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Tony Barry is a Actor Australien born on 28 august 1941 at Ipswich (Australie)
Tony Barry is an Australian actor, born in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia in 1941, who has performed in 56 feature films and 45 television series, across a four-decade career.
After acting in the television series The Box in 1975–76, he began his film career in 1977 with The Mango Tree. In 2014, between seasons of the TV drama series The Time of Our Lives, Barry had his left leg amputated above the knee due to melanoma. The loss of his leg was written into the storyline.
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Tony Barry
Nationality Australie
Birth 28 august 1941 at Ipswich (Australie)
Death 21 december 2022 (at 81 years)
Birth 28 august 1941 at Ipswich (Australie)
Death 21 december 2022 (at 81 years)
Tony Barry is an Australian actor, born in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia in 1941, who has performed in 56 feature films and 45 television series, across a four-decade career.
After acting in the television series The Box in 1975–76, he began his film career in 1977 with The Mango Tree. In 2014, between seasons of the TV drama series The Time of Our Lives, Barry had his left leg amputated above the knee due to melanoma. The loss of his leg was written into the storyline.
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Mystery Road (2013)
, 2h1Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten, Tasma Walton, Robert Mammone
Roles Sarge
Rating65%
Near the rural town of Winton, Queensland, a truck driver finds the body of a teenage aboriginal girl named Julie Mason inside one of the drainage tunnels under the road. Newly promoted aboriginal Detective Jay Swan, recently returned from training in the city, investigates the murder. He learns that Julie was a drug addict who would have sex with truck drivers for money. He questions another local aboriginal girl, Tani Williams, who is friends with Julie, but she refuses to speak to him. A neighbourhood boy tells Jay that he found Julie's phone and gives it to him. Jay finds several text messages to his teenage daughter, Crystal. He visits his ex-wife Mary and speaks to Crystal. He asks her if she wants to move to the city with him, but she declines. Mary tells Jay that it is too late for him to be a father. Jay searches a farm near where Julie's body was found and meets its owner, Sam Bailey. Before Jay leaves, he sees a young man leaving in a white hunting truck. Jay later finds out that another teenage aboriginal girl has also gone missing.
Australia (2008)
, 2h45Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Brandon Walters, Bryan Brown, Bruce Spence
Roles Sergeant Callahan
Rating65%
In 1939, Lady Sarah Ashley travels from England to northern Australia to force her philandering husband to sell his faltering cattle station, Faraway Downs. Her husband sends an independent cattle drover, called "Drover", to transport her to Faraway Downs.
Gone (2006)
, 1h28Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Scott Mechlowicz, Amelia Warner, Shaun Evans, Victoria Thaine, Yvonne Strahovski, Tony Barry
Roles UTE Driver
Rating52%
Alex (Shaun Evans) arrives in Sydney, and realizing he has missed his bus, he is then reading his travel guide on stone steps in the street, when Taylor (Scott Mechlowicz) suddenly sits near Alex and makes small talk with him, and then insisting he come with him. After drinking and raucously horsing around with two unnamed girls, Alex awakens in a city park with Taylor standing over him with a Polaroid camera, snapping a photo of Alex with one of the girls that night. When driving out of town in Taylor's vehicle, Alex reveals that he is to be at Byron Bay to meet his girlfriend, Sophie (Amelia Warner), and Taylor suggests that they travel together. When Alex and Taylor meet Sophie, she is with Ingrid (Zoe Tuckwell-Smith), a friend. The four of them head towards Katherine Gorge in the Northern Territory. The following day, about to leave, Taylor vaguely mentions that Ingrid had to meet someone and had caught a bus, with Alex and Sophie unbemused.
