Vincent Ball

Vincent Ball

Vincent Martin Ball OAM (born 4 December 1923) is an Australian-born retired character actor of radio, stage and screen, active in the industry for nearly 55 years (with a brief return) firstly in Britain and then his native Australia. He has also authored a number of books. He is best known for film roles in British and Australian films and TV movies, including A Town Like Alice, Breaker Morant, Phar Lap, Muriel's Wedding and The Man Who Sued God. He appeared in numerous TV roles, primarily in cameo guest roles, but had recurring roles in serials like Rush, The Young Doctors, A Country Practice and Home and Away. Vincent Ball has also worked variously in theatre, including Shakespeare, with productions of Henry IV and Romeo and Juliet and a musical based on Charles Dickens famous novel Great Expectations. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Title: Vincent Ball
  • Popularity: 8.235
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1923-12-04
  • Place of Birth: Wee Waa, New South Wales, Australia
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Vincent Ball Movies

  • 1956
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    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm

    7 1956 HD

    Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...

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  • 1987
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    The Year My Voice Broke

    The Year My Voice Broke

    7.1 1987 HD

    Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love blossoms into womanhood and falls for a...

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  • 1958
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    Sea of Sand

    Sea of Sand

    6.4 1958 HD

    A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North...

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  • 1968
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    Where Eagles Dare

    Where Eagles Dare

    7.53 1968 HD

    World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly...

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  • 1962
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    Carry On Cruising

    Carry On Cruising

    6 1962 HD

    Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to...

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  • 1980
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    Breaker Morant

    Breaker Morant

    7.1 1980 HD

    During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as...

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  • 1954
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    The Black Rider

    The Black Rider

    6.2 1954 HD

    When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined...

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  • 1955
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    The Stolen Airliner

    The Stolen Airliner

    1 1955 HD

    Three air cadets foil Revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner.

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  • 1983
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    Phar Lap

    Phar Lap

    7.2 1983 HD

    Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the...

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  • 1958
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    Blood of the Vampire

    Blood of the Vampire

    5.794 1958 HD

    A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his...

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  • 1971
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    Clinic Exclusive

    Clinic Exclusive

    3 1971 HD

    A beautiful massage parlor/sex clinic owner financially & emotionally mistreats her customers.

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  • 1994
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    Sirens

    Sirens

    5.6 1994 HD

    In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visit noted painter Norman Lindsay, whose planned...

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  • 1957
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    Menace In The Night

    Menace In The Night

    1 1957 HD

    A woman (Lisa Gastoni) witnesses the theft of soiled banknotes from a mail delivery truck, then is threatened by the perpetrators of the crime.

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  • 1954
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    Devil's Point

    Devil's Point

    1 1954 HD

    A Thames River barge operator finds a mysterious package dropped by smugglers.

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  • 1956
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    A Town Like Alice

    A Town Like Alice

    6.3 1956 HD

    In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no...

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  • 1961
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    Middle Course

    Middle Course

    1 1961 HD

    During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making life difficult for German-occupying forces in a...

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  • 1960
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    Feet of Clay

    Feet of Clay

    1 1960 HD

    Newly graduated defense attorney David Kyle (Vincent Ball) is stymied by his first case: to represent youthful criminal Jimmy Fuller (Brian Smith),...

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  • 1955
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    Blonde Blackmailer

    Blonde Blackmailer

    1 1955 HD

    A man (Richard Arlen) wants answers when he gets out of prison after spending seven years for a murder he did not commit.

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  • 2003
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    The Night We Called It a Day

    The Night We Called It a Day

    5.2 2003 HD

    Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the...

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  • 1954
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    Dangerous Voyage

    Dangerous Voyage

    5.9 1954 HD

    A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost...

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  • 1949
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    Stop Press Girl

    Stop Press Girl

    5.7 1949 HD

    A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange...

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  • 1982
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    The Highest Honour

    The Highest Honour

    5.7 1982 HD

    After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

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  • 1953
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    The Drayton Case

    The Drayton Case

    6 1953 HD

    During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.

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  • 1960
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    Dentist in the Chair

    Dentist in the Chair

    5.9 1960 HD

    The misfortunes that befall three dental students when they become unwitting accessories to a burglary.

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  • 1957
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    Robbery Under Arms

    Robbery Under Arms

    5.4 1957 HD

    During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous...

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  • 1983
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    The Dismissal

    The Dismissal

    1 1983 HD

    The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then...

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  • 1961
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    Highway to Battle

    Highway to Battle

    1 1961 HD

    Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two...

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  • 1949
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    The Interrupted Journey

    The Interrupted Journey

    6 1949 HD

    When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife,...

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  • 1993
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    Love In Limbo

    Love In Limbo

    4.4 1993 HD

    Ken Riddle (Craig Adams), to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work, Arthur (Russell Crowe) and Barry (Aden Young), on a trip to...

