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Lewis Fiander is a Actor Australien born on 12 january 1938

Lewis Fiander

Lewis Fiander
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Nationality Australie
Birth 12 january 1938
Death 24 may 2016 (at 78 years)

Lewis Fiander (born 12 January 1938) is an Australian film, stage, television and actor.

Biography

Fiander was born in Melbourne and educated at Trinity Grammar School, Kew, the son of Mona Jane (née King) and Walter Lewis Fiander. Moving to the UK from his native Australia, initially to appear in the play "The One Day of the Year". He appeared in such films as I Start Counting (1970), Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), The Abdication (1974), Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), Not Now, Comrade (1976), Sweeney 2 (1978), The Doctor and the Devils (1985), Georgia (1988) and Paperback Romance (1994). His first major role on television was Mr Darcy in the BBC serialisation of Pride and Prejudice (1967).

In 1970, he originated the role of John Adams in the London stage production of 1776, a role he reprised in Australia. Other stage appearances in West End musicals included the roles of Lord Melbourne and Disraeli in I and Albert, Coward in Noel and Gertie and Puccini in Cafe Puccini. During the 1970s, he was cast as Professor Tryst in the Doctor Who episode "Nightmare of Eden" and after discussion with his friend Tom Baker chose to give the character a hybrid accent as would befit an alien in the future. In 1974, he appeared as Casimir Dudevant playing opposite Rosemary Harris in the BBC series Notorious Woman and performed the role of Thomas Becket on a cast-album of the musical Thomas and The King. He returned to Australia in the early 1980s and continued his acting career.

In 2004 he contributed the voice for airship engineer Kemp in Anthony Lucas's Oscar nominated animation, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello.

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Filmography of Lewis Fiander (14 films)

