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Phillip Adams is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor Australien born on 12 july 1939 at Maryborough (Australie)

Phillip Adams

Phillip Adams
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Nationality Australie
Birth 12 july 1939 (84 years) at Maryborough (Australie)

Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, AO (born 12 July 1939) is an Australian farmer, broadcaster and public intellectual. He currently hosts an ABC radio program, Late Night Live, four nights a week, and writes a weekly column for The Australian.

He has been a successful advertising executive and film producer, and has served on many boards including Greenpeace Australia, Ausflag, Care Australia, Film Victoria, National Museum of Australia, both the Adelaide and Brisbane festivals of ideas, the Montsalvat Arts Society and the Don Dunstan Foundation.

Awards include four honorary doctorates from Australian universities; two Orders of Australia; Republican of the Year 2005; the Senior ANZAC Fellowship; the Australian Humanist of the Year, the Golden Lion at Cannes; the Longford Award; and the Henry Lawson Australian Arts Award. In 1997 the International Astronomical Union named a minor planet orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter after him. A National Trust poll elected him one of Australia's 100 national living treasures.

Biography

Philip Adams est né le 12 juillet 1939, à Maryborough, dans l'État de Victoria en Australie. C'est le fils unique du révérend Charles Adams, pasteur d'une Église congrégationniste.

Usually with

Julia Blake
Julia Blake
(2 films)
John Waters
John Waters
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Phillip Adams (12 films)

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Actor

Not Quite Hollywood, 1h43
Genres 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% 3.7913753.7913753.7913753.7913753.791375
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.
The Getting of Wisdom, 1h41
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Julia Blake, Terence Donovan, Candida (Candy) Raymond, Barry Humphries, Maggie Kirkpatrick, John Waters
Rating63% 3.188143.188143.188143.188143.18814
Laura Rambotham is sent to attend boarding school in Melbourne at the turn of the century. During her second year she tells everyone about a made up romance between herself and the school's minister, Reverend Shepherd. She forms an attachment with an older girl, Evelyn. When Evelyn leaves, Laura throws herself into her studies and wins the school literary and music prizes.
The Wackiest Ship in the Army, 1h39
Directed by Richard Murphy
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Jack Lemmon, Rick Nelson, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully, Joby Baker
Rating62% 3.147693.147693.147693.147693.14769
During World War II, Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon), an expert yachtsman in civilian life, now based at Townsville, Queensland, Australia, is surprised to be assigned command of a sailing ship, the USS Echo. The only crew member who knows how to work a ship with sails is eager young Ensign Tommy Hanson (Ricky Nelson), who cost Crandall a yacht race with a mistake before the war.

Director

Jack and Jill: A Postscript, 1h7
Directed by Phillip Adams
Genres Drama
Rating70% 3.5396553.5396553.5396553.5396553.539655
Jill, a kindergarten teacher who lives with her parents, meets Jack, a biker. The two fall in love but are unable to reconcile their differences, with tragic results.

Scriptwriter

Jack and Jill: A Postscript, 1h7
Directed by Phillip Adams
Genres Drama
Rating70% 3.5396553.5396553.5396553.5396553.539655
Jill, a kindergarten teacher who lives with her parents, meets Jack, a biker. The two fall in love but are unable to reconcile their differences, with tragic results.

Producer

Lonely Hearts, 1h35
Directed by Paul Cox
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye, Jon Finlayson, Chris Haywood, Julia Blake, Jonathan Hardy
Roles Executive producer
Rating67% 3.3834353.3834353.3834353.3834353.383435
A middle-aged man, Peter, goes to a dating agency in search of a companion. He is introduced to a shy bank clerk Patricia.
We of the Never Never, 2h14
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors John Jarratt, Tony Barry, Arthur Dignam, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Danny Adcock
Roles Executive Producer
Rating68% 3.4297553.4297553.4297553.4297553.429755
The film focusses on the life of Jeannie, a woman from the upper classes of society, and her story of adapting to life in the outback of Australia. Following her marriage to Aeneas Gunn who has just bought a 1 million acre cattle station near Mataranka, called Elsey Station, Jeannie follows him from Melbourne in 1902. Some of the drovers were unhappy at first because they believed that the bush is no place for a white woman. As such, they were both wary of her and made fun of her when both her and her husband arrived. However, Jeannie was determined to prove them wrong.
Grendel Grendel Grendel, 1h28
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Seafaring films, Films based on mythology, Transport films, Films set in the Viking Age, Films based on Norse mythology
Actors Peter Ustinov, Keith Michell, Arthur Dignam, Ernie Bourne, Colin McEwan
Roles Producer
Rating67% 3.3699653.3699653.3699653.3699653.369965
Initially narrated by the titular character through a flashback, Grendel (Peter Ustinov), the "Great Boogey", recounts how he first left his cave as a child and encountered the Danish King Hrothgar (Ed Rosser) and his thanes. After being rescued by his mother, Grendel pondered over the similarities he shared with the Danes, yet lamented on their not being able to understand his language. He watched as Hrothgar's power and wealth grew, disgusted at his excesses and the royal Shaper's (Keith Michell) revision of history, presenting the king's underhanded and brutal achievements as glorious victories. Desperate to find meaning in life, Grendel encountered the dragon (Arthur Dignam), who informed Grendel that his sole purpose in life is to terrify humanity, thus stimulating human imagination and encouraging social cohesion.
The Getting of Wisdom, 1h41
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Julia Blake, Terence Donovan, Candida (Candy) Raymond, Barry Humphries, Maggie Kirkpatrick, John Waters
Roles Producer
Rating63% 3.188143.188143.188143.188143.18814
Laura Rambotham is sent to attend boarding school in Melbourne at the turn of the century. During her second year she tells everyone about a made up romance between herself and the school's minister, Reverend Shepherd. She forms an attachment with an older girl, Evelyn. When Evelyn leaves, Laura throws herself into her studies and wins the school literary and music prizes.
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, 1h54
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Genres Comedy
Actors Barry Crocker, Peter Cook, Barry Humphries, Spike Milligan, Dennis Price, Christopher Malcolm
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.8504152.8504152.8504152.8504152.850415
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!".
Jack and Jill: A Postscript, 1h7
Directed by Phillip Adams
Genres Drama
Roles Producer
Rating70% 3.5396553.5396553.5396553.5396553.539655
Jill, a kindergarten teacher who lives with her parents, meets Jack, a biker. The two fall in love but are unable to reconcile their differences, with tragic results.
The Naked Bunyip, 2h16
Genres Documentary
Actors Graeme Blundell, Barry Humphries, Jacki Weaver
Roles Executive producer
Rating56% 2.8430652.8430652.8430652.8430652.843065
The Naked Bunyip is a sex documentary and a blend of fact and fiction; "[it] incorporates the fictionalizing of the 'real' that had been a feature of tendencies in French 'new wave' and the American avant-garde narrative cinema." Graeme Blundell plays a shy young man who works for an ad agency, and the agency hires him to survey about sex in Australia. The film consists of "unrehearsed and unscripted" interviews as Blundell's character investigates a variety of sexual experiences, all except for the "normal" heterosexual experience.