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  • 1971
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    Not Tonight, Darling

    Not Tonight, Darling

    6.2 1971 HD

    A lonely 'Stay-at-Home' Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a 'Peeping Tom', who is being put up to it by his...

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  • 1997
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    Paradise Road

    Paradise Road

    6.458 1997 HD

    A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during...

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  • 1951
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    Talk of a Million

    Talk of a Million

    1 1951 HD

    A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the...

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  • 1963
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    Echo of Diana

    Echo of Diana

    5.2 1963 HD

    When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.

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  • 1981
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    Alison's Birthday

    Alison's Birthday

    5.524 1981 HD

    During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyond the grave not to go home for her birthday three...

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  • 1956
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    The Secret of the Forest

    The Secret of the Forest

    1 1956 HD

    Two children dig up an old Viking treasure ship and become involved with crooks who have buried their loot on the site. Specially made for children.

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  • 1960
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    Identity Unknown

    Identity Unknown

    1 1960 HD

    Two reporters, a youth and a girl, find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of passengers in an ill-fated airliner.

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  • 1960
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    Dead Lucky

    Dead Lucky

    5 1960 HD

    Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. ...

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  • 1976
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    Deathcheaters

    Deathcheaters

    5.8 1976 HD

    Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.

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  • 1969
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    Oh! What a Lovely War

    Oh! What a Lovely War

    6.603 1969 HD

    The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...

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  • 1985
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    Call Me Mr. Brown

    Call Me Mr. Brown

    5 1985 HD

    Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand...

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  • 1967
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    Carry on Follow That Camel

    Carry on Follow That Camel

    5.8 1967 HD

    Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the Foreign Legion—with Simpson his manservant in tow....

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  • 1951
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    Encore

    Encore

    6.2 1951 HD

    Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by...

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  • 1979
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    Demolition

    Demolition

    3 1979 HD

    When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal...

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  • 1994
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    Muriel's Wedding

    Muriel's Wedding

    6.816 1994 HD

    A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.

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  • 1986
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    Double Sculls

    Double Sculls

    1 1986 HD

    A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.

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  • 1987
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    Vietnam

    Vietnam

    8.6 1987 HD

    The trials and tribulations of the Goddard family after the entry of Australia into the Vietnam War.

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  • 1959
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    Danger Within

    Danger Within

    6.2 1959 HD

    Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a...

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  • 2001
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    The Man Who Sued God

    The Man Who Sued God

    6.555 2001 HD

    A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance...

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  • 1961
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    A Matter of WHO

    A Matter of WHO

    6.2 1961 HD

    Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.

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  • 1963
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    The Mouse on the Moon

    The Mouse on the Moon

    5.9 1963 HD

    Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new...

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  • 2002
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    Black and White

    Black and White

    6 2002 HD

    Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation...

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  • 1993
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    Frauds

    Frauds

    6 1993 HD

    The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous...

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  • 1995
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    Blue Murder

    Blue Murder

    5.8 1995 HD

    Set in the 1970s and 1980s in Sydney, the miniseries concerns the relationship between controversial former Detective Roger "the Dodger" Rogerson and...

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  • 1962
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    Compact

    Compact

    3 1962 HD

    Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. The series was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who...

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  • 1974
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    Rush

    Rush

    5 1974 HD

    Rush was an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 1974 and 1976. The first 13 episodes were...

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  • 1967
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    Man in a Suitcase

    Man in a Suitcase

    7 1967 HD

    Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches...

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  • 1959
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    International Detective

    International Detective

    1 1959 HD

    The global adventures of Ken Franklin, ace operative of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, qualify as a pop-culture curio if only for star...

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  • 1960
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    Deadline Midnight

    Deadline Midnight

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1988
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    Home and Away

    Home and Away

    6.4 1988 HD

    Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the...

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  • 1986
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    The Flying Doctors

    The Flying Doctors

    6.5 1986 HD

    The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real...

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  • 1976
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    The Sullivans

    The Sullivans

    4.8 1976 HD

    The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The...

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  • 1985
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    Anzacs

    Anzacs

    6.5 1985 HD

    Anzacs was a 1985 5-part Australian miniseries set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the...

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  • 1987
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    Rafferty's Rules

    Rafferty's Rules

    6 1987 HD

    Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first...

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  • 1989
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    Bangkok Hilton

    Bangkok Hilton

    6.9 1989 HD

    This classic Australian mini series was originally broadcast in 1989 as three 90 minute episodes and tells the story of a young woman who goes in...

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  • 1984
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    Bodyline

    Bodyline

    7.7 1984 HD

    Dramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and...

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  • 1991
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    The Private War of Lucinda Smith

    The Private War of Lucinda Smith

    1 1991 HD

    The Private War of Lucinda Smith is a 1990 Australian mini series about an Australian chorus girl living in London.

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