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The Cars That Ate Paris
''The Cars That Ate Paris'' is a 1974 Australian horror comedy film, produced by twin brothers Hal and Jim McElroy and directed by Peter Weir. It was his first feature film, and was also based on an original story he had written. Shot mostly in the rural town of Sofala, New South Wales, the film is set in the fictional town of Paris in which most of the inhabitants appear to be directly, or indirectly, involved in profiting from the results of car accidents. The film is considered part of the Australian New Wave genre. Plot The film begins with an urban couple driving through the countryside in what looks like a cinema advertisement. The scene comes to a halt with a fatal accident. The rural Australian town of Paris arranges fatal accidents to visitors driving through. Townspeople collect items from the luggage of the deceased passengers whilst survivors are taken to the local hospital where they are given lobotomies with power tools and kept as "veggies" for medical experiment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Poster
A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film primarily to persuade paying customers into a theater to see it. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets. They normally contain an image with text. Today's posters often feature printed likenesses of the main actors. Prior to the 1980s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common. The text on film posters usually contains the film title in large lettering and often the names of the main actors. It may also include a tagline, the name of the director, names of characters, the release date, and other pertinent details to inform prospective viewers about the film. Film posters are often displayed inside and on the outside of movie theaters, and elsewhere on the street or in shops. The same images appear in the film exhibitor's pressbook and may also be used on websites, DVD (and historically VHS) packaging, flyers, advertisements in newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Orderly
In healthcare, an orderly (also known as a ward assistant, nurse assistant or healthcare assistant) is a hospital attendant whose job consists of assisting medical and nursing staff with various nursing and medical interventions. These duties are classified as routine tasks involving no risk for the patient. Job details Orderlies are often utilized in various hospital departments. Orderly duties can range in scope depending on the area of the health care facility they are employed. For that reason, duties can range from assisting in the physical restraint of combative patients, assisting physicians with the application of casts, transporting patients, shaving patients, and providing other similar routine personal care to setting up specialised hospital equipment such as bed traction arrays. Orderlies are typically found in emergency departments, operating rooms, psychiatric wards, long-term care facilities, and orthopaedics departments. Orderlies are described as nonlicen ... [...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. Phipps' most notable roles included portraying Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in the six-hour television miniseries '' The Dismissal'' (1983). 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'', Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Howell (actor)
Edward Welsford Rowsell Howell (15 July 1902 – 20 August 1986), also known as pen name E.R. Howell, Edward Welsford Rowsell and Teddy/Ted Howell was a British-born Australian character actor, radio and theatre producer, director and scriptwriter, theatre founder and drama teacher. He was notable for his career in Australia in all genres of the entertainment industry in a career spanning radio, stage, television and film. In 1927 he appeared in a cameo role in the early Australian film ''For the Term of his Natural Life'', at the time the highest-grossing film in Australian cinema. After this film, he moved to radio broadcasting and producing until reviving his screen career in the late 1950s, mainly appearing in made for TV Movies and serials. Early life Howell was born on 15 July 1902 (some sources give 1901) in Bromley, Kent, England, the youngest son of bank clerk and actor Edwin Gilburt Howell and his wife Madeleine Ann (née Rowsell). As an eight-year old in 1912, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Haywood
Chris Haywood (born ) is an English-born Australian actor, writer and producer, with close to 500 screen performances to his name. Haywood has also worked as a casting director, art director, sound recordist, camera operator, gaffer, grip, location and unit manager. Early life and education Haywood was born around 1948 in Billericay, Essex, England. He spent his early childhood in Chelmsford before moving to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire where he attended Royal Grammar School from 1959 to 1965. He then started working in the cellars of a local wine shipper before gaining a place at E15 Acting School. After graduating in 1970 he emigrated to Australia. Career Soon after arriving in Sydney, Haywood became involved with the Nimrod Theatre Company, helping to build the premises with scrap timber. He was the artistic director of the Pros and Cons Playhouse at Parramatta Gaol from 1979 to 1981, and established the drama service on Kiribati National Radio. His acting career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Golsby
Kevin Golsby (born 1935) is an Australian actor and voice-over artist, known for his iconic rich voice and seventies moustache. His extensive body of work includes appearances in film, television, theatre and voice-over roles. Golsby was born in 1935 in Australia. Growing up, he developed a passion for radio and pursued his interest in becoming a presenter and DJ. Professional life Radio Golsby began his on-air career at 16 as an announcer on station 2MG in Mudgee. Within two years he was the youngest announcer on Sydney radio station 2UE, at 18 years of age. In 1959 Golsby left his regular presenting spot and went on a world tour, travelling to Europe and the USA for 2CH and interviewing jazz musicians such as Nina Simone and Count Basie. In 1976 he was a core cast member, with Noeline Brown and Ross Higgins, of radio 2BL's sketch comedy program '' The Naked Vicar Show''. Voice-over work Golsby was the voice of newsreels for Fox Movietone (Australia) (later Cines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Spence