Solo (2006)
Directed by Morgan O'Neill
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Colin Friels, Tony Barry, Bruce Spence, Vince Colosimo, Linal Haft, Jay Laga'aia
Roles Louis
Rating56%
Lady Vengeance (2005)
, 1h52Directed by Park Chan-wook
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Choi Min-sik, Lee Young-ae, Kang Hye-jeong, Tony Barry, Kim Shi-hoo, Yun Jin-seo
Roles Jenny's Adoptive Father
Rating74%
A Christian musical procession waits outside a prison for Lee Geum-ja (Lee Young-ae), a recently reformed female prisoner, who had been convicted of murdering a young schoolboy, Won-mo. The case, a national sensation because of her young age at the time of the murder and innocent appearance, earns her a lengthy prison sentence, reduced because of her apparent spiritual transformation in prison and her good conduct toward other inmates, results in the nickname of the "Kind-Hearted Geum-Ja". As Lee Geum-ja emerges from prison, she immediately sidesteps the procession, intent on revenge.
Hell Has Harbour Views (2005)
, 1h45Directed by Peter Duncan
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lisa McCune, Peter O'Brien, Matt Day, Marta Dusseldorp, Steve Bisley, Freya Stafford
Roles Frank Flannery
Rating65%
A Man's Gotta Do (2004)
, 1h35Directed by Chris Kennedy
Genres Comedy
Actors John Howard, Rebecca Frith, Alyssa McClelland, Gyton Grantley, Nicholas Brown, Rohan Nichol
Rating63%
In A Man's Gotta Do, Eddy (John Howard), lives with his wife, Yvonne (Rebecca Frith), and their daughter, Chantelle (Alyssa McClelland), in a new suburb in the Illawarra part, south of Sydney.
The Night We Called It a Day (2003)
, 1h37Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Musical films
Actors Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Portia DeGeneres, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, David Hemmings
Roles Ralph Blue
Rating57%
In 1974, Rod Blue is a surfer with shoulder-length hair in Sydney, Australia who also stages rock concerts, unsuccessfully most of the time. Needing a big idea, he decides to fly to Los Angeles, make himself more presentable and try to persuade Frank Sinatra to come to Australia to sing.
Mullet (2001)
, 1h29Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Ben Mendelsohn, Susie Porter, Belinda McClory, Tony Barry, Andrew Gilbert, Wayne Blair
Roles Col Maloney
Rating59%
In the film, Eddie (Ben Mendelsohn) returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation 3 years ago, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ex-girlfriend Tully (Susie Porter) and brother Pete (Andrew Gilbert). The title of the film comes from Eddie's nickname and from his attempts to make a living poaching mullet.
La spagnola (2001)
, 1h30Directed by Steve Jacobs, Steven Jacobs
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Alex Dimitriades, Simon Palomares, Tony Barry
Roles Dr. Knuckey
Rating60%
Lola is a fiery Spanish wife and mother living in small-town sixties Australia. When her husband leaves her for a young blonde, taking their life savings with him, and her teenage daughter begins to rebel against her strict rules, Lola come into her own.
Paperback Hero (1999)
, 1h36Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Hugh Jackman, Claudia Karvan, Andrew Gilbert, Jeanie Drynan, Robyn Moore, Tony Barry
Rating63%
The film follows the adventures of a truck driver, Jack Willis, from rural Australia after he writes a bestselling novel. Being embarrassed by its romantic content, he uses the name of his female friend as a pen name. When a publisher decides to take the author "Ruby Vale" on, he is suddenly faced with a problem. He tells his friend that he has used her name, and initially, she wants to tell the publisher the truth. However, Jack and the publisher convince her by telling her that they will organise her wedding, (she is marrying Jack's best friend, Hamish) and so, Ruby is convinced.
Road to Nhill (1997)
, 1h35Directed by Sue Brooks
Genres Comedy
Actors Tony Barry, Paul Chubb, Bill Hunter, Lynette Curran, Kerry Walker
Rating65%
A car carrying four lady lawn bowlers on its way to Nhill is involved in an accident on a deserted road in rural Victoria. Locals, not knowing where the accident was, or who was involved, embark on a journey to assist.
Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
, 1h35Directed by Chris Kennedy
Genres Comedy
Actors Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, Matt Day, Wayne Pygram, Gus Mercurio, Tom Long
Roles Dwayne
Rating61%
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful country/western singing career will hopefully begin.