Bill Kerr

Bill Kerr

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   William Henry Kerr (10 June 1922 – 28 August 2014) was a British and Australian film and television actor. He was born into a performing arts family in Cape Town, South Africa, but grew up in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. He began working as a child actor in depression era Australia, taking his first major role in The Silence of Dean Maitland, one of Australia's first talking films. After serving in the Second World War, Kerr moved to England to further his acting career, and during the 1940s he was regularly featured in the BBC radio series Variety Bandbox. His trademark was his catch phrase "I'm only here for 4 minutes..." In the 1950s, he had a recurring role as an Australian lodger in the BBC radio comedy series Hancock's Half Hour. Initially sharper than Hancock's characterisation, it was developed into a more dim-witted character who became the butt of Hancock's jokes. His television appearances in Britain include a 1968 Doctor Who story called The Enemy of the World, with Patrick Troughton, and a long running part in the early 1960s BBC-TV soap, Compact. Bill Kerr had much theatrical success in Britain, playing The Devil in the original West End production of Damn Yankees, directed by Bob Fosse, and Cole. He also worked with Spike Milligan. He appeared in Milligan and John Antrobus's stage play The Bed-Sitting Room, which opened at the Mermaid Theatre on 31 January 1963. A subsequent production opened on 3 May 1967 at the Saville Theatre, and "a cast containing an unusually high proportion of Australian actors including Bill Kerr and David Nettheim." Then in 1972 he co-starred with Anthony Newley in the long running Newley/Bricusse musical, The Good Old Bad Old Days. In 1975, Kerr took the part of Bluey Notts, described as "an Australian bookie's clerk, a crude racialist", in The Melting Pot. This was a sitcom written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand, which was cancelled by the BBC after just one episode had been broadcast. He also appeared in several British films, including The Dam Busters and The Wrong Arm of the Law, before moving back to Australia. Although probably best known as a comic actor, and especially for his appearances in Hancock's Half Hour, he has since played a number of serious roles, notably in Peter Weir's films Gallipoli (1981) and The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). He also worked on the Australian stage in the 1980s, in musicals such as My Fair Lady, where he received excellent reviews as Alfred Doolittle. In 2001, he appeared in the Australian comedy Let's Get Skase. Kerr also appeared in Glenview High and the 1998 television comedy series Minty. Kerr has also been involved in documentaries, providing the narration for No Survivor - The Mysterious Loss of HMAS Sydney Nine Network Australia (1995), Malice or Mutiny for the ABC Australia 2003 and Animal X Natural Mystery Unit series for Discovery in the US, TV2 Norway and many others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Kerr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Bill Kerr
  • Popularity: 3.416
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1922-06-10
  • Place of Birth: Cape Town, South Africa
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  • Also Known As: William Henry Kerr, Willie Kerr
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Bill Kerr Movies

  • 1981
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    Gallipoli

    Gallipoli

    7.1 1981 HD

    As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and...

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  • 1982
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    The Pirate Movie

    The Pirate Movie

    4.9 1982 HD

    A comedy/musical utilizing both new songs and parodies from the original (Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance), as well as references to...

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  • 1984
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    Razorback

    Razorback

    5.8 1984 HD

    In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.

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  • 1984
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    Vigil

    Vigil

    6.7 1984 HD

    Toss lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss's father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the...

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  • 1963
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    The Wrong Arm of the Law

    The Wrong Arm of the Law

    6.4 1963 HD

    The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as...

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  • 1981
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    Save the Lady

    Save the Lady

    7 1981 HD

    A ragtag group of kids set out to save derelict steam ferry Lady Hope from destruction.

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  • 1955
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    The Night My Number Came Up

    The Night My Number Came Up

    6.8 1955 HD

    British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small...

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  • 1987
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    Bushfire Moon

    Bushfire Moon

    6 1987 HD

    In the Australian outback, a small boy determines to see that a nasty, curmudgeonly miser gets the Christmas spirit.

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  • 2001
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    Let's Get Skase

    Let's Get Skase

    6 2001 HD

    Christopher Skase. He ruled Australia and stole a fortune, fleeing to the coast of Spain. No one could touch him. No one could stop him. Until Peter...

