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Helen Morse is a Actor and Costume Design Australienne born on 24 january 1947 at Harrow on the Hill (United-kingdom)

Helen Morse

Helen Morse
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Nationality Australie
Birth 24 january 1947 (77 years) at Harrow on the Hill (United-kingdom)

Helen Morse (born 24 January 1947) is an English Australian actress who has appeared in films, on television and on stage.

Biography

Morse was born in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England. She was the eldest of four children; her parents were a doctor and nurse. She attended school at Presbyterian Ladies' College in Burwood, Victoria, and trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and with Brian Syron in Sydney.

Morse won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the 1976 film Caddie. Her notable screen performances also include roles in the film Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and the television miniseries A Town Like Alice. Since her early work with Jim Sharman in the 1960s and 70s – A Taste of Honey, Terror Australis, As You Like It – Morse has worked in over ninety theatre productions.

Morse was married from 1967 until 1976 to Australian actor and director Sandy Harbutt, with whom she starred in Stone.

Usually with

Jacki Weaver
Jacki Weaver
(3 films)
Drew Forsythe
Drew Forsythe
(2 films)
Bill Hunter
Bill Hunter
(2 films)
Peter Weir
Peter Weir
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Helen Morse (11 films)

Display filmography as list

Actress

Downriver
Downriver (2015)
, 1h39
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Robert Taylor (acteur australien), Kerry Fox, Reef Ireland, Helen Morse, Elena Mandalis, Thomas Green
Roles Mary
Rating61% 3.0938253.0938253.0938253.0938253.093825
The chilling story about a teenager, James, who serves time for drowning a little boy when he was a child, although the body was never found. In an attempt to right all wrongs and uncover the truth, James takes dangerous risks to find redemption and return the missing body to the grieving mother.
The Eye of the Storm, 1h54
Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin Australie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, Robyn Nevin, Helen Morse, Colin Friels
Roles Lotte
Rating59% 2.995812.995812.995812.995812.99581
In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, a dying matriarch, Elizabeth Hunter (Rampling) is attended to by two nurses, a housekeeper and her two adult children (Rush and Davis). Despite her deteriorating health, Elizabeth continues to wield considerable control over her affairs and those around her.
Far East
Far East (1982)
, 1h42
Directed by John Duigan
Genres Drama
Actors Bryan Brown, Helen Morse, Bill Hunter
Roles Jo Reeves
Rating56% 2.8185452.8185452.8185452.8185452.818545
Journalist Peter Reeves (John Bell) takes his wife Jo (Helen Morse) to the Far East. There they meet Morgan Keefe (Bryan Brown), an ex-pat Aussie who owns a sleazy bar/nightspot called "The Koala Klub". After renewing their romance, Jo seeks Morgan's help when her husband is persecuted by the military regime for his investigations.
Agatha
Agatha (1979)
, 1h45
Directed by Michael Apted
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Crime
Themes Films about writers
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton, Helen Morse, Timothy West, Paul Brooke
Roles Evelyn
Rating62% 3.1006353.1006353.1006353.1006353.100635
When her husband Archibald "Archie" Christie (Timothy Dalton) confronts her with his affair and demands a divorce, crime writer Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave) tells him that she fears for her life and promptly vanishes. She signs into a Harrogate hotel under the name of a relative of Archie’s lover and, as the country flies into a frenzy of rumour regarding her disappearance, secretly plans a dark revenge against him that can only be averted by Wally Stanton (Dustin Hoffman), an ambitious American journalist who falls in love with her.
Caddie
Caddie (1976)
, 1h46
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Helen Morse, Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Melissa Jaffer, Ron Blanchard, Drew Forsythe
