John Waters
John Waters (born December 8, 1948) is one of Australia's most recognised and respected film and theatre actors. He was born in London England, the middle of five children of Scottish actor, Russell Waters. As a child John often hung around film studios while dad worked and even starred in a few young parts. He first faced a live audience as a singer and bass player with 60s R & R Band The Riots and appeared in Macbeth before travelling to Australia in 1968 with only a guitar and $90. He soon heard a US film called Adam's Woman, starring Beau Bridges, was being filmed in NSW so he managed to get himself cast in a small role. Fellow cast members recommended he try auditioning for a musical. He did, and landed the lead role of Claude in Sydney's 1969 production of the landmark rock musical, Hair. This was followed by the role of Judas in Godspell. This led to an acting career on stage, film and television that elevated him to his current status as Australia's most versatile leading man. From the brooding Sgt. McKellar Of ABC TV's Rush in 1974 which earned him a Logie Award for Best New Talent, through the Australian film boom that followed with films such as End Play, Summerfield, Breaker Morant, and on to the mini-series of the 80's, All The Rivers Run, Nancy Wake and Alice To Nowhere. Not to be forgotten was his ten year stint as host of childrens ABC program PlaySchool. John has always intrigued audiences with his diversity. Since collecting Australia's highest accolade as the Australian Film Institute's Best Actor Award in 1988 for the film Boulevard of Broken Dreams, John has re-embraced musical theatre as Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady, and They're Playing Our Song, and in productions of The Hunting of the Snark for Mike Batt, and A Little Night Music for the Sydney Theatre Company. He has also appeared in Love Letters at the Sydney Opera House and Children of a Lesser God. In 1995 he appeared in ReUnion a rock musical written and financed by himself and Stewart D'Arrietta. He won unanimous acclaim in the role of Pontius Pilate in the 1992 concert version of Jesus Christ Superstar with John Farnham, Kate Ceberano, Jon Stevens and Angry Anderson which successfully toured the nation. He has made guest appearances in various TV series, including Good Guys Bad Guys, The Man From Snowy River, All Together Now and Young Lions. John's self written one man show Looking Through a Glass Onion, based on the life of John Lennon, toured nationally and regularly since 1992 and also played six months in London's West End in 1995.
Stealth
as Black Ops DoctorDeeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial...
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Two planes almost collide after a blinding flash of light paralyzes air traffic controller Dylan...
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
as Professor LinnaeusAfter freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian...
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Breaker Morant
as Cpt. Alfred TaylorDuring the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners....
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Return to Nim's Island
as BookerFourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that...
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Attack Force Z
as Ted KingTim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes...
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Blaze
as MagistrateAfter a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process...
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Not Quite Hollywood
as SelfAs Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art...
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
as David BracefellAn old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and...
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Summerfield
as David AbbottWhen teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is...
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
as Mark FrettlbyMelbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out,...
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The Real Macaw
as Dr. Lance HagenAn ancient talking macaw named Mac becomes the saving grace for an elderly man threatened with a...
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Captain Johnno
as FrankA young deaf boy who calls himself "Captain Johnno" befriends Tony, an Italian fisherman in the...
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The Getting of Wisdom
as Rev. ShepherdThe Getting of Wisdom is based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson (born Ethel Florence...
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Totally Gay!
as SelfTotally Gay! is a 2003 television special on VH1 that discusses gay pop culture in the United...
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Evil Never Dies
as Professor ArkinAfter his wife is brutally murdered, a policeman transfers to patrol duty at a college, only to...
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Three Summers
as EamonSet over three summers at The Westival, a fictional West Australian rural folk festival...
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Heaven Tonight
as Johnny DysartThe film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is...
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Bushfire Moon
as Patrick O'DayIn the Australian outback, a small boy determines to see that a nasty, curmudgeonly miser gets...
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Going Sane
as Martin BrownA business executive leaves his wife and family when he discovers that he only has a short time...
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Kapyong
as NarratorOn April 24, 1951, following a rout of the South Korean army, the Chinese People Volunteer Army...
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The Rooster
as NorrisWhen the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan, a small-town cop,...