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  • 1983
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    Dusty

    Dusty

    6 1983 HD

    The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though...

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  • 1987
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    Rob Roy

    Rob Roy

    6 1987 HD

    The tale of Scottish legend Rob Roy MacGregor is retold in beautiful animation. Rob Roy borrows money from the local nobility to buy cattle to...

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  • 1962
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    A Pair of Briefs

    A Pair of Briefs

    5.7 1962 HD

    She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds...

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  • 1991
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    Sweet Talker

    Sweet Talker

    4.6 1991 HD

    When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an...

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  • 1984
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    The Settlement

    The Settlement

    1 1984 HD

    Down-on-their-luck drifters Kearney and Martin wander into the small town of Cedar Creek looking to swindle a few pounds from the locals. After a...

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  • 1989
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    Kokoda Crescent

    Kokoda Crescent

    1 1989 HD

    The grandson of a war veteran is found dead from an overdose of heroin. He and his old army buddies swing into action and stake out the drug dealer,...

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  • 1973
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    Ghost in the Noonday Sun

    Ghost in the Noonday Sun

    4.2 1973 HD

    A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more...

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  • 1959
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    The Captain's Table

    The Captain's Table

    5.8 1959 HD

    A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to...

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  • 1985
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    The Coca-Cola Kid

    The Coca-Cola Kid

    5.481 1985 HD

    An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley...

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  • 1985
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    Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court

    Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court

    1 1985 HD

    Ex-colleagues reflect on the comic genius and sometimes difficult character of Tony Hancock.

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  • 1982
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    Deadline

    Deadline

    6 1982 HD

    A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion...

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  • 1986
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    Platypus Cove

    Platypus Cove

    1 1986 HD

    After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a deckhand.

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  • 1968
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    Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

    Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

    7.4 1968 HD

    On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks to his uncanny resemblance to the...

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  • 1933
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    Harmony Row

    Harmony Row

    1 1933 HD

    George enlists in the police force and is assigned to Harmony Row, a haunt of criminals such as Slogger Lee.

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  • 1976
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    House of Mortal Sin

    House of Mortal Sin

    6.6 1976 HD

    Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession...

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  • 1976
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    House of Mortal Sin

    House of Mortal Sin

    6.6 1976 HD

    Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession...

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  • 1982
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    The Year of Living Dangerously

    The Year of Living Dangerously

    6.6 1982 HD

    Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends...

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  • 1963
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    Doctor in Distress

    Doctor in Distress

    6.2 1963 HD

    "Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and...

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  • 1988
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    Mortuary Academy

    Mortuary Academy

    3.3 1988 HD

    "Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most...

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  • 1975
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    Girls Come First

    Girls Come First

    2.8 1975 HD

    Up and coming portrait artist Alan Street is employed by the owner of a Soho Swingers Club to paint the nude hostesses. Whilst Alan relishes his new...

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  • 1956
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    Port of Escape

    Port of Escape

    5.4 1956 HD

    Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene,...

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  • 1953
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    Appointment in London

    Appointment in London

    6.2 1953 HD

    Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will...

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  • 1961
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    Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value

    Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value

    1 1961 HD

    Spike stars with Bob Todd, Bill Kerr, Graham Stark, Valentine Dyall, and Sheree Winton & a final TV outing for moustachioed 'token Italian' comedy...

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  • 1966
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    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

    A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

    6 1966 HD

    A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

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  • 2003
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    Peter Pan

    Peter Pan

    7.2 2003 HD

    In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome...

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  • 1955
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    The Dam Busters

    The Dam Busters

    6.827 1955 HD

    The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617...

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  • 1952
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    My Death Is a Mockery

    My Death Is a Mockery

    5 1952 HD

    A fisherman cannot make a decent living from his trawler so he decides to turn his hand to smuggling.

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  • 1986
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    Double Sculls

    Double Sculls

    1 1986 HD

    A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.

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  • 1951
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    Penny Points to Paradise

    Penny Points to Paradise

    4.1 1951 HD

    When Harry and Spike visit Bristol to spend the winnings from Harry's latest Pools win, the boys are soon targeted by a gang of local counterfeiters.

