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John Fegan (actor)
John Joseph Fegan (19 July 1908 – 9 April 1981) was a Northern Irish-Australia, Australian film and television actor. Also known as Jack Fegan, he appeared in many Australian films and television shows in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, including the long-running series ''Homicide (Australian TV series), Homicide'' as Inspector Jack Connelly, and a featured role in the Australian New Wave, international breakthrough film ''Picnic at Hanging Rock (film), Picnic at Hanging Rock.'' Early life Fegan was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and grew up in the Falls Road (Belfast), Falls Road area. He migrated to Australia in 1929, working as a labourer in Sydney and as a harbourside worker on The Hungry Mile during the Great Depression. He became involved in the worker's theatre movement, in particular with the New Theatre (Newtown), New Theatre League from the 1930s onwards, receiving generally positive reviews for his performances. Fegan continued working on the docks throughout his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belfast
Belfast (, , , ; from ) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel. It is the second-largest city in Ireland (after Dublin), with an estimated population of in , and a Belfast metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of 671,559. First chartered as an English settlement in 1613, the town's early growth was driven by an influx of Scottish people, Scottish Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Presbyterians. Their descendants' disaffection with Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland's Protestant Ascendancy, Anglican establishment contributed to the Irish Rebellion of 1798, rebellion of 1798, and to the Acts of Union 1800, union with Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain in 1800—later regarded as a key to the town's industrial transformation. When granted City status in the United Kingdom#Northern Ireland, city s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logie Award
The TV Week Logie Awards (known colloquially as The Logies) is an annual ceremony celebrating and honouring the best shows and stars in Television in Australia, Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The event is telecast live and billed as "television's night of nights". The first ceremony was hosted in 1959 as the TV Week Awards. The Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, Gold Logie is the most prestigious award and the industry's highest honour; it's awarded to the ''Most Popular Personality on Australian Television'' for the previous year. The award receives much publicity and media attention. Awards are presented in 20 categories, representing both industry and public voted prizes The event has been strongly associated with the Nine Network, who have hosted the ceremony on the most occasions, and TV and former radio personality Bert Newton, particularly in the early days, who served as a solo host of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Passionel
''Crime Passionel'' is a 1959 Australian television play. It was based on a play by Jean-Paul Sartre and was directed by Royston Morley. The play had been broadcast that year by the BBC. It was broadcast live in Sydney on 11 November 1959. A recording was made of this and shown in Brisbane on 17 November 1959 and Melbourne on 10 February 1960. It went for 90 minutes. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. Plot At the end of World War Two, in the mythical European country of Illythia, the German armies are retreating from the Russians. Hugo, a young intellectual who wants to be revolutionary hero, sets about assassinating Hoederer, leader of the local communist party. Hugo is Hoederer's secretary. Hugo has a wife Jessica, and a fellow party member, Olga. Cast * Brian James as Hoederer *William Job as Hugo *Jacqueline Kott as Olga * John Fegan as Charles *Tony Arpino as Franz *Peter Williams as Louis * James Elliott as Ivan *Rosemary Webster as Hugo's wife *Don Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlet (1959 Film)
''Hamlet'' is a 1959 Australian TV play starring William Job and produced by Royston Morley. It was one of the first two productions of Shakespeare transmitted by ABC, the other being '' Anthony and Cleopatra''. Plot Cast * William Job as Hamlet * Henry Gilbert as the King * Georgie Sterling as the Queen * Owen Weingott as Laertes * Delia Williams as Ophelia * Gordon Glenwright as the Gravedigger * Douglas Hayes as the Gravedigger * James Lynch as Bernado * Grahame Webb as Francisco / Attendant * Frank Taylor as Horatio * Vaughan Tracey as Marcellus * Charles McCallum as Voltemand / Priest * Geoffrey King as Polonius Polonius is a character in William Shakespeare's play ''Hamlet''. He is the chief counsellor of the play's ultimate villain, Claudius, and the father of Laertes and Ophelia. Generally regarded as wrong in every judgment he makes over the cou ... * John Fegan as Ghost * Maurice Travers as Rosencrantz * James Elliott as Guildenstern * Lou Vernon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ride A Wild Pony
''Ride a Wild Pony'' is a 1975 American-Australian family adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions, directed by Don Chaffey and based on the novel ''A Sporting Proposition'' (1973) by James Aldridge. Plot Set in a small Australian town during the interwar period, the film follows the battle between two children, Scott, a poor farm boy, and Josie, the handicapped daughter of a wealthy ranch owner, for ownership of a horse that both children love. Scott requires a horse to ride seven miles to school and his father buys an unbroken pony, which Scott names Taff. Josie yearns to ride again but, having been afflicted with polio two years before, must settle for using a cart and pony. Scott's pony disappears, while a pony is eventually selected for Josie from her father's herd. When Scott sees the horse, which Josie named Bo, performing in the pony and cart competition at the township fair, he recognizes it as his horse and attempts to take it away. The ensuing quarrel affects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moving On (1974 Film)
''Moving On'' is a 1974 Australian film about a sheep farmer George Collier who moves to a county town. It was made by Film Australia to help draw attention to the problems the rural poor. at National Film and Sound Archive Cast *Ewen Solon as George Collier *Kay Taylor as Elizabeth Collier *Ken Shorter as Alan *Lyndel Rowe as Anne *Carole Yelland as Pauline *Brian Anderson as Ron *Michaelle Brooker as Margaret *Jonathan Hardy as Anne's Boyfriend *Jeff Ashby as City Man *Bruce Spence as Road Worker *Roger Ward as Stock Agent *John Fegan (actor), John Fegan as Unemployed Grower *Robert McDarra as Financier *Carole Ashby *Edward Howell (actor), Edward HowellRelease Th ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sundowners (1960 Film)