Bruce Robert Spence (born 17 September 1945) is a New Zealand-born Australian actor. Spence has amassed over 100 film and television credits and has also acted in theatre. Career Spence won an AFI Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1971 comedy ''Stork''. Spence's best known film role is as the gyrocopter pilot in ''Mad Max 2'' (1981). He also played the lead role in Werner Herzog's '' Where the Green Ants Dream'' (1984) and portrayed Jedediah the pilot in '' Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (1985). In the 21st century, Spence played the Mouth of Sauron in '' The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' (2003), the Trainman in '' The Matrix Revolutions'' (2003), and Baxter in Disney's '' Inspector Gadget 2'' (2003), and voiced the character Chum in ''Finding Nemo'' (2003). He also portrayed Tion Medon in '' Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith'' (2005) and played Lord Rhoop in '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' (2010). Spence por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Adcock
Danny Adcock is an Australian actor. Career Film and television Adcock has worked extensively in television. After scoring a handful of guest roles, he landed his first film role as a policeman in the Ozploitation film '' The Cars That Ate Paris''. Further small screen guest appearances included ''Matlock Police'', ''Division 4'', ''Homicide'', '' Skyways'' and ''Cop Shop'', ''Rafferty's Rules'', '' A Country Practice'', '' The Flying Doctors'', '' Water Rats'', '' All Saints'', ''Home and Away'', '' Bullpitt!'' and '' Redfern Now''. He had regular or recurring roles in the first season of ''Patrol Boat'' (1979), '' Arcade'' (1980), '' The Bush Gang'' (1981), ''Prisoner'' (1982–83), '' Sons and Daughters'' (1983–84), the second season of ''Fire'' (1996), ''Blue Heelers ''Blue Heelers'' is an Australian police drama series that was produced by Southern Star Group and ran for twelve years on the Seven Network, from 1994 to 2006. Although based around the policin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Gillies
Maxwell Irvine Gillies AM (born 16 November 1941) is an Australian actor and a founding member of the 1970s experimental theatre company, the Australian Performing Group. Early life and education Gillies studied art teaching at Frankston Teachers College and featured in the theatre productions ''School for Scandal'' and '' Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'' with Kerry Dwyer in 1964. He graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966. He then studied secondary teaching at the Melbourne Teachers' College, now part of the University of Melbourne. Career Max Gillies was a member of the Australian Performing Group (APG) in the 1970s. The group was officially formed in 1970 and then set up a theatre in a former pram factory in Drummond Street, Carlton. Here, and in other venues throughout Melbourne and other parts of Australia, the ensemble presented alternative, experimental, avant-garde and radical plays, musical comedies, vaudeville, stage shows, street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Miles (actor, Born 1929)
Kevin Gordon Miles (17 April 1929 – 13 September 2024) was an Australian actor of theatre, television and film. He was best known for his small screen roles as Detective John Randall in ''The Link Men'' and as Godfrey Carson in the legal drama ''Carson's Law''. Miles also appeared in ''Delta'' (1969), ''Dynasty'' (1970) and '' The Power, The Passion'' (1989). Early life Miles was born on 17 April 1929 in Melbourne, Victoria, to a working class family as one of six children. He left school at age 12 or 13, but didn't have an interest in acting until his brother-in-law encouraged him to audition for the theatre. Career Miles' career began in theatre in 1949, appearing in J.C. Williamson productions. He then moved to the United Kingdom, touring England and Europe with the Royal Shakespeare Company alongside Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh. In 1955 he also began appeared in television plays at the BBC. In the late 1960s he began appearing in guest roles on Australian telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymkhana (motorsport)
Gymkhana is a type of motorsport, known as Motorkhana in Australia and New Zealand and as Autotesting in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Similar to autocross, the goal of gymkhana is to achieve the fastest time possible; memorizing the course is a significant part of achieving a fast time. The name is loaned from the equestrianism, equestrian discipline of Gymkhana (equestrian), gymkhana. Gymkhana events are time and/or speed events in an automobile. These can feature obstacles such as cones, tires, and barrels. The driver must manoeuver through a predetermined "track" performing many different driving techniques. What separates gymkhana from traditional autocross events is that the gymkhana requires drivers to perform reversals, 180 degree spins, 360 degree spins, parking boxes, figure 8s, and other advanced skills. Drifting (motorsport), Drifting is also encouraged where helpful or necessary. Essentially, a gymkhana is any event featuring a starting point, a finish line and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bush Jacket
A safari jacket or bush jacket is a garment traditionally made of khaki color lightweight cotton (drill or poplin) with a self-belt, epaulets, and four expandable bellows pockets. Also known as a sahariana, it was originally designed for going on safari in the African bush. When paired with matching trousers or shorts, it is a safari suit. History Lightweight, light-coloured uniforms were worn by European soldiers serving in warm climates from the 19th century and, little altered, throughout World War II. Martin Brayley, ''Armies of the Raj'', Osprey Publishing, 2012, page 36. They typically featured epaulettes, pleated pockets, belts and other features later found on safari jackets. The earliest reference to a 'safari suit' listed in ''The Oxford English Dictionary'' is from an American newspaper in 1935. In 1936, author and adventurer Ernest Hemingway designed a 'bush jacket' which was made by Willis & Geiger Outfitters. In 1939, Abercrombie & Fitch advertised safari jacke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
