Vincent Ball

Born: 1923-12-04

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


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as Carpenter
Released: 1968-12-04

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in...

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Sirens

as Bishop of Sydney
Released: 1994-03-04

In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to...

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Muriel's Wedding

as Priest
Released: 1994-09-29

A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where...

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Paradise Road

as Mr. Dickson
Released: 1997-02-11

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being...

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Encore

as Young Husband
Released: 1951-06-11

Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset...

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Breaker Morant

as Col. Ian (Johnny) Hamilton
Released: 1980-06-11

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners....

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Carry on Follow That Camel

as Ship's Officer
Released: 1967-08-10

Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation, so he joins the...

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The Man Who Sued God

as Cardinal
Released: 2001-10-25

A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is...

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Carry On Cruising

as Jenkins
Released: 1962-03-12

Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such...

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The Year My Voice Broke

as Headmaster
Released: 1987-10-15

Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend...

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A Town Like Alice

as Ben
Released: 1956-03-01

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly....

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Oh! What a Lovely War

as Australian Soldier
Released: 1969-03-10

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys...

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Clinic Exclusive

as Bernard Wilcox
Released: 1971-01-01

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

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Danger Within

as Capt. Pat Foster
Released: 1959-02-17

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British...

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Blood of the Vampire

as Dr. John Pierre
Released: 1958-08-25

A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has...

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The Long Arm

as P.C. at Hospital (uncredited)
Released: 1956-06-01

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning...

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The Mouse on the Moon

as Pilot
Released: 1963-05-07

Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in...

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Frauds

as Judge
Released: 1993-06-04

The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and...

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Dangerous Voyage

as John Drew
Released: 1954-09-03

A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no...

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Alison's Birthday

as Dr. Jeremy Lyall
Released: 1981-05-01

During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from...

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Black and White

as Chief Justice Napier
Released: 2002-10-31

Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest...

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The Night We Called It a Day

as Rex Hooper
Released: 2003-08-14

Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a...

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Phar Lap

as Lachlan McKinnon
Released: 1983-08-11

Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped...

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The Highest Honour

as Lieutenant Commander Hubert Marsham
Released: 1982-05-15

After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new...

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The Dismissal

as Justin O'Byrne
Released: 1983-03-06

The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of...

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Sea of Sand

as Sgt Nesbitt
Released: 1958-11-04

A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as...

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Demolition

as uncredited
Released: 1979-06-21

When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of...

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The Black Rider

as Ted Lintott
Released: 1954-12-01

When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a...

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The Interrupted Journey

as the first workman
Released: 1949-10-11

When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is...

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Vietnam

as Dave the Spook
Released: 1987-02-23

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

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Stop Press Girl

as Hero in cinema sequence
Released: 1949-06-02

A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she...

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A Matter of WHO

as Dr. Blake
Released: 1961-10-03

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

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Dentist in the Chair

as Michaels
Released: 1960-08-08

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

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Highway to Battle

as Ransome
Released: 1961-05-21

Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his...

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Identity Unknown

as Ken
Released: 1960-06-01

Two reporters, a youth and a girl, find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of...

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Love In Limbo

as Cyril Williams
Released: 1993-05-20

Ken Riddle (Craig Adams), to whom sex is a mystery, joins his two mates from work, Arthur...

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Deathcheaters

as uncredited
Released: 1976-12-16

Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on...

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Not Tonight, Darling

as Alex / Karen's lover
Released: 1971-09-23

A lonely 'Stay-at-Home' Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a...

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The Drayton Case

as Henley's Assistant
Released: 1953-02-01

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

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Talk of a Million

as Jack Murnahan
Released: 1951-03-12

A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer...

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Robbery Under Arms

as George Storefield
Released: 1957-01-10

During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their...

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Devil's Point

as Williams
Released: 1954-12-07

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

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Dead Lucky

as Mike Billing
Released: 1960-06-01

Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been...

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Blonde Blackmailer

as Johnson
Released: 1955-10-01

A man (Richard Arlen) wants answers when he gets out of prison after spending seven years for a...

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Call Me Mr. Brown

as Captain Ritchie
Released: 1985-12-31

Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story...

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Double Sculls

as Stuart
Released: 1986-10-09

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

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Home and Away

as Tom Knight
First aired: 1988-01-18

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

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The Sullivans

as Admiral Spencer / Major Greenwell
First aired: 1976-11-15

The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which...

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The Flying Doctors

as Warren
First aired: 1986-05-15

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved...

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Rafferty's Rules

as Mathew
First aired: 1987-02-12

Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the...

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Man in a Suitcase

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-27

Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name,...

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Rush

as Supt. James Kendall
First aired: 1974-08-20

Rush was an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...

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Bodyline

as Joseph Lyons (Prime Minister)
First aired: 1984-03-19

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

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Anzacs

as Sir Rupert Barrington
First aired: 1985-10-27

Anzacs was a 1985 5-part Australian miniseries set in World War I. The series follows the lives...

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Blue Murder

as Dr. Cumberland
First aired: 1995-09-14

Set in the 1970s and 1980s in Sydney, the miniseries concerns the relationship between...

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