Roles Caddie Marsh
Rating61% 3.0953553.0953553.0953553.0953553.095355
In 1925 Sydney, Caddie leaves her adulterous and brutish husband and takes her two children, Ann and Terry, with her. Forced to work as a barmaid in a pub she struggles to survive. A brief affair with Ted (Jack Thompson) ends badly, but she falls in love with a Greek immigrant, Peter (Takis Emmanuel). Peter has to return to Greece to face family obligations. Caddie runs out of money and goes to work as a barmaid. Peter sends letters from Greece and Caddie has to evade police as she works for an SP bookie. Peter asks her to come to Athens but she decides to stay.
Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1h55
Directed by Peter Weir
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about suicide, Transport films
Actors Anne-Louise Lambert, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, John Jarratt
Roles Mlle. Dianne de Poitiers
Rating73% 3.6981853.6981853.6981853.6981853.698185
At Appleyard College, a girls' private school, near the town of Woodend, Victoria, Australia, the students are dressing on the morning of St. Valentine's Day, 1900. Miranda (Anne-Louise Lambert), Irma (Karen Robson), Marion (Jane Vallis), Rosamund (Ingrid Mason), waifish Sara (Margaret Nelson), and outsider Edith (Christine Schuler) read poetry and Valentine's Day cards.
Jock Petersen, 1h47
Directed by Tim Burstall
Genres Drama
Actors Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Wendy Hughes, Belinda Giblin, Arthur Dignam, Bud Tingwell
Roles Jane
Rating64% 3.2337453.2337453.2337453.2337453.233745
Tony Petersen is an electrical tradesman and former football star who is studying arts at the University of Melbourne, and majoring in English. Despite being married to adoring wife Susie, he is having an affair with his lecturer, Trish Kent, and has a fling with student Moira as part of a protest. Trish's husband Charles fails Petersen in his exams and Trish leaves for Oxford. Petersen rapes Trish and returns to his old life.
Stone
Stone (1974)
, 1h43
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Hugh Keays-Byrne, Vincent Gil, Roger Ward, Bill Hunter, Helen Morse, Rebecca Gilling
Roles Amanda
Rating62% 3.146663.146663.146663.146663.14666
When several members of the GraveDiggers outlaw motorcycle club are murdered, Sydney detective Stone (Ken Shorter) is sent to investigate. Led by the Undertaker (Sandy Harbutt), a Vietnam war veteran, the GraveDiggers allow Stone to pose as a gang member. Leaving behind society girlfriend Amanda (Helen Morse), Stone begins to identify with the Undertaker and his comrades Hooks (Roger Ward), Toad (Hugh Keays-Byrne), Dr Death (Vincent Gil), Captain Midnight (Bindi Williams), Septic (Dewey Hungerford) and Vanessa (Rebecca Gilling), the Undertaker’s girlfriend. Amid violent confrontations with the Black Hawks, a rival gang the GraveDiggers hold responsible, Stone uncovers a political conspiracy behind the killings. When the truth is revealed, Stone must choose between his job and his loyalty to the GraveDiggers.

Costume and makup

Stone
Stone (1974)
, 1h43
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Hugh Keays-Byrne, Vincent Gil, Roger Ward, Bill Hunter, Helen Morse, Rebecca Gilling
Roles Costume Design
Rating62% 3.146663.146663.146663.146663.14666
When several members of the GraveDiggers outlaw motorcycle club are murdered, Sydney detective Stone (Ken Shorter) is sent to investigate. Led by the Undertaker (Sandy Harbutt), a Vietnam war veteran, the GraveDiggers allow Stone to pose as a gang member. Leaving behind society girlfriend Amanda (Helen Morse), Stone begins to identify with the Undertaker and his comrades Hooks (Roger Ward), Toad (Hugh Keays-Byrne), Dr Death (Vincent Gil), Captain Midnight (Bindi Williams), Septic (Dewey Hungerford) and Vanessa (Rebecca Gilling), the Undertaker’s girlfriend. Amid violent confrontations with the Black Hawks, a rival gang the GraveDiggers hold responsible, Stone uncovers a political conspiracy behind the killings. When the truth is revealed, Stone must choose between his job and his loyalty to the GraveDiggers.