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Three To Go
''3 to Go'' is an Australian portmanteau film consisting of three stories—''Judy, Michael'', and ''Toula''—each presenting a young Australian at a moment of decision about their future. The film was first shown on commercial television in March 1971 and episodes screened individually in cinemas as supporting shorts. One of the stories, ''Michael'', written and directed by Peter Weir, went on to receive the AFI Award for Best Film. Plot Young people and their personal concerns are the main theme of the three segments. ''Judy'' Despite the opposition of her parents and her boyfriend, Judy, a 19-year-old country girl, wants to move to the big city and leave her small town behind. Judy finds life in Tamworth mundane. Her mother has concerns about her welfare, her unambitious country boyfriend Mike, and the daily routine. Her plan is to make her own life in Sydney, and she seeks advice from her work-friend Margie, and wishes her boyfriend was more like Margie's fiancé Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Hannant
Brian Hannant (born 13 February 1940) is an Australian filmmaker who worked for many years at Film Australia. Select Credits *'' Three to Go'' (1970) - director *'' Flashpoint'' (1972) - writer, director *''Travellin' Round'' (1975) - writer, director *''Mad Max 2 ''Mad Max 2'' (released as ''The Road Warrior'' in the United States) is a 1981 Australian Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic Utopian and dystopian fiction, dystopian action film directed by George Miller (filmmaker), G ...'' (1981) - co-writer, second unit director *'' The Time Guardian'' (1987) - writer, director *'' Resistance'' (1992) - co-writer References External links * Australian film directors 1940 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Jackson
Port Jackson, commonly known as Sydney Harbour, is a natural harbour on the east coast of Australia, around which Sydney was built. It consists of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers. The harbour is an inlet of the Tasman Sea (part of the South Pacific Ocean). It is the location of significant landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge. The location of the first European settlement and colony on the Australian mainland, Port Jackson has continued to play a key role in the history and development of Sydney. Port Jackson, in the early days of the colony, was also used as a shorthand for Sydney and its environs. Thus, many botanists, see, e.g., Robert Brown's '' Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen'', described their specimens as having been collected at Port Jackson. Many recreational events are based on or around the harbour itself, particularly Sydney New Year's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Playfair
Wendy Playfair (born 28 August 1926) is an Australian radio, television and film character actress, best known for her roles in television serials. Playfair started her career in radio serials, but became best known for her brief stint in TV serial ''Prisoner'' as inmate Minnie Donovan. Other important roles were in the television series ''Home and Away'' and the film '' Accidents Happen'' starring Geena Davis. Family Playfair was born in Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales to Edmund Strathmore Creer (Strath) Playfair (1894–1965) and Kathleen Ryrie (Babs) née Campbell (1899–1989). She was the third of four sisters, the youngest marrying Sir John Atwill. The Playfair family were well-to-do, socially prominent and in the meat trade. She married James Williams at All Saints Anglican Church on 6 July 1951. She is a direct descendant of the famous Sydney butcher, politician and philanthropist Thomas Playfair, and the niece of politician Thomas Alfred John Playfair. Playfair is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Ramsey
Penny Ramsey (25 June 1947 – 11 February 2009) was an Australian character actress. Her work is featured in over three decades of classic Australian TV series. Her credits include ''Prisoner'', ''The Bush Gang'', ''Matlock Police'', ''Homicide'', '' Number 96'', '' The Box'', ''Division 4'', '' Mrs. Finnegan'', '' Riptide'' and ''Anything Goes''. Filmography Film Television Personal life Her partner was the Australian actor Rod Mullinar, she was the daughter of Cuthbert Ramsey and actress Lois Ramsey. Ramsey died of unspecified cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving Cell growth#Disorders, abnormal cell growth with the potential to Invasion (cancer), invade or Metastasis, spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Po ... in 2009, aged 61. References External links * 2009 deaths 1947 births Australian film actresses Australian soap opera actresses Actresses from Adelaide Deaths from cancer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Day (actor)