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The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, 26minutes
Directed by Anthony Lucas
Origin Australie
Genres Science fiction, Adventure, Horror, Animation
Themes Medical-themed films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about viral outbreaks, Steampunk films
Actors Joel Edgerton, Helmut Bakaitis, Tommy Dysart, Lewis Fiander
Roles Engineer Kemp and Additional Voices (voice)
Rating76% 3.83933.83933.83933.83933.8393
Jasper Morello (Joel Edgerton), is deployed by the government to distribute mobile weather beacons along the route of his next voyage. The cocoons are brought aboard the ship. After Jasper discovers that one of them has hatched, Dr. Belgon reveals to him that he discovered that the creature lives on human blood, and that the other creatures have died from starvation. Belgon explains that he has been feeding the remaining creature with his own blood, as it is the last chance they have. Jasper insists to tell the Captain, but Belgon convinces him that if the crew gets to know, they'll kill the creature and with it, the cure for Jasper's wife. The next day, a crewmember goes missing. The crew concludes that he fell overboard and mourn him. As another member goes missing, Jasper becomes suspicious and looks into the creature's room, where he finds the monster devouring the missing man. He is then ambushed and sedated by Dr.
Georgia
Georgia (1989)
, 1h30
Directed by Ben Lewin
Genres Thriller
Actors Judy Davis, John Bach, Julia Blake, Marshall Napier, Lewis Fiander, Colin Hay
Roles John Scarlatti
Rating60% 3.001833.001833.001833.001833.00183
The Doctor and the Devils, 1h33
Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Julian Sands, Stephen Rea, Phyllis Logan
Roles Dr. Thornton
Rating61% 3.054563.054563.054563.054563.05456
Dr. Thomas Rock (Timothy Dalton) is a respected 19th-century anatomist lecturing at a prominent medical school. He is deeply passionate about improving medical knowledge, a pursuit for which he believes "the ends justify the means." Unfortunately, due to the laws of the time very few cadavers are legally available to the medical profession, necessitating the use of graverobbers or "Resurrection men" by the medical establishment to procure additional specimens. Dr. Rock's young assistant Dr. Murray (Julian Sands) is given the task of buying the bodies, for which he is authorized to pay a small fortune, particularly for fresher corpses. When alcoholic miscreants Fallon (Jonathan Pryce) and Broom (Stephen Rea) overhear details of the arrangement, they begin to murder the locals and sell their bodies. Gradually, Dr. Murray becomes more suspicious of the string of fresh bodies turning up at the medical school, but Dr. Rock dismisses his concerns. Meanwhile, Murray has begun to fall for beautiful local prostitute Jennie Bailey (Twiggy), who soon becomes the target of Fallon and Broom's murderous enterprise. When Jennie's friend Alice (Nichola McAuliffe) turns up dead in Dr. Rock's dissection room, Murray realizes what is happening and heroically rescues Jennie from a murderous Fallon. Both killers are soon arrested, but Broom agrees to turn state's evidence against his former partner, and is set free, unrepentant. Fallon is executed by hanging. Dr. Rock, for his part in the killings, is the subject of widespread public outrage, but ultimately not punished or censured by his colleagues. The film ends with Rock pondering his responsibility for the horrors and concluding, "oh my God -- I knew what I was doing.
Sweeney 2
Sweeney 2 (1978)
, 1h44
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Denholm Elliott, Marc Zuber, Frederick Treves, Anna Gaël
Roles Goran
Rating65% 3.29583.29583.29583.29583.2958
The plot concerns a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum.
Not Now, Comrade, 1h29
Directed by Harold Snoad
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Leslie Phillips, Windsor Davies, Carol Hawkins, Michele Dotrice, Don Estelle, Lewis Fiander
Roles Rudi Petrovyan
Rating49% 2.490792.490792.490792.490792.49079
Russian ballet dancer Rudi Petrovyan wants to defect. Unable to reach the British embassy, and pursued by the KGB, he hides out with, and falls for, stripper Barbara Wilcox. But Rudi's escape route in the boot of a Triumph backfires when he accidentally climbs into the wrong car, and ends up in the country home of unsuspecting naval Commander Rimmington (Leslie Phillips).
Who Can Kill a Child?, 1h40
Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo Escorihuela, Marisa Porcel, Luis Ciges, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Roles Tom
Rating71% 3.5973453.5973453.5973453.5973453.597345
A montage of documentary footage depicts the effect of war on children. This mondo imagery cuts to the story of an English couple, Tom and Evelyn, who are taking a vacation before Evelyn gives birth to their third child. They arrive on an island where they encounter grim-faced, silent children who seem to be the island's entire population. Throughout their stay, they witness the children behaving strangely. They later learn the children are capable of violence and have murdered just about every adult on the island; they are now forced to consider killing the children in self-defense. It is implied that the long list of atrocities and horrors brought upon children by the fighting and apathy of adults has caused the children of the island to take matters into their own hands. Also, it is shown that normal children are changed like the rest on the island merely by making eye contact with them.
The Abdication, 1h43
Directed by Anthony Harvey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Cyril Cusack, Paul Rogers, Graham Crowden, Michael Dunn
Roles Dominic
Rating61% 3.0949153.0949153.0949153.0949153.094915
Ce film raconte l'amour de la reine Christine de Suède pour le cardinal Decio Azzolino, secrétaire d'État du pape Clément IX.
Dr. Phibes Rises Again, 1h29
Directed by Robert Fuest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Jeffrey, Fiona Lewis, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith
Roles Baker
Rating62% 3.149713.149713.149713.149713.14971
The film begins by recapping the events of the previous film, following Dr. Anton Phibes' murderous quest for vengeance against the doctors he blamed for the death of his wife, Victoria. Phibes eluded capture by placing himself in suspended animation in a sarcophagus he shares with the body of his wife, where he would lay in darkness until the moon had entered into proper alignment with the planets, which had not occurred in over two thousand years. Three years later, the conjunction occurs, and Phibes rises from his sarcophagus. Summoning his silent assistant Vulnavia (Valli Kemp, replacing Virginia North), Phibes prepares to take Victoria to Egypt; there, in a hidden tomb, flows the River of Life, promising resurrection for Victoria and eternal life for the two of them. Rising from his basement, Phibes is shocked to discover that his house has been demolished, and a safe containing a scroll of papyrus, showing the way to the River of Life, is now empty.
Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde, 1h37
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander, Dorothy Alison, Ivor Dean
Roles Howard
Rating65% 3.293723.293723.293723.293723.29372
Dr. Henry Jekyll dedicates his life to the curing of all known illnesses, however his lecherous friend, Professor Robertson, remarks that Jekyll's experiments take so long to actually be discovered, he will no doubt be dead by the time he is able to achieve anything. Haunted by this remark, Jekyll abandons his studies and obsessively begins searching for an elixir of life, using female hormones taken from fresh cadavers supplied by murderers Burke and Hare, reasoning that these hormones will help him to extend his life since women traditionally live longer than men and have stronger systems. In the apartment above Jekyll's lives a family: an elderly mother, her daughter Susan Spencer, and Susan's brother Howard. Susan is attracted to Jekyll, and he too returns her affections, but is too obsessed with his work to make advances. Once mixing the female hormones into a serum and drinking it, it not only has the effect of changing Jekyll's character (for the worse) but also of changing his gender, transforming him into a beautiful but evil woman. Susan becomes jealous when she discovers this mysterious woman, but when she confronts Jekyll, to explain the sudden appearance of his female alter ego, he calls her Mrs. Hyde, saying she is his widowed sister who has come to live with him. Howard, on the other hand, develops a lust for Mrs.
I Start Counting, 1h45
Directed by David Greene
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Lana Morris, Simon Ward, Madge Ryan, Fay Compton
Roles Priest at Church
Rating68% 3.4417553.4417553.4417553.4417553.441755
Wynne (Agutter), an adopted 14-year-old girl, has a crush on her 32-year-old stepbrother, George (Bryan Marshall). While spying on George in the bathroom, Wynne notices he has several scratches on his back, and finds a bloody jumper she made for him that he threw in the rubbish, which leads her to suspect him of being the serial killer of several local teenage girls, and who is still at large. Despite this belief, Wynne continues to have romantic sexual fantasies about George, and dreams of marrying him when she comes of legal age.
The V.I.P.s, 1h59
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Louis Jourdan, Maggie Smith, Orson Welles, Rod Taylor
Roles Third Reporter (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.149513.149513.149513.149513.14951
The film is set within Terminal 3 of London Heathrow Airport during a fog. As flights are delayed, the VIPs (very important people) of the title play out the drama of their lives in a number of slightly interconnected stories. The delays have caused serious hardship for most of the characters and have plunged some of them into a deep personal or financial crisis.
The Password Is Courage, 1h56
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Olaf Pooley, Alfred Lynch, Nigel Stock, Richard Carpenter
Roles Pringle
Rating67% 3.3941153.3941153.3941153.3941153.394115
Charles Coward (Dirk Bogarde) is a senior British NCO incarcerated in the POW camp Stalag VIII-B. He encourages his fellow inmates to escape, and tries to humiliate the German guards at every opportunity.