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Luigi's Ladies
''Luigi's Ladies'' is a 1989 Australian comedy directed by actor Judy Morris.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p310 It was the final film of actor David Rappaport. Cast * David Rappaport as Luigi * Judy Morris as The Director * Wendy Hughes as Sara * Sandy Gore as Cee * Serge Lazareff as Trevor "Trev" * John Walton as Steve * Robert Mammone as Tony References External links''Luigi's Ladies''at IMDb IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biograp ...''Luigi's Ladies''at Oz Movies Australian comedy films 1980s English-language films 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub ...
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Judy Morris
Judith Ann Morris (born 17 February 1947) is an Australian character actress, as well as a film director and screenwriter, well known for the variety of roles she played in 58 different television shows and films, starting her career as a child actress and appearing on screen until 1999, since then she has worked on film writing and directing, most recently for co-writing and co-directing a musical epic about the life of penguins in Antarctica which became ''Happy Feet'', Australia's largest animated film project to date. Early career Morris's first role came at the age of 10 when she was part of the cast of the television episode "Picture of the Magi" a '' Family Theater'' production which aired about 1957 on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States. She then performed in two other roles in the US, at the age of 10 on the '' Loretta Young Show'', and in 1960, at the age of 13, on '' The Chevy Mystery Show'' hosted on that occasion by Vincent Price. Career Returning ...
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Wendy Hughes
Wendy Hughes (29 July 19528 March 2014) was an Australian actress known for her work in theatre, film and television. Her career spanned more than 40 years and established her reputation as one of Australia's finest and most prolific actors. In her later career she acted in '' Happy New Year'' along with stars Peter Falk and Charles Durning. In 1993 she played Dr. Carol Blythe, M. E. in '' Homicide: Life on the Street.'' In the late 1990s, she starred in '' State Coroner'' and '' Paradise Road.'' Early life Born in Melbourne, Australia, to English-born parents, Her father was born in Lancashire, but had relocated to Australia at the outbreak of World War II, where he served in the RAAF. He met her mother in London shortly after the war ended and they moved to Melbourne. Her father worked as a plasterer, and Wendy was raised in the suburb of Alphington. Hughes originally studied ballet in Melbourne but, during her teenage years, she turned her focus to acting. She received a ...
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Sandy Gore
Sandy Gore (born 28 June 1950) is an Australian film, stage and television actress. She has had an extensive stage career in Australia with the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company including playing Vivian in '' Wit'' (2000) and Maria in ''Uncle Vanya'' (2010), reprising the latter role in New York in 2012. Career On television, Gore appeared in the hit series ''Prisoner'' in 1980, as Kay White, the payroll-embezzling accountant who met a sticky end when her gambling addiction gets the better of her. Also, she has starred as Mother Ambrose in the 1991 mini-series '' Brides of Christ'' and had guest roles in TV series such as ''Grass Roots'' and ''Farscape''. She played Heckla in the 1992 children's sci-fi series '' Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left''. She also appeared as Anja in ''Paws'' and as a guest role in ''Rafferty's Rules''. She was nominated three times for the Australian Film Institute Award (now AACTA Awards) for Best Supporting Actress, for her ...
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David Rappaport
David Stephen Rappaport (23 November 1951 – 2 May 1990) was an English actor with achondroplasia (a genetic disorder where the primary feature is dwarfism). He appeared in the films ''Time Bandits'' and '' The Bride'', and television series ''L.A. Law'', '' The Wizard'' and '' Captain Planet and the Planeteers''. He was in height. Early life Rappaport was born to Jewish taxi driver Mark and his wife Diana (née Schneiderman) in London. He was born with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. As a child, he developed talents in playing the accordion and drums, the latter of which he played professionally during his life. Rappaport studied psychology at the University of Bristol from 1970, graduating with a degree while developing his skills as a semi-professional drummer, and acting skills at the college dramatical society. After six months in the United States, he returned to the United Kingdom to marry his college girlfriend Jane. They had a son, Joe, and Rappaport tried ...
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Serge Lazareff
Serge Constantine Lazareff (7 August 1944 – 20 August 2021) was an Australian actor and screenwriter/editor, who was born in Shanghai, China. He appeared in 54 roles from the late 1960s until 1999, before starting a second career as a writer for TV series. Acting Lazareff performed in many Australian television series from the late 1960s to the late 1990s and made numerous appearances in Crawford Productions police shows including ''The Sullivans'', ''Homicide (Australian TV series), Homicide'', ''Division 4'', ''Matlock Police'' and ''Chopper Squad''. He had a featured part in the 1970 ABC-TV drama series ''Dynasty''. Lazareff also appeared in ''Cash and Company, Cash & Co.'', a 1970s historical adventure series. Lazareff is probably best remembered by Australian audiences for his role in the 1970s TV drama ''Young Ramsay'', in which he starred alongside friend and co-star John Hargreaves (actor), John Hargreaves. He also appeared in ''The Young Doctors'' (playing fake Dr ...
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John Walton (actor)
John Walton (1952 – 17 July 2014) was an Australians, Australian actor of stage, television, and film, best known for his roles in television soap operas ''The Young Doctors'' and ''The Sullivans''. Walton was born in St Ives, New South Wales, St. Ives, Sydney, Australia. Roles Walton played Doctor Craig Rothwell in the television soap opera ''The Young Doctors'' during 1976 and 1977. In 1984, he also appeared as Bill Woodfull in the miniseries ''Bodyline (miniseries), Bodyline'', and he played the part of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in the Australian mini-series ''A Thousand Skies''. He also completed a stint in ''Heartbreak High'' playing Nat Delaine from 1997 until 1998. He appeared as Michael Watkins, the nephew of Ida Jessop (Vivean Gray), on ''The Sullivans'', from episodes 239-433. His character married Maggie Hayward (Vikki Hammond)'s daughter, Alice Morgan (Megan Williams (actress), Megan Williams), but it was not a happy marriage. His character was killed in a c ...
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Robert Mammone
Robert Mammone (born 1969) is an Australian actor. He is known for his role as AK in ''The Matrix'' movies, as Sid Walker in the soap opera ''Home and Away'', and as Tim Palmer in '' Sons and Daughters''. Mammone played the main villain opposite former WWE wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin in the WWE Films action movie '' The Condemned'', and portrayed Carlos 'Charlie' Blanka in ''Street Fighter'', opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia. He is best known for his portrayal of convicted drug baron Tony Mokbel in the Australian television series '' Underbelly'' and its sequels, ''Fat Tony & Co'' and ''Informer 3838 ''Informer 3838'' is an Australian television series focusing on criminal barrister-turned police informer Nicola Gobbo (codenamed informer 3838) and her involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings. It is a spin-off of the '' Underbelly'' ...''. As of April 2025, Mokbel was released from prison after the collapse of his case due to the Lawyer X scan ...
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IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ...
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Australian Comedy Films
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the coun ...
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1980s English-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday 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, Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. 249) Deaths * Li Jue, Chinese warlord and r ...
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