover from years ago she decides he might be able to supply the wanted seed. But the scientific controls on their weekend encounter soon give way to natural urges and the consummation is concluded with tenderness.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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The Custodian
Overview: Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his straight life to join his partner Detective Church in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He secretly sides with a reporter and an Internal Affairs lawyer to expose them to the press.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-17
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The Remarkable Mr. Kaye
Overview: The Remarkable Mr Kaye is a blatantly biased portrait by filmmaker Paul Cox about the life of Norman Kaye - actor, musician and compassionate lover of life. Norman Kaye and Paul Cox first met in Melbourne in 1967. Norman, a music teacher and 'after hours' actor and Paul, a stills photographer, discovered in each other a mutual desire to explore their ideas and dreams through film. So began a 36-year working relationship that ceased only as the curtains of Alzheimer's Disease gradually closed around Kaye. There are few films by Paul Cox that are without some significant contribution, on-screen or off, by Kaye. Whether as lead actor or in a supporting role; as composer or performer, Kaye influenced everyone around him with guileless enthusiasm and humour. The Remarkable Mr Kaye includes film extracts and personal memories in a moving film that is homage to friendship and a creative partnership that shaped and changed Paul Cox's life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-24
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Touch Me
Overview: Two women escape to the mountains where they enjoy each others company, apparently disappointed with their male partners.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-16
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Inside Looking Out
Overview: The marriage of Robert and Elizabeth is collapsing, both concentrating on their jobs (journalist, mother) rather than each other. The film looks at a week in their lives. Robert sleeps with their babysitter, Marianne, while Elizabeth talks with their friends, Juliet and Alex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-24
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The Road
Overview: The road through the wood is said to be haunted; but are the ghosts from the past or the future?
Genres: TV Movie Horror Fantasy Thriller Mystery Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-17
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Relatives
Overview: A family reunion among the squattocracy leads to conflict as various members assert their egos.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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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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Frenchman's Farm
Overview: An Australian woman's car breaks down in the country, and when she goes to get help, she's whisked back in time to 1944 and witnesses a murder. Returning to her car, time reverts to normal, but unable to convince anyone of her story, she investigates the crime herself.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-17
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The Nun and the Bandit
Overview: Outlaws kidnap their 14-year-old cousin and hold her for ransom. The girl is being chaperoned by a visiting nun, who refuses to abandon her during the kidnapping.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-03
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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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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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Heaven's Burning
Overview: In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage. Her lover is supposed to meet her, but fails to appear. She goes to a bank to get some cash, only to become a hostage in an unfolding robbery, until the getaway driver, Colin, saves her from his fellow robbers. They hit the road together, with the cops, her husband and the robbers in pursuit.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-06
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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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Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
Overview: A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cross-country night sleeper. She makes sure she is in control of each encounter until one client reaches her more than she expects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-10
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Island
Overview: Island is Paul Cox's serene and beautiful film which explores a spectrum of emotions - ranging from extreme passion to fear, leading to murder - from loneliness to sensuality. Three women from Australia, Sri Lanka, and Greece meet on a Greek island. All are exiles escaping from their own personal tragedies. Ultimately, it is the island itself, with the generosity and warmth of the islanders, which leads all three women to revelations about themselves and their place in the world.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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