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Chameleon II: Death Match
as Henry KubicaIn this sequel to the made-for-TV sci-fi thriller Chameleon, Bobbie Phillips returns as Kam, a...
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Grievous Bodily Harm
as Morris MartinA schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not...
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The Last of the Mohicans
as Hawkeye Bumppo (voice)An animated version of James Fenimore Cooper's classic wilderness adventure during the French...
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Cass
as MikeTorn by the conflict between society and her own life, as well as her failing marriage and love...
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The Sugar Factory
as Sam LejeuneWith his distinctive voice and unusual view of life, Harris takes us through his story: a...
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Weekend of Shadows
as RabbitIn the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer...
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Carnivore Reflux
as NarratorA gastronomical, phantasmagorical nightmare from another time about a little-known condition...
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Ebbtide
as Michael SureschLawyer Jeff Warren takes over a compensation case after the sudden death of one of his legal...
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The Perfectionist
as Stuart GunnBarbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that...
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams
as Tom GarfieldA successful Australian writer discovers he has cancer and returns home to Melbourne to be with...
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Demolition
as uncreditedWhen British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of...
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Passion Flower
as Leslie GaitlandThe movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business...
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High Country
as Ben LomaxFollowing the death of his wife, mountain cattleman, Ben Lomax leaves the high country but is...
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End Play
as Mark GiffordAnd just when you believe there is nothing more to fear, you will begin to experience the...
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Centre Place
as Jack HoughtonCentre Place is a sophisticated romantic drama featuring Melbourne's style, fashion and culture....
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Ten Pound Poms
as NarratorThis heart-warming film traces the extraordinary story of Australia's 'Ten Pound Poms' and their...
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Which Way Home
as Steve HannahAn American nurse is determined to smuggle a group of orphans out of Cambodia in the late 1970s,...
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The Scalp Merchant
as uncreditedWhy is everyone out to sabotage him? Cliff Rowan has been hired to recover a stolen payroll...
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Jesus Christ Superstar
as Pontius PilateThe 1992 Australian Cast Concert Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar was a phenomenal success with...
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Celebrity Ghost Stories
as SelfCompelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal...
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The Lost World
as LentoEarly 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon...
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The Man from Snowy River
as Damien WintersThe Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The...
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries
as Bernie ThompsonDr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over...
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The Sullivans
as Chris MerchantThe Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which...
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The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy
as (voice)Dr. Sleech and Dr. Klak — aliens, best friends and intergalactically renowned surgeons — tackle...
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Darby and Joan
as Ian KirkhopeAn English widow on a reluctant quest. An Australian detective escaping his past. When lives...
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Who Do You Think You Are?
as SelfAustralian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing...
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Mickey Mouse
as (voice)In this series of cartoon shorts, Mickey Mouse finds himself in silly situations all around the...
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Underbelly
as John Hatton MPUnderbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone...
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Halifax: Retribution
as RyanA sniper is on the loose, as Jane Halifax comes back to the rescue to find the sniper before its...
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Offspring
as uncreditedAn exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to...
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The End
as HenryThree generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions - trying to figure out...
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ANZAC Girls
as Colonel Thomas FiaschiThe unique, and rarely told true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at...
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All Saints
as Mike VlasekMedical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on...
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Good Guys, Bad Guys
as Oscar DrakeGood Guys, Bad Guys was an Australian crime TV series that screened on the Nine Network between...
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All the Rivers Run
as Brenton EdwardsOrphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the spirited Philadelphia...
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All The Rivers Run II
as Brenton EdwardsAt the turn of the century, new roads and railway lines threaten the very existence of the once...
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Fireflies
as Perry LuscombeFireflies is an Australian television show which aired on the Australian Broadcasting...
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Young Lions
as Senior Detective Bill MartinYoung Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in...
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Rush
as uncreditedRush was an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
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Nancy Wake
as Henri FioccaNancy Wake tells the true story of Australia's greatest war heroine - the woman the Gestapo...
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Wonders of Australia's National Parks
as NarratorWitness remote and exotic wonders as you explore the wild, timeless Australia seen by so few....
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Alice to Nowhere
as Johnny ParsonA nurse who has been hired to staff a remote outpost in the Australian outback unwittingly...
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