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Body Business
''Body Business'' is a 1986 Australian TV mini-series directed by Colin Eggleston set against the background of the world of modelling.Albert Moran, ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', AFTRS 1993 p 86Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p178 Premise After nine years in New York, Patricia returns to Sydney to take control of the family company from her sister Victoria. References External links * ''Body Business''at AustLit AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration betwee ... 1980s Australian television miniseries 1986 Australian television series debuts 1986 Australian television series endings 1986 television films 1986 films Films directed by Colin Eggleston English-language television shows 1980s English-languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Eggleston
__NOTOC__ Colin Richard Francis Eggleston (; 23 September 1941, Melbourne – 10 August 2002, Geneva) was an Australian writer and director of TV and films. He began his career making police dramas for Crawford Productions. Select credits *''A Day in the Life of Robin Beckett'' (1963) (Short Film) *'' Doctor Who'' (1967) (TV series) *''Homicide'' (TV series) *''Ryan'' (1969) (TV series) *'' The Long Arm'' (1970) (TV series) *''Matlock Police'' (1973–74) (TV series) *''Division 4'' (1974) (TV series) *'' The Box'' (1974) (TV series) – writer *'' The Bluestone Boys'' (1976) (TV series) – writer *'' Bluey'' (1976) (TV series) – writer of ep "The Whole of Life", "The Changeling" *''Fantasm Comes Again'' (1977) *''Chopper Squad'' (1977) (TV series) *''Long Weekend'' (1978) *''Nightmares'' (1980) – producer *'' Bellamy'' (1981) (TV series) *''Airhawk'' (1981) – producer *'' The Little Feller'' (1982) *''Innocent Prey'' (1983) *'' Sky Pirates'' (1986) *'' Body Business'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Michael Howson
John-Michael Howson (born 8 August 1936) is an Australian writer, reporter, entertainer and Melbourne radio commentator. His involvement in the Australian entertainment scene as a writer, producer and performer spans more than 50 years. Early life Howson was born on 8 August 1936 in Elwood, Victoria. His parents separated when he was young and he moved to Western Australia with his mother and step-father (a former policeman and publican).''Talking Heads'', 2006, "John-Michael Howson" (ABC-TV) (Access: 31 May 2012) He was educated at St Ildephonsus College, , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Duncan
Carmen Joan Duncan (7 July 1942 – 3 February 2019) was an Australian-born stage and screen actress and activist, with a career locally and internationally in the United States that spanned over 50 years. She was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actress for the 1980 film ''Harlequin'', and was also known for the film '' Don't Let It Get You''. Her other film appearances include '' Touch and Go'' (1980) and '' Turkey Shoot'' (1982). She played Iris Wheeler in the American soap opera '' Another World'' from 1988 to 1994. Duncan appeared in numerous theatre roles from 1970 and 2015 Early life and career Duncan was born in Cooma, New South Wales, in 1942. She graduated in 1961 from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Duncan was known to Australian audiences as a character actress in television, stage and films, as well as having appeared in television commercials. Her television roles included the series ''Hunter'' (1967) and she appeared in the eveni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Sweet
Gary Sweet (born 22 May 1957) is an Australian film and television actor known for his roles in ''Alexandra's Project'' (as Steve), '' Police Rescue'' (as Sergeant "Mickey" McClintock), '' Cody'' (as Cody), '' Big Sky'' (as Chris Manning), '' Bodyline'' (as Donald Bradman), '' Stingers'' (as DI Luke Harris) and ''House Husbands'' (as Lewis Crabb). He was adopted by a young couple and grew up in Warradale, South Australia, and attended Brighton High School in Adelaide. He was also named after his neighbours son. He later obtained a teaching degree and whilst at Sturt Teachers' College took up drama.The Larrikin Grows Up ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 17 June 2002] His first role was in low-budget horror film '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Phipps
Maxwell John Phipps (18 November 1939 – 6 August 2000) was an Australian actor, known for a number of roles in theatre, films and television during the 1960s until the end of the 1990s. Life and career Phipps was born in Dubbo and grew up in Parkes. He started his acting training in Sydney at the age of 21, at the Ensemble Theatre. There he appeared in such productions as ''Buffalo Skinner'', '' Long Day's Journey into Night'', '' Fortune and Men's Eyes'', ''The Removalists'' and ''Rooted''. In the Sydney Opera House's inaugural season he played Harry Bustle in '' What If You Died Tomorrow?''. In London he reprised this role, as well as appearing in '' Don's Party''. He played Dr Frank-N-Furter in ''The Rocky Horror Show'' in Melbourne in 1975–77. His most notable screen roles included Bernie Dump in '' The Miraculous Mellops'', The Toadie in ''Mad Max 2'' (1981), Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in the television mini-series ''The Dismissal'' (1983), Sir Frank Packer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, led by the University of Queensland (UQ), designed to comprehensively record the history of Australian literary and story-making cultures. AustLit is an encyclopaedia of Australian writers and writing. BlackWords is a landmark research project by and within AustLit that details the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. History AustLit was founded in 2000, when several independent databases on a variety of themes related to literary studies was created from work done by research groups at eight universities. The first dataset comprised about 300,000 fairly simple biographic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Australian Television Miniseries
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 28 ** Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. ** Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and adviso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Australian Television Series Debuts
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. *January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13– 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. * January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator Idi Amin's 1971 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 Films
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. * January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free- cantilever bridge, is opened. *January 13– 24 – South Yemen Civil War. *January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. * January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. *January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Colin Eggleston
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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