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Barry Crocker is a Actor Australien born on 4 november 1935 at Geelong (Australie)
Barry Hugh Crocker (AM) (born 4 November 1935 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia) is a popular Gold Logie award winning character actor and television personality, singer, and variety entertainer with a crooning vocal style known for his iconic Australian films The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and sequel Barry McKenzie Holds His Own and singing the theme tune to the popular Australian soap opera Neighbours.
Barry went on to become the presenter and leading performer on The Sound of Music TV series, taking over from entertainer Bobby Limb which earned him a Gold Logie in 1970 as Australia's top (male) TV personality. His singing talents eventually earned him over 30 gold records.
Barry made his acting debut on a 1969 episode of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.
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Barry Crocker
Biography
After undergoing National Service with the RAAF in 1955, Crocker toured with a theatre group and did the club circuit in Melbourne, followed by a partnership with David Clark (aka Dave Nelson), and performed in England and the United States. He returned to Australia to star in a TV musical comedy show called 66 And All That, which became The Barry Crocker Show (1966–67) on Network Ten.Barry went on to become the presenter and leading performer on The Sound of Music TV series, taking over from entertainer Bobby Limb which earned him a Gold Logie in 1970 as Australia's top (male) TV personality. His singing talents eventually earned him over 30 gold records.
Barry made his acting debut on a 1969 episode of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.
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Housos vs. Authority (2012)
, 1h43Directed by Paul Fenech
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jabba, George Kapiniaris, Elle Dawe, Paul Fenech, Murray Harman, Russell Gilbert
Rating55%
Franky Falzoni (Fenech) and his best mate Darren "Dazza" Smith (Jason Davis) travel in a drug-laden campervan from the western outskirts of Sydney to Alice Springs so that Dazza's foul-mouthed girlfriend Sharon "Shazza" Jones (Elle Dawe) can be reunited with the dying mother she hasn't seen since she was three. Upon arrival there, Shazza's mum dies, her final wish to take her ashes and scatter them atop Uluru. They are arrested for trespassing at Uluru and defacing it with graffiti and an orgy, and must try and get out of their situation.
Not Quite Hollywood (2008)
, 1h43Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Phillip Adams, Christine Amor, Steve Bisley, Glory Annen Clibbery, Jamie Blanks, Graeme Blundell
Roles Self
Rating75%
Not Quite Hollywood documents the revival of Australian cinema during the Australian New Wave of the 1970s and '80s through B-movies including Alvin Purple, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Dead-End Drive In, Long Weekend, Mad Max, The Man from Hong Kong, Patrick, Razorback, Road Games, Stork and Turkey Shoot. From 1971 through to the late 1980s, Australian directors began to take advantage of the newly introduced R-rating which allowed more on-screen nudity, sex and violence for audiences restricted to age 18 and over. "Ozploitation"—writer-director Mark Hartley's own portmanteau of "Australian exploitation"—was a subgenre of the New Wave which accounted for the critically panned "gross-out comedies, sex romps, action and road movies, teen films, westerns, thrillers and horror films" of the era, commonly overlooked in Australia's "official film history". The film addresses three main categories of "Ozploitation" films: sex, horror and action.
, 1h31Genres Comedy, Documentary, Musical
Actors Ben Miller, Kerry Armstrong, Roy Billing, Rachel Gordon, Nadine Garner, Barry Crocker
Rating65%
M. Jonathon dirige sa propre école de danse depuis 8 ans et se sent au quotidien investi d'une mission envers ses jeunes élèves. La danse n'est pas seulement un sport ou une simple distraction, c'est aussi un moyen de délivrer un message, d'éveiller les consciences à travers les pas qu'il inculque, quitte à passer pour un excentrique. Oser est son credo. Melle Elisabeth, sa principale concurrente, est de la vieille école. Elle enseigne la discipline, la rigueur aux jeunes filles qui fréquentent son Académie de danse. Un gramme de trop ou un port de tête trop relâché pourrait bien ruiner leur chance de remporter la plus importante compétition de danse d'Australie.
Muriel's Wedding (1994)
, 1h46Directed by Paul John Hogan
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about marriage
Actors Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter, Sophie Lee, Jeanie Drynan, Daniel Lapaine
Roles Himself
Rating71%
A socially awkward, overweight, naïve "ugly duckling", who is obsessed with the music of ABBA, Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) is the target of ridicule by the more fashion-conscious girls she considers her friends. She also is a perpetual daydreamer who yearns for a glamorous wedding and marriage to a man who will help improve her personal life and free her from a tedious life dominated by her demanding and often psychologically abusive father Bill (Bill Hunter), a corrupt politician who verbally lashes out at his subservient wife Betty and their unambitious children at every opportunity.
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
, 1h33Directed by Bruce Beresford
Genres Comedy
Actors Barry Crocker, Donald Pleasence, Barry Humphries, Ed Devereaux, Roy Kinnear, Frank Windsor
Roles Barry McKenzie
Rating54%
The film continues directly where The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ended with Barry McKenzie (Barry Crocker) and his aunt Dame Edna returning home to Australia from England.
, 1h54Directed by Bruce Beresford
Genres Comedy
Actors Barry Crocker, Peter Cook, Barry Humphries, Spike Milligan, Dennis Price, Christopher Malcolm
Roles Barry McKenzie
Rating56%
Barry 'Bazza' McKenzie (Barry Crocker) travels to England with his aunt Edna Everage (Barry Humphries) to advance his cultural education. Bazza is a young Aussie fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful 'sheilas'. He settles in Earls Court, where his old friend Curly (Paul Bertram) has a flat. He gets drunk, is ripped off, insulted by pretentious Englishmen and exploited by record producers, religious charlatans and a BBC television producer (Peter Cook). He reluctantly leaves England under the orders of his aunt, after exposing himself on television. His final words on the plane home are, "I was just starting to like the Poms!".
Squeeze a Flower (1970)
, 1h42Directed by Marc Daniels
Genres Comedy
Actors Walter Chiari, Jack Albertson, Rowena Wallace, Roger Ward, Barry Crocker, Bobby Limb
Rating56%
Brother George is the only monk at the Italian Monastery who knows the secret recipe of the popular liqueur that is the sole source of income for the monastery. When he feels their sole distributor, a local wine merchant, isn't giving the Monastery a fair price, he leaves and moves to Australia. There he works at a vineyard picking grapes and starts making the Liquor in his spare time.