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George Ogilvie is a Actor, Director and Writer Australien born on 5 march 1931 at Goulburn (Australie)
George Buchan Ogilvie, born in Goulburn, New South Wales on 5 March 1931, is a prolific Australian theatre director and actor, who has also worked as director and actor within film and television.
George Ogilvie began as an actor at the Canberra Rep Theatre, and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he trained, taught and acted. In 1965, he returned to Australia to take up the position of associate director with the Melbourne Theatre Company, where he stayed for six years. He then worked as artistic director at the South Australian Theatre Company for four years, followed by 12 years as part of the subsidised theatre network. In 1988 he became a freelance director, working with the Australian Opera, the Australian Ballet Company and various theatre companies.
His television credits include the 1983 miniseries The Dismissal (where he played the Labor Senator Jim McClelland), the miniseries Bodyline (1984) (where he was one of the writers and also directed three of the seven episodes), and direction of the TV films The Shiralee (1987), Touch the Sun: Princess Kate (1988), The Battlers (1994), two episodes of the miniseries The Feds (1994), and 11 episodes of the long-running police series Blue Heelers between 2002 and 2006.
His film credits include Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), which he directed together with George Miller, Short Changed (1985), the much awarded The Place at the Coast (1987), and The Crossing (1990), where Russell Crowe was first seen on the screen.
George Ogilvie regularly teaches and directs at NIDA and Actors Centre Australia.
In 1983 he was made an AM (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the theatre and the performing arts.
In 2006, the Australian performing arts association Currency House published his autobiography: Simple Gifts - a life in the theatre.
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Birth name George Buchan Ogilvie
Nationality Australie
Birth 5 march 1931 at Goulburn (Australie)
Death 5 april 2020 (at 89 years)
Nationality Australie
Birth 5 march 1931 at Goulburn (Australie)
Death 5 april 2020 (at 89 years)
George Ogilvie began as an actor at the Canberra Rep Theatre, and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he trained, taught and acted. In 1965, he returned to Australia to take up the position of associate director with the Melbourne Theatre Company, where he stayed for six years. He then worked as artistic director at the South Australian Theatre Company for four years, followed by 12 years as part of the subsidised theatre network. In 1988 he became a freelance director, working with the Australian Opera, the Australian Ballet Company and various theatre companies.
His television credits include the 1983 miniseries The Dismissal (where he played the Labor Senator Jim McClelland), the miniseries Bodyline (1984) (where he was one of the writers and also directed three of the seven episodes), and direction of the TV films The Shiralee (1987), Touch the Sun: Princess Kate (1988), The Battlers (1994), two episodes of the miniseries The Feds (1994), and 11 episodes of the long-running police series Blue Heelers between 2002 and 2006.
His film credits include Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), which he directed together with George Miller, Short Changed (1985), the much awarded The Place at the Coast (1987), and The Crossing (1990), where Russell Crowe was first seen on the screen.
George Ogilvie regularly teaches and directs at NIDA and Actors Centre Australia.
In 1983 he was made an AM (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the theatre and the performing arts.
In 2006, the Australian performing arts association Currency House published his autobiography: Simple Gifts - a life in the theatre.
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The Dismissal (1983)
Directed by George Miller, Phillip Noyce, George Ogilvie, Carl Schultz, John Power
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Max Phipps, John Meillon, Tony Barry, John Stanton, John Hargreaves, Bill Hunter
Roles Senator Jim McClelland
Rating81%
The Sound of Love (1977)
, 1h15Directed by John Power
Actors John Jarratt, George Ogilvie
Roles John Lewis
Rating59%
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The Crossing (1990)
Directed by George Ogilvie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Russell Crowe, Danielle Spencer, Robert Mammone, Ben Oxenbould, Megan Connolly
Rating54%
The film is set in a small country town in the 1960s. Sam returns home from being away for 18 months to discover his former girlfriend, Meg, has moved on with their common friend, Johnny.
The Shiralee (1988)
, 1h40Directed by George Ogilvie
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Bryan Brown, Rebecca Smart, Noni Hazlehurst, Ray Meagher
Rating74%
The plot revolves around an itinerant rural worker and fighter named Macauley —sometimes described as a “swagman” or “swaggie” who unexpectedly finds himself taking responsibility for his child. The film contrasts the harshness of Australian masculinity with a parent-child relationship.
The Place at the Coast (1987)
, 1h51Directed by George Ogilvie
Actors John Hargreaves, Heather Mitchell, Tushka Bergen, Willie Fennell
Rating58%
Young Ellie McAdam's passion and shelter is the pristine landscape surrounding the village of Kilkee on the Australian east coast where she and her father Neil, an abstracted widower, spend peaceful holidays in a ramshackle beach house disrupted by visits from their obstreperous extended family. When Neil is blinded by the sudden rediscovery of love, Ellie finds herself isolated in her opposition to a development that will destroy the landscape forever.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
, 1h47Directed by George Miller, George Ogilvie
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Peplum, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Environmental films, Seafaring films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films set in the future, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Angry Anderson, Adam Cockburn, Helen Buday
Rating62%
Fifteen years after defeating Lord Humungus, Max Rockatansky crosses the Australian desert in a camel-drawn wagon when he is attacked by a pilot named Jedediah and his son in a Transavia PL-12 Airtruk, stealing his wagon and belongings. Continuing on foot, Max follows their trail to the seedy community of Bartertown. While refused entry at first, Max is brought before the founder and ruler of Bartertown, the ruthless Aunty Entity. She offers to resupply his vehicle and equipment if he completes a task for her.
Bodyline (miniseries) (1984)
, 50minutesDirected by Lex Marinos, George Ogilvie, Carl Schultz
Genres Drama
Actors Gary Sweet, Hugo Weaving, Jim Holt, Frank Thring, Heather Mitchell, Ashok Banthia
Rating83%
The events leading up to the England Cricket Team's 1932-1933 Ashes tour of Australia and the tactics, of bowling directly at the batsman, used by the English cricket team to counteract the extraordinary batting prowess of Australian cricketer Donald Bradman during the Ashes series.
The Dismissal (1983)
Directed by George Miller, Phillip Noyce, George Ogilvie, Carl Schultz, John Power
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Max Phipps, John Meillon, Tony Barry, John Stanton, John Hargreaves, Bill Hunter
Rating81%
Directed by George Ogilvie
Genres Drama
Actors Gary Sweet, Jacqueline McKenzie, Marcus Graham, Anne Phelan OAM, Walter Brown, Don Barker
Rating70%