Gary Day (born 10 November 1941) is a New Zealand former actor, playwright and lighting director who has appeared in Australian television police drama series, including ''Homicide'' and '' Murder Call''. Television Day worked as a male model and appeared in several television commercials. This led to guest roles in episodes of ''Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'', police dramas '' The Link Men'', '' The Long Arm'', ''Homicide'' and ''Matlock Police'' produced by Crawford Productions. This culminated in the regular role of Senior Detective Phillip Redford in Crawford's series ''Homicide'' in 1973. Redford was a university graduate who had served as a bomb disposal expert in Vietnam, and was anti-violence as a result. Day was the only cast member who appeared in all colour episodes of ''Homicide'' until it ceased production in 1975. Following this he appeared as a regular in Crawford's soap opera '' The Box'' as Marcus Boyd in 1977. His other regular series role was as Detective Inspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann Severne
Mary Ann Severne (b. Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born Australian actress active in Australian made films and television programs from the 1970s. Career Severne began her acting career in various theatre productions including playing Paola in a production of ''There's a Girl in My Soup'', and was part of a company at the Wayside Chapel, Sydney. Late 1960s Australian television appearances included ''The Mavis Bramston Show'', and '' Contrabandits''. Throughout the 1970s Severne made many television appearances, appearing several times in guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas ''Homicide'', ''Division 4'' and ''Matlock Police''. Severne also worked in the UK, starring in film comedy '' The Adventures of Barry McKenzie'' (1972), and making appearances in the TV anthology series '' Thriller'' and ''Moonbase 3'' in 1973, and ''Father Brown'' in 1974. Returning to Australia, Severne played a leading regular role in soap opera '' Number 96'' from 1975 unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddington, New South Wales
Paddington is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Located east of the Sydney central business district, Paddington lies across two Local government in Australia, local government areas. The portion south of Oxford Street, Sydney, Oxford Street lies within the City of Sydney, while the portion north of Oxford Street lies within the Municipality of Woollahra. It is often colloquially referred to as "Paddo". Paddington is bordered to the west by Darlinghurst, to the east by Centennial Park, New South Wales, Centennial Park and Woollahra, to the north by Edgecliff, New South Wales, Edgecliff and Rushcutters Bay and to the south by Moore Park, New South Wales, Moore Park. History Aboriginal people The suburb of Paddington is considered to be part of the region associated with the stories of the Cadigal people. These people belonged to the Dharug language, Dharug (or Eora) language group, which includes what is now known as the Sydney central busine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easter
Easter, also called Pascha ( Aramaic: פַּסְחָא , ''paskha''; Greek: πάσχα, ''páskha'') or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary . It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. Easter-observing Christians commonly refer to the last week of Lent, before Easter, as Holy Week, which in Western Christianity begins on Palm Sunday (marking the entrance of Jesus in Jerusalem), includes Spy Wednesday (on which the betrayal of Jesus is mourned), and contains the days of the Easter Triduum including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. In Eastern Christianity, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Rider
''Easy Rider'' is a 1969 American road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern. It was produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and the South, carrying money made from a cocaine deal. Other actors in the film include Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Toni Basil. The success of ''Easy Rider'' helped spark the New Hollywood era of filmmaking during the early 1970s. A landmark counterculture film, and a "touchstone for a generation" which "captured the national imagination," ''Easy Rider'' explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions towards adolescents in the United States during the 1960s including the rise of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle. Real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana and other substances. An independent production, the film was released by Columbia Pictures on July 14, 1969, and earned $60 million worldwide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dating
Dating is a stage of Romance (love), romantic relationships in which individuals engage in activity together, often with the intention of evaluating each other's suitability as a partner in a future intimate relationship. It falls into the category of courtship, consisting of Socializing, social events carried out by the couple either alone or with others. The first date is considered important, sometimes for making a good First impression (psychology), first impression, or because dating may lead to a more serious relationship, or a breakup, or friendzoning. If the relationship progresses, the next steps may include meeting the parents or other family and eventually cohabitation, engagement and marriage. Even after the relationship develops, couples still may organize a date or "date night". With the internet, many dating sites have been created to modernize the personals section of newspapers as a way to find prospective partners. Speed dating, Blind date, blind dating, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