''The Sundowners'' is a 1960 Technicolor comedy-drama film that tells the story of a 1920s Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife and son's desire to settle in one place. ''The Sundowners'' was produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann, adapted by Isobel Lennart from Jon Cleary, Jon Cleary's 1952 The Sundowners (novel), novel of the same name, with Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Mervyn Johns, Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson Jr., and Chips Rafferty. In 2019, FilmInk cited it among "50 meat pie Westerns". At the 33rd Academy Awards, it was in the running for Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture, and Kerr was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Johns for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Zinnemann for Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director, and Lennart for Academy Award for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smiley Gets A Gun
''Smiley Gets a Gun'' is a 1958 Australian comedy-drama film in CinemaScope directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Sybil Thorndike and Chips Rafferty. It is the sequel to the 1956 film ''Smiley''. Synopsis A young boy named Smiley desperately wants a gun. A deal is made between him and Sergeant Flaxman that if he gets 8 nicks (marks on a certain tree) for his good deeds he will get a .22 caliber £2 rifle. He has several adventures and is accused of stealing some gold. Smiley runs away but the real thief is caught and Smiley is rewarded with a gun. Cast * Keith Calvert as Smiley Greevins ** Alexander ( Bruce) Thomas as Smiley Greevins on horse * Bruce Archer as Joey * Sybil Thorndike as Granny McKinley * Chips Rafferty as Sergeant Flaxman * Margaret Christensen as Ma Greevins * Reg Lye as Pa Greevins * Grant Taylor as Stiffy * Guy Doleman as Mr Quirk * Leonard Thiele as Mr Scrivens *Verena Kimmins as Miss MacCowan *Bruce Beeby as Dr Gasper *Ruth Cracknell as Mrs Gaspen * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smiley (1956 Film)
''Smiley'' is a 1956 British-American comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Colin Petersen. It was based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Moore Raymond who co-wrote the film with Kimmins. It tells the story of a young Australian boy who is determined to buy a bicycle for four pounds, and along the way he gets into many misadventures. It was the last film made under the supervision of Alex Korda, who died in January 1956. Plot Smiley Greevins is a mischievous boy who lives in the small country town of Murrumbilla (based on Augathella). His father is an alcoholic drover who is a poor provider for the family, and his mother works as a laundress. Smiley is always getting into trouble with his best friend Joey. He decides to try to save up enough money to buy a coveted bicycle. Smiley takes on various odd jobs, showing enterprise, hard work, and persistence in slowly accumulating the considerable sum ( £5) needed, despite getting involved in a number of pranks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Thunderbolt (film)
''Captain Thunderbolt'' is a 1953 Australian action film from director Cecil Holmes about the bushranger Captain Thunderbolt. It was one of the few all-Australian films of the 1950s. Synopsis Fred Ward is imprisoned for horse stealing. He escapes from Cockatoo Island and under the name of Captain Thunderbolt becomes a bushranger in the New England region, working with his friend and fellow escapee Alan Blake. Blake has a romantic involvement with a "half-caste" (sic) girl Maggie that equally infringes the norms of the day. Thunderbolt is tracked by the vengeful Trooper Mannix. After gunfights with the bushranger at a dance, then at a rocky outcrop, Mannix discovers that he has killed Alan Blake instead. Mannix passes off Blake's body as Thunderbolt, concealing the bushranger's escape. The legend grows that Thunderbolt did not die. Cast * Grant Taylor as Captain Thunderbolt *Charles Tingwell as Alan Blake *Rosemary Miller as Joan * Harp McGuire as Trooper Mannix * John Fegan as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kangaroo (1952 Film)
''Kangaroo'' (also known as ''The Australian Story'') is a 1952 American Western film directed by Lewis Milestone. It was the first Technicolor film filmed on location in Australia. Milestone called it "an underrated picture."Higham p. 188 The film was remade as '' The Jackals'' in Africa in 1967. Plot In the 1900 Australian outback, Dell McGuire worries about her missing father, Michael, a local grazier. Actually, Michael is drunk in Sydney at a boarding house. He encounters Richard Connor, a desperate young man trying to find money to return home to America. Michael mistakes him for his long-lost son, Dennis, whom McGuire had abandoned to an orphanage years before. After McGuire passes out from drink, Connor roams the Sydney streets and meets John Gamble outside a gambling house. Connor finds Gamble equally broke. He is thus talked into assisting him in robbing the establishment. But during the heist, the house's owner is shot. Connor and Gamble make off with the loot, stop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sons Of Matthew
''Sons of Matthew'' is a 1949 Australian film directed and produced and co-written by Charles Chauvel (filmmaker), Charles Chauvel. The film was shot in 1947 on location in Queensland, Australia, and the studio sequences in Sydney. ''Sons of Matthew'' took 18 months to complete, but it was a great success with Australian audiences when it finally opened in December 1949. ''Sons of Matthew'' is a legendary film in the history of Australian cinema, partly because of the adverse conditions in which it was made. Maxwell Dunn wrote later in his book ''How they Made Sons of Matthew'' that, during filming, it was the wettest season in 80 years in Queensland. For UK and US release Universal-International cut the film by 30 minutes, added some American narration and renamed it ''The Rugged O'Riordans''. ''Filmink'' wrote the movie "falls into the "pioneering family" subgenre of Western like ''Little House on the Prairie (TV series), Little House on the Prairie'' or ''Cimarron (1931 film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