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  • 1992
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    Over the Hill

    Over the Hill

    4.2 1992 HD

    Alma can't stand to have one more birthday without seeing her estranged daughter, Elizabeth, who lives in Sydney, Australia.

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  • 1962
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    A Pair of Briefs

    A Pair of Briefs

    5.7 1962 HD

    She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds...

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  • 1987
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    The Lighthorsemen

    The Lighthorsemen

    6.1 1987 HD

    In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse...

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  • 1957
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    The Shiralee

    The Shiralee

    5.1 1957 HD

    An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town...

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  • 1966
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    Doctor in Clover

    Doctor in Clover

    6 1966 HD

    Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the...

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  • 1983
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    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    2 1983 HD

    The classic tale of the helpless orphan Pip and his anonymous benefactor is brought to life in this high quality entertaining animated feature for...

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  • 1987
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    Running from the Guns

    Running from the Guns

    4.5 1987 HD

    Dave (Jon Blake) and his buddy Peter (Mark Hembrow) are chased by a gang of thugs when they pick up the wrong box from a Melbourne warehouse in this...

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  • 1983
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    Return to Eden

    Return to Eden

    6.8 1983 HD

    Stephanie Harper is rich but insecure 40 year old heiress with two failed marriages behind her. Stephanie believes that she has found true love with...

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  • 1963
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    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

    7.9 1963 HD

    The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling...

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  • 1993
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    Ship to Shore

    Ship to Shore

    2 1993 HD

    Ship to Shore is an Australian children's television series devised by David Rapsey and written by Glenda Hambly, John Rapsey, Mary Morris, Everett...

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  • 1977
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    Glenview High

    Glenview High

    1 1977 HD

    Glenview High is an Australian television drama series produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Seven Network between 1977 and 1978. The...

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  • 1956
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    Hancock's Half Hour

    Hancock's Half Hour

    7.5 1956 HD

    Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The...

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  • 1962
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    Compact

    Compact

    3 1962 HD

    Compact was a British television soap opera shown by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. The series was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who...

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  • 1959
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    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1959 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

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  • 2001
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    Changi

    Changi

    6.5 2001 HD

    Six young Australians go to war, full of confidence and bravado. They land in Singapore in 1942, just in time for surrender. With 15,000 others, they...

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  • 1990
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    The New Adventures of Black Beauty

    The New Adventures of Black Beauty

    8 1990 HD

    The New Adventures of Black Beauty was the title of a television drama series produced in the early 1990s.

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  • 1960
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    Citizen James

    Citizen James

    7.6 1960 HD

    Citizen James is a BBC sitcom that ran for three series between 24 November 1960 and 23 November 1962. The show featured comedian and actor Sid James...

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  • 1959
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    Garry Halliday

    Garry Halliday

    1 1959 HD

    Garry Halliday is a British television series for children that ran on the BBC from 1959 to 1962. The show starred Terence Longdon as airman Garry...

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  • 1997
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    Animal X

    Animal X

    1 1997 HD

    Animal X is an Australian made documentary television series that aired in more than 120 countries. It began in 1997 with its first series of...

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  • 1986
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    A Fortunate Life

    A Fortunate Life

    4 1986 HD

    At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father...

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  • 1991
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    The River Kings

    The River Kings

    8 1991 HD

    Filmed on South Australia's glorious River Murray, this television mini-series is set during the 1920s and tells of the story of a runaway who...

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  • 1985
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    Anzacs

    Anzacs

    6.5 1985 HD

    Anzacs was a 1985 5-part Australian miniseries set in World War I. The series follows the lives of a group of young Australian men who enlist in the...

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  • 1978
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    Father, Dear Father

    Father, Dear Father

    5 1978 HD

    The hugely successful British television series Father Dear Father is transplanted to Australia when novelist Patrick Glover and his assistant Nanny...

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  • 1993
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    Snowy

    Snowy

    6 1993 HD

    The family lives of those working on Australia's Snowy Mountains dam in the 1950s.

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  • 1991
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    The Private War of Lucinda Smith

    The Private War of Lucinda Smith

    1 1991 HD

    The Private War of Lucinda Smith is a 1990 Australian mini series about an Australian chorus girl living in London.

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